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brave ♪ ♪. rachel: today the most festive and wonderful joyous day of the year. merry christmas, everybody. i hope everyone is looking forward to a great day with family and friends. we're also remembering the reason for the season which is the birth of jesus christ. i'm lucky enough celebrating christmas on the couch with todd piro and griff jenkins. >> merry christmas to you, don't forget the little one inside of you.

we'll share the holiday season with boy shimkus. this is thrill for me. i work with you every day. i can't wait to meet little one and meet griff. >> merry christmas, did santa come to the house. the cookies were eaten. santa was here. rachel: that's great. you hit all the places. >> he delivered at the end of of the day. carley: this is busy. >> infant is fed from a bottle. >> you were calling santa fat yesterday. there is a lot of talk, whether leave you off of his stop.

todd: that was me. he didn't my kids hostage. carley: zoom in on the milk and cookies on the virtual heart. will: great for you to point that out. get pictures from your christmas. carley: can't wait to see them all morning long. we'll start with a fox weather alert. historic winter weather slamming the northeast, dumping up to 28 inches of snow in buffalo, leaving three dead as the death toll climbed to at least 22 people across the country. the "bomb cyclone" bringing frigid temperatures, causing chaos throughout the week. todd: the image from buffalo

unreal. mist from the ocean, not the ocean, lake. several states under an emergency. a million americans are facing winter weather advisories and warnings. 10 of thousands will wake up this christmas morning without power. another storm system, an alberta clipper battering states from the north. griff: travelers have 4100 flights delayed and 2600 cancellations. get right to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth from the fox forecast board. merry christmas. rick: i set up the maps to give you the positive news. all that lead-in was a lot of bad stuff. a lot of bad stuff happening. one bright side, if you're a little kid where you want a white christmas. this is where the white christmas is, white christmas across farthers arizona, mississippi, boston not a white

christmas, hard to believe. you don't have it. parts of mississippi. temperatures increased 24 hours. we are nine degrees warmer than 24 hours ago in new york, 12 degrees cleveland. it is really cold out there. it's a warm up from extremely cold temperatures. look at florida, 44 in naples, waking up this morning. freezing in tampa, 30 in orlando. we see this climbing back into slightly better temperatures. 17 in far go. go across the west, things look comfortable. big changes in the west. we'll talk about that, historic amounts rain coming across parts of the west. windchill very cold. the system brought us all the weather and cold air is moving up across parts of eastern canada. you mentioned the wind. we have the wind across the great lakes. buffalo, the city, the snow is

not there, but the snow band has moved across of it. begins to wind down a little bit by this afternoon. you mentioned the clipper. this clipper coming from alberta, canada, across parts of northern plains. won't be a major snow-maker. that two to three inches of snow. clean, white snow. todd: what is clipper? rick: alberta, canada, clips northern part of the country. comes out of alberta, canada, clips the northern tier of the country. cuts across the northeast. sometimes. this one won't do it. >> thank you, rick. obviously it is christmas morning, everybody waking up, getting ready to open presents. we thought it would be to remember the reason we celebrate. that is of course the birth of jesus. one of the most awe-inspiring

beautiful scenes as told in the bible, the book of luke, the angel of the lord appeared to the shepherds to tell them about the birth of jesus. do not be afraid. i bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people today in the town of david, a savior has been born to you. he is the messiah, the lord. this will be a sign to you. you will find a baby wrapped in clothes and lying in a manger where they had seen him. they spread the word concerning what had been told to them about this child and all who heard it amazed at what the shepherds said to them but mary treshed shun all these things and pondered them in her heart. the shepherds returned glorifying praising god for all the things they heard and seen which were just as they had been told. that little baby born in the most humble of circumstances end up dying to save the lives of all of us.

todd: right now you're looking live at vatican city. the pope is delivering his christmas message. i know growing up i always used to stay up late and obviously try to wait out santa, i used to turn on the night mass there in vatican city and at least it was day time there. used to watch it on one of the local channels here in new york. i used to be amazed how the entire world celebrates this amazing holiday. griff: pope francis delivered the midnight mass a little earlier from st. peter's basilica in vatican city. that is the christmas message. he talked about the humility of jesus born in the city. this is ther erbeorbe. brings catholic influence on war

