>> ashley: we're back with a fox weather alert. severe storm pummelling. experts warn residents to brace for a once in a generation storm that could hit every single state and impact 100 million americans. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. >> griff: and griff jenkins filling in for todd piro.

flights have been cancelled yesterday, the storm will move east today with the coast preparing for flooding. adam klotz joins us with the latest. >> you said it, this is a big, powerful storm and it is picking up today and tomorrow. we're seeing heavy snow currently falling across the plains and stretching to the upper midwest before drifting off toward the east. there are winter weather advisories and warnings across the region. the orange and blizzard warnings, winds 50 to 60 miles per hour. with wind and cold temperatures, you get the feels-like temperature and frigid across the country. i have seen negative 50s in the northern plains and this will settle further across the

country. we see widespread wind chill advisoryings from the mexico border toward the east coast. hundreds of millions of folks under wind chill advisory and going through today and tomorrow morning. you are talking about places in north texas feeling like negative 5 to 10 degrees and same thing negative 33 in chicago, negative 2 in atlanta, places they do not see cold air will wake up with cold temperatures. coldest spots, negative 50, in the pink, if you stand outside for five minutes, you could catch frost bite. this is cold air folks 8 be dealing with for the next couple mornings. >> ashley: it is how cold and that wind. >> right, six inches of snow, but 50 mile per hour wind will make driving dangerous.

>> griff: are texans ready for this? >> i don't know if anyone is. >> griff: adam klotz, thank you. senate adjourning without a vote on the democrat $1.7 trillion after mike lee proposes an amendment to keep title 42 in place. he says democrats would rather tank a bill than increase military spending and the government vote for border security. watch. >> if this bill full of democratic priorities does nothing to protect the border, contains language undermining border security. i am one amendment whether to preserve title 42 because title 42 is the one thing standing between us and utter chaos. we have mostly chaos, it would bring us to utter chaos. i want an up or down broke.

chuck schumer is terrified, why? they want pandemonium and chaos on the border and terrified of this vote, because they will lose as they should lose. i'm standing firm and will demand up or down volt, this will be difficult for them and will cost them the omnibus. >> griff: the bill was unveiled, you see 575 million for family planning, 410 million to reimburse middle eastern countries for border security, not ours and 65 million to restore pacific salmon and 3 million for the michelle obama walking trail in georgia. congress has less than 48 hours to vote to pass a bill and avoid a government shutdown. jesse waters says democrats will bankrupt america. >> in dc, they don't understand

the meaning of christmas, christmas is about getting, stuffing stockings with pork and putting billions in goodies under their tree, this omnibus bill, $1.7 trillion that congress is forcing through before christmas. guess how many pages it is? 4000 pages chalked full of pet projectses. the bill funds the federal government and if it is not passed, the government shuts down. they know nobody wants that, so they shove in everything they want by design. >> griff: president biden has spent 5 trillion on his agenda and tucked into this spending bill is 45 million for ukraine, are americans footing too much of the war in ukraine? we'll ask rebecca next.

>> ashley: sam bankman-fried landing in new york overnight, we'll tell you what is next for him.

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victims threatening to protest after augusta announced golfers will be allowed to participate in this year's tournament. the reason the saudis launched l liv, we are calling on augusta national to reconsider their policy to liv golfers. inviting past green jacket golfers, including mickelson, bubba watson and dustin johnson, the club criticized both sides for dividing pro golf. >> griff: ukrainian president zelenskyy making historic war-time stop in washington to thank the u.s. for continued support. his visit comes as lawmakers weigh aid for the war-torn nation. >> the russian tyranny has lost

control of us and it will never influence our minds again. your support is crucial, not just to stand, but to get to the turning point to win on the battle field. >> ashley: rebecca is a former intelligence officer and the author of "putin's play book," and there were differences in the way zelenskyy kind of gave himself up yesterday. it was not the same zelenskyy that we have seen, why was that? >> i agree with you, here is why. zelenskyy is a very, very astutely politician. he's talented, savvy, he brought everything to the table and especially his skill. he's a former actor, he understands he's asking a lot from the american people, the american people are very generous, but look at this, what

we have already provided and are on track to provide is reaching 50% of ukraine's gdp and this is not the end of it. 750 billion will be required to rebuild ukraine if the war would ever stop, which there is no end to this war at least on the horizon and the pentagon has acknowledged that and so zelenskyy knows that he needs this help and therefore he was measured, he was passionate and didn't lecture, there were no videos that he usually throws out there showing horror movies, trying to invoke emotion in his audience, so he's talented. >> griff: didn't want to guilt americans. petrov says ep was supplies continues and expanding, which

