trump administration at large for international religious freedom. sam brown back as we head into the christmas weekend. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced and still unafraid. "jesse watters primetime" hosted tonight by the judge jeanine starts right now and, judge, i accepted from "the five" from you and now i toss to you. >> judge jeanine: twice in one evening, bret. merry christmas to you. >> bret: good to see you. you too. ing. >> judge jeanine: welcome to "jesse watters primetime" i'm judge jean pirro. the holidays are fullly upon us. happy fifth night of hanukkah to those who are celebrating and, of course, christmas time is here. it seems like the entire nation is swept up in the spirit of the season. even joe biden took a moment to offer his christmas message today.

>> from the biden family wish you and your family peace, joy, health and happiness. merry christmas, happy holidays and all the best in the new year. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. >> judge jeanine: and while we count down the days until santa arrives, there may be no better place to celebrate this season than new york city. the big apple does a lot wrong but christmas is one thing we really get right. of the lights, the decorations, the stores, the trees, and, of course, the caroling. ♪ when you're awake ♪ he knows if you've been. >> wait, you're not singing. >> yes, i am. >> no, you're not. you're just moving your lips. >> mine, please, what's the big deal? >> dad. ♪ santa claus is coming to town!

[laughter] >> judge jeanine: music is a vital part of the holiday season like the movie says, the best way to spread christmas tree is singing loud for all to hear. and even i loved getting in on the action. ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle bells jingle all the way oh what fun it is ride to one horse open sleigh >> judge jeanine: not many people would do that, but that was just a preview of our christmas special for the "the five." more by singing this saturday and sunday. but, carols aren't just about asking santa for presents. and wishing for a white christmas. many of the songs we love have much deeper means. jingle bells is great, but the best carols are the ones that come from church. songs like these are what should

symbolize the season. ♪ angels we have heard on high ♪ sweetly singing o'er the plains ♪ and the mountains in reply ♪ echoing their joyous praise ♪ gloria ♪ >> today our favorite hymns are on the chopping block. the woke mob is coming after christmas carols. they have their sights set on one of the clanks. god rest ye merry gentlemen. features lyrics god rest ye merry gentlemen, let nothing you

dismay, remember, christ our savior was born on christmas day. an important message that represents the entire meaning of christmas but this season is a time to celebrate christ and all that he stands for. but one church in england decided to erase hundreds of years of holiday tradition by rewriting the lyrics to the song. all saints with holy trinity church in britain decided that they needed to make the song more inclusive. so, the church added two new verses to the carol, with the first saying god rest you also women who by men have ben erased ♪ through history ignored and scorned, defiled and displaced. and the second reading: god rest you queer and questioning, your anxious hearts be still.

is nothing sacred anymore? religious tradition is important. it helps connect generations. so as you can guess, the church is defiling of a christmas classic did not sit well with england's most senior catholic leader cardinal vincent nicholas. >> ritual helps us to step outside of our own little bubble, connect with something that we have received inherited and that we hope to pass on and i think those values of continuation of music call pep trarepertoire ability to sing together looking at the rit centrals fashioned over centuries and those are probably, for me, more important than particular sensitivities which come and go. >> judge jeanine: this desis he creation of religious traditions unfortunately is not surprising

christ has been entirely removed from the christmas season. we went out to the streets this week to see if people even knew what christmas was all about. >> where was jesus born? >> in the hospital? [buzzer] >> i want to say the north pole. >> [buzzer] >> bethlehem. >> will sunday school i'm telling you i am 59. i don't have time to be remembering all this stuff. i went to sunday school that was years ago. >> where is bethlehem? >> pennsylvania. [buzzer] >> ukraine? [buzzer] >> what was jesus' profession. >> making sure his rain deers were all healthy. >> he was a carpenter. >> is that like a slave maybe. >> jesus wasn't santa claus. >> like a decade ago when over # 0% still believed in the lord.

