democratic side of. >> you are doing a hell of a job. i don't thinink yo k you are in it for money. >> all my sexual fantasies involve handcuff spirits >> laura: oh, my god, soon without those fantasies after pleading guilty to wire fraud, obstruction of justice and sentenced to 14 years in prison. greg got felled next. ♪ ♪ we won the white house dismissing elon musk twitter files is nothing more than a healthy distraction as republicans preparing to act on the latest evidence of the big tech censorship. you are watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning, i'm griff dinkins. ashley strohmier, carley and todd have the day off. twitter executives act on request from the biden campaign weeks before the 2020 presidential election and social media sites not only censored the post with hunter

biden's laptop but block users from using it as well. now house republicans push for answers and accountability today. >> the internal documents elon musk release this weekend and the oversight committee sending a letter tomorrow morning to the three twitter employees, baker, implicated in the cover-up of the lockup story. three letters requesting their presence and oversight comm committee. >> griff: brooke singerman joins us live with the latest. hey, bro. speak with the g.o.p. house majority poised to make this one of their focuses with the chamber next month especially with mid developments. the fbi with a lawsuit against the biden administration revealing the fbi refused to discuss their hunter biden investigation in 2020 after convincing facebook to suppress stories about the president's son laptop here they say, "one

meeting with facebook after the regular agenda had been completed one of the facebook asked if they had fbi information of the hunter biden investigation." the task force chief saying the fbi had no comment. she said something to the effect of the fbi no comment on this. the attorney general eric schmidt on that stunning testimony, listen. >> we took the deposition of elvis chan the fbi agent last week. here is what is clear, hunter biden l laptop story and they kw it was not to have material but which at they also knew when the story exactly was going to be published. elvis testified they were having meetings monthly meetings including weekly meetings telling to be on the lookout and linked materials. >> despite this new information on hunter and the laptop, the

white house: elon musk bombshell files. >> reporting leading up to the election my question was is the white house view that these decisions were made appropriately in light of what has come up? >> which decisions by home? >> twitter. >> bc this is an interesting coincidence, if i may, that he would so haphazardly, twitter so haphazardly push this distraction. that is a old news. >> elon musk releasing more twitter files in the coming day. >> ashley: brooke seaman, thank you, brooke. miranda defined had meetings between the fbi and predicts there is a lot more to learn about the extent of the bureau's involvement listen. >> if the fbi goes to twitter and instructs anymore and persuades them to prebunk a "new york post" story to precensor it, then that is a

violation of the first a first amendment. i do agree in one sense that elon musk did not release anything that was really useful when it comes to the fbi's intervention. and i wonder if that is because james baker is still there and i assume that elon musk had to get his release of various documents cleared by twitter's lawyers before they went to the -- so may be's lawyers allow one little thing from james baker the date, time, which was very interesting. >> ashley: okay, jonathan fahey former i.c.e. director and dhs deputy assistant secretary. so jonathan, i think what people are saying this, granted with the white house saying this is an old story, you are right. this is an old story we have

been covering for years, which they should have been doing the same spirit but my concern is really the fbi and the involvement with the biden white house and biden himself. people are getting that confused it is about hunter biden and his laptop. no, this has to do with the president, perhaps being a part of this. what do you think? how far will this travel up with the fbi and president joe biden? >> yeah, this is really amazing news. and we either call it old news as reported and truly amazing that they would even say that because this is so important. if the government in any respect is doing things to suppress speech or suppress discussion and things might affect on election on half of one of the parties or on behalf of the government or anything else, it should not be alarming to anybody. and really, the story going in

and i figure to eric schmidt's point which is quite interesting if the fbi had the laptop since 2019 and knew it wasn't fake and simultaneously is telling or not telling people israel and wanting them to suppress the story, there is something terribly wrong here. we should be really scared. this is seriously old news and something the american people should relate, again, be alarmed about. >> griff: let me take you, jonathan because as a former i.c.e. director, i have to talk about it. a project of being a covert of washington. there is an immigration draft bipartisan but, by the way immigration draft bill on capitol hill right now. now, we show a little bit here on part of the deal to avoid security, funding and staffing and the processing centers. and claims placed for at least

