>> todd: a fox news alert, new questions emerging as twitter ceo elon musk reveals twitter files he's been releasing were concealed from top management, suggesting some files were completely erased. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. >> carley: and i'm carley shimkus, elon musk fired james baker. former twitter ceo jack dorsey challenging musk to make it public. musk replied most important data was hidden from you, too, and some may have been sdleeted, but everything we find will be released. i wonder why elon musk thinks some was deleted, who deleted

it? why? what did it say? is this focused on twitter? what about facebook and instagram? so much going on here. interesting the twitter back and forth between elon musk and jack dorsey. jack dorsey was saying release it all, why is this coming in chunks? why are you having matt taibbi release drip by drip. he said, we will release it all, give us time. jack dorsey was not told about a lot of decisions about blocking the hunter biden laptop story. >> todd: that is the question for me, who was running twitter while jack dorsey was running twitter? how did musk find this out? he's got three heavy hitter journalists, he has matt t

taibbi. it was run under jack dorsey and it is under dorsey and why when you have a plethora of silicon valley attorneys, why would you hire james baker with so many questions around him and conflict of interest and you signed off on that. >> carley: what do you mean, who hired him? jack dorsey? >> todd: jack dorsey hired james baker. >> carley: now there is this other twitter executive who has come out and said the fbi was holding weekly meetings with twitter before the 2020 election and there is going to be a hack and leak situation that will come out in october and there was the hunter biden laptop story from miranda devine.

how did the fbi know that? they were looking at rudy giuliani and surveilling him and seeing his conversations with miranda devine and the guy at the repair shop, so all of this very interesting and as elon musk says, more to come. >> todd: it is making waves, not everyone is happy with the waves elon musk is making at twitters, listen to this. san francisco regulators are investigating whether or not musk used the office as bedroom. there is a complaint and they say they need to make sure the building is being used. instead of making sure kids are safe from fentanyl, where are your priorities? he mentioned 10-month-old boy

ingesting fentanyl. this is a hit job by the city, sleeping at work is literally part of the tech culture, they code all day, sleep in the nap pods, drink mountain dew. >> carley: there is a picture of sam bankman-fried sleeping on a couch. >> todd: the bigger issue is exposed by musk, why focus on this when your city is crumbling at the seams? >> carley: elon musk is going through what trump is going through, everything is being investigated right now and elon musk wants to promote free speech, he is a target himself. think about the people leaving san francisco and all the people and businesses, taxpayer dollars going out the door, continue to investigate twitter and elon musk over something absolutely ridiculous and see how long

twitter headquarters lasts in san francisco because there is already, the mayor of miami saying he is lobbying for twitter to move to miami saying it's time you come here. maybe elon musk will take mayor suarez up on that. >> todd: he has huge infrastructure in austin, texas, i guarantee you texas won't investigate for napping pods. >> carley: how ludicrous this lawsuit is. this investigation. i have a couch and i sleep on it when you have a long day, you do "outnumbered" and jesse's show and take a nap in between. >> todd: you think i'm making it to gutfeld tomorrow without napping? come for me, i'll sleep on that couch until 9. >> carley: there are people outside hearing your alarm. >> todd: they know i'm thinking

hard as my eyes are closed. update out of idaho, a car, that car could be a key piece of evidence in the case of the murdered college students. >> carley: jonathan gillian has his own theory about the suspect and will share it next coming up.

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>> carley: a philadelphia gas station owner hiring armed private security to protect his business and customers after criminals ransacked the place. we spoke to one of the security agents this morning. >> we should be thanking mr. patel, he's saying you are not just protecting my business, i am making it safe for my customers, i want my customers to pull up and not worry about being stabbed, shot, robbed or hurt and drug dealers took over his gas station until we got there. >> carley: andre boyer says top officials are hurting the city of brotherly love. >> da larry krasner is definitely a big part of it, when we elected him, we elect

him to be a prosecutor and he failed us. he has not been the commissioner, the police commissioner she should be, she is missing innac to protect citizens or stop the flow of crime. >> carley: philadelphia has seen dramatic increases in the percentages of theft and burglars over the past year. look at the numbers. >> todd: possible break in the case of the university of idaho stu students. >> carley: arbiter has the latest. ashley. >> ashley: this vehicle was near the home where the four college students were murdered a month ago. moscow police say they are looking for additional information about a vehicle in the immediate area of the king street residence.

