all-american christmas tree still lit up on fox square with that bright red star on top the day after christmas. we are still celebrating, aren't we, ashley? >> ashley: this is beautiful. they are actual christmas ornaments. >> they are used. you are watching "fox & friends first." on this monday morning i'm carley shimkus. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier in for todd piro. we hope you had a lovely christmas with your family and friends. we were both here for some fun. >> carley: we did. yeah. i loved working this weekend. >> ashley: clearly. >> carley: we had such a fun show. that is a onesie santa claus gifted onset and i had to put on immediately. of course, that is me and todd. sitting on the couch indian style. and i think there is another

one. we met some reindeer and had reindeer on fox square as well. it was a great weekend. >> ashley: was it cold? >> carley: that was saturday. 2 degrees outside. so i wanted to put leggings on but didn't have time. the cutest thing in that picture is little miss maggie. she is the sweetest little thing. i couldn't get her jingle bell christmas necklace on. her face right there mike got the naughty cup and i got the nice cup. we actually, it was a little weird christmas for us because our power went out. i was doing the show 4:00 a.m. and oh, my gosh, i'm not going to get into the house, i don't know where my key is peer that was the least problems. the transformer blew the fire department came and put the fire out.

then, there was ice all over the road on our house, couldn't get out. and a loss of power 72 hours and the generator came on and off. >> carley: a lot going on at your house. >> ashley: there was more, there was some good news though. my brother, mitch, his wife, emily welcome to the first bay become a little baby girl sophie jane. she is the cutest thing and she's in missouri right now, 6 pounds, beautiful. >> carley: oh, my gosh, i cannot wait to meet her sophie jane was born christmas eve. i have a feeling you will be spoiling this little girl. >> ashley: i have already bought loads of things. this is for me, this is for me. >> carley: she has a christmas eve christmas eve birthday. >> ashley: i know whom i was sad about that. i wonder how people in christmas eve.

>> carley: i know! >> ashley: the focus is on them the whole time. >> carley: you only get gifts once a year. but that means she will get extra gifts. >> ashley: may be we celebrate her half birthday and give her half gives part of the year. >> carley: my family came in to new york city as well. we didn't take any pictures. we are so bad at taking pictures but my mom gave my dad and sister and her boyfriend and of course, my husband as well. we had a lot of fun. do you guys cook or go out? >> usually on christmases, because i was working in my whole family is amazing and accommodating my schedule. so they came to a restaurant jam-packed in one of the reasons it was so crowded was because they had this outdoor sort of indoor/outdoor seating enclosed in this glass case. we were going to sit there but they closed down because it was so cold. >> oh, my gosh! >> everybody inside the restaurant. >> one of those things you have

to deal with but it ended up being a lovely celebration. >> and parents, they are not normal. >> do you and your husband exchange gifts? okay, i've heard this debate with you guys on >> fox & friends: , we do. but i've opened every single one of my gifts since getting them in november. i found one, opened it, he found it, i wrapped it, he opened it. i use to unwrap my gifts particularly when i was little and wrap them back up my mom would notice. and she just found out this year 34 years. what is wrong with you? >> that is hilarious. i actually did a little bit of that, too, when i was a kid. and i found out where my mom had this -- and i would check to see which ones. you got it, you have to peek around the house.

because of course, santa brings the gifts. but the parents help too. gifts from santa, mom, and dad. i was scouring the hallway. >> did santa wrap the gifts or just out in the open? >> did santa wrap my gifts as a child? oh, yes they were not wrapped from santa so i would get up early and go see. >> interesting. maybe moms and dads were always wrapped. maybe you need to give them a little extra cookies. anyway, we are not the only ones in the christmas spirit. check out the adorable moment indiana police save christmas for a young family who had their gifts stolen from their home. >> merry christmas! >> oh, my goodness! thank you!

