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ppose duffy -- campos-duffy thi. morning. lisa: i'm not built for this weather, guys. pete: do you drink coconut water on the regular. lisa: pete doesn't like coconut water. i like it. pete: it's disgusting. do you wake up and go i like coconut water. lisa: it's good for hydration. i like the t taste of it. will: if you crack this open and like coconut meat and get a big hunk of white coconut. i like that. here's the thing, i like that but hate shaved, dried coconut on any desert item. pete: it's terrible. will: putting that on desert, you've ruined it for me. cracking that open and have fresh coconut meat, that's good. pete: i haven't had fresh coconut meat. lisa: there's coconut chips with
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chocolate and i guess if you put chocolate on anything, it's good. pete: i don't think so. if you put coconut on anything, i'm with will in violent agreement, it's horrible. will: but coconut flavored snow cone is a grand slam. the blue juice or white. whatever. whatever the flavor, i like the blue and the white. lisa: all i know is -- pete: grand slam. lisa: i moved to florida and made fun of people in jackets and now i'm the person in turtle neck in 70 degree weather. will: glad to have you in new york with us this weekend. week. lisa: thanks for welcoming me in, guys. will: twitter's third release of files last night and showed unprecedented censorship at highest levels. pete: and coordination with the government. journalist matt taibbi showing a relationship between twitter and the fbi, even dni and communication leading up to the
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removal of former president trump from the plat tomorrow. lisa: kevin cork joining us live from dc with more orn -- on this topic. >> how widespread was the government's role in silencing voices before and now in the 2020 election. it's now one of many questions being raised following the new revelations of the latest twitter files train m -- that we've seen relealeased and yoel roth and before this happened. "during this time, executives were also clearly liasing with federal intelligent agencies about election related content". incredible.
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this post about the hunter biden laptop situation shows that roth not only meet weekly with the fbi and dhs, that's the department of homeland security, but with the office of director of national intelligence. are you asking yourself what does one have to do with twitter? how about the other? what do they have to do with twitter? how about this tweet. roth report to fbi and it's farcical in the self-flagellating tone and coming as reporters think we're idiots and the one you're reading says we didn't see one reference to moderation requests from the trump campaign, white house, or republicans generally. that's important because they've been making the argument that it's not just democrats asking for moderation. republicans were doing it too. taibbi says he's not found any evidence of that. and then there's this also, in another example he writes twitter employees prepare to slap a mail in voting is safe
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warning label on a trump tweet about postal screw up in ohio before realizing the event took place, which meant the tweet was factitially accurate and -- factual accurate and thinking about slapping a label on it anyway. you and i have talked about this, guys, this is just part of what we expect to continue to come out. we expect more this weekend and into next week. this is all part of what elon musk is calling transparency of unprecedented level at twitter. there are those who would say it is about time. guys. will: pastrami about time. it is about time. thank you, kevin, for the report. now that it has been revealed and confirmed that twitter was shadow banning, people based on political ideology based on ideas and based on party, we have to look back and go, why was jack dorsey lying so often? watch. >> does twitter censor the consent of its users?
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does it hide what it would consider inflammatory comments whether they be social or political? >> absolutely not. >> has twitter ever been involved in shadow banning? >> we do not shadow ban according to political ideology or viewpoint or content, period. >> re-with doing something a-- are we doing something according to political ideology or viewpoints and we are not, period. we do not look at content with regards to political viewpoint or idol. >> are you censoring people? >> no. >> twitter shadow banning prom nprominent republicans, bad. is that true? >> no. will: there you have it. pete: it's almost -- watching that clip on cnn, you know when cnn looks you in the eye and said we're just journalists and playing it right down the mid middleand know they're lying tou and jack dorsey probably
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probably said we have property columbias and don't ban on and twitter files trying to carve him out for plausible denyability and not involved and some of the evidence shows he was involved. he feels like a guy who -- i could be wrong here never really wanted to be super political and then found himself at the apex of this political discussion. didn't really want to be apart of it and let the inmates run the ship. here's the other thing. how many things were deleted before elon musk got its chance to expose it. weir only seeing what was aloed to exist. allowed to exist. will: because it went through jim baker and he vet ted it before it was given to taibbi. lisa: baker was involved in russiagate in 2016 and had a hand in the censorship of the
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hunter biden story as well because of the twitter files we found out. so that's the whole thing about this and if elon musk had taken over twitter in the 2020 cycle, what would have changed in the course of history. look at information and truth that twitter was censoring the hunter biden story, which we know to be true and things about covid as well. think about the dynamics of that and how that would have been changed if people wouldn't have been censored for speaking the truth and numerous studies showing us that the 2020 election was influenced by the censoring of the information and outcome would have been different and literally the course of history would have been changed. will: what we're talking about is election interference and interference in your bodily health choices. it was definitely conservatives that had their accounts turned down but not just conservatives. what i mean is here's a great example. standford scientist who's one of the -- what's the right way to see it?
