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350,000? 450,000 light bulbs on there? i forget. we kind of lost track when we were putting them up brian. >> brian: 351,000. >> ainsley: brian they put your stocking back up you had a good day. >> brian: those things are going to get on fire. do you see how close they're getting to the fire. >> ainsley: it's yours. >> steve: and it's so appropriate because brian earlier you were complaining about ainsley's space heater and there in that picture your feet are getting hot. maybe it's the stocking over the fireplace. >> brian: yeah, maybe it was the virtual stocking over the virtual fire that is causing real perspiration. >> ainsley: you did really well with lawrence jones if that interview at the end. he just interviewed lawrence jones if you're just waking up and lawrence said why didn't you include me in your theatrical performance in new jersey. >> brian: that made me look bad. >> ainsley: he said i was going to wish you a happy birthday tomorrow and you said you missed

my birth day that was a few days ago. so good job. >> steve: in brian's defense lawrence jones is always traveling across the country that's why they call that show that. so brian didn't want to impact an assignment by asking him to go to new jersey. >> brian: right. and for those people that missed that horrendous job i did with lawrence, we were able to recount it in the 8:00 hour. this is the only hour that you have. >> ainsley: when we make mistakes we bring them up over and over on this show. >> brian: just you. i'm only kidding. one person that really loves it, carley. she loves laughing. >> ainsley: she's like our live studio audience. when we have a live studios audience we can tell if something resonates because they laugh. >> steve: we have a live studio audience, e let's see beth's family how about a round of applause >> ainsley: from charleston north carolina. beautiful family [cheers and applause]. >> brian: that's more like it. do you want to take that camera and see what carley looks like on television? i guess not. >> ainsley: can we show carley?

carley's desk is on the other side of this wall and so sometimes --. >> brian: go back carley. there you go. >> can we do it -- go down and then up. one, two, three. >> brian: look at that. >> ainsley: okay. let's get to the news. we begin with biden's growing border crisis as thousands of migrants pour into the us with just one week until the title 42 policy expires. >> brian: the situation particularly bad in el paso where more than 2400 across the border in the last 24 hours. >> steve: kevin corke joins us live from our washington, dc bureau with the very latest on these gigantic numbers. >> yes, indeed, they are gigantic, good morning, steve, ainsley and bk and with so many illegal aliens now on u.s. soil and as you know there are thousands and thousands more crossing into our country illegally each and every day, it's become increasingly apparent that the border patrol all too often has been reduced to simply collecting them and

then unfortunately again mass releasing them right onto the streets of texas. and with title 42, as you point out, steve, said to expire soon, there is renewed urgency on capitol hill to convince the administration to act with a bipartisan group of lawmakers penning a letter to the presidented asking the white house to extend the cdc's title 42 order beyond the december 21st deadline. now, the numbers are absolutely incredible. let me show you just some of the migrant encounter numbers and they really do make you sit up and pay attention. since october, over a half million. if you think that's something, check this out. in the past 24 hours, more than 2400 encounters in the el paso sector alone. and if title 42 ends, they're estimating we could be looking at about 14,000 a day, 420,000 a month and some five million border crossings per year.

now, critics accuse the administration of being unwilling or unable to stop the surge, and they say the white house needs to do a lot more. now, for their part the white house says listen, what would really help is a lot of money, like, say, another $4 billion in border funding. they say that would go a long way towards solving the problem and prove republicans are actually serious about addressing the issue. cynical deflection say critics who argue that really what needs to happen is the white house has to get serious. in fact, almost two dozen gop lawmakers are so frustrated with the white house, they're pushing to impeach the dhs secretary mayorkas. >> secretary mayorkas has committed high crimes and misdemeanors. his conduct is not incompetent, it's not negligent, it is willful and intentional. >> now it's time for accountability.

we will not allow this dereliction of duty to continue. >> i was the chief of the united states border patrol when alejandro mayorkas became secretary of homeland security. i learned very quickly not to trust alejandro mayorkas. >> i can promise you texans are not going to put up with this anymore and this body this congress this republican led congress needs to hold mayorkas accountability. he needs to be fired. >> those lawmakers are accusing the white house, the administration and the dhs secretary of willfully ignoring the rule of law. now, the administration says it's actually working to fix the former president's border wall, the trump border wall, the wall they refused to finish previously and let millions of dollars worth of telephones rust in the sand and in the sun unused. but they say they're trying to work on it. they're willing to move forward if they can. steve, ainsley and bk, back to you. >> steve: kevin thank you very much.

