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later as part of the all american christmas concert series. and a good way to start your friday, december 30th, just two days away from the new year. a lot wrapping up the tend of the year and i've got one i want to share now. i have to give my uncle browny points here. i have to congratulate my niece alex carr got married to nick hallmark and here is a gorgeous picture congratulations to mr. and mrs. nick and alex hallmark got married at my sister and brother-in-law's firm there. proud of you and wish the best for you. the weather cooperated. that's down outside of west palm beach florida. >> joey: oh enice. >> griff: they were actually worried with that cold snap, my brother-in-law had to run out and buy a bunch of blankets because floridians not used the cold weather but the weather cooperated and as you see in the background it was a gorgeous day. >> joey: starting their american dream. >> katie: also dangerous with

those falling iguanas you have to be careful no guests get injured. >> griff: right along the tree line there is the canal that is the intercoastal waterway so they have like snakes, deer, you can shoot everything back there joey. good hunting. >> joey: i have been fishing and watched a dear swim across the water before. a lot of people don't know deer do can swim. >> katie: they also get eaten in the water by alligators. but at least the guests made it to the wedding. a lot of people this week got stuck in airports especially because of the southwest meltdown and now southwest expects operations to return to normal today. >> griff: but it appears the airline is going to pay a high price for the holiday meltdown that left people stranded. my birthday twin peter doocy joins us with more. peter. >> a lot of times when we talk about people paying a high price it's political. no. southwest will pay a lot of money.

this is an spa expensive series of mistakes because even before the federal fines come down the transportation secretary pete buttigieg is making sure they pay people that got stranded. last night buttigieg wrote a letter to the ceo of southwest no amount of financial compensation can make up for passengers who missed moments with their families they can never get back. christmas, birthdays, weddings and other special events. that's why it's so critical for southwest to begin by reimbursing passengers for those costs that can be measured in dollars and cents. the department will use the fullest extent of its investigative and enforcement powers to hold southwest accountable if it fails to adhere to the promises made to reimburse passengers. so buttigieg is laying it on thick and bernie sanders piles on with this. corporate greed is southwest getting a $7 billion bailout during the pandemic and spending 5.6 on stock buy backs to enrich wealthy shareholders while stranded passengers are

threatened with jail time for the crime of trying to rebook cancelled flights during the holidays. so far this week, monday southwest cancelled more than 2900 flights. tuesday, more than 2600. wednesday, 2500. thursday, 2300. but just a few minutes ago, we heard from that southwest ceo. he says things today are going to to be better. >> i think step one is to get the operation back on track. the best way to serve our customers is to get the network going again. and i'm really pleased that we're here today and we're going to run a full network. a close second is to take care of all the things that occurred during the issues. get refunds processed, get bags moving. there will be a lot of lessons learned that come out of this. >> and as we watched this whole situation play out in slow motion we really didn't hear

much from officials here. president biden left it to the transportation secretary pete buttigieg to do what he could but as we have seen the feds were really limited with what they could do. they couldn't go in and get people off the floor of the airport and to their final destination. it was up to southwest ultimately but the story is not over because they're going to be writing some big checks when the fines come down in the new year. back to you. >> katie: all right peter thank you very much. >> joey: thanks peter. >> katie: when something goes wrong on a flight or there's a norovirus outbreak on the crews and they try to give you a voucher for another cruise? i want money. we'll see if they give free flights or write some checks. >> griff: i think really the question now is, so how do you hold them accountable? how do you make this, the airlines pay if you will and of course we have all the progressive democrats piling on,

particularly buttigieg but in the last hour we talked to fox business's lauren simonetti about really that question and here's what she had to say. >> the culprit here is the internal systems, the software, that southwest airlines uses. even the head of their pilots union came out and said this has been a major problem for decades. we literally cannot find and get the pilot to the plane with the crew. we just can't get it together. that's why we've seen 15, 16 thousand cancellations this week. so it is southwest's problem. but southwest also got $7.2 billion in taxpayer money. audit that now. how was that spent? why wasn't it given to investing in their own infrastructure to prevent a situation like this? but so far pete buttigieg has given the airlines a slap on the wrist when he had all of these warnings that he might have wanted to be more aggressive in ensuring that they can handle all of this. >> katie: $7.2 billion is a lot of money for something like this to happen.