oh, my goodness, thank you! >> how stinking cute is that the? officers, she was so happy and the officers responding to a breaking and entering christmas eve after they learned the children's parents were stolen. who does that? they were able to replace with gifts left over from a local toy drive. in the post, the police celebrated the chester, "this is what serving the community is all about. >> it is a crime story, a cute story it's everything. but that mug shot when they catch this guy all over social media and shamed the heck out of out of him. >> absolutely! >> more to get to come of course the border crisis title 42 up in the air with the white house and acting to lift it tomorrow. those say cartel smugglers are clearly in control. tom homan is here next to react. ♪ ♪

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title 42 tomorrow. alexandria hoff has the latest, alexandria, good morning. >> the migrants forced off of the streets and freezing temperatures because processing centers are simply filled up. the members of the texas guard army national guard, air guard spent their christmas to stop the flow by reinforcing the barriers in el paso. the record-breaking flow, title 42 up slowly and yet last week they requested the supreme court hold off on lifting the policy that allows for expulsion to migrants until at least tomorrow. they want it gone but the department of homeland security using it as a tool sending out this morning, "anyone attempting to enter without authorization with expulsion of title 42. those who cannot be expelled to title 42 may be an expedited removal. no one should risk life and cross only to be returned. news of title 42 being lifted soon shortly has spread south of

the border. unable to provide safe accommodations, texas governor greg abbott to send buses of migrants to emigrant control and self-proclaimed sanctuary cities. another arrived christmas eve outside of d.c. residents with vice president kamala harris with orders without paying a visit. the bus was bound for new york but diverted due to weather. the congresswoman. >> the democrats trying to destroy title 42 and at least amendment to keep it in place was rejected a point of big contention and the omnibus spending bill that was passed because the democrats left-hand wink doesn't want to do anything about the border. they want to continue. speak with biden administration working on a plan when they do away with title 42. but that plan remains unclear, ashley and carley. >> it is a mystery to all of us,

ashley, thank you so much. >> another terrifying example of the border out of control. suspected smugglers still on the loose in texas after high-speed car chase and firing gun shots at texas officers. texas warning on christmas eve, the suspect is at large and all occupants considered armed and dangerous. >> fox news contributor it and retired i.c.e. director tom homan joins us now. the only reason we know about this group or person smugglers is because the story came out. this is happening all the time. what was your reaction when you heard this? >> i wasn't surprised. any smugglers are getting more violent. why? they are making records amounts of money. connected with the cartel. they were making record amount of money. record amount of money in

trafficking women and children. these cartels are making so much money, they are fighting each other in mexico. so stop that business. so they were making record profits. >> henry cuellar says when title 42 is repealed, the biden administration is going to ask mexico to direct all of the traffic from arizona, new mexico, west texas down to the rio grande valley sector. i believe the thinking is the sector can handle the most foot traffic. why would that be the request for the biden administration? >> you know, this is shocking. what they should be doing, secure the border. this administration hasn't done one thing to solve the problem. in people know it is important to overwhelm the border come up which results in more fentanyl, more trafficking with children

but under the biden administration, this administration has released more people into the united states then returning to title 42. under president trump 98% of everybody will be set back title 42. but they carved out children and carved out a whole bunch of title 42. again, it is important but if you really want to take action and if you really want to help the border patrol, re-implement remain mexico. they could do that today in the federal courts have said it is illegal. if they really want to secure the border like the administration says, remain in mexico. >> tom, the liberals are pretty mad at governor greg abbott for busing in and dropping off migrants from the border to washington, d.c., on christmas eve. the white house said, "governor abbott abandoned

children on the side of the road without coordinating with federal or local authorities. this is cool, dangerous stunt. he's been doing this for months now. i don't think that is a secret. but when you talk about the temperatures in particular, el paso 21 degrees on saturday, washington, d.c., below 9. i think i saw dallas was 1 degree or something close to that. so are they using these migrants, illegal immigrants as political pawns they have accused the republicans of doing? >> absolutely. and you've got people like from texas, and called governor abbott a pos. in the southern border, the trump administration, he was raising hell about it. but now we have nearly 1700 dead

migrants on the southern border. most of them the state of texas. what has he done about that? what is he done with the fentanyl overdoses? what has he done about them women and children six trafficking across the border in texas? what has he done about unknown suspected terrorist across the border? under our administration for two terms but now 1700. so congressman, what have you done? what governor abbott has done is more than anybody in the administration has done here they ought to be dealing with him and baking him a cake. every ounce of fentanyl in the state of texas seized saves lives. every group of alienist arrested, he may be known suspected terrorists that they take them into custody. governor abbott is doing the right thing in the state of texas and the right thing for this governor. and he ought to try that. >> president biden --