and in the great state of arizona, governor doocy, before he goes out the door, is using their shipping containers to try and fill in the gaps in the border wall, but you know as soon as the new incoming democrat comes in. >> ainsley: will be gone. >> steve: going to pick them up and take them back to the shipping container department because ultimately democrats have decided this is their policy just as donald trump had a different policy where it was more of a, you're not going to get in. now it's like, hey, come on in. we have seating in cleveland, just come on in at alejandro mayorkas it's his job to actually facilitate them coming in as quickly as possible and he's found a way. >> brian: senator kelly is lying because he says the border's a problem we have to really do a better job on the border to get his six more years in office and she said that she -- what she a sends katie hobbs, she says border security's going to be one of her priorities. how can border security be one

of your priorities and take out the main block that's helping your border patrol do the best they can in an impossible situation. >> ainsley: if you want to compare numbers now to 2020, this is amazing. so far this fiscal year, which, keep in mind it starred in october, october, november and half of december, we've already had 505,000 encounters on the border. in all of 2020, we had less than that, 458,058 encounters. >> steve: and there you're looking at some of the video from tuesday, bill melugin put on twitter he's our guy down at the border and he's scene thousands come in personally. el paso texas is the number one crossing spots for migrants in the world into the united states. and the mayor there had a chance to declare a state of emergency, but declined. the deputy city manager at their council meeting a couple nights ago said, you know what, we really don't need to do that. if you take a look at that, those images right there and

2500 people are going to walk across that river and come into your town, wouldn't you call that -- first of all, i'd call it an invasion, but you would think that they would call it an emergency. and when you call for it to be an emergency then federal money comes. but instead he's not doing that and simply asking the federal government for money. so far el paso has spent $10 million on the migrant problem, and they have only be reimbursed to the tune of $2 million, which means the people of el paso are on the hook for $8 million for those thousands of people coming in that wasn't their idea. >> ainsley: and they cross right there because the rio grande is not as deep so it's easier to get across, from what i understand, bill melugin said. >> the other side of of the border is juarez a focal point on a major highway. >> ainsley: fox news has witnessedd the mass release of several hundred migrants in a parking garage then they walk across the street to in the ngo

given travel paperwork and can take a bus across the country and saying reporters down there are saying dozens are camping out on street corners. >> brian: the video says the democratic mayor will ask the democratic president to actually declare the state of emergency. the word is he was told not to. claudio rodriguez the council member was tired of paying city dollars to bus these illegal immigrants out of el paso. she's going to have to change her mind. listen. >> right now it's el paso over the weekend we had 2500 people coming into our city daily. the center is supposed to hold 1040 people and currently it's over capacity they have over 5,000 people there waiting. at some point those people will be released into el paso. el paso is not prepared for it. we do not have an emergency declaration done. at this point, we're days away from title 42 being lifted, and

it's not -- i don't know if it's going to be enough time to mobile ice troops or whomever we need to mobile ice to come down to el paso to help us. obviously the federal government is not doing their job. here in el paso we've been given the responsibility of the federal government. this is unsustainable and that's the problem with it. >> brian: huge problem with it. and as we brought up last hour, theory is going to be 14 to 16 thousand illegals a day. they are considering a total ban on asylum seekers for five months. well, just take your time. you've got until the 21st to make a decision like that. i think the border patrol would like a heads up. obviously that would be a good thing. why wouldn't you make that clear. you wouldn't even had the surge had you told them and made that announcement. a lot of people would say honey it's not worth us to leave el salvador or nicaragua or venezuela. now there's a ban. >> steve: that's the same reason joe biden doesn't go down to the southern border because if he went down it would look like there's a problem.