>> joey: here's the problem. this is what makes me so frustrated. congress gave so much money away over the last two years under the emergent need of covid. oh, my god we have to get it done and do it right now and pass this money out. i want to see a republican come on this network or any network and say we need to investigate where that money went and then ask them, did you vote for it? when you voted for it, did you try to get any type of contingencies put into that build, your caucus vote for it. it could be thomas messy investing it he might be the only one who held out. that's the problem. we are starting a new congress, somebody is going to be speaker of the house that is republican and we have to get the spending under control and if nothing else i know we're going to end up paying for southwest one way or the other to fix themselves. we better have some contingencies in place that say before you use my money fix yourself. >> griff: the question now is what does pete buttigieg do? one of the things we know he has

in the pipe lines proposals just further regulates the airline industry which is not going to really have any impact on this issue. >> katie: right. look, i don't have much confidence that a transportation secretary who really has zero experience with transportation on the federal level is going to do much to actually fix this problem. in fact he may make it worse. i guess it's good he's not mia for this crisis when he's mia for supply chain crisis,s the shipping containers sitting off shore, the rail he was off for that that so at least he's sending harshly worded letters but i worry the government will come in and instead of looking at regulations that makes the airlines jobs more difficult in terms of being flexible to rebook flights or to have people working longer when these emergencies do happen, instead just piling on new regulations without taking some of them off that are inefficient. >> joey: maybe we should have the government take the airlines

over and move to socialism. that is what the founder of home depot piss talking about b changing topics but a story that i think is so telling the quiet part out loud as i said earlier. he was doing an interview with financial times talking about this generation, talking about the cultural shift that threatens capitalism himself saying i'm worried about capitalism it's the basis of home depot and millions of people have earned this success, i'm talking the factions and distributors and people who have worked themselves enriching themselves by the journey of home depot. that's the success that's why capitalism works. but nobody works nobody gives a dam. accepted me money. i don't want to work, i'm too lazy i'm too fat i'm too stupid. >> joey: tell us how you really feel bernie. i set earlier i met with bernie marcus before, he's a very philanthropic person he gives a

way a lot of his wealth i appreciate that. home depot's a georgia brand but that story may not have a chance in today's world. the idea that this department hardware store that they put empty boxes on a shelf to show they had inventory because they were willing to take that much risk to make it happen. i don't know if this generation or even my own was told they could do that. i feel like we were told the american dream is forgotten. you can't make enough money to do it. and what happens is, when you tell people you can't afford child care, they don't have kids. when you tell people you can't afford to chase your dreams, they don't chase it. that's the problem. this is not just a technical problem. this is a cultural problem. >> katie: the problem is that socialism sucks out innovation and ambition and really depletes people's ability to want to earn their success and when we're all equal in our misery that's socialism. tried all over the world it hasn't worked out. there's a reason why america has companies like home depot and other parts of the world do not.

a company that's impacted the lives of millions of people, made their lives easier more successful more affluent so i'm glad there are still people like him who founded those companies but i do think that we've had a cultural shift especially in the aftermath of covid where the government was shutting companies down, shutting down businesses, not allowing people to go to work and earn their own living and turning around and say well, i'll just pay you for that even though it's not an earned paycheck. it's unfortunate. >> griff: it's a wake-up call i think for parents that they have now for than ever a duty to instill these principles of value and hard work and work ethic in their children because the message they're runninging into everywhere, well, rather just get the free thing, you know? who knows we'll see where that go >> meanwhile somebody whose work ethic can't be challenged is carley shimkus. >> carley: news to get to here, california sheriff's deputy shot and killed yesterday during a

traffic stop by a suspect with a long violent criminal history. the gunman was eventually killed in a shootout with officers after crashing during a high speed chase. the fallen deputy, isaiah cordero, joined the force in 2018. the riverside county sheriff said the man who killed cordero had prior arrest is for kidnapping robbery and the stabbing of a canine officer and should never have been out on the streets >> the white house is slow walking gop investigations including probes into the botched afghanistan withdraw and the hunter biden investigation. the administration says it's rejecting all document requests until republicans officially take the house majority next week but republican lawmakers poiseded to take the gavel are accusing top officials of obstructing their investigations and playing political games. >> and future nfl hall of famer jj watt reveals what one rookie teammate had to say after learning of his looming retirement. >> a picture comes through and

