arrested. >> expected to appear in court when he was supposed to testify in court. >> lee zeldin, republicans were ready to grill him six ways to sunday. why not allow him to testify. >> title 42 is set to expire. >> steps to protect our national security. >> in the last 48 hours, 16,000 encounter, mayorkas in el paso. >> what you saw this weekend is gonna be nothing. >> we do have a lot of nothing.

>> bagged victims' hands to save clues. big open gouges, not something where you were able to call 911. >> learning loss during covid lockdowns. >> more than any other president, and maybe more than fdr. >> down eight points. >> here he is, loses the ball, picked up by new england and touchdown, mcmillan. ♪♪

>> will: 12 days to christmas. our virtual stockings up above the fireplace this morning on "fox & friends." good morning, welcome to the third and final hour of "fox & friends." will cain in for brian kilmeade along with steve and ainsley. >> ainsley: 12 days to christmas, get your shopping finished. >> steve: he's not virtual today, he's actually, poke him in the shoulder, make sure he's real. yep, he is real. >> will: no stocking over the virtual christmas tree but i have coal this weekend. >> ainsley: you will this weekend. a weekend version. >> will: our play list is very hip, by the way. i don't know those christmas songs. >> steve: that's bryan adams. >> will: i must be hanging on to some really old christmas songs. >> ainsley: you know the old version. bryan adams was on "fox & friends" back in the day. pretty much everybody has been. good to have you, will. thank you for sitting in bryan's spot. he's on assignment today.

>> will: sec has charged ftx founder sam bankman-fried after his arrest in the bahamas. >> steve: the former head of the collapsed crypto company is expected top an in court in the bahamas when he was supposed to be testifying before congress this morning. not gonna make it. >> ainsley: todd joins us live with the details. >> filing charges against sam bankman-fried. yesterday leading to his arrest in the bahamas. "new york times" reporting the charges include wire fraud, securities fraud and money laundering. u.s. will move to unseal the indictment this morning. sec is filing on charging him for the alleged "massive years' long fraud." bankman-fried's arrest comes hours before the ftx founder was due to testify remotely this morning. congressman lee zeldin telling fox news, house republicans were ready to grill him six ways to sunday, now breaking, sbf was just arrested.

why not allow him to testify tomorrow, today, and answer questions under oath. unacceptable management practices and result of a concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals. former acting attorney general joined me earlier to forecast a very bleak outlook ahead for bankman-fried. >> investigations like this,s complicated financial schemes take a long time to prove. this is going to be something that rivals i think bernie madoff and other big scams of our time. he's looking at decades in prison ultimately if he's convicted. >> the justice department is expected to request the extradition from the bahamas and the government says it will promptly process the request. back to you.

>> steve: interesting tidbit, charged by the sec, not the doj, these are financial crimes so far. >> when you look at what ultimately he's accused of doing, seems ripe for sec enforcement. he gave a lot of money to a lot of democrat donors and the like. >> steve: is that against the law? >> it's not against the law, but a lot of the doj is necessarily controlled by democratic connected individuals, or sec, maybe a little more entrenched over the series of a number of administration's, and on the left, if you are on the sec and go after a bad guy with money, you are kind of a hero, looks like the sec is doing here. >> steve: thank you for the update. >> will: amazing what you can get away with under virtue signalling. and that was his brochure for raising billions, he was effective al truism, giving money back. and either that, or as todd suggests, effective lobbying and

endorsements that he bought along the way. for example, revealed a week ago, kevin o'leary, famously of "shark tank," he will be advocating for ftx and sam bankman-fried was on the payroll of ftx. >> steve: a lot of famous people, but mainstream investors who got into crypto because of fomo, the fear of missing out. so much money was being made of crypto, even though so many people cannot explain how it works. >> ainsley: a lot of people just gave a little bit. but a lot of his clients were -- >> steve: big institutional people. >> ainsley: one of the largest crypto exchanges filed for bankruptcy after it ran out of cash and now he's arrested. >> will: a lot of questions we need to answer about the connections we were alluding to. a congressman from georgia said the timing of the arrest is odd, it's going to stop some of these

answers and the questions that need to be asked. >> the timing is just unbelievable. hours before he was actually going to make an appearance before congressional committee he is arrested, which right now i doubt seriously that his attorneys are going to let him testify at all, and i'm sure he is -- he was lawyered up before, he's probably even more lawyered up now, and it's quite disappointing for those of us on the committee because there was a lot of information that we need to go forward because of the significant interaction he had with congress. he was in the halls of congress lobbying, believe it or not, for a crypto regulatory bill his company never would have been able to comply with. and so there was a lot of information that we need that we are probably not going to get at this point. >> steve: exactly right. and there's a real good possibility he will never be interrogated by republicans up on capitol hill. the only time he will be interrogated is by a u.s.