>> president biden will be meeting with the president on january 9th. we will see if anything comes out of that meeting. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate you. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. 2022 with a series of praising kamala harris and the vice president really have the most excellent year? we will take a close look at the track record and the tax season on the horizon many americans have questions about the big changes coming from president biden. in his 87,000 new irs agents. remember that? cpa dan does and he is here with his tax tips coming up.

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brutal cold. 13 of those people killed in buffalo, new york, alone following historic blizzard. meteorologist with the fox weather forecast, hey, they are met, adam. >> still really, really cold out there this morning but i'm talking about how this will break down a little bit over the next couple of days but we have one more morning where it is absolutely frigid outside. look at the temperatures across texas 29 degrees houston, at or below freezing across the entire state. 24 degrees, cold in nashville, cold they are lingering but cold as all of these temperatures are committed is actually for most folks quite a bit warmer than 24 hours ago. this is that temperature change in kansas city. it was 26 degrees colder yesterday morning then this morning. warm air beginning to break down the system. we will see things change the next couple of days and the only back to normal but above normal.

by the time we get to thursday, friday, saturday the second half of this week and suddenly most of the country is dealing with temperatures back above average. it gets warm once again and a relief from the cold. these are the temperatures the next couple of days. suddenly, temperatures climbing by the time you get to thursday, friday and back into the 50s, way above average mid-50s up to 50 degrees and warm air heading this direction. the same thing across the south. we suddenly will look at temperatures above average. so, it is still really, really cold but we talk about not just back to where we should be put back on the warm side of things. close to the new year, my old for most. >> quick cool down and out quick warm-up. washington state getting vandalized last night after three other's damage christmas morning. the situation put as many as

14,000 people without power on christmas day. deputies say they found a broken fence that destroyed equipment at one of the sites and another substation actually caught fire. 16,000 people are without power in the state. the suspects are still on the loose. >> 2023 is almost here and that means now is the time to button up your financial loose ends to make sure you are not paying more taxes then you have to. joining me with money-saving tips cpa market analyst dan. thank you for getting up with us this morning, dan, how are you doing? >> you got to do what you got to do? >> you do. we will talk about getting ready for your taxes. taxes are not due until april but there are deadlines in december. tell us about those. >> when we are looking at the end of the year, right now but it's not too late. tax plan first and foremost is about putting all income,

deferring income, why? we want to lower the taxable income. there were some things you can do. first of all, maximize your contribution to your retirement plan and specifically iras. you can put in $6,000 or if 50 and above, $7,000. also get a 401(k) and take advantage of that, especially because many employers will match your contribution. recall that to cofor her. so you want to take advantage of that. next, a lot of people in the economy getting 1099s. that means you are self-employed. so there are deductions you can take advantage of that you normally wouldn't. make sure you keep all the support for those type of expenses occurring, next, stock market a little tough this year. if you have investment losses,

you can take advantage of. why? they offset your investment gains. again, lower that taxable income. another one, pity tax. your children can earn up to $2300 of unearned income and not be taxed. at the parent's rate. you want to make sure to manage that. also, don't forget their required minimum distribution, got to do that. if you don't, there is a 50% tax on what you should have taken out. so big penalty there in the last thing i want to say, higher tax professionals to help you out. that is not a cost but an investment for what they can see. >> we are around the holidays. i need your energy this morning, dan. give me energy for the rest of the show. it is the holidays. people are giving to charities. the taxable income donating to

