>> a fox news alert, the white house slow walking gop investigation including probe of the botched afghanistan withdrawal and hunter biden. rejecting all document request until republicans take house majority next week. you're watching the final "fox and friends first" of 2022 on friday morning, i'm todd piro. >> carley: i'm carley shimkus, the white house sending this

letter to gop lawmakers. congress has not delegated such authority to members of congress who are not committee chairman and the house has not done so under current rule. should the committee issue similar or other request in the 118th congress, we will review and respond to them in good faith. republican poised to take two chair committees next week accusing white house of obstructing their investigations and playing political gain. >> what we requested in 200 requests, 100% to taxpayer dollars, money being spent with covid and in afghanistan with weapons being left behind. joe biden blocked us at every turn and everyone has seen the democrats haven't provided any oversight or requested any information pertaining to misfit taxpayer dollars, we're trying to do our job and biden

administration sent a signal loud and clear, we will do everything to block your oversight. >> carley: bit of a back and forth to end 2022, republicans take control of the house on tuesday, so biden administration is blocking request for now, but all republicans have to do is go on their computer or microsoft word document, change the date and resubmit them. the requests will get made. one thing that could prevent republicans from doing this sooner, they need to pick a speaker of the house and that elect is on the 3rd. >> todd: they are playing politics. >> carley: high or she. >> todd: hypocritical statement, in the fact they came into office, joe biden saying we will be the most transparent administration in history, this is opposite of that. you had a great line when discussing this upon toic.

you said they are going to get on the field -- >> carley: get chippy -- >> todd: real chippy. newt gingrich, who has been when things gotten chippy in the past, had this to say, take a listen. >> democrats play hard ball everyday, they will never be reasonable, that issin foo, that is who they are,ra defending power. two, this is ig abouter than the biden administration, this is the most corrupt and dangerous executive branch in american history. the fbi was corrupt before joe biden got elected, things with fauci were before joe biden got elected we have constitutional crisis of executive branch seeking to wage war against the american people and the house republicans, the conservative group in washington given chaos in the senate, housen republicans have an obligation to take head on totality of

disruptiony woo we are dealing with deep into the bureaucracy. >> carley: list of topics republicans will investigate is long, hunter biden business dealings as relates to joe biden, origin of covid and see dr. fauci testify on that front probably. the afghanistan withdrawal, i'm interested in that know wo. we left billions in military equipment over there and took bad guys on the planes you are seeing into the united states, left some good guys behind. investigations into the fbi and partisanship there. i do think that investigations are a double-edged sword. american people want answers, but same time, if all you're doing is investigating, you leave yourself open to criticism, there is a lot of other crisis happening now, can you walk and chew gum at the

same time. >> todd: fair point, but there are 222 members of congress, they can delegate certain to do the investigations and certain on oversight and judiciary committee and everybody else can worry about the other stuff. 222 be members, figure it out. what we're getting into, the newt gingrich and chipiness on the field. this was leaked to the media before saying they were denying request for information. they want to get a jump on it and get it in the media. they are setting the tone they will not be cooperative in 2023, incumbent on republicans to ep coo the pressure on and get this information that republicans want and democrats want information to covid, to afghanistan, everybody needs answers, time joe biden gives it to us. >> carley: 5 after the hour. >> todd: president biden working

hard on virgin island vacation, putting his john hancock on the $1.7 trillion spending bill. he had the white house fly that document down to him just before the shutdown deadline. >> carley: greg steube will react to all of it, he joins us next.

>> carley: thousands of travelers remain stranded at airports across the nation, but president biden scored a ticket to st. croix for the president to sign >> tropical paradise. greg steube, member of house foreign committee and house judiciary committee join me now. president biden does paint himself as a man of the people, this seems like an elitist move to have the spending bill flown down to him to sign while on vacation, what do you make of this? >> not many people of america can afford to go to st. croix for vacation and he is vacationing in a donor's home. no surprise as we face crisis at the southern border, crisis the

northeast and midwest face with the blizzards and shutdowns and the storms that he is vacationing in st. croix, it shows he doesn't care about the american people despites the fact they say they care. >> carley: nothing in the spending bill having to do with border security, what can republicans do when they take over the house and is legislation on the table? >> there is money in there for border security, just not our border security, secure the border of jordan and egypt, 400 million in that money to secure their border but language that says no money oppropriated to dhs can secure or border, how backward and upside down is our country, when we sunday millions to other countries to secure their border and will not secure our own border when we have fentanyl coming through the southern border and different crimes committed by individuals

and 5 million illegal immigrantses coming into our country. it is time for the house on tuesday to set this straight, shut the border down, do what we can to perform oversight on mayorkas and the administration and show the american people everyday they have been violating federal law on the border. >> carley: there is speakership race taking place, votes will be on january 3, who will be the next house speaker? >> i think kevin mccarthy gets it. 188-31, it is time to unite around our speaker, if multiple votes and not able to get to the vote because of five or circs hold-outs, five for sure that have publicly said it. it doesn't look good on the first day republicans take majority, we can't rally behind the person who won by overwhelming majority of votes.