attorney and then by prosecutors if they go forward with these sec charges, which given the fact that billions of dollars are missing, it's going to be a big trial. >> ainsley: front cover of "new york post," it says rush hour, thousands wait as border will be thrown wide open in just eight days, next wednesday, title 42 is going away. you think the border is out of control now, wait until next week. estimated 47,000 people are waiting to get into our country down there at the border. >> will: on the heels of this in the past 48 hours, border patrol chief ortiz, in the past two days, 16,000 encounter, averaging 8,000 a day, over 97 million in narcotics, four firearms, two sex offenders, two

murders, firearms, and an injury to a child. and former dhs secretary said 1,000 is a crisis, we are looking at eight times over the past 48 hours. >> jay johnson worked in the obama-biden administration and now the biden administration has got no problem with eight times that crisis level of migrants coming in. in fact, ken joined us a half hour and said essentially joe biden and the administration know what they are doing, they want the people to come in, essentially, part of the biden business plan. watch this. >> what you saw this weekend is gonna be nothing in just a couple of weeks. because remember, title 42, the public health order, comes down by court order in about a week, and so when that happens these folks will know that even the half or so that get return

quickly because of the public health order will no longer be returned to mexico, the result, instantly double the number of catch and release folks in the united states. double. overnight. and that's with no change in the flows. >> steve: that's right, also a story out from "washington times" ice officials are told don't arrest as many people, even if they are serious criminal charges, don't haul them in. >> will: it is so dramatic and drastic, the images we have shown you this morning from el paso, where in the past couple of days they have seen dramatic numbers in el paso. it shows you the chaotic and drastic nature which our country is changing on an hourly, daily, monthly basis. illegal -- this is an illegal changing of the american electorate. there is something you can do about this. you can enforce our border laws,

enforce our border. and you are choosing not to, which leads any rational person to ask and seek the rational answer, why? why is this taking place? >> ainsley: threatening to overwhelm el paso, especially, that's why most of them are coming in and other border towns. trying to get in, saying for economic reasons they want to send money home. but that can't be the basis for asylum claim. you have to be -- you have to be persecuted in your hometown, but most do not qualify for asylum but they still get in, and the shelters down there on the border are completely overwhelmed. >> steve: absolutely. this is one of those stories, these are levels we have never seen in our lifetimes for the most part, and you know what, click around on the other channel, they are not talking about this. they are not talking about twitter. one of the beautiful things about the fox news channel. we do all the news because you've got a right to know what is going on in your country. ultimately where are all the

people going to go. a lot are going to be scattered across the country, and then will they rely on some sort of government subsidies, will they be part of your school district, these are things that people need to know about because the impact is going to be felt for years. >> ainsley: i was flipping around and watching the a block on another network, and talking about the ftx, the january 6th committee, they did not mention the border and they did not mention twitter. >> will: over to carley. >> carley: a tornado touching down in central oklahoma, there are reports of several structures destroyed but no word of any injuries. and another twister touched down in texas an hour outside fort worth. and a massive snowstorm in utah causing a bus to roll over, injuring 23 people. a round of thunder snow hitting sedona, arizona last night.

this all comes as 15 million people from california to mississippi brace for blizzards, twisters, and possible avalanches. wow. for more on this, download the fox weather app or stream fox weather on your favorite connected tv device. in massachusetts, police are searching for the two suspects who robbed a mail carrier at gunpoint over the weekend. the victim was just two weeks away from retirement, what's even more frightening, a fellow mail carrier says the suspects could have been after the keys she was carrying to break into units in nearby apartment complexes. president biden inviting this anti-police drag queen to the white house to attend the respect for marriage act signing later today. during a campaign for city council in new york city in 2020, marty g cummings called the new york police union scared, whiny and weak, and called to defund the nypd. he also tweeted this expletive

about police during the campaign that you see on your screen there. and i'm certainly not going to read. the sarasota police department is cranking out the one-of-a-kind holiday patrol light show for the fourth year in a row. five patrol cars flashing their lights to the trans siberian orchestra to the first snow. and trades in a sleigh for an outrigger canoe along the waves of waikiki. >> he's everywhere. >> steve: if you are going to be the santa claus, you would want to be in hawaii. just saying. i think it could have been the real santa claus on the back of a fire truck that drove through our town on sunday about 2:00 in the afternoon. >> will: oh, yeah? >> steve: they do it every year.

