♪ i saw mommy kissing santa claus ♪ pete: welcome to "fox & friends" on this saturday, december 17, year of our lord, 2022. our stockings are hung, virtual

ly, here in studio m in new york city. we hope yours are hung as well. well i'm sure they are and if you have a fireplace going already, then you're way ahead of us, and we're just glad you're watch watching. thanks for joining us as always. >> will: a few weeks ago i participated in the great christmas debate here at fox, great show. team competition it was me and two others against three others, three on three debate competition and one of the questions that we debated was presents on christmas eve are presents on christmas day and they just got me thinking, what do you guys do with your stockings? are your stockings downstairs with all of the other presents? of course, santa claus dictates this but what does santa claus do in your house? i don't think he's consistent. rachel: [laughter] pete: i mean, when i grew up, santa showed, we opened gifts on christmas eve night after the live nativity, but then santa came as he does-santa came

overnight and that's when the stockings and his gifts show ed up but it's all christmas morning now, santa. rachel: when i was a kid we would go to midnight mass and when we come home santa had already come to the house. we knew he already came and then of course we also have three kings day which i was trying to explain and didn't do a good job in my last segment but we have a christmas all over again on january 6, so we do it that way but santa claus changed the way things are done now, with the duffy family, you know, because families come together and traditions change and everything is on christmas morning. >> will: ours is christmas morning, but santa takes the stockings and delivers them to your room. rachel: really? >> will: so when you wake up -- rachel: there's a little something. >> will: you can't go downstairs to see what's going on. pete: did santa collaborate with

mom and dad to buy more time? >> will: i don't know the motivation but i do know the result. you're not at 4:30 a.m. knocking on doors, santa bought a few hours for parents. pete: would you mind delivering some stockings for me, if there's custom a la carte delivery, i'd like that. rachel: a lot of rooms at the hegseth house. pete: does that mean if the came s came after the midnight mass you're up until 2:00 in the morning opening gifts? rachel: that's incredible. pete: the adults, you do this after church a couple of drinks? rachel: i'm sure there was, before mass, there was, and then after. [laughter] >> will: that'll get you ready for your christmas. pete: e-mail us friends@foxnews.com. do you have a unique christmas tradition we can share today or tomorrow? rachel: awesome. >> will: we're four days away from the en of title 42 after a federal appeals court rejected a

bid to keep the border policy in place. pete: the move is expected to fuel a new surge of illegals, and cartels taking advantage, flooding the u.s. , of course with deadly drugs like fentanyl, meth and cocaine. rachel: bill melugin has the details for us this morning and he's coming to us live from the border. reporter: as a record number of illegal immigrants continue flowing across the border, multiple border states dealing with an influx of drugs and drug smugglers. case in point, take a look at these images. nogalas, arizona, cbp reporting their officers seized 230,000 fentanyl pills at the port of entry there, 62 pounds of meth, and 13 pounds of cocaine in three separate smuggling incidents and those were hidden in a cars gas tank, a speaker box in a trunk and strapped to a smuggler's body. just since last thursday, that port of entry has seized nearly 2 million fentanyl pills. that will take you down to yuma,

arizona. border agents on patrol in the open desert finding these two abandoned backpacks on the ground. those backpacks were loaded up with 90 pounds of meth with a street of over $150,000 abandon ed by drug smugglers, just highlighting the fact there are illegal immigrants trying to backpack these products into the united states and lastly take a look at this drone fat age our team shot here on friday , here in eagle pass of yet another large group of illegal immigrants crossing into the eagle pass area most single adults. this sector last week saw more than 10, 700 illegal crossings and it's supposed to be one of the biggest hotspots once title 42 drops next week. in fiscal year 2022 this del rio sector saw more than 470,000 illegal crossings. that was the highest number ever recorded for this del rio sector and back out here, border patrol in the rio grande valley announcing that their agents arrested two illegal immigrants with murder convictions,

including one man who had a previous murder conviction for killing a peace officer in los angeles. we'll send it back to you. >> will: thanks, bill. pete: let's bring in ken paxton, texas attorney general. mr. attorney general, thanks for being here. we've been trying to get a plan, or maybe the plan is no plan, that's been the plan so far, out of the white house for what happens after title 42. what's texas' plan when the flood gates open for illegal s? >> so this was the last vestage of any type of federal law that would protect us from illegal immigration. the biden administration over the last two years was stopping the building of the wall, whether it's continuing catch and release, whether it's the remain in mexico program, whether it's title 42, they have announced literally on day one they would stop deportations. they have dismantled federal law by themselves, not with the approval of congress so it's very important we got this victory remain in mexico.

