>> president biden claiming he will deliver for americans in the new year. voters are sick of his policy and want a fresh face in 2024. i'm todd piro. >> ashley: i'm ashley strohmier, new data found majority of americans think the country is on the wrong track, top concerns are the economy and inflation. >> todd: 41% of voters disapprove of how president

biden is handling the issues in his first term. people don't want joe biden and want somebody younger to be president in 2024. it is not that older people cannot work, you should work as long as you want. the most important job in the world, rigorous job as president, not a job for an 86-year-old, which is what joe biden would be at the end of a hypothetical second term. that is an issue for somebody that hasn't shown signs of aging. joe biden says nonsensical things, shakes hands with ghosts and needs to spend every weekend at the beach. he will not be fit in four years. >> ashley: fabrications or lies he tells all the time, we can't tell if it is fact or fkz. when you talk about the age, you are correct, people in their 80s

have an active mind. it is not about the age that other than cans me, it is how long you have been this politics and corrupted by politics of being a politician. when you check the boxes, when they say voters, their ideal candidate is no older than 65, has experience as governor or senator, is a veteran and somebody who compromises to get things done. first person that comes to mind for me is ron desantis. 44 years old, in the navy. look at his track record in florida, people love him down there and people are flocking to escape liberal states and cities that are crushing them with inflation, crushing them with crime. i feel like ron desantis is somebody who pushes for the people. when you think about really the bench and how deep it goes for

democrats, i don't see anybody. president biden said he will make his decision if he will run in early 2023. i don't know if the democrats are excited about that. we recently heard people say they would support him -- >> todd: begrudgingly. >> ashley: like pulling teeth to get the democratic party behind him. 65.3% say the country is going in the wrong direction. >> todd: not like the democratic bench will lower that number, pete buttigieg, we did a thing over him in the last hour, he shouldn't be president. take a look at kamala lack of track record and inability to speak herself and 42% of americans strongly approve of president joe biden and economy part and parcel of what people are worried about. inflation, joe biden has done exact opposite what he needs to

do for that. the range you mention is where most ceos lie, you haven't lost too much energy from youth, 25 year old will be more energetic than a 55 year old, but up to the 65 year range you have balance of not lost energy, you have life experience to be a ceo and run something. most candidates we like typically are in that range. desantis is younger than me by a few months and the republican bench is strong and they are younger. the fact of the matter is people want new blood throughout politics on both sides of the aisle, not just the presidency, but the halls of congress, as well. >> ashley: americans will take a risk with new blood if they think it will benefit them even just a little bit from issue we have now. we have a full screen showing something about gun control and crime and inflation and be ins, if we can pull that back up.

when americans look at numbers, there we go, these are the top issues for 2023 voters. inflation and economy top and threats to democracy, immigration, you can't forget that. ron desantis in florida is dealing with an immigration problem and climate change that goes under 10% and abortion. look at americans voting, they are willing to take a chance. look at donald trump, they took a risk and majority of people were living a good life, they may not have liked what he had to say, but people were living good. >> todd: i feel like desantis is not a risk -- >> ashley: risk on new blood. >> todd: desantis would be new blood. the issues are state specific,

he talked the talk and might walk the walk nationally. we'll see. minneapolis pastor was sick of seeing drug deals near his church, he and his wife took their life savings and brought the property themselves. they're here to talk about it. >> ashley: thousands of flights cancelled already toward, cheryl casone will get to the bottom of it in this hour. ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪ ♪ acoustic soul music throughout ♪

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>> todd: 37 people are dead in buffalo after last week's holiday blizzard that buried the area in snow. national guard going door to door checking on people. the travel ban set to be replaced with advisory later today. >> ashley: four suspects arraigned for looting businesses. adam klotz joins us with fox weather forecast. adam. >> maybe minor flooding in buffalo over next couple days. it is warming up and they will

see the snow melt, that will be the kaes for a whole lot of folks. already beginning to see on the eastern half of the country, wintery weather in the western states. getting with mild temperatures, these are currentses, currently this early, 45 in chicago. you can tell, warm air pulling up in the middle of the country and that will spread out. 51 in kansas city, fleven in detroit, 48 in new york city and this is just the start. it will be day after day, warm air moves across the country. from 60 in atlanta to 52 in new york, same is the case on saturday, similar story for your new year's day on sunday. warm air taking hold on the eastern half of the country. looking at mild weather. compared to christmas day, what a difference a day makes.