one more year of fast tracking removal of anybody in the u.s. illegally. but it also has for citizenship for age requirements that require dreamers between the u.s. between 2012 and 2018. what do you make of this? >> they should really be called the bipartisan we think the american people are stupid bill. because this is purely an amnesty bill. it looks like tom tellis will not run for reelection and 2026 and he signed on to this. the american people know what is going on. they want amnesty and his administration pushing nothing but amnesty and open borders. what will happen here if to pass, amnesty for the group they want amnesty for and no enforcement. this idea is laughable that all of a sudden they will start enforcing the law that not only refusing to enforce now, but

struck every single effort to enforce this law, including running the careers of border patrol agents and trying to force a law appear this is such a complete joke. if anybody signs on to this has to know that. this is to help senator sinema and the reelection in 2024. and they need to be subdued on the record to show they are tough on this and put the issue behind them here this is a complete joke. it is pure amnesty. there will be no enforcement whatsoever. in peer open borders and about a couple of weeks, we will see the flood at our borders. everyone that comes in will be giving every benefit the american citizens had. >> ashley: i want to get europe in the on this, they irs with wedding registries. simple things like goods and services for paypal, then mow.

basically if you make a single transaction over $600 and basically wanting you to notify the government. you have to let us know so when it comes to government overreach, is this government overreach? because they have been saying we will bring the irs agent sand but this was not to affect the little guy, the people making contracts under $600. that seemed so minuscule to me. how much is too much? are they overstepping their welcome? >> you made a really good point because remember it wasn't too long ago unless you made over $400,000 a year you didn't have to worry about the irs. you could go about your business, pay your taxes, you will not have the heavy hand of government coming down on every single thing you do. that is what they were telling us. now $600 transactions and under the biden administration, $600 is more than it used to be. this is really amazing they are cracking down on people.

again, interesting irony we have the ability to put irs agents, the number they will hire to do things like this, but yet, we have this uncontrollable border, crime at the border. they have no ability or interest doing anything about that. it is truly stunning and should scare people. it is hard enough this complicated tax code, some sophisticated lawyer accounts but now the little guy trying to get by a special and now we're trying to simply pay their bills, do what is right, you know and make a minor mistake that could put them in the crosshairs of the irs. this is will he not only a waste of government resource, but certainly heavy-handed government that should scare people in the learn people. >> griff: i don't know, jonathan who doesn't want to file 1099? >> ashley: not only that, $600 doesn't cover much anymore especially with inflation. >> griff: jonathan fahey former i.c.e. director weighing in on the topics on this tuesday

morning thank you for coming on. >> ashley: thank you, jonathan. >> thank you. >> griff: the rules are set to open the georgia senate runoff race hours from now. republican nominee herschel walker and democrat raphael warnock battling for the final senate seat to determine if kamala harris will have to break the upper chamber. >> you don't vote, you will get more chuck schumer and also president biden because senator warnock will always vote for them. and if you vote for herschel walker, you will give someone who will give you a voice in washington. >> i think the people in georgia deserve a senator who will work for the people of georgia. some will decide we don't need your voice and we do. there is still a path for herschel walker. >> griff: the media going to bat for raphael warnock with a key factor is that they know controversial comments like this one, watch.

>> i heard this one a lot. there is a certain disrespect that a lot of black men in particular feel about particularly the way that walker has been walked around by people like lindsey graham and sort of use and put forward. they don't seem to respect impure they don't seem to respect black people. >> john kennedy said walker will battle against wokeness in washington. >> these high iq stupid people have an answer for everything. you know why? because they think they are smarter and more virtuous than the american people! these woke, high iq stupid people, they are easy to recognize. they hate george washington. they hate thomas jefferson. they hate dr. zeus and they hate mr. potato head. >> griff: who hates mr. potato head?

we will unpack this with georgia congressman doug collins later on in the show. ♪ ♪ testimony revealing white house chief medical advisor dr. anthony fauci deputy institute of health was very impressed with draconian lockdown spear g.o.p. attorneys general eric schmidt and jeff landry proposing the doctor as part of the lawsuit against the bidens administration collusion with censoring criticism with white house pandemic. according to the newly released transcript, dr. fells g pressed from clipper clients that reads, china has demonstrated that it . dr. lane was impressed about how to make clinical public health standpoint the trainees with isolation. that is what i believe he meant when he said they were managing this in a very structured and organized way. the transcript also shows