>> carley: andy said he would not work for kevin mccarthy, what is the rub there, does that concern you? >> leader mccarthy can lose four votes, he doesn't have to vote for him, that fifth person said publicly they won't and over the last couple weeks, speaker designate mccarthy has made numerous concessions on rule changes they want to make despite the conference didn't vote for the rules. leader mccarthy is doing everything he can to acquiesce to demands they have and he will have a couple no-votes on our side. >> carley: interesting poll released yesterday from sufolk university. 41% of people strongly disapprove of president biden

and yet the biden administration feels wind at their back because of midterm election. where do you think the american people stand really? >> greg: i know where my district and florida stands, that is not joe biden's policy. people are flocking here, we have republican rule in the great state of florida. majority of americans do not support the policies of this administration and full democratic rule we've had for the last two years and that is why the american people put us in charge of the house and we need to do things the american people want us to do like shutting down the border and providing oversight and doing things to bring inflation down, energy independence back to the united states. >> carley: thank you for joining us, merry christmas and happy new year. the texas national guard is working day and night to secure the border in el paso, putting razor wire on make-shift wall of shipping containers and that

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>> carley: texas national guard topping the border wall with razor wire as it works to slow the stream of migrants. >> todd: arizona delaying the removal of shipping containers until the new year. >> good early morning, more national guard forces deploying to el paso to reinforce the southern border.

"fox news sunday" team on the border showing american troops installing mile of new razor wire. national guard said illegal guard saw foot traffic go to a stand still resembling a ghost town. local report of migrants walked around and head into the united states elsewhere. doug doocy agreed to take down similar border wall built from shipping containers after being sued by the biden administration. doj saying not only has arizona refused to remove the shipping containers from federal land, it will continue to trespass on federal land and install additional containers. since august doocy spent $82

million to plug holes in the border with shipping containers. back in texas, this video was obtained from bill melugin, expected human smugglers being chased by texas law enforcement, the car losing control and crashing in front of border patrol checkpoint near uvalde. yesterday we showed video of the texas ranch house with upon suspects trying to break in, the owner is now speaking out. >> it is sad we cannot come up here and enjoy the life that we did several years ago without fearing for our lives. we have constantly got to be armed. we've got to constantly watch the little one so she doesn't det out of our sight. >> close the border, our governor has got to do something. >> when republicans assume majority in the house next week, they want hearings on the

border, hear from biden's dhs secretary. >> there is this alarming report that dhs is releasing thousands of convicted criminals from detention centers and flooding them into the united states. what do you know about this? >> check out the numbers, that is right, 1400 convicted criminals in the u.s. illegally having been released in the united states in just the past three months, 421 are given order of recoloneling nisance and 108 were paroled. then there is this, 377,000 illegal immigrants lost by ice, illegal immigrants enrolled in the detention program. enforcement saying ice conducted search for the ice enforcement and removal operation for response to the request and no

response to request were found. perhaps we will hear from the ice officials next year, which is not far away, hopefully with commanders holding that final playoff spot, todd. >> todd: we both made the same our father joke, you made it on air and i made it on the side to carley, we share a brain heading into 2023, that is more concerning for you than me. lucas, have a great rest of your year, great rest of 2023 and go, giantses. border czar kamala harris had a busy year, it wasn't from handling said border crisis, it was from tossing up word salads, watch. >> hello, hello, hello. thank you. hello. >> i am kamala harris, pronouns, she and her, i am wearing a blue suit.