57 degrees is the high on new year's day. very warm air is settling in across the country and will allow a snow that was there to certainly melt over the next couple days and went from record-breaking cold to suddenly we're talking about 270 million americans, just shy of that on saturday, temperatures above seasonal average. warmer than it should be this time of year as that heat b builds. there is winter weather and i showed you the west, that is where the snow is falling. only big system across the country, good for skiers. folks in northern california have noticed round after round of wintry weather and that will continue this morning. future track shows rounds of winter weather in the west. folks in the east will see

warmer temperatures for next several days. >> ashley: what a bipolar weather pattern. >> it has been, i'm pretty happy -- >> ashley: i'm not complaining, i'm saying there is such a swing. >> big swing, that happens this time of year. it is true. >> todd: also football, adam klotz's team versus my team. ordered to delete tiktok from government-issued devices effective immediately. the office of cyber security deemed the tiktok mobile application to be high risk to users, due to security risk. heritage foundation and former dod counter terrorism analyst kara frederick joins us now. does this go far enough or should tiktok be banned throughout the country? >> absolutely the later, todd, when it comes to tiktok, what they have said is possible and what happens, there is a big

delta between what tiktok is professing to do and what they are actually doing with the data of americans. the only thing that my mind the solution to this problem is banning tiktok from operating in the united states out right. government devices, good start, go with what marco rubio has proposed, ban it within the u.s. with authorities, so emergency economic power act authority. take it out of the marketplace period, to preserve the security of americans. >> todd: do you think it will work if they sell to an american buyer or there is still problems with that? >> we've tried that before, this is what the trump administration attempted to do with oracle. it comes back to assurances we've been given by tiktok, they said american data wasn't access by chinese engineers from their

parent company, not true. they said they weren't using tiktok and bite dance to target americans. not true. no lobbyists are saying, maybe the uyghur concentration camps, maybe they are not such a big deal, we can't trust tiktok period, even if they have an american company owning them to preserve safety of american data. >> todd: assurances by lobbyists. i trust that. not. elon musk calling out google, musk states every social media company is engaged in censorship with involvement of explicit direction of the government. google makes links disapeer, what links is he tubing about? >> he's tubing about google's

long-s long-standing praktsis. eric schmidt admitted to this, we are not cool with censorship, but we will prioritize whoo the american public can see when they are looking at the search engine. they baron the business of ranking based off what they want people to see. this is part and parcel to what they have been doing for a long time. we know they have just proporgately sent spam in gmail, this is something big tech companies do and twitter files prove it is pervasive. >> todd: we talked about twitter and other bad ones uncovered. will this stop now that elon musk called it out with google and the like?

or just keep happening because mainstream media doesn't seem to care? >> sadly, i think the latter. when it comes to these issues, it is consequences that matter, accountability matter. it has to be consequences, not theater. people say we will hold big tech accountable, but do nothing, you don't have deterrence. many public officials are not held to account by mainstream media, why change their behavior? not enough people are irate about this, they are down playing it as nothing burgers, the public must come forward and want the fbi investigated for conduct. over 60% of americans want that, let's do it. >> todd: kara frederick a bright light on tech issues, like the tree in the background. pleasure to have you on.

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is in the guys, not just what they do. i've been engaging them all summer and this particular day i was pretty angry because they were selling drugs in front of the kids and in broad daylight. i went over to talk to them about choosing a different path for their life. the conversation got a little heated and one of the guys shouted at me and said, if you want to change what is going on here, you need to buy the gas station. i told him, i will buy it. he didn't know i was already in negotiations to buy it. >> ashley: it was 3 million for the property, how long did it take you to raise that money? how did you -- >> we had to come up with -- >> ashley: how long did it take you to raise that money and how did you get the message out that is what you were wanting to do?