in ukraines. he is a busy guy today. i got a chance, since every christmas when they asked me to come up, i'm so privileged i go as a catholic over to st. patrick's cathedral. got mass questioned. cardinal dolan, timothy dolan was not delivering that mass but we actually have a little bit of his christmas message which we want to share with you now. >> christmas blessings, everybody, cardinal timothy dolan here in new york city. i wish i could greetly personally at our beloved st. patrick's cathedral. i will settle for this. it is beginning to look a lot like christmas this morning. do we ever need it this year, right? we tend to wallow in the darkness to think of all the woes we got, family, city, nation, country, planet, even within but the people that walked in darkness have seen a great light. that is the message of

christmas. jesus the light of the world. let's put all those woes aside and admit we need help. we need a savior and things will be better in 2023. a blessed one. carley: i love him so much. i love that message. one of the reasons why i love christmas so much is because no matter had you are or what political affiliation you subscribe to or even religion, everybody feels a little bit extra warm today. there is a little extra -- a reason why you smile at people, you stop to say merry christmas. it really real unites the country we only get one day in a year. todd: one reason we feel nice and warm, carley has a heater underneath the desk. carley: it is not on. it is not on. todd: still suffering from third-degree burnses today. it is a hope, message of hope that cardinal dolan was expressing there. i feel like to a certain extent

every year at this time we say, hey, next year is going to be better. obviously, we can never really predict ultimately what i will happen, but the hope we hold in our hearts that allows us to go into that next year sort of guns blazing, ready to conquer it, ready to take it on, obviously your business per suits, life pursuits, love and kindness and compassion. todd: the message from dolan is so important. when you step back, full context of it, so many things happening in the world, from our own country and abroad, i mentioned the war in ukraine, here is this humble child born in bethlehem born in a stable, 2023 years later he is still the center of our lives. people still gather on christmas. the message is the same of salvation of hope. that is why it is so important. carley: that is exactly right. that is one of the reasons why

former president trump, one of the things that he said received a little bit of making fun of criticism but really resonated with so many people and it was when he was saying he wanted to bring back christ in christmas, be proud of that. the country was founded on judeo-christian values. if you're jewish, happy hanukkah. tomorrow is the i believe last day of hanukkah. hello to our jewish viewers. if you're christian, say merry christmas. we don't have to tiptoe around the holidays. this is part of being in this country. todd: not to get too political, this is all part of i don't want to say diminution of religion, we will get to that with pastor robert jeffress, especially this time of year, when religion brings so much joy to so many people. say merry christmas, say happy hanukkah. i'm not jewish but i watch

fellow americans celebrate the holiday. i love the food associated with hanukkah. carley: when i was a kid, something my mom did, i definitely want to pass this on to my son is we, she made a cake and christmas was a birthday celebration. so we sang happy birthday to jesus. yes, that is what it is, the birthday of jesus. one the reasons christmas is so fun because of all the family traditions. you only need to do a tradition twice to make it a tradition. todd: more traditions in our own families. coming up later we will let you know. you talk about the birthday of jesus, celebrating. in 2023 i could encourage all the viewers to spend some time, if you don't know fully the story of the life in jesus, how important it is, i was mentioning 2,000 years later, think of kegs, the armies, presidents, come and gone, the strife of the world this humble

man the center of our lives. pete hegseth normally he on fox weekend did an amazing job, went over to the holy land to walk in the steps of squeeze sus to give us a better view. we have the promo of the "the life of jesus" by pete, coming up on watch. i'm just promoting it. important thing. go to "fox nation" "fox nation" dot-com educate you. something worth doing. carley: absolutely. todd: watching it was amazing pete did a great job. carley: the christmas specials with well done. todd: griff always trying to earn points with my mom. my mom loves griff and carley. coming up, texas bringing the border crisis to the vice president's doorstep again with the more migrants dropped off in d.c. the border patrol chief on

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♪. griff: christmas delivery, more buses full of migrants dropped off at vice president harris's doorstep on christmas eve. a story we've been covering since september. >> everybody is open. it is open. because we enter. we come in free. griff: it is open for you to come illegally, yes. >> yes, illegally, question. we see it on the news that everybody coming illegally. so we are to do the same you know. griff: meanwhile as texas border cities look like war zones this christmas with thousands of migrants sleeping on the streets, dhs release as statement discouraging them from entering saying this, quote, as

temperatures remain dangerously low along the border no one should put their liveses in the hand of smugglers to risk life and limb to cross only to be returned. retired acting i.c.e. director ron have ron vitiello is here to react. merry christmas. thanks for coming in today. >> merry christmas to you, griff. thank you. griff: we see more migrants dropped off at vice president harris's house in september. we played that clip. that tells you why they are coming. they are coming because the administration is sending the message even though they say they're not, that the border is open. with that gentleman from venezuela he has seen those came before him successfully get through. so my question to you as we look to the new year, what is the administration doing to really try to enforce the border security and what, where is vice president harris in all of this? she is the border czar?