i asked my team to do a venn diagram, i just love vend diagrams. we invested in community banks, community banks are in the community. talking about significance of passage of time. >> todd: tomi lahren joins me now, is she most useless and counter productive vice president in the history of our republic? >> she is. she issic taking a test she didn't study for. i will go a step closer, i don't think she knows what the test is or i don't think she will take said test, she's been absent for several months, they are trying to protect her political career. think about that, she owes the american people, she is vice president, former senator, represents the american people and she is so protective of

political future and won't put herself out there. she delivers word salad after word salad, she didn't put in the work, it is all about kamala, getting ready for 2024. i caution her she is the border czar, at least gavin newsom cared to visit the border and he is not the border czar. there are other dirty democrats coming to take her spot for 2024, i fear. >> todd: vp harris has been tasked with the border crisis, national space council chair, gets child actors together and makes more word salad, election reform, ambassador to small business. it is going great during this inflationary period and improving high-speed internet. i would say she has failed on every one of them. does she address any of them in

2023 or is it more of the same? >> tomi: they will hide her as they did with joe biden for the entirety of the 2020 leadup to the election. you will see more photo opes, more paid actors and visits to yarn shops and bakeries. she will not address a single thing because we do not expect that of her and don't mandate that of her. i hope republicans, they have a lot to work on in the coming year, i hope they respond time holding kamala harris accountable and maybe calling out the fact she's done nothing. a spotlight would do the american people good. >> todd: joe biden did call her a work in progress, which is telling and frightening coming from joe biden and the fact he chose her for the number two position in our country, heartbeat away from presidency. what are things you hope to see in 2023 have a change up going into the new year?

>> tomi: so listen, you know how i feel about the border, i'm hoping republicans put a close eye on what is going on and make actions, it will be uphill battle and i hope they make movement what i want for everyday americans, i want conservatives have been afraid to stand up, stop being afraid of offending people. conservatives, if you are listening, i hope you square your jaw and shoulder heading into the new year and get ready to fight for our country, that is what i want for our country and from conservatives. >> todd: they got off to a bad start at tail end by signing the 1.7 trillion spending plan. tomi lahren, thanks for 2022, looking forward to 2023, we

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>> carley: from turning a blind a to an assassination attempt on brett kavanaugh to giving the president a pass or consistent gaffes and policy failure. >> todd: joe concha, author of "come on, man," joins us. work us through the biggest misses of the year, beside that read i just made. >> joe: right, do you almost forget an attempt was made on justice brett kavanaugh's life? it was covered on this network, as it should have been. in other networks or "new york times" and "washington post," it came and went quickly. it is an easy game to play.

what if somebody who had conservative beliefs or had a red maga hat had targeted sonia sotomayor, it would have been the top story for weeks with outrage at the suspect and anyone who shared similar political ideology. the biggest story, downplay of the border crisis, most egregious journalistic mal malfeesance. nearly 900 migrants dying, suicide by border patrol agents whose moral is shot and fentanyl pouring in from china through mexico killing aefrmg of 300 americans per day due to overdoses and it is silence from abc, pis, npr, times and post on biggest story of the year.

>> carley: your favorite media moment of 2022, former media darling michael aft avenatti was sent to jail. >> we are back with the main player. >> to me, you are like the holy spirit, all places, all times, saving the country. >> you are doing a hell of a job. >> looking at 2020, i am taking you seriously because of your presence on cable news. >> he's a rock star, interesting to see the next chapter. >> carley: joe -- >> joe: man, wow, fun to go down memory lane. michael avenatti, when you read the celebrity birthday page, i get this guy and sonny bono, of sonny and cher fame.

avenatti, was touted as a serious presidential contender and he was on hundreds of time before his handfall because he attacked donald trump and republicans in general. now avenattiis president of his debate team in prison, that is nice, todd. >> todd: my birthday, lady gaga, and vince vaughn. >> joe: well done. >> todd: you and i have talked privately, there will be big changes in 2023 and it comes down to where the money is coming from. >> joe: precisely, you hit the nail on the head, 2023 will be ugly for media in erm its of the industry itself. there are layoffs happening at

cnn and msnbc, you will see mergers and consolidation, it is a bad time to be working in the media industry, great time for being at "fox news at night" which in 2022, i see the numbers and you are doing incredible and the reason why is because carley and todd, two things you can't teach, chemistry and oouthen tisity and the team behind you is dedicated to putting on a great show everyday. good job to sarah, the executive producer issue the team i work with and you guys for being committed to your craft and 2023 will get even better. >> carley: joe, that was so nice and the producers and executive producers, pa's, everybody in the control room, rusty, everybody, they deserve so much credit. >> todd: these guys agals get u in the middle of the freaking

night, lose weekends, thigh have to do the work of like two or three people, thigh do unreal job and oohllow us to get up here and jeek around with my sister from another mister, my work wife and joe, our fun cousin sitting out there in jersey, it is eye pleasure having you on, you give griet insight and thiefrngs for giving a shout out to our amazing team. >> joe: i'm glad to be cousin eddy and good luck with the baby, carley, 2023, you will remember that year more than any year in your life. >> carley: i certainly will, thank you, you are the best. >> todd: america's oil stock pile drooped to lowest level in four deckieds with strategic reserve down since joe biden took oafs, reckless decision miking could put nooshl security autorisk. kooirl >> carley: cheryl casone has the numbers coming up next.