>> well, that is two questions, this is how i will answer that. way back when we started the church there, i told the church we were going to own that gas station. we need our range of influence to stretch to the corner. there are souls we need to be in contact with and through the marketplace. it has been a 24-year journey in bringing it to pass. when it came down to the time we were able to make the deal happen and getting things together and negotiations on and off and on and off, we negotiated on a significant amount of money down, $e 3276,000 and we carry a note with the previous owner. >> ashley: since you took or that gas station, what has it

looked like as far as drug deals going on, have they completely stopped? >> man, it is down significantly and there is a different type of traffic coming there. people still walk up looking for booze, that is another word for fentanyl, you know. and i'm right there to catch them. a lot of times that is a soft, but firm conferring about life and about visiting me next door and see what we're doing in the church. i have a lot of guys come from this lifestyle in my church. a lot of unchurched people have businesses and i see value in those people, they are just people without hope. >> ashley: mrs. cook, what has the response been from the community? >> it's been tremendous.

i don't think that i could ever imagine the outpour of support and love and we knew buying the gas station would be significant to change the trajectory of our neighborhood and where we could feel safe from the church to go to the gas station and buy snacks and you have it is because we quit going. i never imagined the outpour from neighbors, from all over the world pretty much just to say thank you, you're doing a great job and it feels good. it was really, really, really something that i just could not imagine in my own mind, it's a great thing. >> ashley: one final question quickly, larry, when you look at the number of fentanyl seizures by the d.e.a., what would your advice be for city and state

leaders or people on a local level who want to help out, what would your advice be to getting a grip on this? >> well, you need to make people who own property accountable for what is going on on their property. with the deaths in our city in 2021, somebody has to put their hand in it and we can't just arrest people and throw people in jail, that is part of the process, put your hand on people and minister to the people who have no hope, that is the way to get it done. people have to be accountable to what is happening on their property and businesses. >> ashley: doing the lord's work, thank you for gettingun with us, appreciate it. >> todd: love those two, that

was great. florida attorney general uncovering information about how the biden administration is skirting the immigration system. >> over the summer we had over 150,000 folks come in and issued a piece of paper that said find somebody in ice and that was pretty much it. >> todd: attorney general ashley moody is here next to explain what you just heard.

>> chaos playing out at the southern border. the owner of this home says this is not the first time this happened and he's spent $13,000 on security. >> ashley: lucas tomlineson has more. >> a texas ranch owner 50 miles from the border sharing this video with fox showing a group of men, who are likely illegal immigrantses attempting to break into her house. border patrol agents were unable to apprehend the people. here are some photos posted on twitter by the u.s. border patrol saying in less than 24 hours, border patrol encountered

four large groups. encounters are five times greater than two years ago, according to border patrol, that is with title 42 in place. costs are going up, the city of el paso spent $10 million this year to handle the influx of migrants. they want the biden administration to do more. >> they can't say congress, do immigration reform, they have the power to do policy right now, homeland security department is struggling with progressive white house staffers and i hope homeland wins this particular fight. >> title 42 was only used for 2 29% --

>> todd: thank you. florida attorney general ashley moody releasing shocking video, sound on an ice training video obtained by our office. watch. >> over the summer, we had well over 150,000 folks come in and were issued a piece of paper that said go find somebody in ice and that was pretty much it. that wasn't processing. this is not something you guys asked for and i ensure no one in the criminal alien program asked for it either. >> ashley: ashley moody is here with more, where did this direction come from because that should not have happened. >> well, you feel the pain of those training videos and employees tha that signed up to

law enforcement jobs. the american people are saying to the biden administration, nobody asked for this. so much of what they are doing, nobody asked for that. that is what ice employees are saying in the training videos and admitting what i've been saying all along. there is no processing. there are had inadmissible, unvetted migrants flooding this country, they have let in and lost track of unvetted migrants and it is direct violation of federal law, that is why we're pursuing litigation, trying to force this administration and president biden to do their jobs. >> todd: any idea where the 150,000 people are right now? >> not only do i have no idea, the folks charged by federal law with processing and ep cooing track of these people don't have any idea and you heard that'd

mited in this discovery. florida is litigating this, we survived pretrial motion and in january, we are taking this administration to court for from the day this president took office breaking down and upon droing the ball of federal immigration public safety enforcement at our border. >> ashley: when you look at migrant encounters in fiscal year 2022, the numbers are astounding. since october 1, 575,000, more than that actually and this number 397,591 released into the u.s. when you think about title 42 being in place, that is numbers with that. what happens when title 42 is no longer there? >> it is unconscionable the numbers and you see the effect on american lives, largest