charities. do you have to have itemized and tell us about that? >> you definitely want to have all supporting documentation what you give to charity, however keep in mind, the last two years you were allowed to donate up to $300 in charitable contributions and you didn't have to itemize here that has changed now. in order to take advantage of those charitable contributions, you must be itemizing your deductions. but listen, it is always good to give to charity. deductible or not. >> all right, dan geltrude, thank you for getting up with us and having so much energy talking about taxes. i love it. >> thank you. >> have a good day. kirk cameron shows us what happens when you keep the faith after dozens of libraries refused to hold for his

children's book and he's getting ready to bring his message to two cities. we will tell you when and where. >> a whole movement sparked with parents, grandparents, librarians and pastors to host their own story our and their public libraries. the movement is afoot and it is important to remember that the land of the free depends on the homes of the brave. >> plus twitter, disney and the nba making the worst woke list but we will tell you who's joining them coming up next. ♪ ♪

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(uplifting music) ♪ ♪ >> as 2022 comes to a close, a brand-new list rebilling the woke list companies of the year both twitter and the nba making the cut with blackrock earning the title for the second year in a row. the author joins us now, ashley, good morning to you. what do you make of these award winners, if you will? >> i think it is a dubious distinction at best. it is great to see someone is keeping track of this stuff. what we see is these giant companies whose real duty should be to the customers and shareholders are now pandering to a tiny group of progressive activists and the media backing them up and amplifying their message. what we see is the effect for

both shareholders and customers. disney is a great example of that and so was the nba. >> how much of the progressive activists play a role in this as well? >> that is the whole game here. what they do is create a lot of noise and do something damaging and distracting like the painting or whatever it may be peer at the media takes that and amplifies it and embarrasses the company so the companies live in fear of a tiny group of activists doing these types of stones and there is no pushback from the other side. all the risk is on one side, on the side of defending a group who really care about the step. and invest in the whole ideology and whole identity in these real kind of extreme leftist ideas and willing to go to jail for

it. so the companies rollover and go with the flow because it is cheaper for them at the end of the day than having a huge media campaign against them and how evil they are. >> that is a good point, ashley. it seems like the lobbyist situations, particularly disney, the ceos at the top, reactionary one way but then they caved to the 2022 and 23-year-old employees. the parental rights in education law in florida. >> that is right. these activist can make a lot of noise and they can do it fast. they can organize quickly. the other side of it within the company is, we have this huge, sprawling hr structure, human resources retiring people with like-minded ideas pulling from the activist group because they are supporting esg, environmental social governance policies designed to push the companies to the left.

both within and without, you have a tremendous amount of pressure. at the end of the day, the ceo however bold or brave, only one person and they can't resist that much pressure peer at the risk of having a full-blown media campaign waged against them for a minor infraction that a group of like you said, 22-year-olds have decided is the worst thing to ever happen in history. you know what, let's take -- let's get along and that is what has happened. but what has happened with companies, they continue to optimize, optimize, optimize to the point they adopt these ideas as if they really care about them. of course, they don't but it feels as if they do. >> just the ones picked up in the media. we have to get to this, the media gushing over the new year

and one "washington post" op-ed said excellent year and harris performed the first black female and vice president also to contend with negative reactions and low expectations that come with notions of who should be in the position. are we talking about the same vp that couldn't keep her staff? it was like a rotating door for a while. >> they are talking about her and talking about her with dnc talking points in her hand. kind of like a readout for the press release, which you know, i guess it's okay. but i think what bothers us is the hypocrisy. you see the other firsts like melania trump the first immigrant, the first lady and nikki haley, one of the first indian americans or american indian descent with u.n. ambassador. emily don't have the whole fanfare but we have silence. it is not about the first. it's not about the job they are

doing how good or bad. it is just about the politics. it is just about the democratic politics. if they can score points because vp kamala harris is this or that an african american or whatever it might be commit is great for that moment. but they don't care about the issue. what they really care about are the core issues, abortion rights, et cetera and if kamala harris would come out tomorrow, have some hesitations with gun rights or whatever it might be that is not part of the media ideology, she would be tolerated tomorrow. >> you can only break the glass ceiling if you have dean next to your name. actually, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> actor and author declaring victory after two previously though libraries refuse to hold story hour. his faith-based children's books "as you grow" denied over 50