even worse is a majority of americans no longer belong to a church either. this trend was accelerated by the pandemic as church attendance plummeted by 45% curing the lockdowns our pledge says one nation under god. our money says we trust god and our presidents are sworn in on a bible. faith and freedom go hand in hand in america. so this drop in believers is a threat to our national identity. when we lose our faith. we lose our morals. look at what is happening to our cities. shoplifting, crime, violence, all running wild in our streets. want to go christmas shopping? you better bring a shield. ♪

>> judge jeanine: a nation without faith is a nation certaining for identity. our religious beliefs are important, especially during the christmas season. we need remind people why we celebrate christmas. and it starts by protecting our christmas carols. let's turn to rachel campos duffy, co-host of "fox & friends weekend." hi, rachel, how are you? >> merry christmas, judge. >> judge jeanine: all right. what do you attribute this -- the devolution of the morals of this country not just in terms of religion and church attendance but the morals, the feeling that crime isn't going to be punished so why not commit a crime? >> yeah, i mean, this is such a deep topic. it's so interesting that you're covering it at the top of your show. i think it's really appropriate. you know, we can talk about

church attendance. a lot of our church leaders are responsible for that. they agree to follow the orders of our government during the pandemic and basically told the flock that church and spiritual life is nonessential that they, pastors, and ministers and priests are not essential and meanwhile as you know strip clubs and cannabis shops were open and liquor stores were open and our churches were closed so we sent a teenager message. especially to our children. i think about that christmas carol that, you know, they are changing that beautiful 17th century christmas carol, god rest ye merry gentlemen and the way that they are changing that. and it speaks to a narcissism, of course, that, you know, we have nothing to bring -- the past has nothing to teach us. that everything starts with us. >> sounds so much like our, you know, social media, instagram culture that we live. in and, of course, judge, all these traditions that you and i are talking about that is are so

important, the faith and the morals are passed on through families that is another institution under attack. i think if we could start with our families, just our own family and brings that making sure our children know that and making sure we take our children to church and teaching them how important it is to take that time out of our lives to get dressed and get ready, no matter how many kids we have and how hard it is to get ready and get out the doorly did about all the things you talk about the crime and so forth and the moral did degradation but it becomes a lot more simple when we just bring it counsel to our own family, our own kids. >> judge jeanine: do you know what is interesting, rachel, tradition plays such a big part in all of our families, whether it's a subculture of your ethnic identity or whether it's the religion. i mean, tradition is important

so that we know who we are and from whence we have come. it's almost like the sensibilities generations and this woke culture that is so religion seems to have the upper hand these days. >> communism, socialism, atheistic ideologies, they feel their control, their power is threatened by the family and by the church and so i think it's really important that we talk about it so people understand that they are not imagining these forces that are trying to separate their children from their be family and faith. these are real forces that are happening. we are in a spiritual battle. only way to win this battle, judge jeanine is for us to take control of our own families. of course, the public square matters. we need good politicians, we

need good people running for office and leaders of our community but we must start with our own start in the home. we must start with the family we must not let anyone any ideology. separate our children from who we are. >> judge jeanine: all right. rachel campos-duffy you would certainly know. you certainly have a large family. merry christmas to yours and everyone at home. >> rachel: minerals to you, judge. >> judge jeanine: don't miss rachel co-host the all-american new year on december # 1st. joined by pete hegseth and will cain in nashville. coverage starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern. you are going to love every minute of it. coming up, fentanyl on our streets and bodies in the dessert. why joe biden's latest assault on the border clearly has deadly consequences. >> we drive around the property. we find drugs dead bodies. money.

you name it. >> you found dead bodies on the property? >> yes. i think i have seen about 10. ♪ my a1c stayed here, it needed to be here. ray's a1c is down with rybelsus®. i'm down with rybelsus®. my a1c is down with rybelsus®. in a clinical study, once-daily rybelsus® significantly lowered a1c better than a leading branded pill. in the same study, people taking rybelsus® lost more weight. rybelsus® isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. don't take rybelsus® if you or your family ever had medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2, or if allergic to it. stop rybelsus® and get medical help right away if you get a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, or an allergic reaction. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. gallbladder problems may occur. tell your provider about vision problems or changes. taking rybelsus® with a sulfonylurea or insulin increases low blood sugar risk. side effects like nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may lead to dehydration,

which may worsen kidney problems. need to get your a1c down? you may pay as little as $10 per prescription.