dr. fauci dragging his feet on questions pertaining to its relationship with social media companies. he was asked five times, dr. fauci admitted his daughter worked for twitter as a software engineer. >> ashley: congress reported close to stricking a deal to end covid vaccine for service members. democrats and the the house and senate reporting to a g.o.p. led bill to suspend that mandate. republicans could file that they will as soon as this week and may even be included in included in the national defense authorization act, which must be passed by the end of the calendar year. up at white house is still adamant about keeping the mandate in place with nse security council strategic communications coordinator john kirby and insisting it is a hope issue for the force. and speaking of the military vaccine mandate, fox news exclusively obtains a court filing of navy seal commander who is challenging defense secretary lloyd austen's refusal

to approve one service member's religious exemption. the commander argues the pentagon denying religious exemptions affects the military's recruiting a an end retention of enlisted soldiers. enforcing the mandate will result in a loss of personnel necessary for accomplishing the commander's mission. this endorsement further illustrates the navy has failed to satisfy the religious freedom restoration act's rigorous standard. now to a fox alert, a tragic news story out of hollywood. iconic actress kirstie alley is dead after a battle with cancer. >> griff: jackie ibanez here with the news, hey, jackie. >> good morning griff and ashley. kirstie alley for the award-winning final six seasons of the hit sitcom "cheers" and "who's talking" movies. >> this one time wait at the end of the hall and i get to see this tiny little piece of elbow.

i didn't know for sure if it was you. [laughter] i thought to myself, and you came around the corner and i thought -- >> you know what i was going to do today? i didn't take my grandfather home. you helped him get in there. >> and you thought i would enjoy that? be to such a great movie, releasing a statement through the social media channels that reads in part, the passion for life, her children, grandchildrn and many animals, not to mention eternal joy of creating unparalleled and lead us inspired to live life to the fullest just as she did appear at a reaction to news of the actresses passing pouring and this morning john travolta, "the costar sharing this photo, she was one of the most special relationships i've ever had. i love you, and i know we will see each other again. jamie lee curtis who stored in

screen plays alongside alley sharing condolences on instagram saying in part "we agreed to disagree but had mutual respect and connection. sad news. "cheers" costar kelsey grammer with fox and friends come i always believe the public figure is a private matter but i will say i loved her. throughout her career, alley didn't shy away from her opinion and representing values who she is on tucker carlson tonight back in 2020. >> and representing my family, my friends and it's not like i don't have friends that are democrats. they have plenty of people representing them in hollywood appear they don't need me to represent them. i will represent my way of life and my values and my people! >> kirstie alley was 71 years old, griff, ashley. very sad, back to you, she was amazing. >> griff: jackie, thank you very much. you know, ashley, as a child

they grew up watching "cheers." everyone remembers iconic rebecca bar manager and most guys my age had a crush on her. >> ashley: she was beautiful. >> griff: so talented. and as we were talking off air, she was very private about her cancer diagnosis. very quiet so it comes as a shock today to learn the sad news. but really ready fascinating how she also found her voice politically later in life appearance be to you talk being quiet, you can all tell michael i always imagined hollywood actress, sometimes you just want to keep things quiet. you don't want to hear about it. you have to deal with things privately. but, you know, i wasn't exactly watching "cheers" but antics also son i love those movies. i thought she was so beautiful and so funny. to your point, griff, she wasn't afraid to speak up. as a woman, i can respect that a

lot. she always put her foot down and said, "no, no, no, you will not say that about me and i will live my own life and have my own thoughts." as a woman in hollywood, that takes guts. those people are the ones who choose whether or not you will be in these roles, which ultimately how you will make your living. but here is more of kirstie alley, excuse me, speaking on politics and speaking her mind. take a listen. >> i voted for obama twice. and then, okay, you had your fair shot. she really didn't do much of anything. and i really had thought that they were going to do something really amazing for the black community. and i don't think they did. and so my thought you had your eight years and i'm going the other direction now. and i just can't -- on twitter, get all these remarks and they are all so stupid. i don't mean all democrats are stupid. speak to her was pretty funny.

>> griff: calling it like it is. you know, we look back at her accomplished career. it is very easy to just, you know, sit back and bask and glow and do whatever comes next. speak out later in life really is something she will be remembered for. >> ashley: and praying for her family, obviously. i'm sure it's hard to hear this over and over about a loved one that dies. but praying for them too to find some peace and all of this as well. >> griff: kirstie alley. turning now to this, violent criminals pull off 14 armed robberies across chicago over the weekend and ten of them went down into ours. the former 911 dispatcher who quit his job because such a mess joins us live with his reaction. speed to get this, how was his for lesson plan? the students say using proper grammar makes them white supremacist. i'm not kidding.