>> ainsley: he was with us at a christmas party on saturday. >> steve: this was sunday. >> ainsley: took the george washington bridge. >> steve: rudolph can fly over the river, can't he, and through the woods? >> ainsley: my daughter saw a santa and not the real one, he acted like rudolph, he had a red knows, not red cheeks. not the real one. >> will: embattled teacher union head randi weingarten giving the president an a grade. >> what you and what the president has done, it is more than any other president since fdr. >> will: leo terrell acts to that glowing assessment. good news!

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>> just say for a second what you and what the president has done, i mean, i can't even remember all the pneumonics of all the things that have been done, i'm a history teacher. it is more than any other president since fdr and maybe more than fdr. >> ainsley: randi weingarten facing backlash for the gushing praise of president biden's record. the president of america's second largest teachers' union accused of dictating critical race theory, and keeping our children in masks. fox news contributor leo terrell will be with us to react to the story.

he is also a former school teacher and he is an attorney and a fox news contributor, he used to be a democrat, and now he is a republican. but while we try to get leo back on the screen, let me tell you about the score changes from 2019 to 2022. the 4th grade math scores down five points. reading down three points. when it comes to eighth grade, math down eight points and that's from the national assessment of educational progress, which was as you remember, the national report card. math was down eight points for eighth graders and three points for reading. so our scores have gone down. our students have been in masks, and this teacher's union that randi is in charge of, some controversy on that, promoted a progressive agenda that includes critical race theory. we are going to get leo back on, we will take a break for just a

moment. this is what's coming up. oh, leo, do you hear me? okay, we don't have him. one month later, and still no suspect after four idaho college students were stabbed to death. we break down where the investigation stands today as families are pleading for answers. ♪ over the last 100 years, lincoln's witnessed a good bit of history. even made some themselves.

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>> ainsley: try it again. back with the fallout over the teacher's union president randi weingarten giving joe biden a glowing grade, saying he has done more for schools than fdr. we promised you leo terrell, here we go. good morning, leo. >> glad to be back. >> ainsley: glad to have you. what has biden done for our schools? >> absolutely nothing. look, i'm a history teacher, too, and i'm also a lawyer. randi weingarten got it wrong, ainsley. joe biden has done more for teacher's unions than students and parents. joe biden is not a friend of students. he has basically elevated the teacher's union could cabinet status. why? donated $18 million to his campaign. ainsley, the bottom line is this. where roosevelt opened schools up, joe biden closed schools with the permission and cooperation of the union. they kept kids out of school during the pandemic. achievement scores were lower.

there was absolutely nothing that was beneficial to kids during the biden administration. joe biden is an enemy of students. >> ainsley: aft donated $18 million to campaigns in 2022 alone. how can we allow this to happen? they give money to the democrats, the democrats win because they have more money or because they get all this money from the teacher's unions and do whatever they tell them to do. >> that's it. power and control. joe biden brags about being a union president, he's right at the expense of the kids. ainsley. he's elevated randi weingarten as a cabinet member. controlling the school districts, keeping parents out of the kids' curriculum. look at the achievement scores. in the third and eighth grade, reading and writing has dropped. instead, critical race theory, 1619, nothing joe biden has done to elevate, promote kids, to put

his name with franklin d. roosevelt is an embarrassment to roosevelt, he actually opened schools up, joe biden has closed schools. >> ainsley: why do they think 1619 and crt are more important than reading and math? >> i would not be on this program as a lawyer, a teacher, learning critical race theory. i was fortunate to go to public schools that used to emphasize reading, writing and arithmetic, not because of critical race theory, not because of 1619, because education focused on educating, not indoctrinating, and that's the problem with the current biden administration. randi weingarten, i'll tell you right now she's a history teacher, she's wrong. give up her license. >> ainsley: she just got