number of overdose deaths from fentanyl, increase in trafficking and smuggling, we know we have intercepted a record number of folks on the terrorist watch list. this is not happening in a vacuum, it is affecting the safety of americans. let me just say, i refuse to sit back and let this admin administration, when this surge happens and title 42 is lifted, i refuse to let them say this is because title 42 was lifted, that is not the case. biden has been breaking down measures and structures since the moment he took office. they have no one to blame when title 42 is rescinded for onslot of migrants entering this country. it is upon haing now and been happening as you see the numbers, record high and that is because they have ended the policy in place that were protecting our borders, that was

deliberate action that made us weaker as a country. >> todd: no reason you do the stuff the biden administration has done unless it is part of open border policy or plan and it is shocking this is what our country has come to. governor desantis investigating drag shows for exposing children to inappropriate content. there have been complaints held in fort lauderdale and this is a crime in florida and sump action violate the department licensing for operating a business and holding a liquor license. why would any parent bring their kid to a show like this, much less on christmas week? >> i am a mom, vigilant about

protecting my child. governor desantis perspective on leadership, he quoted hamilton and said energy in the executive is leading character of good government, energy and the executive, look at the two differences between president biden and governor desantis, energy and the executive in florida is on full display, when folks are complaining and there is an allegation that children are being exposed to inappropriate material, whether with a parent or not, i saw all the time parents gafrns against laws expose children to sexually explicit material. parents have liability for such behavior. this will come down to looking at particular facts and circumstances in the instances,

this governor and our executive branch will not sit back while children or anyone else is harmed. we're going to look at it carefully and make sure we're doing our job thachl is what people elected us to do. >> ashley: it will be interesting and we'll be looking for the way this pans out, hopefully sooner rather than later. attorney general ashley moody. thank you. >> ashley: thousands of flights cancelled for today and most are southwest and pete buttigieg is facing criticism because he was warned this would happen months ago. >> todd: cheryl casone with fox news will join us and break down the backlash next.

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>> ashley: travel chaos continues for another day, leaving taxpayers wondering what the money they forked out to airlines during the lockdown went. as of this morning, 3800 flights have been cancelled this morning. it is no longer a weather issue. >> past the point they could say this is a weather driven issue.

the rest of the aviation system is down to 4% of flights being cancelled, north of 60% when it comes to southwest. this indicates a system failure. >> todd: pete buttigieg is facing criticism, he learned he was warned of something happening like this months ago. ninaturner saying this is incompetence, this is what placing unqualified people in position of power will get you. direct line from secretary buttigieg to the debacle and we shouldn't pretend there isn't. >> ashley: let's bring in cheryl casone. a lot of people want answers and are saying buttigieg didn't step in soon enough. >> cheryl: he didn't and i will agree with that assessment.

there are reports of southwest pilotses and crews, we think it will be better today, buts they were just as stranded and paying for their own hotel rooms and trying to get ahold of crew schedulers. crew members at southwest airlines, this goes back to the system at the airline and this is being discussed and what next phase will be. when you get taxpayer money, you use that appropriately, southwest did not do that, they did not upgrade computer system and software. when a company can't find their crews, i worked for southwest airlines, i have good friends flying there. there were reports of gate agents being cursed at and yelled at.

because of the system collapse, this computer technical system scheduling system collapse at southwest, this will go into the new year holiday. >> todd: it is sad what is happening to your colleagues and people trying to travel. speaking of money, it seems like it pays to have billionaire donor friends, doesn't it? >> cheryl: it is a good place to be. president biden is in the u.s. virgin islands, $5000 a night, a donor donated the house and an interesting report in real clear energy pont org, talking about the fact the amount of taxpayer money going to the jirgin island, talking billions of dollars, they want more money to upgrade an official says upgrade

to 100% solar energy in 90 days. give the virgin islands more money, will he have more affinity for them that is the next question. we need to have an honest conversation about how much u.s. taxpayer money is being given to other countries in the guise of climate change. >> ashley: what about sam bankman-fried? the most well liked man in america, if you can't catch my sarcasm there. >> cheryl: i got you, i am not sure what wall street was thinking when they gave this kid all that know moy based on his appearance alone. he's in a lot of trouble and we're finding out more about

him. what is interesting, they said $100 million in investment, cus customer funds from ftx and customer funds in a company called dave, never heard of it or miston labs, but this is under scrutiny, attorney general's office and sec. he is a 30 year old, but he is a kid, that shouldn't be handling billions in money. commodity fraud, securitieses fraud and conspiracy and campaign finance fraud. todd, you are the lawyer and know he is in the cross fire of several organizationless and the new york attorney general's