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are addressing claims that the slain university idaho victims had a stalker. yesterday the department outlined the incident involving casey gunn saying this. intensive leads, investigators have identified an incident with kaylee at a local business which may have been. your reference you made to friends and family. based on available information, the detectives believe this was an isolated incident and not an ongoing pattern of stalking. the police if they will continue to investigate every possible angle of the gruesome murders until the killer is caught. and out to america's crime crisis, this robber caught on camera breaking into a california restaurant. you can see the suspect smashed one of the tables and restaurant and get this, the owner says four locations across happened since friday. half of the franchise has restaurant. the suspect stole cash, a laptop

and that suspect is still on the loose, ashley. >> ashley: turning to chicago the police learning to be on high alert after a string of 14 armed robberies over the weekend and ten of those robberies happen in less than two hours with at least three of the victims getting hit with guns. every suspect into his crime spree is still at large. former chicago 911 dispatcher keith thorton jr., keith, it is good to see you again. i wish it was on a different topic and we were talking how great it has been that crime has gone down but that is not happening here and so obviously, this seems to be organized crime. i don't know if that would be better or worse of ten different individuals. but one thing is for certain, crime is still very prevalent in chicago. what is going on? why is this not stopping? >> ashley, griff these are not

isolated incidents in chicago but all connected. tenant armed robberies since friday and let me just say this, three african american men 30 years of age indoor clothing, ski mask running up to people and we hours of the morning and also minority as well. they have no sort of ailment as to who they are targeting peer they will just get you peer they have semiautomatic weapons going after these people in the city of chicago and the police department just nothing is taking place to stop these guys. all at large. and this is just a little of what has taken place. >> ashley: keith, for people not familiar with chicago and i'm not as familiar as places like new york. but the north and west sides make explain are they different from one another or the same types of areas? >> these are very nice areas

with chicago north side. one million-dollar properties in these areas way up and so, you know, there is some cafes and restaurants where you can walk from apartments and houses and great business in the area. the website not so much of an ordeal. i'm from the west side of chicago, not a good area in terms of crime but extremely high skyrocketing. as i said before these are two different areas. these are not suspects and criminals going after just the rich folks where these folks. it is hitting everyone. they don't care, older people, younger people, males, females and the worst part about it, criminals are winning. they are absolutely winning, ashley. i will tell you what, they have a great system. they have a great structure. a great mission, a great plan and all of those things are better than what mayor lightfoot failed plan our to combat them.

she is so cowardly and i believe she has not spoken out on these incidents but instead refers to different people of the police department or going facebook to put this out to a media to say hey, citizens of chicago, we are warning you be careful. that is not doing anything. and like you said earlier, no arrests made and this is a nonstop problem under her reign. it is a problem. >> ashley: the mayoral election is coming up in a few months february 28th and a lot of people are calling an end to soft-on-crime policies but when you look at this, total crime up 41%, robbery 15%, theft up almost 60%. do you think the city of chicago has had enough or do you think they will keep going? >> you know, honestly i hope they have enough because come january, which is just right around the corner another month from now we are going to the safety act. i tell you what chicago

sometimes but this out earlier a 16-year-old boy in chicago had a hearing before a judge on a weapons charge and the same day he left when they put him on electronic monitoring and said go home, you will be fine. he went out, carjacked a lyft driver and come back and shot a guy. stood over his body and shot him. so they better get right with the city of chicago. i'm going to poll come a great guy who sees both sides. mayor lightfoot has got to go. she is ridiculous for the city. speed to strong words and keith thorton thank you for getting of with us again, great to see you. >> thank you. >> ashley: elementary school to host the first meeting of the satan club just in time for christmas. >> griff: what? parents are not happy about it and we are talking to one concerned mom right after this. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> ashley: here we go the english teacher teaches her students that grammar is white supremacy. imploring them to undermine that b.s. a post picked up by the tiktok twitter account, she claims "as an educator, i am constantly worrying if i'm a problem. what do i mean by that? public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society like white supremacy and misogyny and colonization, how we write essays, where we start with an introduction that includes a thesis. a ways to always cite your resources and sources. use transition words like however, therefore, these are all made up rules created by westerners in power." obviously this is absolutely ridiculous. when i read this my thought this can't be true saying transitions like they are for, however, made