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not contrary indian but independent voices. lisa: but correct. will: yeah, when it came to lock downs and don't know where he was on ma masks specifically. they turned down his account. i was sounding this out and science has been defined over the past couple of years over whenever the consensus is of scientists or medical establishments, but twitter was creating the consensus. i wonder if they were turning down anybody that defied the consensus and in a way twitter was defying science and creating a false perception of consensus. lisa: what do we hear that's true? really, sincerely. pete: what am i reading that's true at all. lisa: on top of the stifling of basically deck indicating what is truth on terms like covid and things of that nature, you have the nih and dr. fauci because of
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grant money going out to scientists and he also controlled what, you know, a lot of scientists said because they were so fearful of not getting that spigot or money turned off. pete: we didn't hear a lot because we weren't allowed and comes after 2016 where democrats said never again will we allow someone like donald trump to win and used every leverage including silicon valley. there was a lot of pressure and example of then senator kamala harris october of 2019 -- forget about trump tweeting something about the state of the country. she said hey, jack, time to do something about this. what you saw on this third release of twitter files, they were building the predicate to suspend, block, or cancel trump. january 6 eventually gave them that and they canceled him on january 8, but they were already gap eling with how -- grappling with how to handle trump and
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turn it down. these were democrats working for other democrats using intelligence agencies to launder the whole thing. will: to ma nip lace an e e -- manipulate an election in your mind. the one most revealing on your point is they were turning down president trump and others on whether or not mail in balloting was going to be legitimate or had an error rate or whatever. they're like, this is election misinformation. they turned him down; right. but when eric holder, former attorney general, democrat, tweeted out something about don't trust mail in balloting, essentially the same thing, they're like, hey, don't tag that one. that one's okay. it's factually accurate. lisa: that's a good point and i was pointing out earlier the reason this happened was there was a former vice president of facebook in 2016 saying donald trump won because of facebook. he was a little too good at using essential media to reach the people and circumventing the media and we learned the desire between government, the media,
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and big tech of wanting to censor what people read, see and hear. pete: by the way, if they're able to turn down, they can turn up. will: no doubt. pete: for years, the people that recommend that had i follow was barack obama and hillary clinton and cnn. i was like how many times do i have to pass over that because your algorithm changes and suggests something different to me. they've been rigging the game for a long time. the interference of government is the most dangerous part. more news this morning, texas dps launching a new task force aiming to slow down the influx of illegal got aways at the southern border. lisa.: the new unit arresting dunses of immigrants at a private home. will: bill melugin at the border with more. bill. reporter: the number of got aways slipping past border patrol here these days, texas dps started a brand new task force designed to find and arrest some of the got aways and we had a chance to embed with the unit. take a look at first piece of
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video taking down a human smuggler in front of somebody's house and bails out and illegal immigrants go running all over the place and troopers start tackling them. they open up the back of the smuggler's vehicle and find more illegal immigrants in the back and some wearing the cartel wristbands indicating they've paid a cartel to be smuggled into the united states and the smuggler himself in the yellow jacket found and arrested by texas dps and was a mexican national and in the back there's more illegal immigrants hiding in the backseats not moving thinking nobody would be able to see them. take a look at second piece of video and went out into the brush with dps to find runners and got aways and the guys that don't want to be caught and not seeking asylum and not willing to turn themselves in. these troopers were using drones and canines to find group after group after group of the runners hiding in the brush and almost all single adult men and we were with them in one single morning as they arrested about 50 of the illegal immigrants trying to sneak into the united states through the brush. take a look at this video while with dps in the brush, we
