>> law enforcement officials now walking back their initial claim that one or more of the victims were targeted. >> today president biden will

host french president emmanuel macron after emmanuel macron spoke against biden's inflation bill. >> biden cast doubt on 2024 re-election bid. >> pass the maple syrup. >> spaghetti box inspired by the movie "elf," comes with syrup, marshmallows. ♪ jingle bells jingle bells ♪ >> you are listening to christmas music and looking at a christmas tree. if you are listening and not watching the show, i will describe what you're missing, the flag blowing with the target flag. is that target? >> it looked like a target flag.

>> we don't have a target next door. >> used to have wendy's. zooming out to reveal the big wall below. >> what about the tree? >> our tree is so real and so new. and so big and patriotic. and big news, it was two weeks ago sill vester stalone said, i don't know about a second season of "tulsa." >> that is how we lead this hour? hulu? >> what about that scene reminded you of "tulsa king," and -- >> i will say this, we would like him to come back. >> i can hear the controllers laughing in my ear. >> steve: unfact a lot, no target next day, brian saw a red

circle and thought it was target. one hour ago, we were talking about the all american christmas tree, brian said, wouldn't it be great to hire a chorus, did you notice i was gone for 10 minutes. >> brian: did you hire one? >> steve: look what i had them do. >> we wish you a merry christmas from fox and friends. >> ainsley: you have people everywhere. can we hear it again? i like the deep voices. >> steve: hear it again? >> we wish you a merry christmas from fox and friends. >> brian: that is good, i thought it would be longer. when we get here at 3:30 in the morning, i would love to be greeted by a chorus, live chorus. >> good morning to you. >> that is our crew. our crew.

>> brian: our crew sings? >> steve: listen one more time. >> good morning to you. good morning to you. >> steve: we worked with them for 25 years, you don't recognize their voices? >> ainsley: great voices, can elon musk sing? our top story, trying to get to the news. >> brian: that was smooth. >> ainsley: steve, take over. >> steve: the white house is facing scrutiny for keeping a close eye on twitter now that elon musk is in charge, suddenly he is a target. >> ainsley: that's right, the sudden focus on the tech giant comes as former executive admits he didn't work for wendy's, he worked for twitter and said he was wrong to censure the hunter biden laptop story two years after the fact. >> brian: get in line, one place after the other admitting it. live in washington with more.

>> griff: good morning, look at that "new york post" cover, you will see on the top, two years later the safety chief is conceding they shouldn't have shut the story down. go back two years, if we can. this is what the warning the users saw when they tried to see the "new york post" hunter biden story. it says there, this link may be unsafe and the post account was locked out for two weeks during that period. now the guy who played a key role in censuring the story, yoel roth said, we didn't know what to believe, we didn't know what was true. there was smoke and it didn't reach a place i was comfortable removing this content from twitter, but it set off my finely tuned hack-and-link campaign alarm bells. when asked if it was a mistake, roth said, in my opinion, the answer is yes. this as twitter's new ceo elon

m musk, the obvious reality as long-term reality knows issue twitter has failed in trust and safety for a very long time and interfered in elections. twitter 2.0 will be more effective, transparent and even handed. outlets like cbs confirm the hunter biden laptop story, the white house maintains they are still monitoring things. >> when are you going to delete the white house twitter account? >> why would we do that? >> you are saying you are keeping an eye on twitter, it might not be a suitable platform, why use? >> the president has said and been clear in his belief it is important social media platforms to take steps to reduce hate speech and misinformation. i don't have anything to share on policy or changes we will be making. >> you are likely to hear more about this in the new year because republicans and kevin

mccarthy are vowing to investigate the story when they take control. >> steve: thank you, griff. we were talking about what elon musk is doing is essentially, he is ending monopoly of thought that the political left had online, here is what he said to us. >> this is why we should not be making centralized determination of truth anywhere. the way to get to truth is through free speech and open debate. do not correct bad speech with no speech, it is more speech. i think sunlight will be a disinfectant here, whether the hunter biden laptop story or government coordination with companies like twitter to silence critics, that is something the citizens of the nation deserve to see in plain

sight. >> brian: do you think it is important to create a board so elon musk isn't making individual decision, put people back online is great and having a board so the ceo can be the ceo and having board in place, make the board public, even if the company is not so when things come up, whether anti-semitic or anti-american vi views, if something like that happens, just get it out, if i'm elon musk, put a board in place people understand who they are so when things happen, we understand what is behind it. >> ainsley: this guy has so much money, wealthiest in the country, maybe the world. wealthiest guy in the world, he buys this company saying we need a form of free speech, we need to have the town square speaking not just one side. democrats were controlling the