this is our best hope of protecting the people of texas, and the people of this country from illegal immigration and the consequences that bill melugin just talked about. >> will: mr. attorney general, i have to ask the biden administration is acting like they have a plan. there's something they are going to unveil. you would think they be coordinating with, for example, perhaps a border state like texas. do you have any indication of their plan if title 42 expires? >> you know that's been the frustrating part about dealing with them. there are massive consequences to our state whether you talk about the drugs that bill melugin was referring to or just the massive influx of illegals and the consequences of that. we've never been given information about a plan, and i don't surveillances we're going to get one this time and i'm very suspicious of any so-called plan that they have not shared with the border states. obviously, it effects us on a daily basis with five, six, 7,000 people a day crossing the border. rachel: let me ask you this , because this is a statement from

abdula hassan, the assistant white house press secretary. he says to be clear, the lifting of the title 42 public health order does not mean the border is open. anyone who suggests otherwise is doing the work of smugglers and spreading misinformation to make a quick buck off of vulnerable migrants. what do you say to that? >> i just say look at the facts and we had over 2 million people cross the border last fiscal year. we've had since the biden administration took over the presidency, over 300% increase in illegal immigration. i mean, the numbers speak for themselves so this idea that somehow title 42 going away which we know is going to cause a massive influx because what they are now going to do, that was our own remaining vestage of some type of law that prevented people from coming across and claiming asylum so now they come across and claim asylum. that's why the remain in mexico is so important. that's the provision of the law that deals with asylum and making people stay in their country of origin or be detained until they get to their

hearing. the biden administration wants to just let them all in, send them to where they go and hope some day they have a hearing. pete: so mr. attorney general, we know there's no plan. we know title 42 is expiring and you aren't getting support from the federal government. let's just set that aside as a given. we know an even larger invasion is coming. your job and the governors job is to safeguard the citizens of texas so sort of ask again, like what is the new approach texas can take in light of this invasion? it's unsustainable, it erases our sovereignty. are there more tools you haven't yet used that you can do to safeguard your state? >> so we've got the legal things i just talked about. we are arresting people that are crossing illegally that we can arrest for state law violations. the problem is, the way that it used to work is people that come across the border were trying to hide from border patrol and coming across all types of areas trying to avoid evading the border patrol and now, because of the biden administration, the cartels know

, hey there's a deal here. just bring as many people as possible to the -- pete: they want to be found. >> yes, to the border patrol and they turn themselves in which puts us in a difficult spot, because now, it's the cartels working with border patrol, not their fault, because the biden administration is told to do that and then the biden administration takes it from them so there's nowhere for texas to intervene. this is all setup to make it impossible for us to stop illegal immigration. rachel: attorney general, i have a question for you. i was down in texas not too long ago, and a local journalist there said the real story is the ngo's. the real story is the money going there. the way they're hiring people within the ngo's to vet people. she said she told me there was just like high school kids that recent graduates that are now doing the job of vetting people coming to our country and they are doing it within 24 hours. i personally witnessed at an airport people coming from

the dominican republic who have only been in our country for 24 hours so whose doing the vetting talk to me about the ngo's and the responsibility they bear and their role in this entire open border policy from the biden administration. >> yeah, and that's a great question. these non-governmental organizations we believe are participating in violating our state and federal laws and we're actually starting to look at that. we've already had an investigation believe it or not of our texas state bar foundation that we believe are participating and helping people come here illegally and not doing it the right way so we started that investigation several months ago. we just stepped that up and we're looking for information about other governmental organizations so we'll see if there's a way we can at least inhibit some of these non-government entities from doing illegal work for the federal government or for whoever. >> will: mr. attorney general i'd love to ask you one follow you'll to pete's question about