>> judge jeanine: christmas came early. arizona is taking down its homemade shipping container border wall one week after the biden administration filed a lawsuit against arizona governor doocy. joe doesn't want any state to protect america's sovereignty. everybody gets an open border this comes as title 42 in limbo it. can be scrapped at any moment completely breaking over the flood gates.

the people getting hit the hardest americans living in those border towns like el paso where dead bodies are literally showing up on people's properties. we drive aren't the property we find drugs, dead bodies,. >> have you seen dead bodies. >> i have seen about 10. >> 10 dead bodies on your property? >> yes. >> that was a clip borders to bridges. >> yes. >> upcoming documentary. he joins me now. jocko, you must have been stunned when you got the information you got when you were at the southern border. tell us about it. >> merry christmas, judge. we have been fighting human trafficking. what i'm seeing outside the border is nothing short of crimes against humanity on the hans of our current white house and our current administration. >> judge jeanine: well, the amazing part of is that people

coming in, they don't now have the facilities to take care of them. they are sleeping in the cold. many of them without blankets. many of them without food we keep letting them. ranchers are finding dead bodies on their ranches. i assume they have many acres and they just find these bodies as they go out in the day? >> judge, that ranch and clip you playside a ranch with seven miles of border on the ranch property. private property and 18-month period that family, that couple discovered 10 bodies on their property. i want to ask any american if you find a dead body on your property in your yard tomorrow, you would assume that would be investigated these deaths are not investigated. no autopsies done on bodies. it's relegated to the american citizen that's living on the border to discover bodies by

that rancher's own testimony sometimes only by smell you smell them she said. you smell the dead bodies. imagine talking about 10 bodies in a seven mile stretch. how many bodies do we have on 1900-mile stretch u.s.-mexico border? >> judge jeanine: exactly. the shame of this is that the ranchers are suffering all kinds of damage and all kinds of just being overrun barriers broken and fences taken down they are suffering economically. the yet, the biden administration seems to not care about it. in fact, they are the ones that wanted title 42 removed. they want the completely open border and further evidenced by the fact that they sued the arizona governor take down containers keeping some of the illegals out. >> this is arguably the largest multilateral movement and crimes against humanity internationally

though, you know, the governor of mexico is complicit here too with joe biden allowing migrants to travel through their country from the south into our country. they do not care about american citizens living on the border. right now we have 10 cities overnight prior to title 42 being lifted. remember, we are coercing people to come to our nation to become homeless. they are living on the street at the moment. the cartels are moving in. the drug lords are moving. in you are seeing it right there. i stood at that bus stop that's outside a greyhound bus stop. children, judge, i'm talking about 3 and 4-year-olds sleeping on the streets. when i asked them did you have a home in guatemala? yes, i had a home. i had a job, but i was told that i would have a job and a home in america. we are lying to the world. this administration is literally creating the largest modern day homeless class. >> judge jeanine: interesting. jaco, thank you so much for your

investigative reporting. thank you. >> thank you, judge. >> judge jeanine: meanwhile, the cartels are getting filthy rich. they love joe biden. last year they raked in $13 billion. that's enough to be a fortune 500 country. smuggling illegals is big business, folks. so is smuggling chinese fentanyl. the d.e.a. seized 379 million lethal doses of fentanyl. that includes 50 million pills and 10,000 pounds of powder, enough to kill every single american every one of us. a retired d.e.a. agent who directed the special ops division. derek, when we listen to this information, you know, about the biden administration, and jaco said promising them illegal jobs, promising them a home. and now what we are finding is that the under belly of all of

this is the smuggling and ultimately the death of americans through fentanyl. yeah, judge. thank you for having me. talk about the cartel dispatching their operatives in america that are going right over the open border and they are going to cities like the crossroads of america, indiana. they had a major press announcement yesterday, judge. they were bringing in large amounts of methamphetamine and fentanyl using railcars from mexico but when they took down the case, nine out of the 12 were illegals from mexico and central america. that's because they are running over the border. then if you look at atlanta, for example d.e.a. m meth conversion labs all over the place. most recently hit a lab that was active making rainbow colored meth. so we haven't seen that and then cbp, or border patrol, i can't remember like last week hit