re-elected. >> will: one month since four idaho college students were brutally murdered in a house off campus. police have no suspects. timeline of how we got here over four weeks. this all happened in the early morning hours of sunday, november 13th. the four individuals killed, were out that night, ethan and xana had gone to a party, and kaylee and madison were out and went to a food truck. surveillance video showed them interacting with other individuals while ordering food. all four young people returned to their home around 2:00 a.m., a three-story home there in moscow, idaho. law enforcement suspects about one hour later an individual entered on the second floor through the back of the house, possibly a sliding glass door, possibly a window on the second

floor where the murders took place between th3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m., 2 other roommates were survived and were on the first floor of the house. a few days later, law enforcement says those two surviving roommates are not suspects. similarly, an individual that encountered kaylee and madison at the food truck where madison said stop being weird to a hooded individual was also cleared as a suspect. not pointing to any individual, kaylee's father steve has told me on "fox & friends" weekend, he thinks they have cleared people too soon, why? the crime scene is just as messy and brutal as you could possibly imagine. you would think evidence would be left behind everywhere, including approximately five vehicles in the parking lot of that house towed on tuesday, november 29th, and are still today in law enforcement

custody. a day later, vigils are held in moscow, idaho. roughly ten days after the university of idaho says students can begin the process of learning online. of course, various times saying it was a targeted attack, there was a possible motivation and then they think it's not a targeted attack, they don't have a motivation. leaving parents and students at the university of idaho lost in fear. they are capable of getting together on wednesday november 30th and say good-bye to some of their friends. as i mentioned, at this point it seems the investigation is going nowhere, at least publicly and now you are hearing, for example, from steve goncalves, kaylee's father. parents speak out and saturday and sunday, december 3rd and four. >> but as a father, i can't even sleep thinking that i could be doing something. i do not feel confident and

that's why i pushed the envelope and say a little bit more. >> nothing has been clarified or been told to us at all. >> we need somebody to step up and be an alpha, be somebody to be a leader. >> will: steve goncalves has taken that position somewhat in the last couple of weeks. as recently as yesterday he told fox news digital, while madison and kaylee were murdered in the same bed, their manner of death was different, and it was not a simple stabbing, deep cuts to their bodies. deep as the lung and the liver. it does not seem like the law enforcement is getting anywhere, at least not publicly until this week, or last week, wednesday, december 7th. when law enforcement says they are looking for a white hyundai elantra, roughly 2011 to 2013. some suspicion, some evidence that that vehicle was in the area, somewhere in the early hour mornings of the killings as to whether or not it's connected to the murders, that's still yet

to be seen. and then finally on monday, december 12th, just yesterday, news that law enforcement will bagged the hands of the victims to preserve them for evidence, suggest if there was defensive action, there might be evidence under their ir skin, whether or not they were able to defend themselves before ultimately they lost their lives. it's an incredibly sad tragedy, and mind blowing we don't know one month later where this investigation is headed. coming up, the state department now looking into creative ways to secure the release of american paul whelan from russia. former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus how the u.s. should be negotiating, next. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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he died on the cross, and god raised him to life on the third day. he's not dead, he's alive. if you've never put your faith and trust in him, you can do that right now. just pray this prayer with me, just say, "dear god, "i've made a wreck of my life. "i'm sorry for my sins and i ask you to forgive me. "i believe that jesus christ is your son. "i want to trust him as my savior, "and follow him as my lord, "from this day forward. amen." if you prayed that prayer, call that number that's on the screen. we've got someone who'd like to speak with you right now. give them a call. god bless ya and a merry christmas to each and every one. >> we are committed, we are going to be creative, we are going to be rerentless in working with paul whelan's

family, his loved ones, and in turn, with the russians do everything we can to see this case resolved as soon as we can. >> steve: ned price at the state department vowing the department of state will get creative to secure the release of former marine paul whelan from a russian prison as his family meets with the white house to talk about their next steps. >> ainsley: the former marine was left out of that prisoner swap, freeing wnba star britteny griner in exchange for arms dealer viktor bout, known as the merchant of democrat. >> good to be on set again. >> looking back to some extent on this trade, a good trade for the united states of america, also looking forward, what kind of hope can we hold out for paul whelan? >> listen, i want to give his fa family hope, you want to give it to every american wrongfully