>> what we're seeing in real time their failure to do their job, right? dhs was created to protect us from threats, some of which come across our southwest border, our northern border come into your bothers of entry illegally. they have done absolutely nothing. texas sending busloads to the knave observatory for that attempt by that governor, other governors have done sim lag similar things to address the problem. the statement from dhs was very hollow. they didn't say they haven't already said before. there are seven statements in the last 10 days on dhs website. not one that says we'll enforce the better. not one says we'll give the border patrol agents front line of dhs the tools they need, tools that work to cure and solve the problem on the border. vice president has been out of touch on this issue most of her career. it was indicated by the president early on at this, she

had responsibility to help fix this problem. it was described by the president her fixing the root cause or working on the root cause. where are the trips to the northern triangle? where are the trips to venezuela? we did a deal, we gave exxon a permit to explore out of venezuela. what did they get in return for that? they are sending thousands and thousands of people to the southwest border every day? can we get a repatriation agreement to them? canned we send venezuelans back now? griff: we didn't get repatriation to go into the safe third country percent indicated in, came to a country safe, not yet to the u.s. you would stay there. it es unbelievable. i will tell you. it is christmas. i will not be too hard on the administration. let me get to another story our viewers may not have seen. "new york post" putting this out there about this elite under cover unit of the texas dps disguising themselves as migrant

to apprehend smugglers, drug traffickers to get right at it in the "new york post." saying we could not tell the difference who were the migrants and who were the agents. only after they opened their coats that they, i saw their badges. none of them spoke but yet here is texas dps, abbott stood up operation lonestar at beginning of this crisis, 2021. he is trying to go after the root, the smugglers. >> yeah. i'm grateful for the state of texas, governor abbott showing leadership on this. just imagine, griff, you've been down there a number of times. imagine if the department of public safety was not helping the border patrol at these moments, with national guard, building a barrier, standing side by side with our agents. the border is a dangerous place. i pray they are safe and do jobs they are assigned to do, infiltrate the cartels to find out who the smugglers are. that they're very successful.

holt card tells hold cartels who account. save people victimized by trump traffickers. we wish them success. we hope they do it safely, especially during this time of the year. griff: indeed, we certainly appreciate, want to thank the men and women of the border patrol, texas dps working away from their families because somebody has to try to do the job. ron vitiello, merry christmas. thank you for getting up. >> merry christmas, griff to you. griff: some churches are canceling christmas day church services to spend time with their families. pastor robert jeffries says christmas is about jesus and no better place for families to be is at christmas. his message next. ♪.

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♪. carley: merry christmas from the "fox & friends" family. i'm so excited we're showing producers. this is line producer anthony. i love anthony. this is beautiful family. at caitlyn's wedding. she looks so beautiful. she just got married congratulations. associate producer ali, her parents brother noah. and marnie, dog, tyler, you raised a beautiful son. i love all of them. todd, are they hard workers? they are the best. todd: these folks work, 12, 14,

16 hours a day we don't get enough credit. carley: they got the taco bell. they got the reindeer. the 12 days of carley. todd: everybody is talking about it. the whole nation can't get enough. thanks to all of you who make the show. make all of our shows possible here at the network. we wish you and your family as merry christmas. speaking of christmas, carley shimkus, during pandemic, church attendance dropped 45%. christmas falls on a sunday first time since 2016 many churches are not holding religious services. to share the importance of church attendance is pastor robert jeffress. merry christmas. i'm glad to have you here. i'm confuse the by the line. church falls on sunday. christmas falls on a sunday but we're canceling church. what am i missing? >> todd, i tied to be charitable, since it is

christmas day. for a church to be closed on christmas sunday like a fireworks stand closed on 4th of july. it doesn't make any sense of the all days to be open, we ought to be open, proclaiming the birth of the greatest person in human history. just think about it, 2,000 years after christs birth we still measure human history by his coming, whether it is bc, ad, or bce, ce, jesus christ is the central figure in human history. i know people say christmas is about family. no, it is really about jesus christ but the best thing you can do with your family is to be together at least for an hour today, celebrating the birth of the king of kings and the lord of lords. todd: i think you said it right. it is an hour. unless you live miles and miles away from the church, what are we talking hour 1/2 total, christmas mass at least in the catholic faith is a short one. this isn't easter.