3,000 pounds of liquid meths that because you are bringing the meth into american cities. into our backyards. they send the chemist, the operative was right over the border and they push the poison all over america. it's unbelievable, judge and it's getting worse. >> well, you know, the fact that joe biden and kamala harris are not looking at what's going on at the border. and the fact that this fentanyl is coming in from china and precursor anyway and then the mexican cartels are bringing them throughout the united states, the crazy part of it is karine jean-pierre the white house press secretary actually said when asked what are you doing about fentanyl? she said we are doubling the penalties. first of all, nobody is being arrested. they are basically being allowed in plus, if they are arrested, they are bailed out immediately and americans are dying at the rate of 300 a day because they are being poisoned. this is a poison. what can the states do if the

president and his gang are not interested in stopping this. >> let me go back to a very important point. d.e.a. and law enforcement all around america are arresting a lot of these actors. they are taking down networks in cities all over the country. they are seizing record amounts of pills. here's the problem. when they indict the kingpins then you can't get mexico to go after the kingpins and get the extraditions time toy to america. that's how you are going to disrupt their business. you also have to destroy those deadly labs in mexico. which is never going to happen under our administration. the states are trying. i mean, look what happened in arizona? they sued them to take down the barriers they want to let them. in invasion of 180 countries into our country. look what governor abbott is doing with his police and agencies, out there with the national guard trying to keep not just texas safe but all of america safe. they don't like that either. okay? because they want these people

in america but, judge, what's really sad is that it only took 19 hijackers to take down the towers we have a million or more known got-aways in our country we have no idea what they are doing. >> judge jeanine: we don't know who they are. derek you and i know from our work together, in fact, it's a dangerous recipe for america. god help us. any west virginia derek maltz, thank you so much for what you do. >> merry christmas, judge. thank you. >> judge jeanine: thank you. and coming up. 45 billion for ukraine and millions for a highway for bees? you heard that one right. americans are tightening their belts for christmas while washington gets drunk on your tax dollars. >> tech: when you get a chip in your windshield... trust safelite. this couple was headed to the farmers market... when they got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service the way you need it. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪

brayden has amazed me. he's so strong. you hear about cancer, but you don't ever think that it will be your child. it was your was your worst fear coming to life. the doctor tells us your son has a large tumor. and he said, well, that's not the only tumor. we thought my son had one tumor. he had hundreds. marlo thomas: you can join the battle to save lives by supporting st. jude children's research

hospital. at st. jude, it went from so hard to we're going to take care of this. what they have done for me, my son, my family, i have no words for it. marlo thomas: join st. jude with your debit or credit card for only $19, a month and we'll send you this st. jude t-shirt. the donors, they may not know it, but they helped heal my son. this cough. [sfx: coughs] this'll help. vicks vaporub? vicks vaporub's ...medicated vapors go straight to the source of your cough... ...so you can relieve your cough to breathe easier. vicks vaporub. fast-acting cough relief. >> judge jeanine: with christmas now just two days away, politicians in washington have been awfully busy gift wrapping.