if they say hey there's 15,000 people coming in, quickly let's do something then it calls attention to the problem which, actually, according to the administration, not a problem. >> ainsley: same story we do every day. same results. they don't do anything about it. >> brian: except the only difference is this 21st deadline is going to make it worse than ever before. >> ainsley: right. now to a fox weather aert will, police say at least two people are dead including a mother and a child after multiple tornados touched down in louisiana. >> brian: several dozen more were hurt and search and rescue operations are still underway. >> steve: fox weather correspondent robert ray is on the ground in louisiana near the texas state border where robert the sun is coming up and people can take a look at the devastation left behind by those twisters now. >> yeah, good morning here from keithville is the town, a very small town to the southwest of shreveport which is the third largest in louisiana. you see behind me sheriff's department here, they have road blocks all over this small area because, unfortunately,

overnight a tornado had killed a little boy and his mother and there are multiple injuries. also, structures in this neighborhood behind the camera, we are told, are in bad shape but police not allowing us into that area right now. as a matter of fact, not even allowing residents who perhaps left last night for shelter, back in yet because of the sensitivity of this situation right now. unfortunately, again, like i said, two people dead, a little boy and his mother, and this system that began actually on the west coast dumbing all that snow and moving into texas yesterday and oklahoma with tornados, six of them, ef-2s, we don't know the strength of the tornado here yet, national weather service is looking into that. meanwhile, guys, unfortunately, this system is moving to the east affecting states across the south and ultimately moving up to the northeast where you guys will get freezing rain and snow later this week. back to you.

>> steve: all right robert thank you very much for the live report from louisiana. >> for more on the storm download the fox weather app or stream on your connected device. and janice joins us right now to talk about this big storm that is moving to the east. >> >> janice: a really impressive storm not only bringing severe weather including tornados but blizzard advisories for the northern plains. let's look at the storm reports, over a dozen reports ever tornados from louisiana, texas as well, mississippi up towards arkansas, and we have had active tornado-warned storms since 4:00 a.m. since i started overnight. so that tells you how dynamic this storm system is to see tornado warned storms this early in the morning from louisiana up toward mississippi, the red polly gones are the tornado warnings and there's the tornado watch which means conditions are favorable for tornados from louisiana up toward mississippi and then toward alabama and the florida panhandle so we're talking about this snobol not only today overnight tonight into thursday and even friday.

so that's the warm side of the storm bringing the springlike severe weather and then we have the cold side bringing feet of snow and blizzard conditions. so an inch or two of snow an hour with blowing snow 40-50 miles per hour, that's the snow still to come across the northern plains, and as robert mentioned, coming here in the northeast on thursday and friday, mainly a rain event along the coast but look at the snow totals for parts of northern new york in towards new england, two feet or more. we'll continue to track it. foxweather.com has you covered. steve, ainsley, brian >> steve: looks like we're just going to end up with rain >> janice: yes, sir, and wind. >> steve: standing by. >> ainsley: to carley she has headlines. >> yeah, and i have details on a story that's breaking everybody's hearts this morning. loved ones are remembering 77 year old eleanor bowles after her son found her murdered at her home in a gated community in the atlanta suburb of buckhead. authorities say antonio brown was attempting to steal her lexus after robbing a nearby

liquor store. he allegedly stabbed bowles to death when she walked into the garage. the suspect has a lengthy rap sheet. eleanor's son says he should have been locked up a long time ago. >> we're aware of his prior crimes, and the thing that sticks out to me and my family and our community is that the crimes seemed to get progressively worse. it took, unfortunately, the worst thing imaginable to finally get him caught. >> brown is facing a series of charges including murder. >> a couple of major auto recalls to tell you about. subaru is recalling 271,000 suvs due to an issue with the heater that has led to an increased risk of fire. and ram is recalling over a million pickup trucks. dodge says an issue with tail gates could cause cargo to spill out onto the road >> to qatar we go as superstar

messi leads argentina past croatia and back to the world cup final. >> messi dances around, turns the corner gets inside of him cuts it back, alvarez, argentina, what a performance. >> messi scoring one goal and assisting on that one in argentina's 3-0 win. today france takes on morocco for the other spot in the finals. coverage kicks off at 1:00 p.m. eastern time on fox >> and here's an adorable video out of snowy vermont. take a look at nova, the police dog, shoveling snow after the town of essex was blanketed by a weekend storm. the hard working canine cop scampering around biteing into the shovel and dragging it across the lawn. that is the kind of dog you want to have guys if you have a big yard. >> steve: no kidding. >> ainsley: can you find out where we can buy that dog. >> that kind of dog. >> ainsley: because he works in the morning he makes his wife shovel the snow. >> brian: i don't make her but she wants to be able to get out so she ends up shoveling for the