saturday before easter, the vigil. this is a short one, if we're talking time you should be ail to do that. i hook at this pastor, is that part of the overall war on religion? especially when the church itself is canceling what do you think about that? >> well, you know, i think, you're right. i mean this is something we're doing to ourselves, but cited an interesting statistic, todd, about church attendance being down since the pandemic and it is. i saw two stories on drudge this week. the first was about church attendance at a historic low. the second was about emotional disorders being at historic highs, whether it is depression, loneliness, anxiety. i think there is a connection between the two. god created the church for our benefit, not his. he knows there needs to be a time once a week to getting together to remind us there is a

god who loves is us, controlling our lives. remember that god doesn't hate us. he loved us. he demonstrated his love for us by sending his own son to die for us. christmas is a time to be reminded of the love and power of god. todd: i think to your point this is especially the time of year we need to bring religion back into the lives of those who lost it for some reason. it is never fully gone. you can always gain it back to your life. god always has open arms for you. like pastor robert jeffress, always with open arms for our audience. merry christmas, pastor, with enjoy with your friends and family. >> merry christmas. todd: twitter files part nine, the latest dump detailing government asking about foreign interference and their struggle to verify it. matt whitaker joins us. we had a little beef yesterday,

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continuing to unleash fury yesterday dumping up to 28 inches of snow in the northeast. 28 people are dead from the impact of the storm. tens of thousands are without power this morning as frigid weather continues to grip much of the united states. turn to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with the fox weather forecast. rick it was ugly. rick: really ugly. it is getting better. we're on the slow slide out of this. buffalo had 30 inches of snow in 24 hours at the buffalo airport. cold air across the south. hard freeze warnings throughout tomorrow morning. another cold night of cold air across parts of the south. we see things improving a little bit. we have almost 100,000 people in maine without power. this is a full 24 hours without power. in cold temperatures there are still power outages. that will make unfortunately for a pretty dangerous day. this is the forecast overall things look normal.

a clipper across parts of the northern plains. temps still cold. two degrees in fargo. that is a big improvement. two to three inches of snow aaccumulate across the northern plains. the south you will be very dry. look at this airport potential delays. a few delays across the northern tier. tomorrow we see delays across the pacific northwest. by the way we had a big ice storm across the pacific northwest we haven't talked about. the rest of the country looking good going home by tuesday. rest of the country is great. active pattern will be across parts of the west. we'll see significant rain and mountain snow for the coming week. carley. back to you. carley: more to come for the most of country. listen to this the ninth installment of the twitter release. how government agencies interacted with the platform. matt taibbi saying the fbi

acting as doormen to a vast program of social media and censorship and surveillance across agencies from the federal government from the pentagon to the cia. he says more aggressive government partners had closed twitter's window of independence struggling to validate their claims of foreign interference. here to react former acting u.s. attorney general matt whitaker. attorney general, good morning to you, merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you, carley. carley: this wasn't just the fbi it was cia, the pentagon, the state department had relationships with twitter and other social media platforms as well. what do you think of the nature of these relationships were? >> it clearly the relationship was to suppress free speech. i mean ultimately it was under the guise of reducing foreign influence i guess in american elections especially in 2020 but you just saw the dhs, dod, cia,

fbi and state governments and democrat national committee all had a door into twitter that they could moderate accounts that they disagreed with or felt were too effective in communicating opposing viewpoint to what they felt should be on the platform. twitter was clearly the right hand of the federal government in moderating speech. carley: there is interesting twitter back and forth that took place yesterday. it starts with california congressman ted lieu who is a democrat. elon musk, matt taibbi are gaslighting with misleading twitter file posts. here is the truth. the fbi foreign influence tack force threat indicators sharing with companies that is a good thing. he also said companies decide to do what that information. matt taibbi responded, congressman, why is a foreign influence task force sending

xcel spreadsheets full of joke tweets from low follower accounts in maryland, kentucky and ohio? why does the fitf, the foreign influence task force spend so much time reviewing domestic speech. that is the key question there. >> you're right, carley that is absolutely the key question to the whole thing. why were these accounts that were you know sharing jokes essentially and memes had very few followers, why were these coming on the fbi's radar? why was this foreign influence task force spending their time moderating speech by american people? supreme court around haw is very clear. the speech is fairly broad. you can't yell fire in a crowded theater. but other than that there is very broad ability for americans to speak their minds. in this case the fbi, seemed to want to clamp down on that. now we're seeing it wasn't just the fbi. it was all of these other agencies as well. carley: that's right. this new dumb of twitter files

the fbi was sending so many requests to twitter, twitter employees were overwhelmed by the amount of tweets that were being flagged. now we're getting a peek behind the kurtin what do you think, you think the fbi will back off when it comes to monitoring speech? >> i would guess that the fbi still feels they have an important role in foreign influence, making sure that at least social media platforms aren't used to harm the united states of america but obviously where that line is drawn have a hard time struggling with that i would imagine they will do some soul searching to make sure they are not infringing on american rights to free speech. carley: would be interesting to hear from the fbi director chris wray, himself where he stands on this. merry christmas to you and your beautiful family. >> merry christmas, carley, to you. >> griff, over to you. griff: thank you, carley, matt.