the only thing is it's more of a yankee swap where the only gifts going out are to each other. while the american people sit it out in the cold. i think we bought less gifts but more important things they might need. >> hard times. fuel prices are way up taxes are way up. people are losing their homes where i live. >> i have saved to be able to do christmas with the kids. >> no gifts. >> i definitely feel it for sure. >> it's just terrible. you know. how long can we endure, this is the beginning of the collapse, i believe. >> judge jeanine: but, christmas came early for the swamp. earlier today the senate officially passed the bloated pork-filled omnibus spending bill only to add even more inflation to a nation that has been through enough instead of

lightening your load worried about their wish list. i know gas and groceries are way up this year here is a mitchell obama walking trail. let's walk through what they just spent. $45 billion to ukraine. half a trillion for a new fbi headquarters ain't that a kicker. 3 million for a highway that doesn't discriminate against bees, half a million to fauci's nih for diversity, equity and inclusion and 8 million to the pentagon for gender programs i could go on but we don't have all night. it looks like the biden administration has given up on infrastructure and instead just settled on expensive arts and crafts projects let's bring in our panel charlie kirk founder

of turning point u.s.a. and tomi lahren is a fox news tribute contributor. first of all 4,000 page omnibus bill, charlie, and i will start with you, that nobody has time to read nobody. i don't care what speed reading course you took and it doesn't have to be that way. no reason they couldn't get to it in october when, you know, it should be done. >> yeah, or just pass a continuing resolution and let the new republican house sort this out because they have a mandate from the american people to stop this overspending. stop thinflation. >> judge jeanine: they won't do that. >> of course not. they basically robbed the first nine months of the house republican majority to september of next year you touched on some of the waste, judge. it gets even worse from that. it's lgbtq q learning centers. it's a museum funding. unbelievable. our own country is invaded. what is astonishing and

unacceptable 17 republicans decided to vote for this. why do the democrats when republicans are going to go vote to add $1 trillion to the federal deficit. this is one of the reasons why so many people in the georgia runoff, for example herschel walker and republicans said i'm not going to go vote you know what? what's the difference. honestly the message from mitch mcconnell there is no difference. we will spend money, borrow, inflation, no worries, we are going to say we don't care about your values and we certainly don't care about our voters. >> judge jeanine: certainly mitch mcconnell could have done a lot more. tomi, let me ask you this, we, we have already given ukraine 65 billion. giving another 45 billion. it's going to pass the house and the president is going to sign it. 2 billion for the patriot system and then they got 87,000 new irs agents to nickel and dime americans to death we're letting millions in the southern border that we don't have the money to

take care of. what is going on in this country. >> look at the spending bill now and think it's bad wait until we have 20 million plus illegals. i don't know how they are going to sell it to the american people. americans struggling to put food on the table. certainly to get gifts for their children. to pay these gas price, struggling with inflation, worker shortage and supply chain crisis. now got these people so cozy sitting in washington, d.c. selling us down the river. you know, the media touts this as some quoind of a win for both sides as a bipartisan victory. it's not. quite frankly, it's more embarrassing as charlie said for us republicans. every time we vote these people into office thinking they are not going to betray us and thinking they are not going to sell us down the river and every single time they do it. time for every single one of the republicans that voted for this and some on that list that quite frankly surprised me. they should be primaried and challenged. this cannot continue. we expect this from democrats. we expect federal buildings named after nancy pelosi and

michelle obama trails from the left. we don't expect this from republicans and it's about time we send that message loud and clear. >> judge jeanine: do you know what, charlie, when you talk about mitch mcconnell, you know, he has been there for many, many years. and the truth is that when it comes to really fighting, you have got to give him credit for the judges. got those supreme court justices, federal judges he didn't have to roll over so quickly to get this done. with what is happening in ukraine, shouldn't there be oversight over this money? do we really know where that money is going in ukraine? >> no, how about an audit of those funds? i mean, senator josh hawley told me on my podcast that we are now doing direct wire transfers to the ukrainian treasury. that's a big revelation. maybe we should start to look into that. not to mention the question of does our own territorial integrity and sovereignty as a nation matter more than that of a foreign country? couple things about omnibus bill. none of this money could be used