up rules. the s.a.t. was racist because white people came up with it. i think the only really good thing about tiktok is showing us how many earnestly crazy people are out there. this is absolutely insane. i'm sure you have a lot to say. you were an english major. >> griff: first of all, there is a violation right out of the gate. >> ashley: i think that was me doing that. >> griff: wrote elements of style rolling in their grave 100 years ago in 1920, laid down the foundation and a sentence is a group of words and completes a word and every sentence, how was that racist? it is the english language and basis of what we do to communicate to each other. but the lack of communication in the fact that anything now can be racist is the fundamental problem. we need our english language and the rules of grammar that we all agree upon to communicate effectively to try to overcome

these things. it is absolutely outrageous and honest to goodness, i guess she has tenure, but i'm not sure i would want my kid to be taught this. >> ashley: she is a teacher in california. i think it was actually california, similar to the west coast they said math was racist. what you do with math. everything is racist. it's been when i was math and i was good with english and i'm not okay with that. staying in schools now to this. the after-school satan club is planning to hold meetings at an elementary school next week. a flyer invited kids to, "have fun and explain how the club does not attempt to convert children to religious ideology but instead, satanic temple supports children to think for themselves." enrolled in the school and the founder of chesapeake parents

for freedom and joins me now. is this for real? that was sort of my first reaction and then i started to look into it. it appears this is an actual thing. >> this is a thing. it is hard to believe. it is hard to accept that it is happening right down the street. it is in our community. is an abomination against god and i tell you right now, people need to be done with this. >> griff: what are you going to do about it? >> well, we will rally parents and expose this group. we will let people know what their intentions are, which is really to attack and target the news clubs. they have been very clear about that. we will get parents to show up at student council meetings and churches and as a community of believers, we are going to pray. >> griff: it does not appear there is much you can do to stop it other than speaking out. now, the chesapeake public school released a statement saying this, "this is common

prejudice among school around the nation and by law cps cannot discriminate based on beliefs to rent our facilities. this station is not, it is not a school club and no one is acting as a club sponsor. what is your reaction to basically being told nothing you can do here? >> right. so the u.s. supreme court precedent of 2001 allows them to be there. it allows the good news club to be there. but it is important for me to shine a light on the fact what their intent is is to come into communities and cause unrest, disruption, upset people and get them angry and the schools go, you know what, we will shut down all the clubs. no more clubs and no more after-school programs. that is not what the good news club is going to do. religious freedom should be held

to the upmost importance of this nation. we are going to stay and not get shut down the pier at the assc could care less if they get shut and with the other clubs. that is what they do anyway. so the good news clubs prior to covid over 4,000, 5,000 clubs around the nation. as sc has about five. so we know what what parents want. what is best for the children and we will hold the line. >> griff: ashley, i did a little bit of research looking into this. this is not the first place they have tried to do this. on their website, they have children's commercial video where they say satan is not an evil guy. really sort of trying to get kids to pay attention. and yet, they say this isn't about ideology, but do you believe it really is? >> absolutely. they are liars here they are a straight from. and they are saying you know

this is all targeted towards children and cartoon figures. it is a way for them to get in, indoctrinating. one of the leaders of this club bm williams down the street from my house on the private social media page, she posted "graphic, demonic imagery, including that of the baby. i don't know but me personally i wouldn't want my child around that person or in the same building. they do a pretty good job of exposing themselves and exposing their intentions, true intentions are all on their own. >> griff: a baby and another oven, my goodness, a terrifying image. aspen thank you for your time. keep us posted what happens in chesapeake. >> thank you so much. >> griff: all right, thank you. well trashing over the disturbing ad showing kids holding teddy bears covered in bondage gear. >> i refuse to represent or wear

a brand with any affiliation with exploitation of children. >> griff: she talked to tucker and is not holding back. we will tell you what else she is saying. >> ashley: inflation is quickly becoming the grinch that is about to steal your christmas. we will talk to one christmas tree farmer to navigate the high costs this holiday season. that is next. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> griff: welcome back. 49 minutes after the hour. residents in north carolina could be without power the rest of the week as they scramble to prepare to vandalize substations. vandalize into power grid stations that were shot up over the weekend. authorities believe the attack was targeted saying, "i will say this the individual who did the damage knew exactly what they were doing to cause the damage, to cause the outage." 39,000 people are still in the dark. >> in washington, house financial services chair maxine waters now says she says ftx sam