narrative and censuring stories, the guy that used to work for twitter said, we made a mistake doing that before the election, they are messing witheck las, several polls said you might have changed your vote if you had known the hunter biden story. this guy comes in, why is democrats and the white house threatened by elon musk? he's done so much for this country with electric cars, why are they threatened? he wants a form of free speech issue not starting a revolution, this is easy. >> brian: whole democrats party and elizabeth warren yesterday. >> ainsley: why are they afraid of free speech? >> steve: left had monopoly it. >> brian: everything is disinformation, one call, how does he do that, how does he get mark zuckerberg to agree with google and -- >> steve: group think. >> ainsley: that is why i want him to pull back the curtain,

elon musk, show why that story was censured, he said he is going to. i want to see who was involved, who was sends letters and e-mails to twitter saying, remove this story. >> steve: in the past at twitter, they had discussions, but we never heard that. now elon musk is having the discussion with all of us out in the public. >> brian: i'm adding followers, not as much as certain people. tomi lahren. >> ainsley: brian said i have 30,000 recent new followers on twitter, she said, yeah, i've gotten 100,000. >> brian: i think 200,000, social media mogul. >> steve: the idaho murder mystery, sea of mourners gathered in memory of the idaho students murdered near campus.

>> brian: authorities backtrack on their claims that the victims or residentses were targeted. >> ainsley: todd piro live with the latest, new information. >> todd: major reversal yesterday, moscow police revealing detectiveses do not know if residentses or any occupants were specifically targeted, but continue to investigate prior statement were miscommunication and police confirm they are making progress as they are receiving d.n.a. information. the three sorortis are on probation for violation of risk, alcohol and hazing. we heard touching tributes from the parents of the slain college students speaking out at a vigil. here is the mother of ethan chapin. >> we are eternally grateful

that we spent so much time with him and i want to remind you that that is the most important message we have for you and your families is to make sure that you respond as much time as possible with those people because time is precious and something you can't get back. >> todd: madison's father speaking out how proud he was of his daughter. >> i would say, i have this daughter, she's -- here's a picture of her, she's on the dean list at college. she works hard and she has all these great friends and i just would tell them about madi. >> todd: and kaylee goncalves dad giving a touching tribute to his daughter and her years long friendship with madison. >> they went to high school together, start looking at college and came here together.

they get into the same apartment together and in the end they died together in the same room and same bed, like some kind of terrible chapter, but there is beauty in it and we're going to get our justice and figure this stuff out. >> todd: three weeks since the four college students were stabbed to death, still no suspects, no murder weapon, just a palpable feeling of fear in this college town. imagine going through what the parents are going through and having information put out there and taken back, back and forth continuously, it is adding salt to wounds that are fresh and raw. >> steve: sure, and for them to say somebody was targeted and then each parent thinking, i wonder if my child was the target and now the police are saying, we don't know. >> brian: thanks, they looked at a stalker, they couldn't rule

that out. i keep going back to this and say to myself, try to read every six hours, did something change. the call to 911 was from a roommate's phone, why wasn't the roommate, why not say the roommate called 911 from his phone. >> steve: it wasn't the roommate. >> brian: no one -- >> steve: it was the roommate's phone, but somebody else and cops have not revealed who that was. >> brian: how do you open up somebody's phone? >> ainsley: she could say take my phone, i can't. >> brian: that is easy to describe, if i wanted to pickior phone, i can't make a call, the screen is being loed. why not say they were unconscious when it is a blood bath, how do you get unconscious -- >> ainsley: maybe the door was

locked, they haven't come out, it is noon on sunday, they haven't seen their roommates, maybe the door was locked. >> brian: that is how i would do it. >> steve: when you make a 911 call, that is how they do it, nobody can be declared dead until the cops say it. >> brian: i understand she said my roommates are unconscious. >> steve: she who? how do you know a she? >> brian: call for roommates being unconscious and the roommate's phone was used, i have not had answers. >> ainsley: we need them to find the suspect and details will be listed until they arrest someone they will not tell us. it is a fascinating case and women -- >> brian: and college kids want answers. >> ainsley: we interviewed john walsh's son and asked him to come on, they know how to read