leads to aggravation of the conflict and in fact does not bode well for ukraine, the classic peskov threat, where do we stand, what do you think russia does now? >> dmitry peskov is a p propagandist. we have a war that is unwinnable. the three parties, moscow, kyiv and washington have unachievable goal. what moscow wants is control of ukraine. it is unachievable so long as we provide superior weaponry to ukraine, they can't secure military path to victory. ukraine cannot win, it doesn't have nuclear weapons and russia does. ukraine gave up theirs under

pressure from washington and london back -- >> griff: they regret that, by the way. >> exactly. and so putin developed on his orders a very unique war-fighting strategy of escalate to deescalate and if putin feels he is losing this war, he will trigger that doctrine of detonating low-yield nuclear warhead on the territory of ukraine. let me give you back story -- >> griff: that is frightening. >> it is frightening, we had scores and dozens of war games and every single war game ended up in that scenario and this is why president biden stated in the beginning of this war that the united states will not deploy u.s. and nato force into the theater because he understands that, he warned about the nuclear armageddon, that is the conundrum. no matter how many billions we pump into ukraine, it will not

produce victory and meantime, ukraine is being destroyed, being depopulated, 100,000 ucrannians are dead or injured according to u.s. estimates, what we're doing, paying for european security with ukrainian blood. europeans do not want to contribute to security, only eight countries out of 30 contribute 2%. imagine germany, richest country in upper yoo does not want to contribute, we do, the united states provides majority of funding. >> ashley: thanks for getting up with us, good to see you. >> griff: merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> ashley: the fbi is responding to twitter files, we'll bring you the bureau side of the story and who they are pointing the finger at. >> griff: democrats have had

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created, made us hub for people who want to live the drug addicted lifestyle and most end in the tenderloin and it is difficult to run a successful business there. what they are asking are basic services cities are supposed to supply. >> griff: san francisco police department says crime is up with larceny, theft now up 10%, assault up 8% and robbery up 5%. >> ashley: it has been five weeks and police do not have a suspect in the quadruple murder of four university of idaho students and the school is adding campus security measure for the spring semester. a private investigator who worked on the natalee holloway disapeerance in arubba joins me now. thank you for getting up with us. you heard many parents of victims want to hire private

investigators, do you think that is the route they should go and do you think private investigators can go around red tape and get answers sooner? >> well, yes, good morning. there was a lot of talk at the beginning when this crime happened about hiring a private investigator and raising money for one. i think bringing a private investigator would be a good thing, there are a lot of witnesses that rather talk to somebody other than law enforcement and may create new information. i really believe hiring a private investigator, bringing somebody like me in, we might get answers. i have investigators highly trained in homicide investigation, so it is not a hamper to the case whatsoever, but would allow us to get new information to pass on to law enforcement and hopefully

resolve this case. >> ashley: we are almost to the-week mark. from your perspective, how do you think law enforcement has handled this case so far? is there anything you would have done differently? >> no, i don't think i would have done anything different. this was a tragic crime scene and a lot of work has to be done on the crime scene and outside and as you are well aware of, they tried to find a vehicle, a hyundai, there are 22,000 hyundais in that area they are trying to expose and i understand last week they found a hyundai in oregon that may or may not have been the vehicle they were looking for and i think they said it was not the vehicle they were looking for. the other problem now that they are having is weather is hampering the area and trying to

find vehicles and additionasm information and other cameras they haven't exposed yet. i think bringing a private investigator in would be a good tool and the family talked about this when this happened and hope hopefully something will transpire soon so this does not turn into a cold case. >> ashley: right, and i feel like we are getting to that point, do you think this will go cold based on what we're seeing right now? >> i think -- i don't think -- i think law enforcement is doing a great job, i understand the fbi is bringing in several agents to help with the case and finetune and look at the evidence and move forward. this, again, is a very complex case and not only just crime scene, trying to find somebody that may know something and be

able to go forth with it. >> ashley: uh-huh. we'll see if the new safety measures on campus like cameras and more law enforcement will help make the people feel safer, but that will not be until spring. spring semester in just a couple weeks. thank you for getting up with us, we appreciate it. >> thank you very much and happy holidays. >> ashley: this is life in joe biden's america, national guard troops, humvees and barbed wire and fences at border making el paso look like a war zone and democrats say the president needs to be there. >> i share your feeling of frustration and the need for urgency. >> should the president be here, you think? >> absolutely the president should be here. >> griff: jonathan lions is dealing with the same situation in arizona, he is live at the border and will join us. ♪ [acoustic soul music throughout] ♪