the tools at your disposal. we really appreciate you coming on and answering these questions , and i think we're all on the same side of hoping to solve what seems to be an impossible or maybe not impossible, an unwilling issue of the federal government to solve, and that is a few weeks ago, a month ago, you got in texas you declared the governor the declaration of an invasion. a vailing new powers in his statement for the state to deport illegal immigrants to the border. it was criticized by some like ken cucinelli, who said there's no point in taking somebody to the border. you have to take somebody across the border for it to be effective. what i would love to ask you today is a, your response to that and b, have you seen any appreciatable effect after you declared that invasion in helping this crisis? >> yeah, and it goes back to the challenge that i talked about. most of the people are not trying to evade border patrol. they are going directly to border patrol, so the idea of declaring an evasion is, it's a fact. i mean, it is and it should give

us the authority to do more. we have two challenges. one, the fact they are bringing people to the border but they are bringing them to border patrol which takes us out of the equation and second, we still have this supreme court decision, arizona vs. u.s. that was decided under under the obama administration that said the federal government had complete control over the border we need to challenge that so we're looking for angles where one of our state government officials whether it's the legislature or the . >> governor: for violates that, we get sued and then we can take it back up and say hey, that decision can't be right. it cannot be right that the federal government can have its own laws, avoid enforcing them and then say that the states can't protect themselves by availing themselves of the same law it doesn't make any sense because otherwise the federal government just passes laws and there's really no consequence other than to say now the states can't protect themselves. that can not be the right outcome. >> will: actively looking for that cans fusion all challenge. pete: attorney general of texas

ken paxton, thank you very much. merry christmas. when he was talking about that they were showing the images of the campfires people camping out waiting for title 42 to end across the border and what are texas dps supposed to jump in between the illegals and the border patrol and bring them over? like they want to be caught. rachel: of course. pete: so that means the federal government is facilitating as you've talked about the smugglers know that. rachel: by the way in el paso they said that people are coming out of man holes. i mean, it's just in credible the things that we're seeing happening and -- pete: where are these people going? where are they getting fed? where are they going to school? where are they getting healthcare? whose emergency rooms are they going to? >> will: everyone in america knows the answers to those questions. they're going everywhere and the reason i say everyone knows the answer to that question is you can anecdotally see it in your hometown. rachel: in your schools. in your schools as the class sizes get bigger, that certainly is happening and one last point.

those ngo's that ken paxton was talking about, they're getting richer with our tax dollars. this is a scam. they get richer. more voters come in, then some of the big donors -- pete: but they love people and you don't. rachel: right. pete: that's what they will tell you. it's a sham. rachel: it is a sham and by the way, child sex trafficking on the rise because of this policy. one thing that covid taught us is that when it comes to achiev ing their political and ideological goals, the democrats , the liberals are willing to sacrifice children. they are doing it in this policy they did it in covid. they are doing it all over the map. that's just what they do. >> will: turning now to your headlines we'll start with this beginning in chicago, two teens are dead and two others are in serious condition after shooting outside of a high school. the gunfire erupting just after dismissal sending panicked kids running and ducking for cover. police are pouring over

surveillance footage as the search for shooters continues. it's unclear whether they are students at the school. >> gop lawmakers promising to take action after the latest twitter files release that reveals the platform's cozy ties with the fbi. independent journalist matt taibbi tweeting the passage underscores the unique one big happy family vibe between twitter and the fbi. with what other firm would the fbi agree to no impediments to classified information. he adds twitter's contacts with the fbi was constant and pervasive as if it were subsidiary. congressman james comer saying, "anyone that cares about free speech should be outraged." >> and check this out. even bears want to eat more chicken. a florida family losing a delivery bag full of chick-fil-a nuggets and fries to the hungry black bear. this door bell camera video shows the big fellow sniffing around before snatching the delivery order.

according to the homeowner the bear did not take the salad. they named the you bear pete and those are your headlines. pete: you know, i don't think florida, when i think bears. >> will: right. rachel: that's true. pete: maybe in the northern part i don't know. have to let us know if you know about bears in florida. smart bear. all right, you saw it here live. santa himself went skydiving for operation toy drop in ray ford, north carolina for their annual toy drive event let's check back in with fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth whose live on the scene and will give us the correct pronunciation. rick? rick: it is rayford, guys. rayford, north carolina. i'm with santa. santa is already down, but they've just dropped the toys off. santa one of those parachutes of toys landed in that tree over there. >> [laughter] well you know we have spent the past several weeks with the elections trying to perfect this system that we have, and sometimes, it hits the trees. this one here landed right next to the tree line.