last 20 years. >> steve: brian, you own dogs. teach them to do that. >> brian: right. right now i'm just trying to get them not to eat everything i have. now, my newest dog likes to eat documents. have you ever seen a dog like to eat paper. >> ainsley: your taxes? i yes. >> ainsley: tell that to the irs, my dog ate my taxes. >> steve: he's floating that. >> ainsley: wait. >> brian: do you think the irs is watching? >> brian real quick, so i met dawn recently and i said to brian she is so beautiful and you go, why do you sound surprised? >> brian: it's true. you kept saying that. it's like why. why would you be with him. >> compliment. she is very pretty. >> brian: and she might be watching i agree with you. i just wish you weren't so surprised that's all. >> she's very pretty and very nice. >> ainsley: and she just opened a clothing store out on long island how's it going. . >> brian: wild willows on long island going good first come

first serve. >> steve: she has something for christmas. >> ainsley: and her daughters help her with the buying. >> brian: you know everything. >> ainsley: i do. keep that straight. >> brian: i just got yelled at. still ahead someone needs to do their homework, teachers union head randy weingarten under fire for saying biden has done more for schools than fdr. former secretary of education bill bennett has a different ta take. >> first prince william and kate's christmas card is a stark contrast of the netflix docuseries. tale of two princes next. >> brian: hope they work it out. ♪

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♪ >> pain and suffering of women marrying into this institution. >> this feeding frenzy. >> i realized they're never going to protect you. >> no one knows the full truth. we know the full truth. >> ainsley: harry and meghan's new netflix docuseries shattering records, more than 81 million hours streamed since its debut last week. meanwhile at buckingham palace the prince and princess of wales displaying a palace of perfection with a sunny and jolly christmas card ahead of the holidays dressed casually in blue and white. douglas murray joins us live. good morning to you douglas. >> good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. what a contrast, right? >> yes. i mean, we're going to see this again later this week when the royal families gathers for its

traditional christmas services including westminster abbey. there will be a display of normality from the royal family, particularly from the new prince and princess of wales and the king. all of the to show the stark contrast with the netflix wining of harry and meghan. it is true that the viewing records have been extraordinary for their netflix documentary. but in terms of what we've actually learned from it, there's almost nothing. and this is, i think, going to be one of the great problems that harry and meghan are going to find going forward. they are running on less and less gas. there's a very limited amount more wining that they can do. meantime, harry's elder brother is going to be showing the normal routine of things, which is the duty of public service, of not wining, not moaning about yourself, not looking for pity but just getting on with things. the contrast could hardly be starker. >> ainsley: i think so many

people watch but not everyone necessarily is in favor of them. don't you think a lot of people watched out of curiosity. >> oh, morbid curiosity. i mean, in my experience everyone who's watched in order to see just how ghastly the thing could be, just how much wining, just how much misrepresentation, just how much running on so little material the couple can get out of the netflix series. it all stands in such stark contrast. the life of the late queen, never complain, never explain, and then the generation of harry and meghan which is always complain. and in the clip we're watching at the moment, actually disrespect the institution you married into. i think that clip we've just seen there again of meghan, you know, laughing at the idea of having to bow, to courtesy to the late queen most people

didn't find that cute or funny. >> ainsley: watch his reaction douglas. look at his reaction. >> yes. >> ainsley: he doesn't find that funny right? it doesn't seem like he does. i noticed that when i watched it at home. >> i agree. you see, a little bit of harry there is thinking, oh, god, what have i done. a little bit of him, a little remnant from his childhood still there thinking, this is an institution we're meant to respect that i was a part of and here i am married to somebody who is disrespecting it. that slight smile but really behind it i think deep sadness about the fact that he is locked into and married to somebody who's now monetizing to disrespect the institution. >> ainsley: douglas, thank you for coming on. >> pleasure, as always. >> ainsley: thanks. still ahead horrific video shows the impact of the fentanyl crisis on every american's safety after a cop is seen overdosing during a drug search. former drug czar bill bennett joins us as the end of title 42