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noticed from across the river. suspected mexican drug cartel and scouts keeping an eye on us and dps. we saw a pickup truck with guys and look through the trees and see guys in hoods dressed in camouflage hunkering down and watching us with walky talkies and radios and phones and even put a drone up in the air and creepy to see and shows the control those cartels have on the mexican side of the border and back out here, texas dps tells us they'll keep going with this new unit they formed to catch these got aways because right now there's simply not enough border patrol agents on the front lined and they're overwhelmed and don't have the manpower. back to you. will: thank you, bill. now to headlines with shocking news out of the world cup in qatar. u.s. journalist grant wall dying suddenly last night while covering the world cup. grant's bore eric said he -- brother eric said he suspects foul play after he was briefly
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detained for wearing a rainbow pride shirt last month. wall's brother saying i'm gay and he's the reason he wore the shirt and he was healthy and told he he received death threats and i don't believe he just died but was killed. i beg for help. grant wall was 48 years old. a vapeing company juul agreeing to pay $1 at1.2 billion to sette lawsuits and those juul lawsuits are a vape epidemic and juul reached settle wants in more than -- settlements in more than 5,000 case. thanks to you, our incredible viewers, that great organization along with stand for a cause got $50,000 worth of donations in just a week. here's a little more about that incredible company. >> we had a friend that was deployed to afghanistan and sent
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socks in his care packages and he was dealing with a bacterial foot infection at the time and a supply of good quality socks helped clear that up. will: pete got the donation started live on air donating the first pair. $50,000 in one week. pete: that's not what they made but gave away. lisa: incredible. pete: today is one of the best days in sports, navy and army go head-to-head on the gridiron for all the bragging rights. lisa: it's the only sporting events where the members of both teams are willing to die for the viewers watching. will: joey jones is live from lincoln financial field with the foundation president and gold star sister of marine corp. first lieutenant. joey, good morning. reporter: good morning, guys. listen, it's a little bit cold out here. i have gloves on. ryan doesn't, she's really tough. but listen, the travis manyon foundation had a fundraiser a
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few nights ago and ryan was telling me how important it is to come back to the game and how many memories with her family coming here. ryan, just tell me about that and i love what you were saying. >> yeah, there's something so special and my dad is a retired marine corp. colonel and grew up going to the army navy games and my brother entered into the academy, it was an honor to watch him march on to the field. for a few hours, we're rooting on different sides and no malter who wins, america wins. reporter: you're right, college football is probably america's game and america's sport and this army navy game is so much fun because all the mid shipment and cadets march on to the field and have the prisoner swap. your brother was a mid shipment at the academy and came to the game and did that? >> he did, yeah, absolutely. the traditions that happen within this game, i mean, the ball is coming up, it's running from -- they run the ball into the stadium. there's so many amazing traditions, and it brings out
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the best of america; right. reporter: tell everybody where they can go to travismanionfoundation.org and. >> go to the website and learn more about the veteran's families we are we're -- we're helping and tune into the game. pete: their motto is if not me then who? if i don't step up, who will fight for the country? pretty cool. two parents tell us their 14-year-old daughter was denied a kidney transplant because she didn't get the jab. they sound off live on that. lisa: plus senator kyrsten sinema ditches the dems. we sound off on that next. ♪
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pete: a horrific story out of north carolina. a 14-year-old girl was denied a kidney transplant because she didn't get the covid vaccine. duke children's hospital and health center originally told crissy and lee hicks that their daughter, julia doesn't have to be vaccinated to have the procedure done but they
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recommend that had she get the -- recommended that she get the vaccine. watch. >> i can't require you to do anything, i can recommend these things but if you don't follow our recommendations, then julia can't be a transplant candidate here based on criteria no. 5 which is the dialysis treatment and medical recommendations and based on no. 10 that would be medical risk factors that makes transplant surgery unsafe. being unvaccinated to the cdc recommended vaccinations based on her age is part of that. pete: crissy and lee hicks join us now. crisesy -- crissy and lee, thanks for being here. you have eight biological children and three adopted. you adopted julia and treating her as your own and want the best care for her. is it really just that she as a 14-year-old is not vaccinated for covid, that she can't get this transplant?