i think for where they were they did a fantastic job. rick: simply because you weren't on the plane there helping push those toy toys the helpers aren't quite as good as you? >> i don't like talking negatively about my helpers because they are fantastic people but sometimes santa has to be present but they have a great team leader up there so they are doing a good job. rick: tell me about this event so you guys today are here bringing toys to families in rae ford, right? and next hour we'll have a couple of those families that come and get some of these gifts >> so what we like to do is we love, we're linking up with organizations that like to make the world a little bit of a better place, and this is one of the ways that we get together with those organizations to help bring a little bit of light to this dark world. we've got a couple of families, some special people that we're going to deliver these toys to and make their day just a little bit better. bring some christmas joy. rick: that's nice. santa i'm not going to lie. i thought we were going to be closer to this. this turned into a much longer walk to get over to these

presents. i don't think we're going to make it in the amount of time we have. >> look all these cookies and milk that i've had, it's good to take a good walk sometimes. rick: that's nice. we'll go find some of these gifts here, guys and get those other ones out of the tree and then next hour, we'll be giving these to some of the kids around. pete: all right we'll look forward to that. rick you sound a little winded. rick: thanks, guys. pete: you're looking good. rick: [laughter] pete: rick and santa walking in a field . what's your christmas than that. all right, we'll check in with him, but up next it's one of, it's the reason for the season in one of my favorite stories of the morning. i had a chance with my pastor to retrace the steps of jesus in the holy land in a new fox nation special just for christmas. my pastor went with me as i said he joins us next on set. >> will: pete and i go off the wall this hour on what exactly tiktok is. its ties to the chinese communist party and why you should care.

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nation, myself, and my pastor chris durkin, retraced the steps jesus took throughout the holy land. watch. >> basically, everything that we know lines up to the fact that this is where the baptism takes place, and it's john the baptist who was spending time in this wilderness, who was saying to the people of jerusalem, it's time. you need to come down here. you need to repent and then you need to be cleansed, and then he looks up and he sees jesus and he goes wow, what are you doing here? >> because he has nothing to repent of. >> exactly. he's the one that doesn't need to be cleansed. pete: the series is "the life of jesus" it's on fox nation right now, and my pastor, chris durkin joins us the senior pastor in new jersey, and one of my favorite people on planet earth. >> the feeling is very mutual, pete. pete: we had a chance to travel to israel for 10 days to retrace the steps of jesus christ, from his birth to him coming back to life.

this portion is just the first 33 years up to passion week. i mean, we went to the jordan river, the wilderness, capernum, everywhere you hear about in the bible it was your first time just for viewers out there what are they going to takeaway from this? >> well i hope they see what we saw through my eyes, and it was wonderful to go not only as a pastor but as a christian and make that journey to the holy land, but here is my calling, pete, and here is my passion, is that when they watch the documentary, that their trust in the biblical historical record will increase and not decrease. there's a lot of documentaries out there that say maybe this happened or maybe that happened. our approach with this documentary is to say if the bible says it, it happened. there's plenty of bible editors out there. we want to be bible messengers. pete: and that's what you did so well and you'll see utterly insufficient to tell the story so i took the guy who knew the best and at each spot we

would have experts join us and set the scene and then you would open up the word of god and say here is what scripture says about what happened here. >> that's right. yeah, and it's amazing too even if you read the scriptures, for example, like peter, the apostle peter's last will and testament, in chapter 1, he says he was eye witnesses, this is not myth, he actually heard the audible word of god, pete, but then he said what we have in scripture is even more reliable than what he even saw and heard, so that's my heart. if people can't make the trip to the holy land, watch the documentary. it will increase your faith that it's all true, it's all historical, and all we want to do was present the biblical record. pete: i know it did for me. we were not just on land. we were also on sea. here is a quick clip of chris and i in the sea of gallilea. >> chris, amazing for both of us the first time out in the middle of the sea -- >> amazing, clearly as you read these texts, all of your life,

and you hear of all that jesus did here on the sea of gallilea, to actually be here and to see not only its natural beauty but to understand its biblical importance, 700 years even before jesus would set sail on these sees with his disciples, the profit i ii ii say a said it be here. pete: i watched this again last night. man you did such a great job bringing it all to life. was there a moment where it just hits you, saying, you know, i've been reading about this , preach ing about it for 20 years now i'm here. >> absolutely. when you see it, when you are in it, it helps you to not only trust in the biblical record, in the historical record, indiana scripture, but when you see the sea of gallilea, and it helps the pages of scripture have a picture, it helps you as a believer to go to the bible