bankman-fried with the house committee hearing even though he says he will be ready in time. bankman-fried could stall on sunday tweeting "learning reviewing what happened to come i would feel like it was my duty to appear before the committee and explain that he was responding with this. based on your role as ceo, over the past few weeks, it is clear to us the information you have for us far is sufficient for testimony. interesting considering maxine waters was seen as a failed crypto boss aid a kiss after a congressional hearing last year. ashley. >> ashley: okay, so christmas tree price hikes here are the holiday staple is the latest item to hit and get hit by inflation as americans struggle to make ends meet this summer. more than 70% of tree growers facing higher cost on everything from fertilizer to fuel leaving

sellers with no choice but to raise their prices. co-owner of kimmy farms joining us to discuss, gilbert, thank you for getting help with us this morning. when i read the story, i felt so bad because full disclosure, the first time in a long time i bought a fake tree. i always like to support local businesses and the farmers. when i read this, you know, i just cut out two or $300 for a local business. so i feel for you. so tell us what are your customers saying when they come to you. are they saying, hey, these prices are too high? do they leave, do they stay, what is going on? how do you deal with this question marks because first off, thank you for having me. our customers are feeling the same pressure here as they are feeling everywhere else in retail right now. this mysteries for as much as christmas tree sales man wants

them to be a necessity, they are a want and not in need. so if someone comes to our lot, they are looking for something that fits in their budget so they actually have room to buy food and all of the necessities that they normally purchase. not only to buy the tree but certainly to put presents under it. so, it has been a challenge. we have heard it from my would say come every other customer that comes on the lot says something to the effect, "we cannot believe trees have gone up as high as they have." we have to explain that believe it or not, christmas tree farmers have the same inflationary pressures that others do. >> ashley: how are you dealing with that? how is it affecting you from inflation standpoint? i'm sure come obviously that is the reason you have to raise prices. explain to us how you feel that and deal with that? >> yeah, we've had to take price increases across the board for most of our trees. if you think about where the

pressures come from, it is from things as simple as the strength we used to tie the tree on top of the rope, which has doubled the prices. we have boards and things that we use for traditional wood stands that were $5 last year, $10 this year. nails that were $0.50 last year that are $1 this year. fuel costs, obviously, certainly everywhere you can think of, it has been a challenge. so even the christmas tree season or christmas season, we have tried to take as few price increases as possible where we've had to pass that along certainly to our customers, unfortunately. >> ashley: you have to make a living so you have to keep up with the inflation in order to make a living. so we understand that. compared to last year where the before, what are sales looking at? are they up, down, the same? >> that is a great question. we have seen it. we believe it is the same. if i'm looking at my numbers

from last year year-over-year, we are down a little bit. but i would say we have seen sales that have been slower. it is taking longer throughout the day and certainly taking a lot more work on our end. we have had people that come here surprised by their prices and want to shop around a lot more than we have had in years past. it takes maybe a little bit longer to sell that christmas tree. certainly, as best as we can, we tried to meet the budget of everybody. but i think these coming two weeks will tell the tale. this is a time of year where people who have defined budgets and certainly are working with just a little bit of extra money in their pocket are looking to find either the christmas tree of their dreams or to do without. so, yeah. >> ashley: you know, gilbert, good luck to you. if anyone is watching this and you are in columbus, georgia,

area, go see kimi farms farms just to help him out. go get a little tree and put it somewhere in the house. we appreciate you getting up for us. we are praying for you and everybody, especially small businesses trying to make it right now, good luck. >> thank you so much. merry christmas to everybody. sure. >> ashley: this morning, we are remembering beloved actress kirstie alley who has died at the age of 71. >> griff: the award winner stood out in hollywood as someone not afraid to speak her mind and we will share the touching tributes in the next hour of "fox & friends first." >> democrats have plenty of people representing them in hollywood. they don't need a leader to represent them. so i will represent my way of life and my values and my pe people!

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>> ashley: fox news alert, actress kirstie alley is dead after her battle with cancer. tributes are pouring in for the hollywood star, who is being remembered for her career that spanned decades and for standing up for what she believed in. you are watching "fox and friends first," iashley. >> griff: the emmy winner was best known for her role as rebecca in "cheers," and stars in "look who's