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>> todd: residents still digging out in buffalo, new york. the deadly blizzard killed 39

people so far. many expressing frustration over the slow progress clearing the streets. >> the city and towns and everything else, matter of days, they opened up and the city of buffalo, one week later, it still ain't done rights. >> todd: police in nearby suburb trying to identify this hero credited with saving lives during the monster storm. capturing images of the man who broke into a school, for a good reason, to give shelter to people and dogs trapped outside in a deep freeze. merry christmas jay left a note apologizing for smashing the window and taking food from the cafeteria. >> flip side of the coin, in aftermath of the storm in buffalo, number of businesses were ransacked by looters while owners were stopped at home. this man joined us earlier and said he watched brazen thieves

break into his restaurant and christmas morning. >> we have defunding police departments going on and have no real punishment factions of wha is going on? what is deterrent? they smashed out of glass when they couldn't get the door open and ransacked and stole anything of value, money, coin money, cash registers, destroying them, stealing the whole pos system. >> carley: 10 suspects are in custody, but the ones who broke into his place are still on the loose. adam klotz isser hoo. >> the temperatures are warmer on the eastern half of the country, we will see that through the new year, big cold front, off to the west, five degrees in fargo, 21 in denver, look at everything to the east.

54 degrees this early in the morning in chicago, unheard of warmth, 45 in new york city. we are melting some snow if you got it from the last big freeze. 52 in detroit and 53 in new york city. you see warmth across the country and that will linger for next couple days. 43 in detroit is relatively mild. 70 in memphis. plenty of heat after that big deep freeze, nice long stretch looking at fairly warm weather at least 250 million people sitting at above average temperatures over next several days. there was big cold front in middle of the country, in the west, there is still snowfalling and heavy rain across gulf coast. again, coming with a little heat, taking you off to the

west, have seen round after round and tracking another round and wet weather and interior areas, you get snow. if you are on the eastern half of the country, after the big freeze issue start the new year unreasonably warm, 50 degrees. >> carley: so strange, unreasonably cold to unreasonably warm. >> todd: adam klotz, we thank you, happy new year to you. america stra edge tooic petroleum reserve dropping to lowest level since 1983 and refilling it could be costly as gas and oil prices continue to rise. >> carley: republicans are warning about the impact this could have on energy market and national security going forward. cheryl casone is here with more. good morning. >> cheryl: obviously the spr has been a problem and whether you are analyst or lawmakers, depletion of the petroleum reserve is meant for

emergencies, it was created in 1973, when we had the arab oil embargo that year. it is for emergencies and need to be filled up. we are about $80 bucks per barrel, fill it up now, it looks like the process will not begin until january. remember, january of 2021, 638 millions were in the spr. now 375 million. the idea, this was supposed to lower gas price, gas price today is $3.17 a gallon, this is a seasonal story, to be frank. we see higher gas price in summer, no new news to anybody out there and winter you see a drop. diesel is $4.68, you had republican lawmakers in june telling biden administration they were worried about this. they said, imperative that the

doha maintain petroleum reserve in manner that does not limit our ability for supply shortages, this is critical for america's energy security and national security. there is a plan in place to fill up the spr in january, here is the problem. i had an analyst tell me yesterday we will see $100 per barrel in oil. we will pay for it. >> todd: it is not strategic reason to deplete the reserve right before election, that is political reason and that is why joe biden did it, nothing to do with "defense strategy" and that is sickening he did that, very upsetting. check your 401(k) balance, i didn't have a good year. if youa thought you lost money this year. : >> cheryl: does misery love

company, this has been the worst year for market since 2008, we will close out today. look at this list, elon musk, mark zuckerberg, within 500 richest billionaires, 1.4 tril knowiowas lost. bilge gates, warren buffet, jeff bezos and zuckerberg 79 million. a lot of stocks tied to wealth, here is the story in shares of ku678s. microsoft and amazon down year to date, tesla and meta, substantial losses for the year, not a surprise their wealth has been hit. what goes down goes up. >> yep. >> cheryl: there is next year. >> todd: billions and trillions next year. >> carley: what is one thing everybody drinks on new years, champagne and bad news there.