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>> yes, absolutely. we said at the end of that call that isn't recorded i said basically you're telling us if she does not get the vaccine, she's not getting a transplant and dr. chambers said yes. that's the one thing that's holding us up. pete: lee, you've been in a two-yearlong process and did you believe at the beginning if she didn't get the covid vaccine she couldn't be treated or a behind side at the end? >> no, so we have been up front the entire time we've been seeing duke for the last two years that we were not comfortable with the vaccine, with the covid-19 vaccine and they knew all along we were not comfortable with this and it was not a recommendation according to dr. chambers at first and until the very end in our last -- we did our eight hour workup in the early -- or late october and they told us that was going to be a highly
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recommended/requirement for her to get a vaccine before she would get the transplant. the phone call you heard there was 29th of november that's when she said it's not a requirement but a recommendation and she cannot do the transplant without the vaccine. pete: it's a lot of word smithing there saying it she doesn't get the shot, you're noc condition that's destroying her kidney and needs this eventually to save her life. crissy, what are your options if not here? >> well, we don't really know. we have retained a lawyer, mike yoder, and he'll help us fight duke, but we don't want julia's life caught up with a litigation and hoping a medical center will step forward and say come here and we'll give you the transplant without the vaccination. we set up a website for her called juliagrace.com and if there's a medical center that would take us as a patient, we'd love them to reach out to us. pete: if there's a medical
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center, reach out. she was treated and seen by all these doctors for all this time without a covid vaccine and suddenly when it matters the most, i'm sorry, your child's life can't be saved. stunning. >> exactly. >> pete, we've also set up a gift send go, our friend did for us, we have 11 children so it's not really financially accessible for us to go on our own out of state to do the surgery. but we have a gift send go, it's giftsendgo.com/kidneyforjulia. pete: we have it on the bottom of the screen and no doubt that many viewers will be supportive of that and god bless you for what you're doing and adopting and fighting for those kids who wouldn't have a shot and now because of a shot, one of your precious children may not get what they need. keep us posted on her in the process. >> thank you, pete. pete: you bet, thank you. we reached out to duke children's hospital and health center for statement and we not
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hear back. what are they going to say? no, we're still not going to give her the kidney? amazing. another day and twitter dump. a partnership? that's what they triering to call it between the trying to call it between twitter and the fbi. jason chaffetz reacts to that . he's not carry a sink but he's here. ♪
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lisa: a fox news alert part three of twitter files revealing executives met with the fbi and dhs on a weekly basis around the 2020 election. but the mainstream media doesn't seem concerned between abc, cbs and nbc zero minutes of coverage on the first and second batch of the files so will they cover part three? jason chaffetz fox news
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contributor and former utah congressman is here to react. jason, zero minutes. why won't they cover it? >> twitter is doing something like 90 billion impressions every day. they don't cover it because it makes liberals and democrats look bad because of the positions they've taken. it justifies and exemplifies what republicans were saying and conservatives. we were saying, hey, we're being shadow banned and you're blocking us and not allowing us to play on an even playing field and now that that's being proven right, they're not going to cover it or do that story. lisa: government really used the whole russian collusion lie to kick this off off. saying we have to protect americans from the disinformation and from all the russia stuff. that's really where it started, started -- isn't it? >> what bothers me is there were multiple agencies and personnel in the federal government paid by the federal taxpayers that went out there and used the
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justification toshia doe ban ann stories and this is russian disinformation. it wasn't, that was a lie. they were doing the same things that russia and china do within their own countries and they use that justification to meet their political goals. that's why jim jordan and james comer and congress will go after these people and they'll have to testify and do tribed -- transcribed interviews and get to the truth because that's election interfering and not protecting us from russia and china and the others. lisa: what was the impact of it all on the country? >> i think it was significant because the way to communicate in this day and age is very much on your phone and social media and so my guess is this isn't just about twitter. i mean, thank goodness for elon musk and being able to expose it but when we start looking under the hood with facebook and instagram and these others, i think we're going to see the same thing. lisa: i want to get to this story too so senator sinema
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switches party affiliation to independent. listen to this real quick. >> i know some people might be a little bit surprised by this but actually i think it makes a lot of sense. what i think is important about this decision and this move is that i'll be able to show up to work every day as an independent and not be, you know, stuck into one party's stance of following their thinking. lisa: jason, she already was independent so why the official change? what does that mean? >> yeah, i served with her in the house of representatives and if there was one independent minded person, it was kyrsten sinema and fits well for her and the state of arizona for that independent streak and gives permission to others and begs the question, hey, joe mansion, what are you doing with the democratic party? it's not representative of west virginia. you're going into election, maybe you ought to be thinking about who you're caucusing with at this point. you're going to start seeing others do it and maybe even some on the republican side that say i'm tired of the apparatus.