office. he's out on bond, i'm surprised by that. that happened while i was on vacation. >> todd: donors want to help him out. i will see you for three hours in 11 minutes. >> cheryl: mornings with maria, come on over. >> todd: travelers coming to the u.s. from china and know ares are ready to kick start the investigation into covid origin. dr. brad winsharp is here next. >> ashley: check in with griff jenkins. >> griff: good morning, we have a big show, biden border crisis showing no sign of slowing down. we have brand-new numbers and stunning video showing suspected migrants trying to break into a suspected rancher's home. plus america's crime kriersz affecting everyone including actress valery bertinelli, what

she has to say about the sky rocketing crime. and thousands of flights cancelled this morning. we have a live reports from lx. this is a busy thursday morning, stick with us, we'll be up in 10 minutes. at booking.com, finding perfect isn't rocket science. kitchen? sorted. hot tub, why not? and of course, puppy-friendly. we don't like to say perfect, but it's pretty perfect. booking.com, booking.yeah.

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your congressman hat on in a second. first the doctor's hat if you will. how worried are you about china's complete lockdown and then by complete roll back and how that is going to impact our health here in the u.s.? >> hopefully it won't impact our health here in the united states. but we saw the negative effects of complete lockdowns here in the united states when we did that. and we saw so many people were affected in other ways because they weren't getting their medical care, et cetera. i'm curious how that is going to play out in china. hopefully, they won't be spreading it to other parts of the world like it likely happened and seemingly did happen when covid first began. so, hopefully it won't be affecting the united states. but we have got to move in better directions. dr. fauci is about to retire. but that doesn't matter that we aren't finished asking him a lot of questions. as a member of congress, sitting on the intelligence committee. >> ashley: you know, so what message does this send that the u.s. is moving forward with this

should would he be concerned about something in the near future with the covid origin? >> moving ahead with the policies in china or moving ahead with origins of covid which certainly i have invested a lot of time in over the last couple years. and i think we need to invest more. the origins of covid are very important as we have levies learned be will direction review. what did we do right what did we do wrong? what are the effectiveness of the vaccines that have been developed? what's the effectiveness of natural immunity, none of this has really been addressed in the way that it should be from a scientific standpoint. the problem we are having with the intelligence community is they're ignoring a lot of the key evidence. it is important to know the origins of covid. and the democrat report out of the intelligent committee they said no reason to look into the origins any further. and i can't disagree more. if we're going to be able to be

prepared and be red are and not only that from a national security standpoint, if china is engaging in bioweapons and bioweapons research, which our state department has said they are interested in offensive bioweapons and they said that as far back as 2005, then we need to be engaged in the origins of covid and where that's leading to and what we have to look forward to in the future. if we're going to be prepared for a pandemic, ready for a pandemic. and also protect ourselves and our health in the united states of america. >> todd: that report that y'all released earlier this month that it may have been tied to china's biological weapons research program, boy, that seems to me something that you guys are going to lead off with when you take off on january 3rd. something that ashley, i, everybody should want an answer to because it is frightening. majority of americans think our country's influence in the world is getting weaker under the biden administration. 47% in fact.

perception can often become reality, congressman. how do we reverse this horrifying trend? >> we have to show true leadership and trustworthy leadership in america. and for the rest of the world see this. i don't think people around the rest of the world can fathom why we have for example, open borders. why that we have let this pandemic go on and on without surging for the truth. why we have people in leadership that are off vacationing when we have a transportation problem. we have to have active energetic, honest, trustworthy people at the helm for the rest of the world see and we have to be strong. there's no problem in seeking, for example, the origins of code and if that's egg on china's face then, so be it. if you are afraid to go there for some reason or another, then we are going to look weaker. we have to be a country that appears to be honest. when you see things that are

coming out of, for example, twitter now, now that elon musk has twitter, and you see a government that is engaging with media to suppress various views, you're going to look weak. and you're not going to look like a free country that you once were. >> todd: congressman, dr. brad wen trouble so insightful. with that "fox & friends" begins now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> griff: good times rolls when joey jones sits on the gowmp a week and rock out with country music and we hope that bloomington,s indiana loves it that's what they need although there is no surfing that i know of in indiana, which is significant because li