this evidence and work on cases and callahan lost his brother and john helped start finding missing children. here is what callahan said about the case. >> i think it is a statement they said too early, law enforcement is usually more careful when making comments of the like. parents are saying, if someone was targeted, which of the children were targeted? were all of them targeted? and started putting things in the public's mind law enforcement didn't want them to focus on. they are walking back that statement and not following up with other information or statement to provide the public. >> ainsley: they said the house is no longer a crime scene, i guess the other girls can go get their belongings. lab results have come back, not saying anything about d.n.a. and waiting on more results that might take longer. also two sororities put on

probation, i wonder if this has a connection? the three girls were in two sororities and on probation right now. >> steve: we don't know how it connectses yet. carley shimkus joins us. >> carley: i'll give details what is upon haing, the voting rights acting to avert nationwide rail strike which would devastate the economy and supply chain ahead of the holiday. the chamber passing a bill that provides seven paid sick days to railroad workers, the clock is ticking and the bill heads to the senate for a vote one week out from the december 9 deadline, that is when rail workers would strike if congress fails to pass legislation. take a look at this, health and human services secretary declares americans are due for another booster shot, tweeting

updated covid vaccine can protect you from the worst outcome of covid if it has been over two monthses since your last dose, make a plan to get one now. this just a day after vice president kamala harris insisted one shot once a year is all most people need to stay protected from covid year long. i'm confused. netflix releasing harry and meghan, the doc titled "harry and meghan" features never before seen pictures of the couple. >> what is happening behind closed doors, i did everything i could to protect my family. >> when the stakes are this high, doesn't it make more sense to hear our story from us? >> carley: no word when they will start streaming issue the prince and princess of wales

appeared at a boston celtics game. throwback thursday and we're going way back with the help of my heritage.com. so long steve doocy, hello viking and 19th century steve, i love the braid. that is amazing. brian, you are looking steely on the left side. on the left you are going to war. the site's ai time machine creates images of each of us from different time period. brian as roman emperor and 1930 scientist, do you like your pic? >> look at you. so beautiful always. >> i wanted to be a princess or 'twenties movie star. >> why would meghan leave from a castle and jewels? >> look at you.

janice. >> that is celtic janis and janis in the 1950s. >> look at carley. >> wife of who? i am not into braids. >> you don't like yours? >> i like them, i think it is neat, i will take 2022 carley. >> look at that. >> steve: reason i would be a viking, we did our -- 70% swedish. >> janice: i think brian won the toss-up >> >> brian: you like me better in a different era? >> sparticus is good. >> i like the clark kent guy. >> i like the warrior guy. >> most realistic type photos we've seen, impressive, for your own portrait head to my heritage

ai time machine. can i say something, though, this would be fun to do with your family around the holidays. >> steve: after a couple drinks. >> whip out the pics. >> can we see brian one again? >> brian: don't look at them now, look at them then. >> more "fox and friends" coming up.

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>> steve: welcome back, far left da george gascon accused of giving top priority to a-list supporter john legend whose car was almost stolen last week. >> brian: there is crime in l.a.? george gascon's top writes an unarmed person was arrested for

attempting to steel john legend's porshe. >> ainsley: to have this type of aksz taken is offensive and an insult to every law-abiding citizen in l.a. who is -- "fox and friends" co-host pete hegseth is here. >> good to be john legend and only john legend, it was almost stolen. on a movie set, someone opens his car, gets in, a security guard calls the police, they come and the guy walks out of the car and claims it is his car. a small chase and they arrest the guy. considering what is going on in los angeles, this is what george gascon's office is focused on? an attempted theft of john

legend's porsche. government is bad at doing big for all people, but very good at targeting individuals, whether on the wrong side of george gascon, meaning you are a republican or conservative in los angeles, they'll look out for you, or you were there on january 6th, look out for you or the other side, you are john legend and gave enough money to george gascon, and hand publicly support him, don't worry, we got your back. anyone whose car is actually stolen, probably hearing nothing. >> steve: hollywood is different, they love celebrities, they put out an ap b, it was almost stolen and he was a big donor apparently. pete, imagine if kevin sorbo, on the political right, his car was almost stolen issue

anybody tweet or text about it or try to help him out. >> or if his car was actually stolen, would they recover it? almost stolen car by john legend, the answer is not and that is scariest part, your society and civilization falls apart when you don't have equal justice. when average people don't have faith the system will treat them indifferently or the same way as someone else and george gascon is glaring example of it. it is not john legend's fault, i guess he paid to get good security, smart as an actor in a democrat-run town, that is not the way it should be for all of us and very indicative. >> brian: if your porobbering sche almost gets stolen issue i will make a citizen arrest.