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the party comes to you as member of congress saying you you dues. owe deuce. what do you mean dues. when i was the chairman of the oversight i had to pony up $875,000 and i said what if i don't do that? then we won't call you chairman. people like sinema and others are tired of that stuff. lisa: look at democrats defending 23 of the 34 senate seeks next cycle in 2024 and seven of the states trump won in 2020 and arizona is one of the states in 2016, is that part of the reason she made the switch? >> today's democratic party is radical. they're so far. it's about hakeem jeffries in new york city and chuck schumer in new york city and nancy pelosi in san francisco and about people in massachusetts. they forget the other, you know, 45 states they just ignore them and so today's democratic party, it's not like my parents era. they have gone so woke and so
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radical, they hate the country, and they hate the energy, the policies, open boarders, these are things that old school democrats don't like and yet that's where they are. lisa: we'll see what mansion does because he's facing -- he's going to face some tough opponents too and governor jim justice eluded to maybe running. we'll see what happens there and, jason, thank you for joining us and appreciate t he's on the big saturday show at 8:0. you'll want to watch that because he's awesome. we're highlighting all the veteran who is have sacrificed for our country. warrior rise asking a nonprofit that helps vet -- rising is a nonprofit helping veterans become independent. joey, how you doing, my friend? reporter: you know what, i'm a bit cold. i'm not going to lie. i flew up from georgia and it is not georgia weather but listen, i'm here with jason van camp, founder of warrior rising and also west point graduate and
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played football at army. he know as bit about the game. >> thanks, joey, army is going to dominate today. there was a rough game the last time but it'll be a blast today. reporter: they've gone back and forth the last couple of games but most importantly for warrior rising and we have kasey here who was an administerny veteran and special administerny -- army veteran and opposition to movement tore and casey, tell me about your company. >> we make american-made whiskey in the heartland of iowa and we're offering zero spirits be apart of warrior rising family. reporter: very sin d dip yously named and feels about zero degrees right now. lisa: impressed. good job. thank you, guys, and appreciate you joining us. still ahead, the biden administration under fire after exchanging wnba player brittney griner for a russian arms
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controversial deal. it's just the tim of the iceberg. let's go off the wall and look back at other controversial deals by the united states as the biden administration hopefully considered another deal down the road for stormer marine paul whelan. look at who the united states traded away. vikviktor bout. the so called merchant of death and the subject of a movie starring nicolas cage called lord of war. viktor bout selling arms to everyone across the world for quite some time. if you think of a bad guy, he probably armed that bad guy. pete: he sure did including bad guys with intentions of targeting the united states of america, including al-qaida. he's only 55 years olekowski. we were talking about -- old. we were talking about this off air, he's a young guy with a lot of experience and joined the russian military at 18 and got into the business of international arms dealership
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and sports a very powerful looking mustache befitting the kind -- i joke but it's a really evil guy that will go onto continue to do those things, especially when we're talking in ukraine where weapons are a wash. this guy is useful to vladamir putin. will: international arms that got started in the 20s and will be free at the age of 55. he's got a big future. let's look back in history at our history of making these types of exchanges. the bridge of spies 1962. this also was made into a hollywood story. this one starring tom hanks called bridge of spies. in it the united states traded away a soviet spy named rudolph vonovich-able. he got a pilot gary powers. he was subject to 100 days in
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soviet interrogation and prison and they met soviet representatives in berlin at the meeting of east and west germany at a bridge over a lake that separated the two. pete: they negotiated in the middle and men oturu both sides and once the swap was executed they walked to their own freedom at the same time across that bridge. 1962, height of the cold war, we have the spy planes flying over russia. you know, felt like a bit of legitimate exchange at some level. which brings us to some of the biggest swaps in history in 1985 and 2010 in a separate story. we both had huge intelligence act seizure disorderses attempting to learn more about what the other capabilities were. to include in 1985 called the biggest spy swap in u.s. history
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and four eastern europeaners held for espionage and some were spies and one was a physician and the other said he was a journalist. they're also in this particular case, there were multiple reasons why the other country denied that there was a spy ring but it effectively ebbedded the -- ended the spy ring in the cases. will: 1985 this ended under ronald reagan. pete: ten russians det detainedd swapped for four. lop side in both directions. this one we get 25 and they get four. this one we get four and they get ten. oftentimes it's a lop side -- depending on who's in the bag. hasn't always been a one for one. will: pete brought this up earlier and some personal perspective on this. but the beau bergdahl swap in 2014. bergdahl a deserter in the
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united states military is detained by the taliban and held for quite some time and in exchange for beau bergdahl's return, they give away five taliban prisoners held in guantanamo. pete: five taliban leaders that went back to afghanistan and continued to lead -- by the way, bergdahl men died trying to find bergdahl. it's similar to viktor bout. dea agents and others that spend their lives and careers finding in criminal to lock him up and get rid of him for good and they're saying, did that for what? so we can swap for a wnba player? same thing here, bergdahl deserts his unit and he's traded and you want to bring americans home and for five dallas cowboys mullahers, this rivals what happens with brittney griner. will: that was during the obama administration and the cuban spies exchange in 2014. u.s. released three cuban spies in release for intelligence agent held for 20 years. pete: it's a dirty business.