for our own border security. says that in the bill. not to mention it goes to help border security tore tunisia, pakistan oman and lebanon. why are those four country's borders more important than our own. these this is an example why people are losing complete faith in the system. deeply unhealthy thing, unsustainable and 17 republican senators are now going back home for christmas acting like they got something done meaningful, when in reality, they just told their voters we don't care what you think, we are going to add a trillion dollars to the deficit. >> judge jeanine: you know, tomi, in the end, the truth is that the republicans, i think have always danced with the democrats. and it's one hand washes the other in washington. why they were so outraged over trump. he wasn't part of the team. yeah, no, absolutely. this is why republicans rendered irrelevant and useless that's why they hate somebody like a donald trump or ron desantis who is going to come in again and

shake up the system. make them a little bit uncomfortable. time for the american people to make them uncomfortable. not just donald trump or whoever we put up in 2024. time for the american people to make these republicans very uncomfortable because they love to spend money but what do they love more? they love their political power, they love their control. it's time to unseat them and show them it's we the people who control the purse strings at the end of the day and we are tired of seeing our hard earned tax dollars go to things like bee highways and salmon fisheries enough. >> judge jeanine: if only we could make that happy. thank you charlie and tomi. biggest crypto scammer in american history just had to post the biggest bail in american history. find out how big, next. ♪ ♪

>> judge jeanine: disgraced democrat mega donor sam bankman-fried appeared in a manhattan federal courthouse today. it was his first time in court since his extradition from the bahamas where he operated the biggest crypto collapse in american history. the bail for his release was set

at a record $250 million. just compare that to bernie madoff's bail which was only $10 million after his $50 billion ponzi scheme blew up. bankman-fried just two weeks ago said he was poor. he only had $100,000 in his bank account but somehow he was able to buy his way to short-term freedom where he will be staying with his parents until his next court date. but he shouldn't get too comfortable. of the crypto scam artist is facing eight criminal charges that can put him away for over 150 years. and former executives from ftx are already flipping on him like his exgirlfriend caroline ellison just last night pled guilty to the charges that could put her away for up to 110 years. she is cooperating with the feds to help them incriminate sam bankman-fried. so, is luck running out for the democrats' second largest donor?

let's bring in "new york post" business reporter lydia moynahan for more. all right, lydia, what can you tell us new about this? >> sam bankman-fried is still living a pretty good life. he actually flew private from the bahamas to west chester and then today he was let out on $250 million bail. as you mentioned, just a few weeks ago he said he only had $100,000 to his name. so, how did he possibly come up with all of that collateral? either he was lying when he said he only had $100,000. maybe he transferred funds that we don't know about to another trust. his parents cosigned that, their palo alto home as collateral. then there was a third person who signed as well. >> judge jeanine: i saw that. >> non-disclosed nonfamily member which raises a lot of red flags. who is this person? were they previously paid off by sam bankman-fried. we don't have any visibility. >> judge jeanine: there is 25 million they have to post on $250 million bond they usually put down 10%.

>> but they have to have that collateral. >> judge jeanine: yes, the 25. >> where does that come from? it seems clear that all the money he had at some point was sort of funneled illegally from customer deposits. >> judge jeanine: what about the fact that his ex-girlfriend is turning on him? >> i think it makes a lot of sense. and this is why they were able to move so quickly, actually arresting him. typically these white collar crimes can take months, if not years, to bring somebody to justice. and so, clearly, the feds had people who they were working with. caroline ellison, as you mentioned, she had a lot of visibility into what was happening at al made that. ftx was basically the bank where people would deposit their savings in some cases. teachers pensions, retirements and what was happening was funds from ftx funneled to alameda hedge fund like instrument. caroline ellison ran alameda. talk about a bad break off.

imagine your ex turning on you. very clear she was threatened with more than 100 years in jail. wanted to reduce that sentence and so she is cooperating with the feds. you know, another thing i want to touch on this bail is pretty lenient. he is going to take the g -- the gulf stream back to palo alto to be with his family for christmas. they have a pool. he is allowed to go out, exercise, go to mental health appointments and i think there's a lot of anger because it's unlikely he will ever be able to provide restitution to people who have lost so much money and, yet, the taxpayers are still basically footing the bill for him to fly around. >> judge jeanine: the interesting thing about this with ponzi and madoff he took investor's money and gave it to other investors. in this scheme what sam bankman-fried did was he took the money. he gave it to alameda his girlfriend and used that money to buy homes and lavish lifestyle. >> fabulous real estate in the bahamas. >> got to be things that they