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officer, police officer, is being treated for an overdose after being exposed to fentanyl during a traffic stop. she needed multiple doses of narcan to save her life. todd piro joins us with the stories about that woman, hey todd. >> steve this is unbelievable. narcan as we know is a narcotic treatment that can save an overdose victim's life and yesterday we saw how a warning. this footage is pretty hard to watch. >> 47, she's oding, narcan. >> hit her again. >> rodney she's not breathing. hit her again. >> i mean just look at that. police first noticed something was wrong when they heard officer courtney banack choking over her radio after a drug search and soon found her drifting in and out of consciousness that's when they administered the first dose of narcan, which brought her back for a moment before she lost consciousness again. it took two more narcan doses to

keep her conscious before she was hospitalized. in fact, officer baneck had been prepared for a drug situation and was wearing gloves at the time but police believe wind blew fentanyl into her face from a rolled up dollar bill found during the traffic stop. unreal. police saying in a statement, quote, officer baneck was completely lifeless. she looks deceased in these videos so she is very thankful today. if the other officers weren't there there's a very high chance and probability that today would be different and we would be wearing a thin blue line, the straps that go over our badges, obviously in reference to her potentially dying. officer baneck was hospitalized but thankfully is expected to make a full recovery. steve i don't know if we ever saw video like that that was chilling. >> steve: she wanted that video out so people could see the consequences of fentanyl. todd thank you very much >> the influx of fentanyl one consequence of joe biden's border crisis which is expected

to get worse when title 42 is lifted next week. the dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas visited the border yesterday to see it firsthand. former drug czar for bush, bill bennett the author of the book virtues the 30th anniversary edition joins us now. good morning to you. >> thank you. thank you very much steve. >> steve: those images of the police officer down on the ground, she wanted people to see that video so they would know what happens when you touch fentanyl and she was wearing gloves but apparently some of the stuff blew into her nose and next thing you know she's out. she was not breathing. fentanyl is a problem coming over by the case at our southern border. >> yeah. that's where we are. that's where we are in this country. that's where we are at the border, that's where we are thanks to biden's policies. see tons and tons of fentanyl coming in and people say it's enough to poison the whole

country. right. it is. and sooner or later it's going to get into people's systems like it did for this officer because of a little gust of wind and this rolled up dollar bill. things are upside down right now in america. a lot of things are upside down. our educational system in many places and obviously the border where my wife and i did this book, the 30th anniversary edition of the book virtues just to get that straight the fundamentals of right and wrong, we seem to have lost track of that. thank god that officer was there. by the way steve did you know a lot of schools are stocking narcan now in the nurse's office because of overdoses not just by students but by teachers. again this is where we are in this country right now. >> brian: and nobody has a better perspective than you do because you were the drug czar and the secretary of education. >> right. >> steve: speaking of education there was a clip we played yesterday of randy weingarten

the american federation of teachers president and she talked about what joe biden has gotten accomplished so far in his presidency. and we're going to play it and see if you agree with it. keep in mind the president's wife, the first lady, is sitting right next to her. >> yeah. >> i want to 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 done i'm a history teacher. it is more than any other president since fdr and maybe more than fdr. >> steve: more than fdr. maybe more than fdr. now, in your book of virtues, the 30th anniversary edition, is flattery one of the virtues you talk about? is that what randi weingarten was going for there? >> flattery's not a virtue and lying is certainly not a virtue, steve. yeah. biden has done more in this sense. he has given more money to

education than has ever been given before, but he's also given us more achievement gaps, more kids who have not learned the basics of not only right and wrong but reading and math and history. we see more kids who, because they were out of school, have serious emotional problems, mental distress, a lot of inner personal relationships shattered. and, of course, increased drug use in the schools. so all that and more we can thank joe biden and a lot of democrat governors for. again, a lot of the world seems upside down right now. we've got to set it right and we've got to get the word out. and it's unfortunate that the media seems to be in cahoots with the administration in continuing to tell these lies or ignoring the things that are right before us, right in front of us. this border thing, no country in the world is doing what we're doing, which is opening our

