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♪ o'er the land of the free -- ♪ and the ohm of -- the home of the brave ♪ will: that was beautiful, and this is fox and friends. that was amanda, she is performing our national anthem live here on "fox & friends." she's the daughter of our fox news tech manager if, and she was a contestant on america's got talent. pete: can tell why. really good. rachel: yeah. fox got talent. [laughter] pete: very well done. she's going to perform later on as well, and they just showed that virtual pyre place. did you see that on the weekday show? will: yeah. i was on the show. yeah, it was embarrassing because during the weekday they had all their virtual stockings

up, and it said brian, steve and ainsley and janice, and i was hosting, so it was as though i didn't have a stocking. now it's the weekend hosts who get featured. rachel: i told you with, fox got talent. they can change the name. pete: very nicely done. good to see you both. we're back. [laughter] and i like your satin shirt. rachel: you mentioned that, thank you. pete: very cool. will: our top story, it's another twitter dump. the the newly releasedth installment revealing the fbi and the tech giant were operating like one big team. pete: and flagging content after the 2016 election including jokes. rachel: kevin corke joins us live from washington. >> reporter: just incredible. good morning, will, rachel and pete. in the sixth installment of the so-called twitter files, we actually got a much clearer

picture of just how cozy the relationship was between the fbi and the social media platform. that revelation among many shared by independent journalist matt taibbi with. so cozy was the relationship that taibbi tweeted a adroitly, twitter's contact with the fbi was constant and pervasive as if it were a subsidiary. wow. now, there this: between january 2020 and november 2022 there were over 150 e-mails between the fbi and former twitter trust and safety chief yoel roth. and there's more. tie question by writes: -- taibbi writes: but a surprisingly high number are requests by the fbi for twitter to take action on election misinformation even involving joke tweets from low follower accounts. and there's more. the fbi's social media-focused task force known as ftif,

created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to some 80 agents and core responded with twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds. taibbi also detailed another e-mail from november 6th which showed fbi agent elvis chan forwarded a list to twitter folks. again, they're talking about accounts that they wanted flagged. twitter then replied with its list of actions taken. note mercy, writes taibbi, shown to actor billy baldwin. and, of course, there's passage which underscores the unique one big, happy family vibe between twitter and the fbi. and he asks this important question: with what other firm would the fbi lively agree to no impediments to classified information? now, the fbi, of course, is responding in absolutely

predictable language. the fbi regularly engages with private sector entities to provide information specific to identify foreign malign influence actors, subversive, undeclared, covert or criminal activities. private sector entities independently make decisions about what, if any, action they take on their platforms and for their customers after of the fbi has -- after the fbi notifies them. that is exactly the language we see a lot of here in the nation's capital. however, what they didn't say is why they felt it necessary to put the weight of fbi on the scales of information before, during and after a presidential election. and as you know, all this is now happening as republicans say the agency has a lot to answer for, and they hope and expect to get those answers when hay take control of the house -- they take control of the house next month. to be continued, guys.

will: thank you, kevin. i think the big takeaway here, what is quite stunning is the relationship between law enforcement, specifically the fbi, but not exclusively, and twitter. the takeaway of what most people think of as the deep state is a tangled collaboration of state agencies, private actors and sometimes state-funded ngos. the lines become so blurred as to be meaningless. seeing people like james baker going from the fbi inside to twitter, and this is a bigger conversation than twitter because you with see people like eric schmidt, the former ceo of google, alphabet then moves eventually into government. it's a back and forth that really i'll is incestuous. rachel: you talk about that relationship, they even wish each other happy birthday. i thought that was kind of indicative as well. i think it goes back to what our friend charlie kirk said. elon musk says this is a crime scene at a company, but charlie kirk says this is a superpac for

the dnc, and it truly is. and you can see through this new tranche of e-mails who they diseased -- you notice they consider whether they're going to krone sor billy -- censor billy bald wayne. concern baldwin. not alec baldwin. pete: it almost all goes in one direction. this is only twitter, to what you said, will, and only what we are effectively allowed to see. who knows what jim baker deleted with other people in charge of this particular process. but it was a pass-through. it was almost automatic. when you read what matt taibbi said, if the fbi -- it would be signed sf, san francisco office of the fbi. these following accounts are saying things we don't hike. regular people, not famous people, small accounts, jokes. and it would almost immediately get forwarded and transferred into, okay, this person's been banned, this person's suspended. everybody vote on tuesday except