>> cheryl: or proseco or cavet. inflation hit wine and champagne industry, average wine price in 2021 was $13.34. it is champagne prices we have seen over $5 jump, if you will. supply chain, a lot of ships stuck off the coast of california were full of wine bottles, a lot of supply for the wine bottles come from ukraine. there is a lot of hits to the industry, they couldn't get bottles and older vintages are more expensive. i am that kind of lady, i'm going for value for new years. >> todd: what will you and the baby be drinking?

>> >> carley: water, one of those years. >> todd: get the baby going. >> carley: have a great time hosting mornings with maria. >> cheryl: happy new year, guys, i won't gush as much as joe concha, but i love you. >> carley: southwest prom ises to be back to normal today. congresswoman nancy mace's kids were stranded over the weekend and they do not know where their luggage is, she is here next. >> todd: check in with griff jenkins. >> griff: farewell to fauci friday, finally stepping down, dr. marty makary will remind of his biggest flops and rachel campos-duffy react to n.b.a. cozy ties with china and cory

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your family firsthand. tell us how. be my kids got stranded trying to make it home christmas eve. they love visiting cousins christmas time when school is out. trying to make it home and got stranded in baltimore halfway home trying to get home. we were up very late saturday night like everybody else trying to find flights. trying to find a rental car. trying to find train tickets to get my family home and nothing was available for four to five days. i do want to thank the capitol police who took my call at midnight saturday night helping me find keys to an extra car i had in d.c. they were able to get up super early on christmas morning and drive all the way home and make it finally. it was quite the debacle today. about a week later, we don't even know where their luggage is. >> carley: could be anywhere. >> could be anywhere. >> todd: how does this happen in america 2022, about to be 2023?

transportation secretary buttigieg writing a letter to southwest about all theft ceo, in fact, writes to him quote no amount of financial compensation can fully make up for pass years who missed moments with their families they can never get back. the department will use the fullest extent of investigative powers to hold southwest accountable if it fails to. >> they have con a horrible job here. mayor pete obviously talking tough but mayor pete you were warned about the airline problems in the aggregate months ago and also by the way billions of dollars not just allocated to southwest but airlines in general to deal with twhavment did you do about the warnings and where's the money? >> right. and i'm sure a letter really scared the ceo of southwest airlines that really -- it's nothing. it is just paper at this point. and southwest airlines was given a $7 billion bailout by the american taxpayers during covid. i would like a full accounting of that. because, if you can't keep track

of luggage, airline how do you think the american people could trust for you to take -- keep track of the $7 billion that we gave you? it's ridiculous. we got get to the bottom of it. what i want to hear pete buttigieg sooner rather than later he is going to audit that $7 billion and get a full accounting for the american people where that money went. as you rightly pointed out, todd, it's 2022. how you cannot know where your crews are and luggage. technology exists today. this isn't rocket science. i was a database programmer in. this isn't as difficult as it would seem. especially that day and age when the technology is there. why aren't they using it. why haven't they upgraded their systems. >> carley: you ar are on the transportation committee. will you be doing anything about this melt down in 20203. >> i sure hope we will. there is a balance in the market.

you don't want too much government regulation. that will only drive up prices. you are seeing southwest stock start to go down this week. you are seeing them start to change their consumer policies. originally it was they were only going to refund your ticket for weather related cancellation. they have changed this week. refund all tickets between now and the end of the year which they should do. they are also allowing customers to put their claims in for their luggage. although i'm praying we get it back. we don't have to do the claim. we will get it at some couple of next. days imagination adjustments to consumer policies to have a better outcome as they shuvmentd the market is going to force them to change. since they were pailed out by $7 billion. there is a responsibility by pete buttigieg the infrastructure committee in congress to find out where the money went and how was it spent and invested and why didn't they update their systems and organize for this kind of disaster? >> todd: in our final 10 seconds of 2022 on our show what is your new year's resolution,

congresswoman? >> oh, goodness. >> i love prosecco, maybe drink a little less this year. >> carley: turn less to more. >> talking about prosecco earlier. >> carley: it is 5:00 the a.m. kind. >> todd: 2023 mimosas for everybody. >> carley: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> todd: until 2023. ♪ ♪ going down ♪ i'm yelling timber ♪ you better move ♪ you better dance ♪ let's make a night you won't remember. >> katie: good morning, it is friday. and that is a live look, 6:00 a.m. in new york city of times square thanks to earth cam for ifing us that first thing in the morning here as we are at new year's eve eve tonight. there are tons of