borders like this. and not only do we see these folks coming in, we see this fentanyl coming in, and that poor officer lying on the ground, there's your picture of joe biden's america. sorry to say it. >> steve: and it's happening in plain sight. pick up his book. >> yes, sir. >> steve: it is the book of virtues, 30th anniversary edition right now on amazon, the number one new release in home schooling and we know there are lots of home schoolers out there. bill thank you very much for joining us live. >> steve, thank you. keep it going. >> steve: indeed. thank you, sir >> all right, meanwhile, 22 minutes before the top of the hour. hey, a moment to say thanks to everybody who have made our simply happy cookbook the number one cookbook in america again last week. it was number one for thanksgiving and now it's the number one christmas gift for the person on your list who loves to cook and anybody who loves to eat. listen, they're going fast. get your copy today at simply happy cookbook.com. it is a great stocking stuffer. all right. coming up. clay travis is here.

plus sports journalist grant wall's death is revealed, the cause. details coming up next. ♪

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♪ >> brian: we're back with a fox news alert. the cause of death of grant wahl is revealed. his wife saying he suffered an aneurism while covering the world cup in qatar. >> yes, he had an autopsy done here in new york by the new york city medical examiner's office and it showed that he had an aortic aneurism probably brewing for years and for whatever reason it happened at this point in time. >> brian: the doctor confirmed by his wife here to react is outkick founder clay travis. clay, 49 years old, writes for si works for fox maybe the leading soccer reporter in the country. what about this revelation at 49

years old, he said he wasn't feeling well but now we find out that he had an aneurism. >> yeah, look, i give credit to everyone who made it the case that they could bring his body back to the united states to conduct an autopsy because in the immediate aftermath this guy appeared, from all intents and circumstances to be healthy. 49 years old and had been writing controversial topics relating to human rights in qatar. and so his brother initially went on social media and said there's no way that this wasn't an act of violence. his wife, who is a doctor that you just heard from, took the opportunity to get that body back to do an autopsy. and so i credit the entire family for getting the truth out there because certainly, in the immediate aftermath of a hundred percent healthy person who had been writing controversial

articles about the world cup and its human rights related abuses to suddenly drop dead in the middle of a world cup match definitely set off much, sort of rumor mongering in general so this i would imagine would put that to rest based on the details of exactly why he died. it was unexpected. he was a very talented writer. >> brian: right. >> and had a massive audience. had been instrumental in helping to advance the game of soccer in the united states. and it's certainly, for people who are big soccer fans and fans of sports media in general, was an unexpected tragedy. >> brian: he also did that cover story on 17 year old lebron james next coming and lebron tweeted how much he meant to him. let's go to march where governor desantis made it clear he is not happy with the way covid-19 was handled even the way the vaccine was followed. listen to what he's calling for.

>> you take an mrna shot and the way to view it is what are the benefits and what are the draw backs and it seems like our medical establishment never wanted to be honest with people about the potential draw backs. >> brian: he wants a grand jury to investigate covid-19 vaccines as well as dr. fauci and we notice it was 90% effective now 50% effected i have now we have these variants and they're saying get a booster. he wants an investigation. your thoughts? >> it's a hundred percent the right move. and i think other state attorney generals who are in red states who have republican governors and republican attorney generals should follow his lead. and, to me, this could be something akin to the lawsuits that were filed against big tobacco when many state attorney generals finally got big tobacco to admit that they knew that what they were saying publicly was not true. and so what we need and what i believe we would find is evidence of fraud.

and that evidence of fraud would cancel out the immunity that these big drug companies, moderna and pfizer, received. remember this is unprecedented in the context of the united states government was demanding that its citizenry take these shots and the profits were all rolling in to these big companies. i believe the profits should be returned to the american taxpayer, everyone who lost their job should get their job back with back pay, certainly in a federal-related capacity including the military. i applaud ron desantis for making the right decision here. i think other red state governors and ags need to follow. >> brian: keep in mind operation warp speed was trump's thing so i wonder if this was shadow boxing for trump. >> could be political for 2024 as well because trump heralded the shots and desantis has been skeptical in florida from the get go. >> brian: always good to get with with you clay travis outkick.com. >> thanks for having me.