for democrats, you vote on wednesday. the kinds of nonsense you see on twitter all rationalizes stopping foreign interference. they never stopped and thought, wait, this is domestic interference. of. rachel: right. pete: under the guise of stopping something -- rachel: and it's only what we know. i mean, imagine that some of the most egregious stuff we haven't even seen. pete: yeah. rachel: maybe they were clever enough not to put into an e-mail. again, i know i'm -- pete: they reference phone calls on. thanks for the call about -- i mean, you don't put that stuff in an e-mail. rachel: and i want to again just emphasize, this is election interference. we spent four years covering potential -- which turned out not to be true -- election interference from russia with the trump campaign. this was absolutely a coordinated effort to change election results. here's representative james comer from kentucky. he's going to be the ranking member in the house oversight reform committee, and he says

this about flagging twitter. >> my concern was that this was a rogue fbi employee or two, but we knew the fbi was the one communicating with the three twitter employees. fbi had its own ministry of propaganda. 80 fbi agents dedicated to nothing but censoring free speech on the internet. 80 agents. as someone who's going to be the incoming chairman of the oversight committee, that's roughly $12 million expenses to the taxpayers in salary and benefits. but look at our first amendment rights. anyone that cares about free speech should be outraged whether you're a republican or democrat. this has to stop, this is going to be a top the priority for the republican majority in january. will: i really think that's the highlight as well. i think fact that we have 80 agents dedicated to combing through social media is absolutely absurd. whether or not it's in the fbi's charter, why is it in the priorities? law enforcement agency that has

metastasized, grown over time well beyond what we thought a federal police department would be tasked, but it is obviously as well politicized. rachel: yeah. pete: very much so. while this is the all happening and we're covering now the sixth tranche of twitter the files, this one being one of the most significant because it provides the evidence of a private connection between -- a connection between a private company and the government, the rest of the media are talking about the temporary suspension of accounts for left-wing journalists because they had, you mow the story at this point, there was a twitter account that tracked the location of elon musk's jet. he doesn't like that. he said it was doxxing, but there were still other journalists pushing out information about where his jet was, and he us -- suspended those accounted, and they the -- accounts, and they the howled. one of them happens to tweet about program regularly put out

a statement saying i have no information, i've been suspended. no one's telling me, i have no recourse. welcome to the party, buddy. [laughter] that's the way it's been across the country on an arbitrary set of rules from a tech old oligarchly -- can oligarch key in san francisco. at least mucks is telling you -- mucks is telling you why. asking unsuspended accounts who dox my exact location, should they be allowed back on now or in seven days. 3.5 million twitter members voted on that with 58% saying they should come back now. and this is what elon musk said is. accounts who dox my location will have their suspension lifted now, but it's amazing to see the outrage over a couple new york times, washington post reporters -- rachel: initially it said that he was now banning journalists. i was like, whoa, whoa, whoa,

what's going on? but actually think about it, what he's uncover covering is so dangerous to so many people because he's uncovering a conspiracy that is much deeper and wider than we even imagined. and he actually tweeted, by the way, i have no suicidal thoughts. if something happens -- this is something he's thought about. i mean, i am -- pete: he knows he's a target. rachel: -- i'm a target, and he doesn't mean that in some sort of hypothetical way. i think he understands his life could be in danger. just want to speak also, will, to what you mentioned about the 80 agents being the main story here. there are also whistleblower fbi agents who said i was working on kiddie porn cases, on child sex crimes, and i was taken of off in ordered to do probably this kind of stuff -- pete: january 6th stuff. rachel: it's really a disgusting sense of priorities.

will: no doubt. when i first read this story, i was -- the elon musk suspending several journal withists, i was like, woe, i am principally for the idea of more speech. even speech i abhor. i don't know who you're or referencing tweeting about this show, but he could not have picked better people to suspend. [laughter] keith olberman? i mean, these are people, to be real, who have zero character, are some of the biggest liars on the internet and deal with the most misinformation and disinformation you can imagine. however, i would defend their right to say insane stuff elon has said it's about doxxing thing -- rachel: do you believe that? will: yes, i do. i don't know that he had a clear policy that they knew about ahead of time. and twitter's changed. it was like the soviet politboro, just murky and impossible to tell, and it all flowed in one direction, and now it's more like the glad to have