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>> ashley: migrants are overwhelming el paso and residentses say they can't step outside their door without seeing a sea of migrantses. >> griff: begging joe biden to get down there. good morning, kevin. >> kevin: things are at a breaking point with respect to illegal immigration is a gross

unders understatement. the problem is so acute the city is opening convention center to house hundreds and upon practices thousands of migrants as a blast of arctic weather dips close to the border land and local residentses say migrants are showing up at their front doors. he has a fire pit, they jump over and sit there and huddle and the scary thing is, well, you can see there, there is a lot of people behind there, you don't know. that is really scary stuff, if you think about it. things are so awful that democrats on capitol hill are beginning to distance themselves from the administration border strategy. possible plan to divert migrants along the rio grand valley, democrats should implement a

plan in an orderly pathway and there should be strong consequences, including removal for those who don't follow the proper procedures. numbers are stunning, take a look at fiscal 2018 compared to fiscal year 2022, half million compared to north of 2.3 million encounters, that is the biden versus the trump era. dhs is giving people maybe not the full picture, they haven't released the encounter numbers for this november. >> i share your feeling of frustration and need for urgency and i want to see that starting with the white house -- >> should the president be here, i think? >> i think absolutely the president should be here and i think everyone should be here. >> everyone should be here. as far as the leaders in texas,

they know precisely where the blame lies for this crisis and that is not in austin, it is in washington. >> i have made that point to the united states congress asking for more resources so we can better defend our border, knowing the federal government is not defending our border. only people capable of doing it is texas, what is texas getting? nothing. >> kevin: there are renewed concern about possible white house plans to divert migrantses to the rio grand valley, lawmakers saying, on both sides of the political spectrum, the president needs to get to the border soon. we will see if the white house has anything to add on that, maybe not, for now, back to you. by the way, griff and ashley, my missouri buddy. >> ashley: okay, kevin. >> griff: kevin corke, thank you

very much merry christmas. yuma county supervisor jonathan lyones is at the border now in yuma, jonathan, you do a great job going out for our viewers, i'm looking at the temperature, 45 degrees there, 3:30 in the morning and migrants behind you, what is happening >> i've been here and there are 400 p people behind me in hopes of being processed. the wall finishes to my right. this area has had significant challenges and we're seeing in excess of 1000 people per day coming across in this area. >> griff: jonathan, the migrants behind you, they walk around the wall in the gap just out of the

shot there? >> yes, absolutely, a gap that we've asked to be closed several times, the governor installed containers and yesterday reached agreement with the biden administration that containers would be removed in exchange for the wall being completed, that does not address the gap in this area. >> is governor doocy gaining traction? do you feel he's making progress in getting this administration to do something or will we see the same thing in terms of border enforcement over two years, which is nothing? >> i think this is an absolute win for doocy, in the fact the gaps were in direct proximity to the city of yuma and now we have to address this gap specifically right here where we continue to see surge of migrantses, many

hope to see title 42 go away, see what happens on the 27th. that is their hope. it is a complete failure of the biden administration to address the needs of this border community. >> griff: jonathan, you have gone out there live as you have numerous times and shown what is upon haing, it is important to do that, you shot video, we were showing and i would like to show again. you pan across the hole in the wall, you sent this video, here you go, wide open, hundreds upon hundreds of migrants and you get to the wall, but wall is only work when they are in the way of the traffic. that is a perfect description. if you were able to have two-minute conversation with president biden, what would you say to him? >> first of all, please come and see the problems that you created for small bocommunities.

second, the walls work and men and women of border patrol and law enforcement demand and are frustrated and need support to do their job. they are glorified babysitters, border security is a critical issue. they spoke about number of people coming across, that doesn't address the gotaways, who are those people? talk about fentanyl and human trafficking, it is a complete disaster in this area. >> griff: jonathan, we have the politicians coming up with this omnibus spending is there anything in that bill that would fix that hole in that wall? >> no, sir, there is not and we need to fix that. >> griff: does that make you angry they will not address this

simple infrastructure situation? >> we've had 300,000 people come through the area, the known gotaways, we're concerned with the fentanyl and human trafficking, what are they doing? not focusing on challenges of small border communitieses. we've declared state of emergency. covid numbers are higher, the hospital has in excess of 20 million in -- >> griff: i hope folks in washington watching this interview will put something in the omnibus spending. jonathan lines, fantastic work, thank you for showing what is upon haing in yuma. >> griff: democrats for desantis, floridians are bailing on the left woke politics and backing their governor, but is this only happening in the sunshine state?