detained or held, but a tough one to get americans back. we effectively set an incredibly high price and high bar for paul whelan. if you are willing to trade someone like viktor bout and you are not going to get all the americans back, then the russians know, this guy is special, he means something to you. let me give you context. in the trump administration, we were able to get 55 americans, either held hostage tore wrongfully detained hope. trump's national security adviser had the job at the state department and one of the reasons why we had more people return to the united states again that were hostages or wrongfully detained is because he and brian hook and others were able to negotiate from a position of strengths and we didn't make these kinds of trades and deals. go back to the obama-biden administration. you remember the bergdahl trade and the five taliban members are in senior positions in afghanistan right now. so getting hostages, wrongfully detained people back is

incredibly difficult negotiation. if you talk to anyone who has done it, if you have a president that has, that comes from a position of strength like trump, it gives you so much more of that negotiation. >> steve: i talked to somebody close on the negotiations on this deal and as you have heard through open source media, the russians regard him as a spy, and so he's in a special category. they obviously want another spy, don't know who we might have to give them in return. but short of a spy, we have a million sanctions against russia. what about some horse trading where it's like ok, we'll throw these sanctions out if you give us our guy. >> the problem with that is sanctions are not supposed to be a political tool. you know, you are supposed to use sanctions to curb behavior. you say it's a piece of the pie, it's not going to change totally iran from getting a nuclear weapon or north korea, but it's a piece of the puzzle. and one of the problems of the

way the biden administration negotiates not just in this -- when you are talking about russia, but they are not enforcing the sanctions in iran. china is buying a ton of oil. when you use them as a political tool, it depletes their effectiveness. >> ainsley: let's talk about twitter. the fifth leak of the twitter files have been released by bari weiss and other journalists, and we are learning that president trump was banned from twitter even though you have people inside questioning whether that should happen. one saying maybe because i'm from china i understand how censorship can destroy the conversation, worrying about what the public finds out. >> what we can tell from the slack channel conversations, american employees shut down the chinese employees who were warning and saying wait a minute, this sounds like the chinese communist party. i actually, as state department spokesperson, had conversations with twitter because we were

very concerned about the proliferation of chinese, russian and iranian bots and misinformation. i always took the opportunity to remind them the ayatollah, who calls for death to israel and jews and everyone else is still on twitter. so, it was clearly something they made as a one-off decision for president trump but i don't think they will do it under musk, but why they previously allowed the dictators to be on twitter and the chinese communist party. their leaders are on twitter, citizens cannot get on twitter. >> steve: morgan, a headline in there, you were one of the trump administration officials who spoke to a social media about this disinformation. >> i had a call with them, plenty of us did, saying how can you allow dictators who don't allow their own people on twitter, how do you allow them to have unfetterred access to twitter and incite violence against jews and the state of israel. >> steve: so take those guys

down? >> ainsley: they didn't even delete the ayatollah's tweet. >> they still don't. >> steve: it's something and we are learning more. morgan, thank you for joining us on the couch. >> carley: starting with a fox news alert, stock futures soaring after the release of a key inflation report for november. consumer prices increased .1% month over month, that is less than what economists expected. prices are now up 7.1% from last november. it's the slowest pace since the end of 2021. the federal reserve will announce its latest interest rate decision tomorrow. a retired navy seal who came out as transgender in 2013 is now saying his surgery ruined his life, and he wants to protect young people who are thinking about transitioning. >> once a teenager walks in an office, even if the parents are saying no, that doctor can override that, that's a problem.

they hide the fact that i even exist. they also say i hate transgender people. i don't hate transgender people. i don't want this to be political. and i don't want transgender people to be harmed. but if you are doing this to kids, that's wrong. >> carley: chris beck says doctors pushed him into medical treatments instead of allowing him to process what being transgender meant. he is in the process of detransitioning. kpop star jen from bts is beginning his military service for south korea, he starts boot camp today near the north korean border. after five weeks of training, reportedly be assigned to a front line unit. and j.j. watt is calling on chipotle to bring back big burritos. he announced that they are getting smaller. this picture of a double meat

burrito in his massive hand with the #still hungry. never seen a chipotle burrito i don't like. >> janice: me, too, girlfriend. some severe weather across the southern u.s., touchdown warned storms through the dallas-fort worth area, take a look at the maps and i'll show you where that is. pink right there, confirmed tornado and tornado warnings south of that and north of that. so this is a dangerous situation, the line of thunderstorms, looks like they have just lifted the tornado storm. dallas, you are under a tornado watch to 11:00 a.m., and areas south, west and east of you as well as into oklahoma, and there is the severe storm threat. on the cold side of the storm, feet of snow and blizzard conditions, my friends. this is a widespread system that's going to affect tens of

millions of folks across the south, across the north, the upper midwest, people are urged to stay inside. and then we have a northeaster, a coastal low on friday and saturday. along the coast, rain, interior sections snow, and ice is going to be the dangerous part of this system. a real quick, my friends from washington state, you know what snow is like. what's your name? >> craig mcdonald. >> allison mcdonald. >> we have had ten. >> welcome to new york city. hi to anybody at home? >> hi to our daughter adele. >> say hi to steve, will and ainsley. >> ainsley: hello. >> we are in the lovely l.a.