>> steve: it does not carry 25 kids. >> i have seen your badge and i know you would make that arrest. >> steve: when he goes like that. >> ainsley: key this, mois almost, almost a police officer. >> tv morning show, police officer, it is close. >> steve: he plays one on tv. >> brian: i tried to be nice and said i would try to arrest someone and i get backlash. >> i love you, brian. >> brian: you made up for it. >> steve: thanks, pete. >> man-to-man, he loves me. coming up later, 20 gop governors if president biden vaccine mandate remains in effect. kristi noem is calling for action, she's next. your heart is the beat of life. if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto,

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discharged in various branches of the military in our country and many more stand to be discharged. show full screen of the numbers, 3600 marines, 800 army and 1900 navy, what is your reaction? >> it is alarming, we are having a hard time recruiting. folks have retired or been discharged because they refused vaccine and no answers out of the pentagon if they will allow religious exemption. >> ainsley: you and other governors are trying to get this reversed, right? >> we are, we are asking congress to take action, they have an opportunity to do an amendment that would allow vaccine to drop by the way side or not require it. us as governors are in a

situation where we have military members being affected in our states and congress has opportunity to help them. >> ainsley: you have been in the news a lot the last two days, you told everyone who works for government agency in south dakota, no more tiktok on their state-issued phones, why did you do this? >> we have executive order that i signed that says no state age or employee can download the tiktokan occasion or access it on any device because of how it is utilized by china and the ccp to gather data and information on american citizens and they use it to harm us. they use it to gather information because they want to destroy the united states of america. listen, china hates us and this application is dangerous because it gathers information off your phone, what keys you are

hitting, it could gather your passwords to access financial information and they are using it and manipulating algorithms to use against us. here in the state of south dakota, we've taken action to protect our citizens, letting them know state employees and agencies will not allow this application and we banned it from our network and it is blocked and i hope others will do the same. >> ainsley: i wonder if they will, have you heard from other states? >> i haven't, i think they will. we are learning what tiktok is and how it is being utilized against the united states of america. more they learn and study, they'll understand they need to take action. >> ainsley: i think it is a brilliant move. thank you. coming up apple's tim cook will meet with top gop lawmakers as we learn the tech giant limited crucial air drop function ahead

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you are supposed to sit down with tim apple, congressman, what are you wanting to ask him? >> a range of discussion, including pending anti-trust legislation, this situation with china, as you know, kevin mccarthy vowed to open a permanent select committee on china to deal with what is going on there and of course for us, american companies have two standards, one they say they are for freedom here and one they may not be supporting freedom in other countries, these are important issues and there will be a range of them. biggest one, we want tech companies to gets back to tech and get out of political activities we all see. >> steve: we see that with social media and big tech. apple is the biggest company in the world, a lot of us have

iphones, i thought we were trying to get apple to move manufacturing to the united states because once again, hearing covid is impacting that region, big fox plant that makes them, we wouldn't have that problem if it was in indiana. >> no question apple is in the process of reducing china dependence, it was dependent on china as qualcom. the chips act, to produce chips in united states with semiconductor and inteleboth taking that opportunity, it is a start, steve, we have a long way to go to get back to being what we used to be, the chip capital of the world, innovation and manufacturing capital. some is tax and some is getting

companies located and permitted and we have to work on all of those, it is a national issue and fortunately, this is one that is bipartisan. >> steve: all rights, have a great meeting, congressman, thanks for giving us a preview. 16 before the top of the hour, carley joins us with news about the crypto guy. >> carley: i do, former ftx ceo speaking out for the first time since the company's collapse. sam bankman-fried denies wrongdoing and he says the company failed to safeguard investor funds. >> i was ceo of ftx and that means whatever happened, i had a duty to our stake holders and customers to do right by them and make sure right things happen to the company and i didn't do a good job of that. >> carley: $1 billion is missing from ftx and $10 billion transferred to sister company

alameda. lynyrd skynarred is raising money for storm survivors, he will be headlining boots on the sand benefit concert. there will be other performers, as well. it is hosted by comedian jim brewer, proceeds will go toward disaster relief efforts. despite negativity from woke protesters, jo rogan is the number one podcast of the year. clocking number two alexander cooper call her daddy and number three, anything goes with ema chamberlain. janiesz, over to you. >> janice: don't forget the