and to say this is where jesus literally walked, this is where he performed these miracles, this is where he bled, this is where he died, this is where he rose again, so in the end, a lot of people missed jesus by 12 inches, pete, the difference between their head and their heart. in this documentary we aren't presenting religious trivia. we're presenting life transforming truth. pete: amen. you could see why he's so good at his job of saving souls. seeing vastness of the wilderness and the intimacy of the sea of gallilea, seeing capernum, that fishing town, seeing tiny synagogue, and then they tried to throw him off the cliff. the dramatic nature of the story , if you haven't read it almost chronologically we tell it in some ways chronologically and this is just the first part for christmas so i'd recommend for your family the life of jesus is available now. it's in three parts about 30 minutes each, so you can watch

them all in a row or sit down with your family one night watch one, the other, and walk through what the reason for the season really is. that's why we did this project, for christmas. watch it along with us, there will be a second installment for easter as well we're pretty excited about it. also, there's a special airing on the fox news channel at 10 p.m. tonight. they had to take an hour and a half of content and put it into 40 minutes so forgive us, excuse me, this is on sunday night at 10 p.m. forgive us if there are some portions left out, because you can't do the life of jesus in 40 minutes but we did the best we could. you can watch the whole thing on fox nation. chris durkin, thank you so much. love you, man. all right, coming up, panic in peru, a national emergency declared as violent protests fill the streets leaving american tourists trapped including our next guest. stay with us.

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rachel: welcome back to "fox & friends" we have a fox news alert. there's panic in peru. protests erupted after their former president is ousted and jailed. political crisis is unfolding on the streets. travel within the country restricted leaving tourists stranded and surrounded by the chaos including our next guest. arizona state university, professor naala brewer is sheltering in place in peru and she joins us now. professor, tell us what is happening. what happened? how did you know that this was unfolding? how did you come to realize what was happening? >> well, our trip, we were scheduled to leave on the eighth and my brother tends to keep up with a lot of current events and on the 7th he said i've been reading that the president committed to dissolve the congress. he said you should probably rethink whether or not you're going to be going to peru, because i'm taking my niece, his daughter, and we basically were

keeping and listening to all of the different current events and then it turned out between that day and the day that we had to leave the next day that they had appointed the vice president as president, and they arrested the president, so it seemed more stable at that point. they had a president and the president had tried to dissolve the congress, was under arrest, so we went ahead and headed out there, and we arrived on the 9th and we went to, so we arrived to kusco, which is the nearest town that has an airport, and then on the tenth and 11th we did our hike and then on the 11th we came back to kusco, and everything seemed fine, and we did a little tour on the 12th before the plane that we had to take on the evening of the 12th. when we got there, we had seen a little bit of peaceful protest before we left and i have a little video clip of that that i took. nothing major just looked like

some people were upset, that the president had been arrested because he was from what we've learned from the locals he was a "man of the people" and they did not like the congress arresting him, so we didn't see any violent protests at that point, but then when we were waiting for our plane, they never gave us the gate and our plane was due to leave at 8:55 p.m., so i went up to the ticket agent and i said, you know, are we ever going to get a gate number, is this flight canceled? she said oh, yeah it's going to take off. just wait, they will give you the gate number and then by 8:30 we had not boarded the plane yet and the plane was supposed to leave at 8:55 and we started hearing a lot of noise and it's in spanish, so -- rachel: so naala, right now you're scheduled to leave tomorrow, correct? >> yes. rachel: so you're hoping, you've reached out to your congress people i'm sorry, your senators in arizona, senator mark kelly and sinema.

have you heard back from them? >> yes, yeah, they have been basically mark kelly, kyrsten sinema and rubin gayego, they have been in touch with us and updated us that we do not travel to lima, where the planes are taking off because these roadblocks are what you're see ing on the video right now, and we're just, the timing of everything, we're really lucky that we're in kusco, which you can't get out except by plane, but right now yes, so at our flight, they basically, our flight was the first one to be canceled and all the flights were canceled. the police told us we had to leave the airport, and basically , at the end of an overseas travel, you try to get rid of all of your currency, so i had almost none left, and i didn't know how to speak spanish i called the two people, our two guides. they were the only two people i had phone numbers for and i said