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>> ashley: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried arriving in the u.s. yesterday in new york after chaotic extradition process from the bahamas. he faces fraud and money laundering charges. his ex-girlfriend and ftx co-founder both pleaded guilty in connection with the firm's collapse. ceo of the hedge fund alameda, she and the fellow co-founder are cooperating with authorities, which are expected to result in lighter sentences. >> griff: war on women's sports cont continues. last week ruled in favor of biological males, calling it victory for fairness, equality

and inclusion. last hour we talked to a female track runner who lost her 55-meter dash qualifier to two male athletes identifying as women and she feels differently. >> i was hurt by their commentses, it is not fair for girls to compete against biological males, there is nothing we can do to overcome the differences male have over women. it made me feel what i went through in high school did not matter. i have no regrets and know what i'm standing for is right and i will continue to do so for as long as it takes. >> griff: alliance defending freedom is preparing to appeal the ruling. >> ashley: dissatisfied democrats in florida rejecting politics and turning to ron desantis instead. >> griff: one democrat consultant explains, there is

denial and they act like it is only maga people and a lot of people feel like this. fox news contributor david webb joins us now. good morning, david, merry christmas to you. >> wearing my christmas tie. >> griff: what is happening down there, democrats for desantis? >> reality, no matter how much far-left democrats, and look at demings, they have gone so far and lied about reality. go further into the story, especially miami dade, which has turned around, talk about a good mayor in miami, francis suarez, who led from business st standpoint.

they don't want to be told they are latin-x or they don't want to be told how to think about any issue and reject socialism and a lot of people, especially in florida, have seen up close evil of socialists and marxist dictatorships, go to central and south america and look who is in charge and look at the failure, why would they want that? >> ashley: i wonder where the true blue democrats will turn when they have so many going so far left. stacey abrams, she is being criticized for bad financial planning. she raised all this money, cash, over $103 million during this campaign. she wasted it on things like tiktok and polling and now can't pay people and she lost. >> who is the biggest loser, stacey abrams or beto o'rourke? hundreds of millions and they

both lost. to the prior conversation, about progressive and woke politics. she is a grifter and she's grifted off her donors. go ahead and waste your money, she pays her friend's law firm 9.4 million, lost on a losing lawsuit she never had a chance of winning and it was an obama judge who ruled against her and she is worth $109 million and now worth somewhere north of $4 million and where is the dollars? where is the money, the win, the outcome? she continues the woke progressive lies. >> griff: you spent time in new jersey, new jersey school district reinstated mask mandate for staff and students, what is happening there? >> they're trying to kill a

generation of kids, not literally, figuratively. think what it means to develop in school and what it means to really learn to adjust to others, social development, they have taken 2-1/2 weeks to slow the spread into three years to slow down a generation of kids. they are not learning, not advancing, the lesson may be in philadelphia. black parents, 63% of black parents took their kids out of failed public school and into charter schools. parents need to look for alternatives. >> griff: that is not over mass, that is over education. >> the masks are part of it, but it is education. this is cobination of randi

weingarten and -- if you take that away from a child, they don't develop into adults who can communicate properly. >> ashley: it is not fair, for sure. david webb, thank you for being on set this morning. we appreciate it. love your tie. >> wore my dr. seuss tie. >> ashley: wax museum and border security, democrats have it packed into the spending bill, what about the border and americans struggling to buy food and gas here? pennsylvania congressman fred fred keller is here next. >> griff: let's check in with brian kilmeade to see what is coming up? >> brian: i cannot believe griff came to new york and chaos has not ensued. big news, will cain is here and