investigators believe the occupants may have critical information to share regarding this case. the car is a 2011 to 2013 white hyundai elantra. police were seen wednesday loading a uhaul with the belongings of the victims, including pink cowboy boots madison mogen displayed in her window in her room. these families deserve to have their loved ones' belongings back. >> we are trying to get things back to the family so they can have some closure. we will do our job to the best of our ability, we owe this to the victims, families and community. >> ashley: fellow peers are grappling with the situation,

one young woman saying my feelings of security are rattled, i don't believe i will view moscow in the same light. pepper spray is attached to the key chain weighing you down with the truth of your new reality. saturday marks one month. there is no motive or weapon. only new thing we have are about the car and the description, guys. >> todd: bring in jonathan gilliam and focus on the car, walk us through what investigators are doing with regard to that car? >> i'm not sure how the complaint came in, one thing, once this complaint came in and i said that was one piece missing, if this killer did not simply walk from somewhere local, there had to be a car or vehicle and if they identified something they were interested in, then it will start popping

on cameras that are in and around that area. so there is obviously a reason they focused on this car and they say it is so importants, i believe them, this is something they are looking into. between hours of 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. in a college town on a sunday morning, it is going to be a virtual ghost town. if that vehicle is there and moved, it most likely got picked up on some kind of camera and that point they are now able to focus for the first time really, focus on something that could lead them forward. >> carley: are you reading into the statement from police about the car that it is the killer's car and does that mean this is a break in the case? >> well, i mean if police are saying that, then they must have a reason to be saying that and if they have a reason to be saying that, then the public

should be very aware. this is something not only moscow should be aware of, but surrounding areas, six, eight, 10 hours away should be aware and people who left school and didn't come back that may know other people, take into consideration what they drive, because if they left and drove 15 hours away and that car is there and somebody can remember that, that is something they should try to recollect. >> carley: the worry is this will be a cold case and never be solved, is it too early to say that? >> i think it is. i have to say that the amount of pressure put on this police department by some of the families and i know families are grieving at times like this, but it has become ridiculous to point they have unrealistic

expectations and to go on television and bash police to the point where the police are doing press conferences just to respond to that family has caused a lot of pain and angst in law enforcement to get done quicker and you don't want law enforcement doing things quicker than they need to have gotten them done, they need time to do these things. i've never seen this before, i think this is modern era type issue, where a family can go to media and force a police department to move faster, and i just think it is really the police have to have time to go through the evidence, to go through the people, clear the people who need to be cleared and keep working the case diligently. >> carley: the family and police, everybody involved, everybody on the sideline, the media, everybody wants the same

outcome, for the killer to be found. thank you so much. >> you got it, thank you all. >> carley: all right, we told you about this book from american girl that promotes things like puberty blockers and tells kids how to get them without their kids knowing. >> todd: wow, nicole neally, we will ask her what she thinks about this, you will want to hear what she has to say. ♪

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you. if you haven't gone through puberty yet, the doctor might offer medicine to delay your body's changes. if you don't have a book you trusts, there are organizations across the country that can help you, turn to the pages if r for more information. nicole, this is sick. why would it be a beloved brand celebrating innocence of little girls do this? >> it's a great question, the fact you said this is a beloved brand that used to teach girls about american history, to be determined to rip children's innocence away -- >> todd: i believe we may have just lost ms. nicole neily. do they not see what happened to disney? you are setting yourself up for go broke because you went woke type scenario, you saw what

happened with disney, they had to fire their ceo. things have been going well for american girl for the last 20 plus years, we have a store here, there are tons of little girls, especially this time of year going to get a gift for themselves or a sibling, why do this? >> carley: you said yesterday when we were reporting the story, this will save you money on american girl dolls. you have to wonder, maybe parents won't support the company because they don't support the values i have. for this book to give kids a way to go around the parents is the problem here. >> todd: there is this push not just in this book, across society to eliminate parents as the oneings in charge of the best interest of their kids. they said, if you can't trust that adult, find another adult you can trust, you are putting parents in a scenario where they

become the enemy. these are your kids, you are experiencing as a mom, you are growing a human inside of you, i am in charge of these two kids and to have that line in the book, we will set you up with an organization, absolutely not. you will not put an organization in my place as the parent. >> carley: totally, the only thing you can say about this, how would these kids get the book? hopefully a way where maybe a parent can give it to a child, but what if you go to school and it is in a school and the parent doesn't know or a library, there are a variety of ways this is just one surprising thing. think about american girl issue it is a company that shouldn't be political whatsoever, to turn into this is interesting. >> todd: we have nicole back, on eliminating parents from being parents, your organization