it's jesse luketa our rookie outside linebacker and he has cotton balls in both sides of his mouth he just got his wisdom teeth out. he's high off his ass has no clue what he's doing. >> okay. okay. i see that. i need a signed jersey jj. >> carley: that is hilarious. the cardinals defensive end broke the big requirement news over instagram a few days ago calling his career an absolute honor and pleasure. very funny voice mail that now we all know said he said when he was high after getting his wisdom teeth out. >> katie: people do that to you. >> i said some things my mom said when i got mine out as well. >> katie: i said i refuse to talk because you're going to record me so i didn't say anything. i was with it enough for that. >> griff: when i got mine out

and they took all four i actually apparently got out of the chair and walked out of the door and down the street in dupont circle in dc. someone had to chase me down and say, no, no, no, come back. >> joey: i didn't get that treatment. i got mine cut out in boot camp. so it's here's some cotton balls and let's go to work. >> katie: thank you carley. >> griff: coming up, china shoots and scores. a ccp government official gets exclusive on the court access before an nba game sparking outrage. rachel campos duffy is calling a foul. she's next. >> joey: plus jewel will close out our all american christmas concert, sharing her rendition of a winter classic. that's coming up here. your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual!!! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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♪ >> nba no boundaries association, they literally gave pre propaganda to a genocidal regime. i have played 11 years in the nba, and over 800 games. i have never, ever, in my whole career, you know, any ambassador of any government that takes the court before or after the game and takes free shots. nba literally tried to give free propaganda to genocidal regime and people needs to see that. >> katie: former nba player canter freedom crying foul for a chinese communist official who throwed video shooting free throws at a wizard's game. rachel campos duffy good to see you this morning. i had a friend text me after seeing that video and he said, of course, the diplomat is not shooting from the free-throw line, cheating as usual.

>> yeah, good one. i mean, listen, i think people need to realize that this is a $5 billion business that the nba has with this genocidal regime, and the last time that a general manager said anything, he sent out a tweet with, you know, support for hong kong, the nba was blacked out -- blocked out of china for a period of time. they lost hundreds of millions of dollars. and so the nba is basically in a slave/master relationship with china. and i think what people need to understand is, when we say it's a genocidal regime, what do we mean? we mean, first of all, that they are our enemy, for sure. geopolitical energy but they are creating genocide in their own country with the uyghurs. they sterilize women separate parents from their children to make sure that the uyghur

language and culture isn't passed on to their children. the men and women are in slave labor camps probably producing products for the nba. i mean, this is so outrages. it's so evil. and, you know, i've been thinking about it this morning katie and it's not just that the nba owners and players are responsible but at some point so are the fans. the fans need to be made aware of what the chinese government is doing. they do so much virtue signaling about racism and black lives matter. the chinese government, the chinese communist government is the most racist government, if you even want to call it a government, in the entire world. and they care more about, you know, this ambassador, they treat him better than they do their own, you know, form us player kanter who calls out the atrocities of of the regime. it's outrages. >> katie: the bigger picture we

talk about whether china will invade taiwan and what it means for our geopolitical position in the world but when it's so easy to infiltrate american culture and you have the nba doing the bidding for the chinese communist party and helping them get their wish list of taking over american society and the world, i just don't feel like it's going to end well, whether it's tik tok or other institutions that are deeply embedded in american society. >> yeah. i mean, this is what -- the chinese call it elite capture. so from the bidens to the nba to numerous other corporations, they are capturing our elite, throwing money at them, making sure they all get rich and stay silent on what they're doing and their ultimate goal is to overtake us and to infiltrate our society and they're doing it through these types of methods. and so you're right, this does not end well and we need to wake up to it. we need to call out the atrocities, enis, kanter is an

american hero for calling it out but we need a lot of him in all areas of our culture and society, in government calling out the bidens for their relationship selling out american workers, selling out americans to get rich. and all these other corporations. so there is a lot of work to be done. but the first step is doing what we're doing here which is calling it out and talking very clearly about the evil atrocities being done to human beings by this genocidal regime, the communist chinese party. >> katie: recently actually been some bipartisan about banning tik tok in the inside. we've seen it banned from government phones and states and also on capitol hill. but in terms of what republicans can do, do you think that they can treat this as a national security problem when you have foreign governments working with private corporations in the united states to further propaganda for a regime that has intentions of taking down the

country? >> so do you know what as at the real root of this katie? at the root of this is a lack of patriotism. because we wouldn't have to pass laws to tell our corporations and our business leaders and our politicians not to do business with this evil regime that wants to take over our country and infiltrate it. if there was an abundance of patriotism. so again that's another piece of the pie that we need to be working on which is getting people to love their country enough that they care about it and its people and atrocities and human rights abuses more than they care about their dollar, you know, the all mighty dollar. >> katie: speaking of a place. >> well will probably soon be the juan. >> katie: speaking of the place people love their country, you are headed to nashville for the weekend. tell us about why you're taking your cowboy boots down south. >> i do have cowboy boots thanks to you katie. i ran into you in the green room and you were wearing cowboy boots? and you said you are you don't