what should i do and they said go to the police. the police were surrounding the airport, and try to get a taxi, and we found a taxi, and thank goodness he allowed us to pay in u.s. dollars because we were about out of solas, and we went back to the hotel we had been staying at. rachel: really quick a yes or no answer, do you feel safe? >> um, that's hard to say. i don't feel 100% safe. i'll feel safe once we get on the plane. i'll feel 50% safe once we get on the plane to lima, and 100% safe once we get the plane takes off from lima to the u.s.. rachel: we'll be praying for you and your niece. we hope you get out and we're glad that you're finally in contact with your legislators and your federal legislators in arizona, in case any trouble ensues but you certainly got more than you bargained for on your trip to peru. we're praying you get out safely >> thank you very much.

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evidence continues to link popular social media platform tiktok to the chinese communist party, and data is showing there's a harvesting push of many americans, including congressional lawmakers and for example, podcaster joe rogan and all of them together have called for a crackdown on tiktok. pete: donald trump said it in 2018-2017 we should ban tiktok but what is tiktok and how is it tied to the authoritarian regime today we're going off the wall to break it all down. so, you might know of tiktok because your teenager or 20- something is on there making dance videos or quick clips. it's a series of quick clips that can go viral very quickly based on an algorithm that is not disclosed to anyone. well it was launched by a company named bite dance in 2017 >> will: here is the important numbers for a quick overview of tiktok. 136 million americans use tiktok on average for 46 minutes a day. 70% of tiktok users are roughly

in that 14 i believe to 25 age range. pete: 2017 is when it started and if you go from 2017 to today and you have 2 billion users it gives you a sense of the explosion of tiktok. it bum rushed the scene. here is a detail that's really important. tiktok's not available in china. they have their own version inside china, which has called d oyan, they launched an alternative, that has a very different algorithm that shows very different things to chinese kids, so whereas the latest trend whether it's good or bad for kids, will pop-up in america , that's not what they see in china. they see what the state wants them to see on the state-run app >> will: so pete mentioned it. tiktok is owned by a company called bytedance. it was founded in 2012. reuters suggest it has a valuation of $78 billion. bytedance not only owns tiktok but it owns as pete pointed out a social media company named doy an in china, owns a social media company in

indonesia, in india. it has various social media platforms, really, ink across world. pete: they make most of their money on advertising, but the scale of what they created is what they are counting ongoing forward and certainly, more regulation in the united states on what they're able to do does hit their bottom line, bytedance paying a lot of attention to that. a big question is what we will talk about in the third wall here as well is what is the relationship between bytedance and the chinese communist party? well as we talk about all the time, if you're going to do business in china, especially if you're a chinese-started company , you have a relationship with the ccp, and you work in a friendly way with them at the very least. >> will: that's the main thing to takeaway here. if you do business in china you are in business with the chinese communist party. when it comes to bytedance it is official. the chinese communist party does own 1% of a subsidiary of bytedance, but that 1% really undercuts the influence the communist party has on this company. for example, the co-founder was forced out of the company under pressure from the chinese communist party as they

continued to exert pressure internally, pete, over big tech. pete: so what they say is only, it's 1% of the chinese version of tiktok that is owned by the ccp, the chinese communist party. they claim that 0% of bytedance is owned by the chinese communist party but again back to the big idea on this. anything doing business there is doing that bidding and you consider the amount of data they're collecting which we will go to next, that's why it's so powerful and problematic. >> will: and why it's so important to understand the role of the ccp when it comes to bytedance and infect tiktok. i want you to take a look -- pete: this is huge. >> will: on your kids. now some studies were done by researchers on how quickly this might happen. you join, create an anonymous account and within three minutes , these theoretical hypothetical created users were fed content that was suicidal. eight minutes, they were being fed content promoting, pushing towards, encouraging eating disorders. pete: same goes with transgender

rism or critical race theory. when you look at what type of content tiktok pushes in the united states, it's overwhelmingly not good for american teens because again , they control the algorithm. we don't even know the algorithm of twitter and facebook. inside tiktok, they create a maze that pushes certain content to the minds of american kids. we know they have a full spectrum warfare of you against the united states. why wouldn't you use social media to poison the minds of american kids? there's no reason they aren't doing that right now. >> will: we know the chinese have virtually admitted to being in a cold war with the united states and using all these tactics including pitting americans against one another. you put a lot of time into raising your kid. 45 minutes a day the chinese communist party gets to feed things like on the shallow end, mimicking tourette's syndrome, on the more serious end, racial conflict, political conflict, into your children. pete: here is a statement tiktok has given, explain explain