parents defending education exposed school board for showing educators how to transition kids without parent permission. when deciding to involve a parent or guardian, school staff should work closely with the student to assess the degree to which the parent or guardian should be involved in the process and consider the health, well being and safety of the student. shouldn't parents always be involved? these are their children? >> parents should always be involved, we have permission slips for field trips and aspirin. this is unconstitutional and immoral. >> todd: parents need to stop this now. sorry we lost your signal, you were great on the topic, we will have you back, nicole neily, thank you. >> carley: meteorologist adam klotz joins us now. >> winter weather sweeping

across the country, big cold front and cold air across the country. on the eastern half, from colorado, the plain toward east, 40s, 50s and 60'ses and big cold front and the temperatures drop quickly behind it and we're talking about wind chill spots in northern plains, negative 10 or 14 degrees, nine in minneapolis early this morning. that is settling across upper midwest, right now 32 in chicago, defined line you jump out in front and 40 in cleveland, there is warmer air out there along that frontal boundary, one spot we are tracking soggy conditions. here is the forecast today, not bad for a lot of folks. 40s and 50s, 60s and 70s and tracking winter-like weather across the plains.

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>> todd: parents are struggling to feed their babies nearly a year into the baby formula shortage and now the makers of enfamil say this could last until the spring. we spoke to a louisiana mom of four who has been struggling to find formula since the very beginning. >> i was down to half a can last week and i wasn't able to find it anywhere, i went to multiple stores. babies in america going without and not being a priority to anybody, but what is disheartening, i've had to fight to feed my children for eight months now. >> todd: in america, fighting to feed your children. enfamil announcing this despite president biden launching fly formula back in may. >> carley: raising red flag over college vaccine mandate saying

they are unethical and will do more to harm students than help them. booster mandates are unethical, they are not based on risk-benefit assessment for this age group and may result in net harm to healthy young adults. joining us is andrea harrig and her attorney. what is your reaction to what this medical journal is saying about boosters not being the right thing to do for students at college universitieses? >> well, this goes exactly with what we were thinking from the beginning, where there wasn't a lot of information or data and we wanted to make our own choices based on what was right for us. >> carley: you are a professor

at bowling green, clarification on that part. tell us why you are seeing your school? >> like i said, we wanted to make the choices that were best for us and weren't feeling like we were getting that opportunity so god placed it on my heart to speak up for the voiceless and the students are the voiceless in this situation. it is difficult to go against the narrative at aid public university and i decided to put myself in this situation so i could speak up for those that could not. >> carley: you said you didn't want to get vaccinated and you were put on leave, is that the story? or mask mandate? >> my story is mask mandate, i have a medical exemption, but the university refused to accommodate me, they made me go through the acommendation

process, a very lengthy process, in the meantime, i was disciplined for not attending a meeting when i was told not to come and i was disciplined for stating i would not wear a mask while i was teaching and ultimately disciplined for trying to meet with my students in zoom when the university cancelled by classes when they could not find a substitute. i tried to put my students first and i was disciplined for it. >> carley: tell us about the lawsuit, what is your argument and where does the lawsuit stand right now? >> well, the trial court has said that we have dismissed it for lack of standing, so we are going to the appellate court and i'm glad to see the article that has come out, i think it refers to something rather obvious, people should compare the risk

of the vaccine to what the benefits are and doesn't seem the benefits are what they were initially cracked up to be. the vaccine does not stop spread. it does not stop individual infection, so what is remaining possible benefit? >> carley: will you use the article when you are arguing your case moving forward? >> it is possible, we've got experts like dr. peter mccullough, explaining the scenario and why the risk exceed the benefits and why people should have freedom to make a choice in this regard. especially young people who have the least risk from covid. and especially my clients who have natural immunity, the whole situation is hard to understand why universities are trying to

mandate it and other institutions are trying to mandate this vaccine. >> carley: unbelievable this is an issue heading into 2023. best of luck to you both. >> thank you. >> carley: go woke, go broke, senator tom cotton getting praise for telling woke companies to take a hike when they asked republican for relief from democratic policies. >> a lot of large publicly traded corporations are an arm of the democratic party. >> todd: your favorite squad member, aoc, alexandria ocasio-cortez under a federal ethices investigation, we brought joe concha in to talk about it. not mariah, but joe concha. ♪ ♪