can claw back. but, well, thank you very much for being with us, lid i can't. we look forward to seeing what happens with all of. this thanks for having me. >> coming up, how on earth did this happen? >> how are we going to get you out? how did you get in there? ♪ it extends and retracts for a perfect fit in any vehicle. plus, a quick release tab for easy one handed in and out. and for kids, use it in the back seat too. comes with short, medium and telescopic arms, to fit any vehicle. order the american made windshieldfone at weathertech.com. even makes a nice holiday gift.

>> millions of holiday travelers are hitting the roads and airports as the country is under extreme weather alerts, facing blizzard conditions, life threatening cold temperatures, and a so-called bomb cyclone. let's turn now to fox weather meteorologist kelly costa with the latest. >> hey, i really wish i had better news, but unfortunately there's no nice way of putting this. we have blizzard warnings, wind

winter weather advisories, continuing into the holiday weekend, right? this is the live radar. what's going on right now. can you spot the front? >> pretty easy to sue, southern indiana, moving through kentucky and tennessee right now. up ahead of this, we've got rain across ohio, kentucky, tennessee. behind it, the arctic air and the snow. here's the problem with that, iowa, kentucky, tennessee, you start with the rain. flash freeze. then a layer of ice. snow on top of it. making it harder for the ice to see, creating treacherous conditions tonight. for the northeast, it's a similar deal, especially with new york city. we had rain all day long. if you live here, you know that. you are going to get a bid of this rain heading into friday as well in the big apple. of course we're also going to be going through the flash freeze. that could lead to black ice friday night heading into crimes eve. black ice is extremely thin ice that makes it difficult to spot. that could lead to treacherous conditions on the roads. the great lakes are going to be

churning, friday, saturday, sunday, we're talking feets of snow. back to you. >> thank you. joe concha is a columnist at hill and fox news contributor. first up, an alabama mom losing her kids on tuesday at miami international airport. how she reacted landed her behind bars. >> all right, joe, i can see being upset if you lost your kids, but what happened there? >> well, forget tv and writing, judge, i should have been an

anger management expert, because she missed a connecting flight, went to the bathroom, started screaming at folks. if you're an anger management expert, this is an increasingly entitled, impatient, not sane society we live in these days. by the way, who throws a monitor, right? >> unbelievable. >> seems like the mile high club has been replaced by the defile and cry club. these folks here, they deserve respect and civility. the service industry, healthcare industry, is that too much to ask, judge? >> not at all. next up, don't going try to steal any teddy bears from a claw machine, because when one 4-year-old in australia did look at what happened. >> how am i going to get you out? how you fit in there? >> how did she get out of there? >> well, i love the name here first. it's poppy pike. like peppa pig, but different,

right? this nearly happened with my daughter a couple weeks ago. she won a bear, worked the claw like edward scissors hands. i got her legs and got her out before she went viral, judge. father of the year. that happens a lot apparently. >> apparently it does. it's the rise of the machines. a cafe in dubai is going to start using robo cashiers that look human, she can talk, serve drinks, and cash out customers. what do you think? whoa, look at her. what do you think? >> i'm in shock actually. that thing is creepy. this is the argument against raising the minimum wage too fast and too high, judge, because businesses will simply adjust and turn to technology, right? toll collectors replaced, fast-food order-takers replaced by kiosks. that thing is creepy, no question about it, judge.

creepy. >> joe, always great talking to you. take care and merry christmas. that's all for us tonight. thank you so much for watching. catch me every day on "the fi five." "tucker carlson tonight" is up next. >> tucker: good evening. welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." you can't call it news anymore. it's lucy in the sky with diamonds scenario on display every single day. yesterday, last night, the president of ukraine showed up in the congress wearing a green sweatshirt and cargo pants for maximum disrespect, and demanded the united states continue to spend more on his country's border security than we spend on our own. that actually happened.