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try to stop the surge. here former dhs secretary and ice director jonathan haney. thank you for joining us. when we see that video i'm reminded a couple days ago a story about people being hit by illegal immigrants who didn't know how to drive and didn't have a license. that is even worse trying to e vad capture. tell us about the border. >> that really exemplifies the true dangers not only to the american people but also to our border patrol agent and in this case it was state law enforcement officers and it just shows how extreme this administration is policies are on immigration, they put open borders ahead of public safety and ahead of the safety of their own agents and law enforcement locally. it's truly a tragedy on a daily basis and more bad things are going to happen. because at some point agents are going to be killed, other people are going to be killed. it's entirely preventible but

this administration is doing nothing because their most important prior to is open borders and everything else comes second. >> griff: jonathan bad things are already happening, agents are getting shot at and you're right it's going to get worse clearly if and when title 42 lifts. but let me ask you as a former deputy assistant secretary at dhs, 240,000 got-aways in the past 90 days, over 617 migrant encounters. would that have been tolerated at dhs when you were there? >> no, it wouldn't have. and the thing is, they're not even trying right now. you know, it's not like they're trying their hardest and trying to prevent it and they're just being unsuccessful because they're overwhelmed, they are encouraging illegal immigration in every respect. they've made it perfectly clear that once you get to this country you will receive every benefit american citizens get plus the bonus of a free phone when you get here. so this administration is encouraging this. they are causing this. every other week they're in

court fighting to prevent from having to deport people or things like that. it's truly a disgrace. they have no -- they don't have the interest of the american public at all. they put the interest of illegal aliens ahead of the american public every single time and they simply don't care. and, yeah, like it is horrible now but i do expect it will continue to get worse. >> joey: when we talk about the border and its security and how we secure the border you were part of an administration that was praised for getting the border more secure. now we have an administration actively trying to take all those things back away and title 42 being this last thread that we're hanging on to. republicans just took congress. what can be done, what should be done in congress to secure our border or does this just become something we have to deal with every presidential election cycle? >> yeah, on one hand i think the second part is right. in some respects we have to deal with it. but unfortunately congress just

passed that gazillion dollar omnibus bill instead of waiting until the new congress took shape where they could have imposed border security measures. they do have the power of the purse the power to withhold funding but instead they blew that opportunity so they won't have a budget for another year so the only thing they can do truthfully is try to bring attention to at this time have hearings. they may not be successful politically in terms of changing policies but they may be successful in informing the american public how bad things are, how dangerous things are because of this administration's policies but it is really unfortunate they missed a golden opportunity a week or two ago with that omnibus bill. >> $1.9 billion for non-detention border requirements which equates to processing and transporting not enforcement and infrastructure an unfortunate missed opportunity. jonathan fahey former ice director thank you very much and happy new year.

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legally speaking. the change is unlikely to come from members of congress but rather the score. two cases to the high court challenged 230 the law that shields social media companies from getting sued over third party content on their site. one suit that scotus will take up accuses youtube's ago chrisms of spreading terror wrist content and that youtube didn't do enough to block terrorists from using the platform. >> they've been so focused on basically taking conservatives off the platform they've lost track of terrorist content and we've seen a massive proliferation of extremism concern without really any content moderation making sure that it stays off the platform. and so essentially you have a misuse of resources. >> a number of tech platforms have been accused of censoring conservatives over the past year. gofundme famously blocked a fund razor for the freedom convoy protesting covid mandates in

canada, paypal is the latest to be accused of suspending accounts because of their content, and the republican national committee is suing google for sending e-mails to the spam folder in gmail. we'll see what 2023 holds and whether any of of this actually changes. guys, back to you. >> griff: grady maybe the new year's resolution for those companies should be to stop censoring people. grady trimble thank you very much. happy new year. >> you, too. >> griff: you were just talking about the paypal stuff. >> katie: yeah. >> joey: in preparation for this and thinking we have these supreme court cases where someone doesn't bake a cake for someone because of what's on the cake so the supreme court has heard cases where someone was discriminated against in something that kind of goes to politics depending how you look at it. with paypal they're taking someone's ability to do commerce away and that's a fundamental right. i don't know how it falls in our bill of rights and how scholars