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we're spying on each other and who do you have and what leverage. you always want to do it from a position of strength and in this case, didn't look like we were. we were not and we got a bad deal out of it. will: it seems almost petty to look at return of an american, which is celebrate worthy but when it comes to viktor bout, we literally traded away some degree of our own personal security going forward. pete: just like with the taliban when they took over. will: success on and off the field, how heisman trophy winner inspires people to give back to their community, next. ♪
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>> welcome back to "fox & friends". a weather pattern set up in the country this weekend and cold air settled in place in parts of the northeast and some of the precipitation coming will be the first real shot at significant snow across parts of the northeast and look at colted air that settled in across parks of the west and a real -- parts of the west and a real active pattern and more rain and active mountain snow in the next week or so.
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we have pretty big rain across parts of southern missouri and that storm throughout the day will potentially bring a bit of severe weather across parts of east texas and watch how this plays out throughout the day and some could have a tornado or two settled into them and watch for that. this is what happens starting today all the way through next friday, severe storms tuesday and wednesday across parts of the south and big snow across parts of the far northern plains. will, to you inside. will: rick, thank you for that. next guest is two football players that believe going above and beyond on and off the field. every year, 1996 heisman trophy winner danny wuerffel honors a player and dylan gibbons and danny wuerffel joining us now. danny, tell us about the toe
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trophy. >> unless you're the best player on the team or do something wrong, college football players don't get recognized for the work they do and so many player dos phenomenal work across the country and 109 nominees for the wuerffel community trophy and dylan did outstanding work and using nil platform to help others. will: danny, you've been doing this since 2005 and you're absolutely right. football players get attention, dylan for two ways: excellence on the field or something that happened bad off the field. what we're looking at here is you and other nominees who have done greatness off the field. tell us what you did to earn the wuerffel trophy? >> i started the foundation called big man, big heart and my goal is to empower student athletes to use things like this for good putting their best foot forward for people in their community and individuals close to them and we've done a great jock in recruiting ambassadors and raising half a million dollars in the past two years. will: i don't want to take for granted that anybody listening
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knows this terminology. it's new name in image and likeness is the new program in collegiate sports where athlete cans get paid for essentially for endorsements using their image, their name to get money. many are getting this and as you pointed out, danny, for their own personal enrichment. others like dylan are using it now to give back. how is has that aided you in giving back. >> yes, sir. in the locker room, all over college football and sports, the quarterback is driving a lamborghini or something like that. that's the kind of deals happening. will: what! >> yeah, lamborghini or sports car. but what i'm trying to do is show people the power of doing good, that the radical, you know, elevation of your platform that can be done through the process of giving good -- giving back to the community and doing good and helping individuals in your life. will: that's amazing and, dan, it's been important to you for quite some time. your charities and focus has been on helping inner city kids. >> yeah, when i was a rookie with the new orleans saints
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in '97, i got involved in work in the ninth ward and continued to work through dire street through today and work with leaders in underresourced neighborhoods and helped academic enrichment programs, schools, churches, medical clinics and there's really amazing heros and a lot of people complain about what's happening in certain neighborhoods, but we found people trying to make a solution and we want to get behind them and help them thrive and be sustainable. will: that's incredible. just finished up or have a bowl game coming up with florida state. what's the plans after this? this is your final year of college football contraindication for cerumen ; right?>> yes, sir. >> this is my sixth year and i'll be training for the nfl and want to do as much good as i possibly can before it's all said and done here on the earth, i want to help as many people as i can and mr. wuerffel afforded me the opportunity to raise my platform and help more people, and i look forward to that day. will: what an awesome outlook on life. dylan, danny, congratulations on the wuerffel trophy and thank you for creating this program
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and highlighting good that woe know exists out there when it comes to athletes in the world. >> happy to do it. will: thank you so much. up next, derrick moss was the agent in charge of arrests viktor bout and there when the merchant of death touched down in the united states and we have the controversial swap between the convict and wnba player brittney griner.
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