y'all ring in rome -- [laughter] it's chaos and he does a poll. but i want a principle that always sides on the side of -- pete: my initial reaction was, yes! [laughter] you go. a little bit of what you had coming at you for a while. how you like that from elon? that was my initial -- [inaudible conversations] rachel: your initial reaction just perfectly, you know, sets up both your personalities. i love it. pete: he's right though, he's right. of we shouldn't live in this world. but when you've been getting there for six years, i like a good this right back. rachel: i can relate. [laughter] all right. we're going to turn now to your headlines, and we begin with the latest on the idaho murder mystery. moscow misare sorting through a list of over 22,000 white hyundais in an attempt to find the one thought to have a critical clue to the case of the slain college students. tomorrow marks five weeks since

the four were stabbed to death. meanwhile, a property owner hands over surveillance footage to police from the night of the attack. the building is located less than a half mile from the crime scene. now to the border crisis. a federal appeals court denying a request by 19 republican-led states to delay the expiration of the title 42. the end of the policy is expected to fuel a massive surge of migrants. the white house argues min who says the border's open is helping human traffickers. and check out this dramatic footage, the u.s. coast guard rescuing 34 haitian migrants stranded on a cliff, officials say they were abandoned by smugglers. christmas comes early for young lucky woman in louisville, kentucky. lori james is winning $175,000 off of a scratch lottery ticket

the. she snagged the ticket during a white elephant if gift exchange at her company's holiday party. wow, lucky lady. the office manager says at first she chose a $25 card, but a fellow employee stole it, and she ended up with that lucky ticket. james says she's going to use the prize to pay off her daughter's student loan and her car. and those are your headlines. will: enjoy that $25 gift card -- [laughter] pete: you could wait for the student loans to be the paid off by the government, and then you'd have more -- rachel: right, why is she paying off her daughter's student loans? good advice, pete. pete: i'm here to help. it is a christmas tradition like no other. will: fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth is on the ground in raleigh, north carolina, with retired sergeant first class michel yacht. they join us with more -- mike

elliot. rick: i'm really excited to be here. mike elliott, this is called operation toy drop. santa comes and drops a bunch of toys for the kids. tell me what is happening. >> well, this is the third time we had the opportunity for this amazing, epic event. you see the big flag back there. man, they are so explosive with taking a few people and doing something as great as you see here. this has been a legacy for the military for many years, doing christmas jumps and toy drops and stuff like that. think back in 2014, 2015 they stopped doing it, but we picked up that mission because we wanted to continue to make a difference and give back to the community. so we have so many toys today, we're going to have a jumping santa -- rick: santa brought those toys in early -- >> all the way from the north pole. rick: and now you guys are going to put hem up on this plane and drop them out of the sky, jump with santa, frosty the, the

grinch who's probably going to steal some toys. >> absolutely. that is correct. we have probably 2 the ,000 toys to give away today -- 2,000. not only are we going to jump, we're going to have singers on the stage, we're going to have a flyover. it is there is so much going on. it makes you feel so good to give back to the community. rick: we're going to be here, we're going to see santa jump out, gifts fall and kids getting gifts. and from what i can see, this is about enough gifts in this room for you guys all there on the couch and your kids. you guys have about 38 kids between the 3 of you -- [laughter] will: bring a few back, rick. rick: i don't think we can load that many up for you guys. >> we'll talk to santa about that. rick: it's going to be a great morning here in north carolina. pete: still ahead, fox news alert, stranded in peru. american tourists are trapped in match chew i pee chew as violent

protests break out over an attempted coup. rachel: plus, meghan markle's half sister tells all in an exclusive interview i with tucker carlson. this was good. >> i don't believe the racism. you know, the victim car. wah. it's just not real. [laughter] rachel: for from her incredible response from the $100 million docu series next. ♪ baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet. ♪ here's something that you're never gonna forget. ♪ baby, you just ain't seen nothing the yet ♪ make this december one to remember. together. happy holidays from lexus. ♪ if your business kept on employees through the pandemic, getrefunds.com can see if it may qualify for a payroll tax refund