>> brian: you got it. still ahead the story behind the voice fox nation's newest docuseries covers the life and legacy of whitney houston and casey mcdonald is here with a preview >> but first check in with somebody else doesn't sing as well but a great news person dana perino. >> i sing the opposite of whitney houston and you will never hear me sing ever. good to see you brian. did sam bankman-fried commit the largest fraud in deck ace lee zeldin will be here. thousands of migrants could come across the border per day after title 42 goes away. representative kevin mccarthy on that. plus can he earn enough votes to become speaker? the holdouts are driving a pretty hard bargain. two men freed after being wrongly jailed for decades, the podcasters who blew this case up that will join us as will an 18 year old who just won a mayoral election in arkansas. what's his plan. bill and i have a planned and a jam packed show today. we'll see you in a few minutes. for the job...

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>> ainsley: i cannot believe that invoices is coming out of a person. it's incredible. did you know whitney houston how she got her start? singing in church. >> this child had really whipped up a spiritual frenzy. >> as she started singing, she started realizing that she really had a gift from god, and this obviously was a part of her strong religious upbringing. she was singing in the church. but she really felt like he had chosen her to sing and to share her voice with other people. >> all in the documentary whitney on fox nation hosted by casey mcdonald who's back. great to see you. >> great to see you guys. >> brian: great topic sad the way it ended but you forget how good it was and you see scenes from the bodyguard with kevin costner that was the see net. >> the thing about whitney it was a tragedy she had given so much not just with her voice but in acting style everything. it was a tragedy and you almost have to question what more could

she have given. even in the last ten years or ten more years from now, what more would we have gotten from her voice, her god-given talent. going back to ainsley, you said how is that sound coming out of that person. she doesn't look strained at all. i think what she has done is created this legacy that does go on. i wasn't familiar, as much as, you know, maybe my parents were with whitney houston but you can't tell me that you've never tried to belt out i will always love you in the shower and go, oh, i should not even touch that. >> steve: you might try it one time but then why bother because she made it perfect. casey, the thing is, when we heard -- and that's one of the infamous interviews she gave when she talked about her personal life and the challenges she was facing and ultimately when she went out, so many people before that were like she would never do that stuff but she was human. >> she was human and that goes back to what her pastor was saying, it's angels, it's demons and she was human, she showed that. and if her story can save one person i think that that gives a

lot of hope there. but she does live on. i think that is apparent in her songs, in her works. people are still so interested and i think people will learn a lot maybe that they don't know about her. >> ainsley: i learned a lot watching it. i learned that her mom sang with aretha franklin and elvis so she came from a big musical family and was related to dionne warwick. >> yes. >> ainsley: what happened? how did she get involved with the drugs? >> brian: wrong guy. married the wrong guy. >> wrong guy. and you're a super star. i mean, it's there. it's available. it's whatever you want whenever you want. you're traveling all around. i mean, i think it's safe to say it comes with the life -- it's available with the life style unfortunately. >> ainsley: her daughter, too. >> her daughter, too t and i know her mom made a point to say when she was gaining ground and really ramping up and people were noticing her she said i'm going to make sure this doesn't happen to my daughter, and unfortunately it did. but certainly a life to be celebrated, absolutely. what a talent. >> ainsley: that movie, you were probably too young, that was the

hit movie. >> it was. >> brian: it's still out there. what ever happened to kevin costner. >> nothing, not much. he's the best. >> his face is alling over building fox nation. >> brian: maybe he'll do a reality show one day who knows. >> steve: you can start streaming whitney on fox nation right now. casey thank you very much. >> thank you guys. >> steve: we're going to step aside, more fox and friends in just a couple. listen again to the voice sing us out. ♪ oh, i want to dance with somebody snoots snow i want to feel the heat with somebody ♪ t may qualify for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. with somebody ♪ is i want to feel the heat wi somebody ♪ with its forms and submit the application. go to getrefunds.com to learn more. i see an amazing place. feels like a dream. a place of many wonders - and full of life.

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