bowl. >> janice: sports, right? >> steve: that's sports. weather, sports, very thorough. coming up, motor trend is out with their car, rather truck of the year and it's making the big reveal right here on "fox & friends." the car, the truck of the year, that is the back part of it. we'll show you the whole thing in a minute. >> ainsley: what could it be? bill hemmer, what's coming up at the top of the hour. >> bill: nice to see you three. why the arrest, huh? what will the new ceo say in one hour? we are on every angle coming up on that. will anyone in this government stop the border surge. new data on inflation, where are we today, ceo of united airlines on that, is there another democrat about to defect? join dana and me top of the hour. we'll see you then, 12 minutes away. ble purpose. our purpose is not just closing a loan. we want to do whatever's best for the individual service person.

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>> carley: a couple quick headlines, ticketmaster is apologizing after hundreds of bad bunny fans were turned away from a recent concert in mexico city. the company says an unprecedented number of people with fake tickets showed up. those with real tickets who were turned away are now in line for a refund. meanwhile, the ticketing giant

is offering taylor swift fans another chance at purchasing tickets for her upcoming stadium tour, comes at her request. chic-fil-a with customer loyalty, in-n-out second place. customers at the golden arches not mcloving it, ranking mcdonald's dead last in the same category. let's head outside, steve. over to you. >> steve: thanks, carley. motor trend is out with the truck of the year. >> will: joining us to share the announcement is ed lowe. good morning, ed. >> steve: this is exciting, actual reveal. how do you want to do -- the vehicle is right here, we are not going to reveal the logo until ed pushes the button. >> will: there we do, the trophy right there. >> steve: motor trend truck of the year, and the logo belongs

to, let's see -- it's a ford! >> ainsley: f-150 lightning. >> that's right, f-150 lightning, truck of the year, amazing vehicle, built for work. it's got 775 pounds feet of torque, it's a ton. you can use it for towing, hauling, 320 miles of ev driving range. >> steve: and i think it's back here, dave. where is the -- >> ainsley: look at the screen right here, steve, look at this. >> steve: it's beautiful in there. what makes it unique and is the fact that it essentially is a power station for your entire job site. >> it's very good, you have done your homework. a ton of power on board, if you get the optional 9600 volt system, you can power a residential home. >> steve: where do you plug it in? >> this thing has four 120 volt plugs right here, and a 240.

this will power your house for a few days in a storm, it's got another four plugs up in the front, this thing is just covered with outlets. >> steve: i love this, anybody who is a craftsman, a tape measure embedded in the tailgate. >> ainsley: and steve, a lot of cup holders in the back. we had a car guy on who said that's important especially to women. one in each armrest and the middle. >> the step to get you in. >> will: you have the keys? let's hear what it sounds like. is it quiet? >> it's super quiet. it's all electric, again, it's got a massive battery stashed between the ladder frame. >> will: tells you it's on. i can't hear it. >> 320 miles of range, starts at

$52,000 if you get the ford pro work truck version. >> steve: the truck for many years has kept ford afloat. >> this has been ford's best selling vehicle for the last 45 years, basically the f-series, they own the truck market from a leadership perspective. they know how to do work vehicles and this does a lot of work. it's a game changer for people looking at an ev. because again, very popular vehicle. now all electric. >> steve: how much is made in america. if you want to get the tax credit, it has to be american. >> exactly. so you have -- it's built at the rouge electric vehicle complex outside of dearborn and the batteries from georgia. >> ainsley: at one point you had to be on a list to get a car. is that the case for this one? >> this is sold out, very hard to get. semiconductors, everybody wants 'em, so yeah. >> will: the ford lightning ev, lariat edition of the f-150. ford's truck of the year.

america's truck of the year. >> steve: and thanks for coming. congratulations. stepping aside. >> will: more "fox & friends" -- >> steve: in a minute. ♪♪

♪ >> that's it for us this morning.

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