interpret it but it seems forthcoming. >> katie: i think congress with the new majority in the house have to focus on regulating the federal government so fbi, department of homeland security all of these governmental agencies going around the first amendment and working with private companies like twitter and facebook to censor speech, i think that's probably where they have the most leeway in terms of coming up with some solution to this type of censorship. otherwise, it's going to be very difficult for people on capitol hill who don't understand tech and often times implement regulation that makes the problem worse, to really go at this from a perspective that's going to be the better for the consumer than it is right now. >> griff: you know, hearing you sort of lay that out, and i don't want to make a pessimistic prediction for 2023, but, you know, i applaud the republicans, they're going to pull all of these companies not just twitter but google and facebook and others get them back on capitol hill. because if we learned anything from the twitter files, the latest one episode ten we

learned there was this foreign intelligence task force that was basically supposed to be looking at foreign intelligence threats instead expressing and encouraging domestic accounts. you know, we get a lot there. i fear the take away is that ultimately we have a further loss of confidence in our government institutions by what we learn, but we need to learn it. >> katie: it will be interesting to see what the supreme court section 230 indicates because they're looking at whether these big tech companies are publishers and whether they can be held accountable for what is on their platform or just open bulletin boards and if they are why are they regulating content. >> griff: good point someone we will never stop trusting the great carley shimkus with hid lines. >> carley: got headlines beginning with a fox weather alert a massive winter storm in oregon leaves at least four people dead including a four year old little girl. those victims were killed in two separate crashes. huge gusts of wind and extensive flooding also leaving thousands of people without power. and in work ton state a record

high tide of 18 feet submerging parts of olympia. a coastal flood advisory in effect until later this afternoon. for more on this story, download the fox weather app or stream fox weather on your favorite connected tv device >> an illinois judge deals a major blow to governor jbpritzker by ruling ending cash bail is unconstitutional. ceo and pastor corey brooks is waging in on the battle against street violence. he joined us earlier to discuss. >> we need to make sure that before these young people turn into criminals, that we get them on the right path. that's the reason why having strong families are important. that's the reason we're building a community center on the south side of chicago with project hood so we can impact our families and change the trajectory of families and get them on track. allowing criminals to just have their way in our neighborhood, we cannot continue to allow that to happen. >> carley: in chicago theft up

15 brian stelter se % robbery up and burglary 14% year over year >> two hero ohio police officers being hailed as heroes after rescuing an elderly couple from a house fire on christmas eve. both officers joined us earlier. >> everything happened so fast i didn't really give it too much thought. i just took action and did the best i could. >> we both love our job, we love what we do and in situations like that there's not really thought into it. you just act. and we're proud to be able to be in those positions to help do that. >> thankfully the couple was not hurt. and rescues like that, guys, happen every single day across the country. >> katie: yep. >> carley: so good to highlight them. >> katie: like they said they didn't think about it just went in to get them and got them out safely. >> carley: amen. >> joey: interesting part both my brother in-laws are firemen and in that interview they said they usually establish the exterior, and then go in the police officers had to be the ones that went in. at he not always the job you train for it's the one you end

up doing. >> katie: thank god for them. >> joey: we check in with meteorologist adam klotz for our forecast t >> adam: beautiful on fox square a couple folks out here who have joined me this morning. you know what i look i can to do? i like to see who is from the furthest away we have someone from long island new york, michigan and then all of a sudden we have folks from italy, all the way from italy. how do you say it's a beautiful day in italian? [speaking foreign language >> adam: one more time [speaking foreign language] >> adam: i'm not going to try to repeat that but it is a beautiful day in new york city and most folks on the eastern side. 46 in chicago, 45 in chicago, fargo four degrees but it's always cold in fargo. what are we looking across the east? it stays pleasant the next couple days all the way through new year, temperatures in the 40s, temperatures in the 50s and 60s all the way through sunday into monday. guys, those are your weather headlines for now tossing it back in to you. >> katie: we're thawing out and

the arctic air is gone. we're happy it's not trespassing anymore. all right, still ahead, what is singer jewel up to? she's getting ready to go walking in a winter wonderland. she joins us next with carley. dad and i finally had that talk. no, not that talk. about what the future looks like. for me. i may have trouble getting around, but i want to live in my home where i'm comfortable and my friends are nearby. i can do it with the help of a barber, personal shopper and exercise buddy. someone who can help me live right at home. life's good. when you have a plan. ♪ ♪