janice dean podcast, go download it today. we had severe weather yesterday, those severe storms turned deadly, 79 tornado warnings, 133 severe thunderstorm warnings, that is a severe weather outbreak. the good news is the storms have cleared, better days ahead going through today and the weekend. temperatures are chilly. 37 in dallas, 32 in memphis, that is the problem today, cooler than average temperatures and across the west, heavy rain along the coast and mountain snow, otherwise quieter conditions in the northeast with blustery winds that knocked out power and travel delays and cancellation. this storm will move to the west and upper midwest bringing snow. feeling like christmas time for sure. i think i am going over to steve, hello, steve doocy. >> steve: i was just downloading

the janice dean podcast. still ahead on december 1, is "die hard" a christmas movie? we were talking about that this week, we will debate it, part of new fox nation special with tom shillue. first bill hemmerjoins us now. >> steve, good morning, new twist on idaho college murders coming up in a moment on that, a lot happening around emails and twitter and new self-logging on the hunter biden laptop and u.s. is losing trust in military, look at that survey. if you lost billions for investors, would you do interviews in the bahamas? dana and i will see you at the top of the hour, see you then. find your potential then own it support your immune system with a potent blend of nutrients and emerge your best every day with emergen-c

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>> biggest holiday questions of the season. for example -- >> this is a song about a gold digger. >> yeah. >> scrooges of monster. >> scrooge did nothing illegal. >> pre-second amendment, has a pistol the whole time. >> charlie brown christmas, true christian meaning of christmas.

>> steve: how good does that special look? duke it out in honor of great christmas debate available on fox nation. >> we will debate. >> gift cards, are they empowering or a cop out? do teams, down the middle. >> which side do you think? >> i love them, i think they are fabulous. >> i think it is a cop out, but if you buy somebody something, they might not like it. if you give somebody $100 -- >> we love gift cards. >> 15 seconds. >> i'll take a gift card, as long as not from a store that is closed. >> this is debate, you have toic tathe other side. >> you didn't take any time to -- >> i will go with janice, she does not know how to play.

>> i want to team with janice. >> everybody loves gift cards. >> what did we win? >> we are just having fun. >> it is debate, it is how well you convince the host. elf on the shelf, terrific or terrifying? >> go with yes. terrifying. >> he's on my team now. >> did you ever do elf on a shelf? >> it is between the two of you. >> i think it is something that enhances the season and puts too much pressure on the parent. >> too much on the parents, what does that mean? >> inner pas are not involved, the elf does it, it is is a lot of work for the elf. >> you love it, why? >> my daughter begged santa to let a few of them stay throughout the entire year, the elves watch her to make sure she is behaving.

>> great points, she won this round of the debate. >> how about this one -- >> no wine on the set like on the set -- >> morning wine. >> you were joined on the set. >> is "die hard" a christmas movie? yes or no? brian has strong feelings. >> brian: christmas movie should be based on christmas, no. >> i think it is a christmas movie big time. ittic tas place at a christmas party, christmas throughout. no. >> here is the thing, this is why you are wrong, brian, john mcclain, bruce willis, is trying to get to the office christmas party to see his wife. it is a christmas movie, marcus latrelle, sent me a note and showed a list of christmas movies and number seven was "die

hard." >> going with steve on this one. i think the three of us, sorry, brian. >> brian, you look like elf on a shelf. >> go ahead, do we have more? >> no issue those are the three topics, for this debate, everyone won this last round. i don't remember how it came out, if you want to know who won the "die hard" christmas debate, you will have to watch the special. >> you don't remember the one-hour special? >> he can't give it away. >> when can we get it? >> now. >> it is available now, actually december 3, premieres. >> i am dressed as elf on a shelf. >> here is another debate about trees. >> i love christmas music, i waited until after christmas music, because i'm not a

sociopath. >> a real american is buying a real tree. >> usa, usa. >> we used to have real trees until the frog jumped out. >> i used that example. >> our neighbor had termites in their tree. >> i used that example. >> only one christmas tree, real christmas tree, everybody else is pretending. >> check out the great chrdebat. >> look at that. >> i don't like it. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's what sanctuary could look like... feel like... sound like... even smell like. more on that soon. ♪ ♪ the best part? the prequel is pretty sweet too. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> oh boy, take a look at our all american christmas tree. have a great december. >> i'll see everybody on radio. our guests is marc thiessen. >> so long, everybody. >> bill: good morning. have a look at the white house on a beautiful day in our nation's capital. check that out. first day of december. fox news alert. the leader of one of america's oldest allies heads to the white house. president biden set to welcome the french president at any moment. the first official state visit of the biden presidency. they'll hold a joint news conference and we'll be there. a big story. in idaho a quadruple murder case is raising the question whether or not investigators are back to square one as we