explaining away what they do. this activity and resulting experience does not reflect genuine behavior or viewing experiences of real people. we regularly consult with health experts, remove violations of policies and provide access to supportive resources for anyone in need, we're mindful trigger ing content is unique to each individual and remain focused on blah blah blah so they are going to say they aren't effecting kids. the evidence out there is exactly that's who they are targeting. >> will: we mentioned political content how they are really pitting americans against one another, let's take a look if you will at their role in american politics. pete: tracking specific locations of america, a lot of people believe tiktok can monitor particular individuals to include politicians and members of the media. why would they want to know where they are or what they are talking about? >> will: going into other apps on your phone monitoring passwords, monitoring web traffic. the spying capabilities of tiktok both virtually and physically are mind blowing, except some people begin to understand, look at the number of states that have now banned tiktok for government phones,

government devices. if you work for the state in any one of these states, you can't have tiktok on your phone. pete: again those are just government devices. think of the treasure trove of blackmail material the chinese communist party has against future generations of americans when they know what's on your phone, what you have been looking at. >> will: where you are. pete: it's like we've let them in the back door through these little phones that we let our kids look at. again i go back to what donald trump said. why are we allowing this at all in our country. that's where people should be standing. >> will: that's a conversation that is making its way to the forefront. pete: for sure. >> will: coming up we're cooking christmas dinner on fox square. their favorite festive dish is next. ♪ here comes santa claus, here comes santa claus, right down santa claus lane ♪ you get fifty dollars toward your home deductible. it's a policy perk for being a farmers customer. (customer) do i have to do anything? (burke) nothing.

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>> will: we're only eight days away from christmas. rachel: and we're learning how to cook up something perfect for the holidays and that's ham, which you said is more affordable. >> that's true. ham is more affordable than the prime rib but the prime rib is so good, right? pete: let me introduce you first john mcelmore, and his son john. >> [applause] >> will: starting the

interviewerly. pete: here with the tips and tricks. great to have you. >> thank you, pete, will. and ms. rachel, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> so yes if you want to have a really great meal, ham is that christmas like amazing -- >> it's international. >> we'll dial it up just a little bit. we'll do something paula dean be super proud of and we'll add a little butter and brown sugar and salted caramel peach spread. we'll blend that together and pour that over-the-top of the ham. come to the grill real quick. so what we've done is we have the masterbuilt grill set at 27m for about three hours. it's a pre-cooked spiral cut ham , 275 degrees, three hours. rachel: even though it's pre- cooked you still put it in for three hours. >> you add a little bit of smoke flavor to it. that's spicing it up. rachel: okay, got it. >> here is the secret.

this glaze that we just talked about is a salted caramel peach glaze. rachel: that's with butter all melted? pete: that's butter sugar. >> you want to pour that all over-the-top of the ham. rachel: that can't possibly be bad, [laughter] >> you can either render it on a stove top or just place it on your smoker and allow the butter to melt, but the key is you want to caramelize that peach glaze to the ham, so you turn the masterbuilt grill up to 400 degrees and put it back on for about another 10 minutes, close the grill up and then we've got some sliders behind. so you can take your ham and make it into sliders. you can just slice it up, serve it up with the mac & cheese with the sweet potatoes, with the corn and cook the entire meal on the masterbuilt grill at the same time. >> and the nice thing about this is the sliders allow the ham to go farther. rachel: oh, sure of course that's a great point.

that is a great point. trying to save money this time. >> always remember, you guys go go to home depot, bass pro, or masterbuilt.com to get one of these grills and merry christmas from all of the mcelmore boys. rachel: merry christmas. >> will: thank you so much. house minority kevin mccarthy at the top of the hour. for a payroll tax refund of up to $26,000 per employee. all it takes is eight minutes to get started. then work with professionals to assist your business with its forms and submit the application. go to getrefunds.com to learn more. - [female narrator] five billion people lack access to safe surgery. thousands of children are suffering and dying from treatable causes. for 40 years, mercy ships has deployed floating hospitals to provide the free surgeries these children need. join us. together, we can give children the hope and healing they never thought possible.

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