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♪ >> katie: it is hard to forget a voice like jewel's. ♪ you love me and soon i know you will see you were meant for me ♪ and i was meant for you ♪ >> katie: and now the grammy nominated singer and song writer has a new album out called free wheeling woman and she's also doing so much good this holiday season with a campaign called the hashtag not alone challenge. and jewel joins me now. jewel, thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> thank you. >> carley: so tell us about the not alone challenge. because i love this idea. >> yeah, anxiety and depression tend to double during the holiday season and we're seeing historic highs actually throughout the entire year yet 50% of the people that need tools don't have access to scientifically proven tools that help with anxiety so to change that we started the not alone, 130 celebrities offering the

most amazing packages and items if people want to see those they can go to not alone challenge.org. >> carley: you're right about that. the holidays can be such a happy time for so many and the loneliest time for other people, too. so how can we help out? >> i want you to join the challenge. would you join the challenge? >> carley: yes, right now. >> all i need is a 30 second video talking about the importance of mental health. >> carley: i was struck by the fact you said half of people don't have access to mental health services which is something that should never be the case in this day and age. so i think what you're doing is such a good idea and everybody can join the challenge by using the hashtag not alone challenge and create a short video sharing their mental health struggles or successes. i know that this is something you've overcome in your life as well. >> yeah. i moved out at 15, i was homeless at 18 and i wanted to be really sure that happiness was for people like me too who didn't have access to traditional resources.

so for 20 years developing a curriculum that works for anxiety. my foundation has one of the highest of helping teen-agers with suicidal ideation. >> carley: i'm sure hearing success stories of people who have overcome like you has been fulfilling. >> an amazing thing to do and participate in. >> carley: amazing. you also have a new album out that came out in april. i love the title of it, called free wheeling woman and you also have a christmas song you're going to be singing as well. first of all, tell us about the album. >> the album is my first album in seven years, i called it free wheeling woman because i'm proud to be 48 and i've built a life where i get to do what i want because we live in such an amazing country. i hope people love it. it's been my favorite project. >> carley: well you are beautiful inside and out jewel and we're so excited to hear you sing. i mentioned you're going to be singing a holiday song for us, at winter wonderland right? >> yes and i might yodel in it,

too. >> carley: i can't wait for that. without further adieu, here's jewel. take it away. ♪ ♪ sleigh bells ring are you listening ♪ in the lane snow is glistening ♪ a beautiful sight, we're happy tonight, walking in a winter wonderland ♪ gone away is the blue bird ♪ here to stay is in the new bird ♪ to sing a love song as we go along, walking in a winter wonderland ♪ in the meadow we can build a snowman ♪ and pretend that he is parson brown. he'll say are you married we'll say no, man, but you can do the job when you're in town

♪ later on we'll conspire as we dream by the fire ♪ to face unafraid the plans that we've made ♪ walking in a winter wonderland ♪ [yodelling] ♪ when it snows, though your nose gets a chilling, we'll frolic and play the old fashioned way walking in a winter wonderland. ♪ walking in a winter wonderland

♪ ♪ [cheers and applause]

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new year celebration. interview folks, wounded veterans we heard about this week down there. a lot of fun from the new year coming in for us. are you ready for it? >> there is already a party on the couch. >> carley and i are dancing over here. we were in times square a few years ago and you were crowd surfing. it was like three years ago i think, something like that. >> there was a great moment. griff, you crowd surfed a decade ago and everybody, take her away. they carted me off. it was hilarious. >> i'm headed to daytona in a few hours, pete, will and rachel will be in nashville, a great huge new year's all american show. you don't want to miss it. it is so exciting joey will stave awake for the first time ever. >> i'm going to the peach state. i'm going to watch our bulldogs

whip the ohio state university. i will be staying up. >> the goal is 10:00 p.m.enter >> tune in, watch it. thanks for letting us in your living room. happy new year. ♪ >> rich: a messy start for a divided government. how the white house is already pushing against the incoming gop house and what it means for republicans looking to serve as a check on the biden administration. good morning, i'm rich edson in for bill hemmer. >> julie: is it friday already? i'm julie banderas in for dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." president biden operated without oversight because democrats controlled both chambers of congress. republicans will take contro