libraries across the countries including ones that will drag queen story hour that kirk cameron said his dedication to spreading the message in a change of course. >> i'm thrilled to finally be partnering with some of these libraries who have agreed to reverse course. they have changed their mind, and they will give me space to read these beautiful principles to children within the community. >> many residents say they won't support cameron's event calling it "divisive" and he supports an ugly agenda but cameron said everyone is welcome. he will be reading in indianapolis thursday before heading friday for plans on the way. the idaho student mergers with the disappearance and the alex myrdal day in court. some of the cases captivating the nation this year. the doctor michael baden with a crime in the u.s. history, he

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grandmother. the mother slamming democrat led city's leadership in a statement, "it is past time for inner city and all over to do their jobs. it matters who the governor is, the president and the mayor. and including the opportunity to live in peace." the police to identify montreal as the victim but they released the photo of the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting. this comes as new orleans mayor latoya cantrell faces efforts over crime. "the wall street journal" analysis at the highest homicide rate of any major u.s. city for the first half of this year. >> violence happening across the united states in 2022, high profile crime and murder cases made headlines and took the bull by storm. a forensic pathologist in fox news contributor and joins me to write down the talked about cases, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> it is an unfortunate topic

but on a lot of people's minds. we want to talk about the unsolved mystery of the four university of idaho students. we do have new video from the police department that shows officers responding to a noise complaint. the house where the students were murdered and spoke to madison mogen in september. take a listen to this. >> madison, here is the deal, okay they have a ready said none of the occupants that live at this address are here right now. at this point, the music needs to be turned down we don't want to come back again tonight. >> i'm frustrated. >> does that have anything to do with the case whatsoever? what are your thoughts on this? >> it is now six weeks since the deaths occurred. and less and less information given out by the police.

and raised in the social media, tracking the matter. don't make as to whether they will find anything. they do have a lot of information being released. there was an issue way back in the beginning that a neighbor heard a sound or scream around the time of the murder, when the murders occurred. that has never been flushed out whether or not that actually pertains to what happened about 3:00, 4:00 in the morning six weeks ago. i think the evidence thus far would indicate whoever went into the residence and killed four people, stabbed them with the same knife knew the place. would go to the third floor first. apparently, it appears one of the girls on the third floor was the target and would have known the person.

then, he went downstairs and had waking up to people on the second floor and stabbed them to death. the two people on the first floor, which is away from the other floors were not touched. so, right now, four unsolved murder six weeks later. and real fear. >> it is a real concern. dr. baden, the families are understandably frustrated and they want answers. just quickly come are you concerned this could turn into a cold case? >> more than 50% of murder is now in the united states when we look at this from the television shows become cold cases. they don't get solved. so that has to be kept in mind. >> unbelievable statistic. >> there should be a lot of information available at the scene in close community. it doesn't look like it will become a cold case. >> we want to talk to you about

elisha fletcher. 41 years old a teacher in texas and jogging, security camera footage caught her being kidnapped and she was later found dead. what do you know about this case? do we know the motive behind the murder? >> what is interesting about the fletcher death, she has jogging as she usually did, kidnapped, caught on video, a secure video the tennessee university. and the next day, they find the perpetrator and set for trial. what happened though is another woman came forth and said about a year earlier, the same person had sexually assaulted her, her, she went to the hospital and got a rape kit. had they analyzed the rape kit at that time, she knew who it

was and he he would not have been out. and so this atrocity going on for that woman. the backup and rape kits not analyzed. >> there is also the delphi murders, liberty german, 13 years old, beautiful girls found stabbed to death 2015. just a few months ago, richard allen arrested for their mergers. this is a situation where it does show sometimes it takes a long time for a break in the case. >> worked in a pharmacy in the community and it's not clear why it took them five years to arrest him since there was a lot of evidence at the scene including an iphone. >> video, that is right. >> one of the teenagers had taken. >> there was a voice saying down

the hill. >> a photograph and it took five years. and it is set for trial next month. >> dr. baden, it is a tough topic but the reality of the world we live in. we thank you for joining us. >> good to talk to you. >> actually come over to you. >> ashley: the agents went far beyond the fbi house oversight committee james comer to respond to latest rounds of twitter files. but first let's check in to see what is coming up on >> fox & friends: . >> good morning ashley and carley. we are tracking the aftermath of that monstrous winter storm making havoc across the country as climbing higher, we get the forecast to keep you safe plus carlos gimenez is here. he wants to welcome elon musk with open arms the fight to bring three spinach gnomic speech to big tech and government meddling out.