turning to your headlines. five suspects arrested of the fatal shooting in mall of america. they arrested the teenagers in a home at st. louis park. they stopped at a white castle after the shooting. gunfire broke out after a brawl between two groups, leaving a 19-year-old male dead. police say the suspects are not crop rating. president biden staying away from the telephone christmas eve, upending traditional phone calls to the white house from kids. instead first lady jill biden answered questions about santa's journey. after a year after caller's father said "let's go brandon" speaking of president biden. cowboys had a big 40-34 win against the eagles. ravens leading the way 17-9 win over the falcons.

vikings picking up another clutch win, this time beating the giants, mare that pyro, 27-24. kicker greg joseph hitting a game-winning field goal the second straight week. watch. [booing] [cheering] >> he has done it again! todd: is it over? griff: it is over. moving on patrick mahomes continues to make his case for mvp throwing for three touchdowns as the chiefs dominate the seahawks 24-10. we have christmas day nfl action by the way. packers take on dolphins at 1:00 p.m. eastern on fox. coverage at 12:30. you don't want to miss that. finally pope francis giving the traditional christmas blessing from the balcony of st. peter's basilica this hour making peace a central theme. >> translator: if we want it to

be christmas, the birth of jesus and peace, look to bethlehem and contemplate the face of the child born for us. in that small and innocent face let us see the faces of all innocent children he have where in the world who long for peace. griff: the pope lamenting the lack of peace brought on by the invasion of ukraine. those are your headlines. coming up, it is christmas day. that means presents and food. chef george duran shows us festive appetizers to cook up before christmas dinner t smells good here. ♪.

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christmas appetizers. thanks for gracing every holiday. we love your food. what do you have in store for us today? >> interesting way to entain at home. we'll make pita chips. they're simple to make. they have fantastic flat bred, pita chips. 50 years as family-owned business in new jersey. to secret to make pita chip, open it up, spray a good olive oil on top of it into a air fryer, add spices. cinnamon chips. >> sweet chip. >> sweet chip inside of it. add any herbs. make your own pita chip. you can build a kind of christmas tree so to speak. instead of using piping bags with sweet. we'll have humice we'll pipe in there. make it humice christmas tree, with a little bit of salsa too. make it your own. creativity is like unexplored.

carley: that is great. i love that. >> make christmas tree wreath. we'll use the flat breads. rick, feel the glad bread. see how soft that bread is. griff: feel the soft bread. >> make a circle, cut out a wreath. now you have the basis for pizza wreath. pesto with cheese, pop it into the oven with pepperoni. you have christmas wreath pizza. these guys are available on amazon by defiant bread. go for major meal. you like air fryers. this is brave have. more than air fry. multizone cooking. rick likes his steak. todd: 6:53 in the morning. >> burn this regular oven it will burn or char.

the brvaa tell it what everything is. comes out perfectly cooked on each zone. todd: it smells amazing. you started cooking a while ago. it filled up the entire studio. it smelled good. carley: how do you cook it? >> medium rare. that is absolute perfection way it is cooked. i literally put this on. put the meal on there. pop it into the brva. it does it all its own. kids have meals. on brava.com, $200 off for fox viewers. griff: amazing how well it is. >> steal some steak. plug in the thermometer. pop it in there. potatoes cooked to the perfection. the broccoli is not overcooked. steak is how, tell it medium rare, thick fess of my steak.

does so much more of that. makes grilled cheese sandwiches without turning it. i didn't have to sear it on the other side. i didn't have to sear it because it uses high-powered light bulb bulbs. brava @fox.com. >> it was good, todd came in for seconds. carley: chef, thanks for joining us. as always you knocked it out of the park. find all the recipes and more at foxnews.com. a note on the ugly sweaters. rick: i missed the memo. carley: thank to ugly christmas sweaters.com for sweaters griff and todd are wearing. adorned in the fox news logo. griff: they are great looking, you will get three more hours. you better not shout, better not cry, stay here for more "fox & friends" because santa is here. >> how are you?

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