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pete: we are back with a fox news alert. hundreds of tourists are stuck in peru as deadly, widespread protests erupt after the country's former president is ousted and jailed. rachel: many americans are desperate to get back on u.s. soil. will: ashley strohmier joins us with the latest. >> reporter: yeah, what started as a dream vacation turned into a nightmare as hundreds of tourists including many americans are scrambling to get out of peru. some 300 people visiting match chew pitch chief are suck --

match chew pee chiewch are stuck. more than 0 people killed in the demonstration. an arizona state university professor who is sheltering in place with her niece saying, quote, it feels almost like a war zone, but all we've heard is the commotion we hear from protests. the u.s. embassy announce an evacuation plan yesterday. officials saying travelers located at machu picchu village should follow instructions from local authorities whether they choose to remain in place for assistance as well as my travelers who may choose to travel by foot. the violence in peru set off after their former president was impeached and arrested. officials are strongly encouraging american travelers to shelter in place until safe transportation options are made available. and keep it here because that american professor is going to join us later morning to discuss her ongoing ordeal. back to you guys. rachel: thank you, ashley. i lived in peru, by the the way, you guys, when i was in high

school, and there was a lot of unrest there as well. a different kind of unrest, but -- pete: but you could liken it to people who went to ukraine right before the war started. you're going to something and then it all flips. it's amazing. speaking of something amazing, i can't even set this segment up, because these two won't stop talking about how much of they love -- [laughter] harry and meghan. will has a conflicted relationship with it. will: listen, i care nothing for royal news, and you know that. [laughter] anyone watching. pete: yes, correct. will: but for some reason i started watching harry and meghan. i i thought, i will watch a little bit. now i have opinions. [laughter] let's start with this. meghan and harry have a $100 million netflix dock you series going on, six episodes. one of the people talked about is meghan markle's half sister, sam that. samantha was on tucker carlson

last night, and she responded to some of the stuff that's being said in this docuseries. here's what she had to say. >> my half sister, who i haven't seen for over a decade and that was only for a day and a half, suddenly it felt like she was everywhere. ron your middle name, i don't know your birthday. you're telling these people that you raised me and you're coined me princess pushy? i don't remember seeing her when i was a kid at my dad's house, if and when they would come around. and then the last time that i saw her that i remember is when i was in my early 0s. i hadn't -- 20s. i hadn't had a fallout with her. we didn't have a closeness. and i wanted a sister. will: that wasn't yet samantha markel on tucker carlson. let's just get to this, here's the thing -- rachel: the sister responds. will: you want to do that? rachel: yes. will: okay. here's samantha markel on tucker

carlson. >> that's not real riskic. we were an interracial family. and i think, you know, if we all look back with when they were the fab four, when they were jet setting, when we looked at that incredible multicultural wedding and then prince charles had paid for and chosen the choir and the bishop, i heard. so i there -- so will wasn't any racism until at a point at which hay began can being criticized for making hollywood deals while they were royal withs. anywhere you work there is prohibited conduct. there are rules. there are boundaries. i don't believe the racism, you know, race card, the victim card. of it's just not, it's just not real. pete: okay. so you guys -- she may not know them well, but she knows them better than most. rachel: fair enough. that's a fair point. and it's also interesting, will, mg hand says i always wanted a sister.

you had a half sister, you now say you you don't know her middle name -- will: they tonight can grow up together. rachel: of course. they're 17 years apart. will: meghan's basically an old -- an only child. i haven't watched all six episodes, and i'm just getting to the part where it's starting to fall apart. my opinion couldn't have been lore of meghan markle. i just pick up, probably where you are, where it's coming in. i will tell you my opinion has gone up of -- pete: it's gone up? rachel: you're the only person, that's so interesting. will: this is their story, right? the music's playing when she's talking, all of the. rachel: hand picked directors anded editors. will: rachel, i went in thinking meghan's a snake and she's manipulating harry who i think, by the way, i don't think he has much backbone, to be honest. but she's smart -- rachel: yes. will: she is very smart.

and so far -- this doesn't mean i believe all her claims, this doesn't -- rachel: will is only halfway through. will: yeah. maybe it's because my opinion was so low going in, i'm a little bit of, oh, a lot of what this person says is believable about her family, about the british tab a lowed press. i'm not talking about -- tabloid press. i'm not talking about whether or not the royals themselves are racist. you dropped me into that world, much less being a woman, i wouldn't know when to curtsy, what to wear, you wouldn't know how you're offending everybody, and is i'm a little sympathetic and i believe some of the things she's saying about, whoa, i can't do anything right. rachel: well, the people -- first of all, back to the original thing with the sister, my husband, sean, has a sister who's 17 years old older, that's probably his closest sibling. will: but they grew up in the same family. rachel: they grew up in the same family. we'll talk about that. but i will say this, i think