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♪ ♪ well, the fbi finally responding to the latest twitter files writing them off as the work of cons conspiracy theoris. >> that's right. the fbi is finally weighing in giving fox news this statement saying, quote: the fbi provides critical information to the private sector to allow them to protect themselves. it is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the american public misinformation with the sole purpose of attempting to discredit the agency. now, when taking a look at the corresponds the fbi would ask twitter to investigate a accounts that may have violated the company terms of service to which someone from twitter would respond in this instance the same day the account is being looked into. even when accounts flagged by the fbi merely tweeted jokes

like this. controversial fbi supervisory special agent elvis chan agreed they never pressured twitter to censors the hunter biden laptop story or that they ever brought it up at all. in my estimation, we never discussed hunter biden specifically. it was twitter. at that time sworn testimony from a twitter employee who told the federal election commission that he felt compelled to censors the hunter biden laptop story based on information given him to the fbi. resulting censorship is evidence that the fbi colluded with big tech to censors americans. listen. >> the fbi was constantly pressuring twitter and constantly forcing them to do investigations leaning on them to do more suppression of speech. it's not just twitter. we heard this from facebook. from mark zuckerberg when he was

on joe rogan. this is systemic and something that needs to be stamped out. i'm excited when the republican take the gavel and haul the fbi and others before congress and hold them accountable. >> republicans are set to take the majority of the house in january meaning they will have subpoena power as they carry out those investigations. griff, ashley? >> griff: griff singman with the latest. thank you. let's bring in pennsylvania congressman fred keller house of the oversight committee. congressman, thank you for getting up early and joining us. merry christmas to you. let's pick up where brooke left off. i presume your incoming chairman, james comer will likely call fbi director chris wray before your committee. what will be your question to him? >> well, actually, i think there's going to be a lot of questions for the fbi. and there couldn't be anybody better than james comer to lead oversight reform committee to restore faith in american institutions and make sure our future is built on those american freedoms. and any amount of contact with

private organizations to censors speech, if you looked 59 their statement, it says in their opinion, okay, they worded that very carefully. what we need to make sure is that the government is not going through things, helping twitter, facebook, or anybody else hold fast to what they should or not on their platforms. that's not the roam of fbi it look at free speech. that's what has happened. i look forward to a chairman comer dig into these issues and make sure that the commitment to america, which is the freedoms and also the accountability and restoring faith in our institutions. >> ashley: how are we going to get that countability because as you said in opinion how do they know they are not going to keep saying that when comber does bring them in? >> i think the fact you bring them in and have the subpoena power to do that and question them, they have got to be honest. here is where we have thoughtful feel on the committee starting with chairman comer that are going to be able to ask the

questions to make sure they get an answer out of it. or, you know, they can't come and lie to congress. and i think that they are going to be able to ask the questions that need to be asked and not allow them to do their word sniping on these important issues. >> griff: changing topics, congressman, the clock is ticking to the end of the day tomorrow to it did i verdict a shutdown. republicans tried to add protections to keep title 42 in place. where do we stand? >> well, i think there's still a lot of disagreement. and, this bill should not be passed. i mean, we are hurrying to get this done it. should take place as leader mccarthy has made the point of going to next year so the will of the voters that spoke in november can be heard. and they are looking at funding more money into the irs. looking at putting money for shelters, rather than fixing our border and stopping the fentanyl from coming across our border, they're looking at putting money into shelters for people that are coming across our border

illegally. and then they are also looking at green energy. they are not looking at the things to make our economy strong and make sure that our nation is safe. that's what we need to be looking at. i'm voting no on this bill that they have out here it. didn't go through the regular -- not everybody's representative or state senator had the input that should be on this bill. 1.8 trillion after we have done an inflation reduction act, congress has. i voted no on that, also. also a inflation reduction act all it has done is fuel inflation and we need to make sure that there is accountability. i think the best way to do that would be a short-term cr to make sure that leader mccarthy can have the input that's necessary to make sure that the americans aren't spending money on things to have irs agencies pawing through their finances and trying to get into their personal items. >> ashley: don't forget that bill has $410 million in border security for other countries

that's neither here nor there since we have our own issues here in the united states. congressman, fred keller, thank you so much for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas. thank you. >> ashley: no problem. griff, it's always nice to have you in new york on set. >> griff: as kilmeade said i haven't caused trouble yet but there is still time. >> ashley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> griff: the senate adjourning without a vote on a massive $1.7 trillion spending package. >> ashley: cutting it very close to avoiding a government shut down. >> 4155 page bill does nothing to protect the border. >> the fate of title # # hanging in the balance. >> local residents say migrants are showing up at their front door. >> this federal government is not defending our border. the only people capable of doing it would be texas. >> your money is not. >> as the u.s. pledges this new package of 1.85 billion. >> no congressional ov