the texas dps at the southern border. we have breaking new numbers to give you his warning is a suspected human smuggler and gunshots and law enforcement and this was the year wokeness got a wake-up call carol swain weighs in on the 22 woke list and topping the list you have to see to believe and we will check in with dr. marty makary and charlie hurt, david webb after this christmas. we will see carley as well. ♪ ♪

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and the latest round of twitter files shows more government agencies besides the fbi were sy the social media network. show the fbi door mat program surveillance and censorship encompassing agencies across the federal government from the state department to the pentagon to the cia. taibbi also revealing the government was in constant jacket with other tech firms such as facebook, microsoft and reddit. and executives from twitter struggled with the government's claims of foreign interference on the platform with taibbi saying the twitter files show execs under constant pressure to validate theory of foreign influence and unable to find evidence for key assertions. ranking member james comer joining me now. good morning to you. i need to know what was your reaction when you heard about this latest round of these twitter files, in particular,

especially with that bit about it being possibly more than the fbi? >> >> this is very concerning no. government agency has been the authority to censors free speech. i want to know is this a correct result of president biden's orders or is this a result of the deep state government agencies acting on their owns a a result of a weak president? eitherway, this needs to be stopped. and people need to be held accountable. under no circumstances should any tax dollars be going to provide salaries and benefits for government employees who have their own initiative to determine what is disinformation and what is not. this is not a function of the government and this needs to stop now. >> how can you, especially when the house takes over in january, how can you keep these people accountable and get some answers for the american public? >> well, this has become such a problem. kevin mccarthy last week and we had several meetings jim

jordan and myself with kevin mccarthy. there is probably going to be a task force created. a church-to style select committee to make this a priority. because, these government agencies are out of control. we first thought that maybe this was one or two fbi employees who went rogue who were trying to inflict their political wilpon the social media companies, but, what we have learned now is there a government agency of at least 80 people, i call it the fbi, the ministry of propaganda. now we see the cia had one. the department of defense had one and the list goes on and on of government agencies that dedicated a big percentage of their time and workforce to monitoring social media. that's okay if they're monitoring things like child pornography or terrorism. but they were monitoring free speech. and this is not a role of the federal government. >> ashley: switching gears to this president biden is looking to hold biden accountable in the new year. you laid out a number of

investigations that you are going to look into. the border being one, afghanistan being another. let's talk about hunter biden. recently last week he lawyered up and the lawyer he chose was pretty interesting. abby lowell. what did you make of that person he got on his team? do you think is he scared you are going to find something on him? >> , he is. we have his laptop and the laptop shows very incriminating evidence that hunter biden took millions and millions of dollars from china and russia for nothing more than influence peddling. our investigation is about the sources of his revenue and also what part of that revenue did joe biden enjoy? we know that hunter biden paid for some things of value for joe biden. we think there may be more. we think we are going to investigate that and try to determine if this administration is compromised because of the millions of dollars president biden has received from our adversaries. the fact that he has a very

expensive lawyer. some may think it costs $100,000 a month. my first question is who is paying for this? we know a lawyer in california paid $2 million to try to get hunter biden back to square with the irs. so, where did that money come from? was that a loan? was that a campaign donation? >> ashley: good question we have to leave it there. i hasn't to interrupt you, "fox & friends" starts right now. james comer, thanks so much. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle bells ♪ jingle all the way ♪ o what fun it is to ride ♪ in is a once horse open sleigh. ♪ jingle grich griff there is a debate amongst our staff whether we should be