that that's one of the lies that the, on the royals' side, that they say meghan had which is she claims they didn't give her advice on what she should, how to curtsy, what to do -- will: right, she says that. rachel: absolutely not. we gave her a team of people. she is very smart, and i do think that has worked in her favor. i do think she is outsmarting the royal withs. i do think that this netflix series is very dangerous to the royals. i have a theory i have been talking about on my podcast, i talked about it on fox business. my theory about this is that the obamas are behind this, that the first thing that barack obama did when he entered the oval office was remove the bust of winston churchill. he has a problem with the british empire, the monarchy, the imperialism, blah, blah, blah. netflix is barack obama's playground. i think they made this deal very sweet. it needed to include some of this racist stuff, and it is

undoing a lot. there are historians who are talking about this part is what you'll find interesting, a lock of woke historians talking about the racism of the british commonwealth, of british with empire. and that, i think, is very dangerous as the monarchy moves forward without queen elizabeth -- pete: i just didn't have will cain loves meghan markle on my bingo card. will: aisle not -- i'm not done. rachel: will, you also said she's very pretty, and she's a very sympathetic figure because she's so prettiesome many. will: [inaudible] pete: sounds like she's manipulative. rachel: it's already working, she's manipulating will. will: all you have to do is be pretty, and will will be on your side. [laughter] pete: wrong or not wrong? will: case by case basis. [laughter] rachel: let's do this on your podcast. pete: all right. now i gotta watch. still ahead, anything for

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resources, energy and minerals subcommittee, and he joins us now. congressman, welcome. obviously, you come from a heavy, an area with a lot of mining resources, but i want to first talk about the child labor part of it. you say it's egregious. i i say it's immoral for our government to be complicit in this. >> well, it's unconscionable that joe biden and in the activist administration chooses child slave labor over the american miner and the american worker. it's the unacceptable. to be able to support with a memorandum of understanding using child slave labor when we have critical minerals and particular in northeastern minnesota. we have what we call the duluth complex which is the biggest copper/nickel find in the world, and the biden administration not let us mine these minerals that we need and we use in our everyday lives.

it's unacceptable. rachel: yeah, it's crazy. look at the reports on how these children are tweeted -- treated, underground for over 24 hours, back-breaking work, many of them dying in the process. let's also talk about the environmentalism aspect of it which is apparently why they don't want to do it. who's doing it in a more environmentally-friendly way, america or africa? congressman? >> well, i think, i can tell you, rachel, that that in the united states of america we have the best environmental standards and the best labor standards. you know, when you talk about the child slave labor in the congo, you mentioned 40,000 children are forced to mine this cobalt. it's simply unacceptable when we have, again, the biggest copper/nickel find in the world in mort eastern minnesota -- northeastern minnesota which will allow us to have 95% of our nickel reserves, 80% of our cobalt and other platinum

metals. we will do it right with the best environmental and labor standards. and that at every single turn, this administration is trying to ban mining not only in minnesota, but across this great nation, and it's simply unacceptable. we have tremendous mineral wealth in this country including northeastern minnesota. let us tap into these strategic minerals that we need every day. you know, covid taught us we cannot allow and be susceptible to another country for our critical minerals needs. we have to hold destiny of our country, rachel, in the palm of our own hands, and it starts with energy independence, with critical mineral dominance, and minnesota can lead the way. rachel: yeah. they're transitioning us into green energy, they're going to make sure the minerals that we need we're dependent on china and africa. none of it makes sense. it's anti-worker, anti-american, and that's why your district, sir, it used to be the solid blue it's now solid red. congressman, thanks for joining

us this morning. really appreciate it. >> thank you, rachel and merry christmas. rachel: merry christmas to you. still ahead, one big, happy family. the latest twitter the files proving just how tight twitter with executives were with the federal government. kara frederick is here on the latest twitter dump next. and and later we're cooking up something special on fox square with our favorite dad and and son duo, last minute holiday recipes still ahead with the macklemores. ♪ ♪ -- hot stuff, baby, this evening. ♪ gotta have some hot stuff, gotta have some love tonight ♪