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>> carley: conservatives applauding senator tom cotton for calling out woke ceo of kroger. >> todd: seeking help against democratic regulation after the

store fired christian employees for refusing to wear a gay pride symbol. cheryl casone has more. >> cheryl: arkansas senator tom cotton getting praise for dressing down the head of kroger in front of his committee. >> they silence conservatives and center right voters, probably shouldn't ask republican senators to carry the water when our democratic friends want to regulate them. sorry that is happening to them, best of luck. >> cheryl: he made those commentses to mcmullin. watch. >> a large of publicly traded corporations have become arm of the democratic parties, you had kroger that didn't just discriminate against two christians firing them for wearing what they perceived as gay pride symbol and being sued

by the trump equal employment opportunity and settling it. >> cheryl: matthew foley tweeting, let's go, and briscoe cain tweeting, go woke, go broke. >> carley: how does he feel about the reeyes? interesting touch. drama at the "new york times." >> cheryl: digital picket line today, the one-day strike could involve 1000 employees. some said they were boycotting, including mark hemmingway, i have been refusing to engage with "new york times" to send a message for the better part of 20 years, the break your wardle streak, and cookbook issue the strike is over pay, health

insurance and pension. >> todd: temperature on tiktok rising. >> cheryl: tiktok deal facing deals over delay of security worries for americans, not a new idea here, tiktok, owned by china has spent 9 billion lobby nothing washington and customer data on oracle servers in united states. tiktok harvests information from what, where and how they conduct internet activity and offers trove of information to the chinese government. state of indiana suing tiktok, stage ag saying multiple ways tiktok clear and present danger to hoosiers. guys, just to beer cloo, we don't know what the chinese

government is going to agree to here. this is bite dance, the company, but chinese government, are they going to allow that to be housed on u.s. servers? i'm not so sure. >> carley: from one social media company to another, interesting moment, white house refusing to admit if biden campaign communicated with twitter about hunter biden laptop during the 2020 election. watch this. >> did anyone from the biden team communicate to twitter this reporting stemmed from hacked material? >> i can't speak to decisions made by the campaign, of course it is up to companies to make their own decision about the content on their playoffs. >> todd: joe concha is live in studio andin jos us, your take on that dodge in the proverbial, we hide behind the campaign, we

have to separate those to avoid uncomfortable questions. >> joe: it is like, you ever do eight-minute dating? i did once, it didn't go well. it is awkward to watch press things with karine jean-pierre, her answers are always unconvincing. it didn't allow me to talk about this. exactly. and jen psaki broke the hat check, her predecessor. we know what happened here, during the 2020 campaign biden campaign in touch to control the narrative. bottom line, again, i live in new jersey and i have liberal friends that i speak to from time to time and they say what does the pt's son have to do with the way he is governing now?

what is the big deal? because if the big guy is joe biden, he got 10% of deals in china, ukraine and uszia, that would mean your sitting president may be compromised by china, affecting policy as pertapin tas to covid and origins carol jacky asked that question because in order to trigger twitter's policy, somebody had to complain the material was hacked. who was that person? we don't know and we have the dodge from karine jean-pierre and twitter executives are saying, wait a second, the fbi was holding weekly meetings saying there would be a data dump in october having to do with hunter biden and fbi pressuring twitter executives to change hacked material policy. is this social media story, fbi

story? what is the head of the snake? >> joe: all of the above, is it fbi story, political story? all of these things and we shoul should. bottom line, the steele dossier was not verified and twitter has a policy around, make sure we don't allow hacked materials -- >> carley: wiki leaks on twitter, as well. >> todd: there is this, house ethices committee, i said it right. they just announced they are investigating congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, she defended the appearance as part of her responsibilities as a new york congresswoman. ethices committee mentioned announcement of the probe, does

not indicate any violation has occurred or reflect jchl on behalf of the committee or relate to the dress and visit at the met gala. assuming it does, will this vgsz force her to reevaluate her policy. she going to double down? >> joe: ethices of the house committee. change it to. thattic ittet, how much? >> 30 k. >> joe: 30's,000, before taxes, you have to make $50,000 just to attend this gala and alexandria ocasio-cortez is supposed to be for the little guy and gal and not only attending this gala, perhaps it was paid for by the same folks she is investigating,

i think we have smoke and fire. >> todd: potentially lobbied her as member of congress. >> joe: you were trying to read a quote and carley was trying to interject. >> todd: it may or may not be about the dress. >> joe: you are like married joni and chachi. >> carley: president biden says he is too busy to visit the southern border and has time frp trips to the beach and ice cream. texas state senator brian hughes. >> todd: check in with steve doocy, he loves ice cream. tell us what is coming up on? >> steve: we are working something out on the floor, am i covered by the hat check?