♪ if. will: more stunning developments as the is sixth batch of twitter files are released last night, the latest highlighting the fbi's social media-focused task force created in the wake of the 2016 election, and it swelled to 80 agents. here to react, carr are frederick, tech policy center director at heritage. kara, great to see you this morning. i, for one, am really taken aback by the idea that this is part of the fbi's priorities, that they devote 80 agents and resources to monitoring social media. what are your thoughts? >> well, my thoughts are resources are limited by their very nature, right? so if the fbi bi is -- fbi is

devoting 80 different agents to this problem, and make 40 mistake this problem is policing the speech of americans, then what are they not doing? there's enormous child safety issues on platform. there's actual legitimate terrorists, propaganda on these platforms. you know, when i worked at facebook, there are legitimate reasons to actually talk to government entities. this is absolutely not one of them. i think there's a potential first amendment violation here, and it should be investigated down to the core. will: really quickly, so that's a perspective i think we should all hear. what is the legitimate reason that a social media company would be coordinating with the federal government and specifically law enforcement? if we can understand that, we can also understand where then it bleeds into an illegitimate relationship. >> yeah. so a lot of of these company, they started with an apparatus that looked at child safety. you want to get child sexual

exploitation ferrells off this -- materials off this, so the fbi might be interested in people problem a gating this grossness on the platform and, yeah, the tech companies can say, hey, guy is doing this and maybe round them but election misinformation, disinformation? we all know that those are catch-all phrases for what the left doesn't like. and putting all of these fbi agents on this whole idea which, again, is a vestige of the 2016 election because these companies were very upset that trump got elected, and they thought that they maybe play played a part of it -- in it because of what the media was pushing. in my mind, there's no leap to this. this is beyond the pale. this is a smoking gun. you don't need any more than this. this is very, very pernicious. will: and really quickly, kara, you said we don't go from child exploitation and that kind of hinge to this, i have a feeling, that the this is going to grow. as we see more twitter files,

we're going to see it about coviewed, maybe about the war -- covid, maybe about the war many ukraine, and we'll have to ask is this legitimate for the federal government. >> exactly, exactly. and like you said, it's not going to stop. it's been going on under our noses. we were aware of it. we were always told, we were gaslit, no, it's not really happening, but it's also good that it is. i think we're bound to see more, and good on elon musk for his courage. this is -- i never thought i'd live to see the day, but this is excellent. we should pursue this. will: we appreciate your perspective, carr are. thank you. >> thanks, will. will: coming up, the macklemores are here with their smoked prime rib recipe. that looks incredible for breakfast. plus, rick is live from a toys for little troops event in north carolina where santa is going to sky dive. we'll check back in with him. stay with us. ♪ -- and mistletoe and presents under the tree ♪

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decided let's have a fest i have feast that you can cook up as well. rachel: don't worry, masterbilt is here to help with a delicious smoked prime rib. that sounds amazing. pete: john mclemore and john two, great to have them. merry christmas. >> merry christmas, pete, will, rachel. we love are making cooking simple. so if you want to have that elegant meal, masterbilt always delivers. john's going to show you how to do a reverse sere, but what i'm going to show you how to do is in 3-4 hours to a complete meal. we've got mac and cheese, sweet potatoes, corn. you want to have one of the most elegant meals, they supplied us with a 14-pound, 7 bone-in prime rib. so that -- >> that's the whole cut right there. it's got seven bones in it. and this is aen french cut.

>> it is. that makes it easier to serve up when you're slicing this, but it's super easy. lane's barbecue provided us with the salt, pepper, garlic seasoning that we put on it, and we're going to add some -- >> we learned this from our friends at 219 which is a fresh market back in columbus, where we're from. the chef there, sam, does lane salt and pepper garlic which is the best go to on anything. and he added chili proud orer on a prime rib we had at the restaurant, and, map, it was so -- and man, it was to good. it ats just a little bit of that heat. >> that's what you want. everybody would like to have some of that medium, medium rare, some people want it rare. if you want it more rare, you go to the center of the cut. you put this on the masterbuilt grill, 275 degrees for about 3 hours. >> yep. >> get the internal temperature to about 120, 125 degrees. and then john's going to show

you how -- >> so you can do your traditional roast, you can do them into the pork -- rachel: prime rib sliders. will: right here. >> or you cut them into steaks. and this is what i i did in college -- rachel: in college you ate like this? [laughter] >> we would buy a whole roast, and we would cut them into steaks, and it made our steak guys' night cheaper. you could get this could be to the about $10 -- well, not in today's economy. now it's probably a $15-20, but for that cut for me in college, that was prime. rachel: of course. >> you take that and that's your steak. rachel: so this is prime, i know we're going to get to the ham later. if you're trying to be on a budget for christmas, which is the better thing to do? >> the ham is going to be less expensive to do -- >> and that's more traditional. rachel: yeah. >> and we're going to spice that up when we come back in a couple hours with a peach glaze.

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