can i read the tease? >> todd: nope. >> steve: i can't. let's go to break. kidding. coming up on "fox and friends" in 11 minutes and 14 seconds, possible break in the case of the murdered university of idaho college students, investigators need help finding a car. loudoun county expected to name interim superintendent in the wake of grand jury report blaming the school for a repeated sexual assault and congressman pat fallon and winsome sears and tim tebow, kirk cameron and pete hegseth kicks off on the channel you trust for morning news. todd and carley back in a

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>> todd: republicans and democrats bashing president biden's failed border policy as a record 14 border patrol agents have committed suicide this year alone and another officer loses his life in a high-speed chase to detain migrants crossing into our country illegally. >> carley: brook singman is here with more. >> safety and mental health are at risk because of the biden administration's failing border policies. listen to this. >> the folks who are mapping the southern border are bearing the brunt of our foreign policies. >> i'm asking the biden administration -- i'm asking to please take this issue serious most importantly remember it is men and women who are on the frontline who are enacting those policies and those are the people we need to support.

>> focus of yesterday's press conference was on the agents' mental well being. calling for stronger border security. watch. >> there is a crisis on our border that needs immediate attention. >> border security is not a republican or democratic issue. it is an issue that effects all americans. >> let's work together to resolve this issue and secure our borders. support our cbp agents. give them the tools they need to do their job. >> this comes on the heels of president biden's controversial comments on the crisis. when asked why he visited arizona this week without making a stop at the border, the president claimed there are more important issues. but, so far this year, 14 cbp agents have committed suicide while dealing with the massive influx of migrants entering the u.s. from the southern border. and yesterday morning, a 38-year-old agent was killed after crashing his atv during a high-speed chase near the border. the agency's chief raúl ortiz releasing this statement the death of an agent who died while securing our nation's border is

a tremendous loss for our organization and our nation. our prayers are with his family and co-workers during this difficult time and, guys, the biden administration also filed an appeal against a ruling that blocks the title 42 protocol which allows the government to remove migrants because of health concerns. now, title 42 is lifted, as many as 2500 additional migrants could cross the southern border every day. carley, todd? >> todd: brooke, thank you, let's remember that border patrol agent was a dad, two kids also a husband. >> absolutely. >> todd: think about that. that guy didn't have to die but for the biden administration policies. thank you. >> carley: brooke, thank you so much. with that let's bring in brian hughes, chairman of the committee on state affairs. good morning, sir, thank you for joining us. what is your reaction to the death of this border patrol agent and he did die just a few hours after the president said that there are more important things than the southern border. he died defending the border and protecting it.

>> it's tragic. this should not be a republican or democratic issue. this is an american issue. this is about human suffering. and death, as you just described. it's just unspeakable how this administration is refusing to do anything about the crisis. our border patrol officers are brave. they are in danger. they are not getting support from the administration. they are getting help from texas. they are backed up now by texas law enforcement. our department of public safety. our state police, our game warns, the texas guard. billions of dollars and thousands of officers, boots on the ground, equipment we're deploying because the federal government will not do its job. if they won't, texas will. >> carley: things are so bad at the southern border that kevin mccarthy, he was recently just visiting the border. he told us several times about a woman that he saw brutally murdered by mexican cartel members. and he says that the situation down there is so bad that he thinks that special ops should come in. get the navy seals to defend the border. do you think that he is on to

something there? >> i absolutely believe he did. governor abbott with our texas guard, just deployed more military style vehicles that used to be controversial. this is such a drivers. you also know that we just had the largest seizure of liquid fentanyl in history. fentanyl, a drug that americans are just hearing about, enough fentanyl in this seizure to kill 5 million people. texas law enforcement, border patrol made that seizure. the drugs, the human trafficking, it's just beyond belief. and something has to be done. and, in texas, we are spending buildings of texas tax paying dollars and putting our law enforcement, our texas military forces on the border. defenderring the border for the rest of the country because the biden administration will not do it. >> todd: you mentioned fentanyl. they shouldn't just be hearing about it. we have been talking about fentanyl on this very show, on this very network for years now. are the fact that mainstream media is just catching on is an abomination.

despite all of this, state senator, president biden has better things to do than visit our border. i'm sure the widow and those two kids would beg to differ. the border seems pretty important to them. texas state senator brian hughes, thank you, sir. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: thank you so much. absolutely. two hours went by pretty quickly there. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: bye-bye. ♪ ♪ run, run rudolph ♪ santa's got to make it to town ♪ make him hurry ♪ tell him he can take the freeway down. >> brian: christmas song. looking at our christmas tree which according to i starterred this morning 340,000 lights, exactly. 12,000 ornaments borders. >> steve: down one. >> brian: 50 fee