♪ rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 8:00 a.m. and that's gilbert the party pig. i just got a text from the maclamore boys wishing they were here making pulled pork for us. that's not nice. will: not to gilbert.

pete: he doesn't know what's going onment he's eating trash off the street because that's what pigs do. rachel: there's delicious mocktails that rob made for us and go to robfloydonent.com. >> he was a mixology featured on bar rescue and robfloydent.com like entertainment. we thank him for doing it and they're really good. rachel: this is volcanic black salt. rachel: right. will: it's great on a margarita. pete: i've always mocked mocktails. why would i but i realize all i need is a drink in my hand. if i can drink this all morning and there's no alcohol in it, i'm having a great time. will: he said two fascinating things, that will release serotoninnen in your brain, you're tricking your brain into

thinking you're having a good time drink and second thing that stood out to me was human beings smile or laugh 17 times a day but if you're at a bar, you laugh or smile 17 times in an hour. pete: sounds right. if you want to be healthy, go to a bar. rachel: not exactly what it was but okay. pete: that's what i took it with was smiling and laughing makes you happy and healthy. rachel: do that in and out of a bar. okay. pete: i was going to say something and now i'm not. it's good advice. we're glad you're here and it is the 8:00 a.m. eastern time. we're glad to be together and we've had a few weeks where we're in different places and had new year's together and we're back and ready to deal with this year that's coming at us fast.

will: mexicans rescued three girls 9, 6, and 1 abandoned on the mexican border crossing into the united states. earlier rachel interviewed jaco saying this is a product of the cartels and this is quite a line saying children are essentially trading cards to the cartels. >> when adults abandoned their duty to take care of kids, kids will suffer and unfortunately the cartel are using children as trading cards and there's different reasons why children are being abandoned in mexico at the border in the river or in the u.s. once they cross. the child is serving a purpose to a point and when you see them discarding the children because the child in mexico they can blend into the movement of a lot of bodies and people. they look like a family and then they'll discard that child and make a break most likely through

private property and the child is a ticket to passage. rachel: it's really sad and he run as ministry dealing with human trafficking and he says he's seen an increase in children abandoned at the border, at the rivers and inside of our drop and we had sarah carter on with some of them being kidnapped by the cartel and harvesting and never to be seen again and 40% of unaccompanied children that we process we can't keep track of. our government has no idea where they're at and this is the human trafficking that he's really concerned about that once they get into our country, they're put in the hands of people that claim to be their relatives but we don't know that and we're all complicit in this abuse of children. pete: we've report add couple of

weeks ago they're no longer vetting sufficiently a lot of adults these kids are going to. so, will, you did a great job this weekend highlighting what's happening at the border and because joe biden went there as a layover, we're covering this today because it's an ongoing issue and joe biden popped in and they've got a sanitized cleaned up version of what it looked like and met with migrant rights groups and facilitators of illegalities on behalf of the cartels and he jetted out of town. this is continuing soon. rachel: this little girl was abandoned by the cartels that her very irresponsible parents put her and her siblings in the hands of the cartels and when the cartels are no longer wanting to deal with them or need to break away, they leave them and here she is, 9 years old and a 4-year-old and 1-year-old, thank god they were rescued. they have no idea where they're

at. pete: we can't show you the video right now but it is staggering. will: new york city mayor eric adams heading to el paso .t see if he gets the same type of analogy on this with the view of what's happening at the southern boarder and we'll see a version of it reflecting reality and it's all cleaned up ahead of his arrival. pete: we'll see. bring in senator ron johnson, a senator from wisconsin and, senator, thanks for being here. we want to pivot to another pressing topic, which is what surprisingly almost all of the media has been talking about, which is these records, classified documents found in multiple locations after joe biden was vis president just now being reported by his lawyers, special council is appointed and where do you see this going? >> good morning, guys. the mainstream media will make

excuses for president biden that's as i read the reporting what's happening right now but there's a big difference and they're trying to create -- equate it to the documents in mar-a-lago and president trump becoming unilateral spoiling and this is part and parcel with democrats and they've completely ignored the fact and classified documents of things related and james comey exonerated her and with president biden now this is serious business and certainly those of us in the senate, those of us in congress, we have to go down to a secure location to view documents that are tightly controlled and basically like a light ray system. you check -- library system, you

check them out and check them in. it's controlled fakes the contre house and how president bind took them out of the white house and let's face it, his interview with scott in 60 minutes you talked about and couldn't understand how it could happen and how could anyone be this irresponsible with president trump. i wonder if it's possible. rachel: hunter biden on the forefront of the joe biden scandal and what's in the relation to that and also this is a family that has very close ties with the chinese. i mean, they shared hunter biden and joe biden shared an office with the chinese energy executive that had ties to the economist chinese government so what do we make of all this and could it be connected? >> they date somewhere between

2013 and 2016 and relate to issues dealing with iran, ukraine and the uk. certainly issues with iran could be some of the most sensitive national security secrets that we have and i don't know what's in it and it's a brazen disregard for the law. we have senator grassley and i have been asking the white house attorney for now two years because there's indications of hunter biden's laptop that joe biden also is using a private e-mail to potentially conduct official business. that's what hillary clinton did. again, they're just brazen in violating the rules and they don't believe the rules apply to them. his attorney writes back they're fully aware of the precious records act and they may be aware and they're not following it and does seem to be. will: senator johnson, in light of the news as well and a quick

pivot again and in light of the news this morning at the cdc seems to be acknowledging to some extent the risk of stroke when it comes to covid-19 vaccine. i know you've been at the forefront of pushing for more. there seems to be very little curiosity in most corners of american media or in academia and science and any effects of the covid-19 vaccine and you've been pushing the cdc for curiosity and data and information needed by the american public. >> let me put this in perspective and in 1976 during the swine flu vaccine program, we missed about 45 million -- administered about 45 million doses and that program was shut down when about 4 to 500 cases of guillron beret noted and more

than 60,000 adverse events reported and this has been an issue and i've been raising this since march of 2021 when we already had chalked up about 4400 deaths and the cdc, our federal health officials are completely ignoring this about the covid cartel and bind administration and federal health agencies and big pharma and mainstream media and big tech social media giants ignored this and about time that somebody starts paying attention to this but it's long overdue. will: why are they ignoring this and pushing this? >> they don't prevent infections or transmission and nobody will admit they were wrong because the body count is way too high. they sabotage early treatment

and mishandled the pandemic response shut down schools and sweden didn't and not a child in sweden died and there's lower infection rates around kids and starting to find out and through the huberous and people like fourth quarter chips act and people that -- fauci and people that mishandled this and people won't admit their wrong and people getting the vaccine and don't know there's not real issues here and people need to start facing reality and starts with federal health officials and i've written close to 50 oversight letters and people like them and perhaps transparency and honesty needs to begin. rachel: you've been one of the only people that stood up firmly and strongly with people who have had vaccine injuries and

people who were gaslighted and told they were imagining it or told they're conspiracy theorists and ignored by the federal government and you've given them a platform and many hearings were dis-prepared by big tech and it was incredible and thank you for all your work on this. you're being vindicated many, many times over senator johnson. thank you for your courage. >> thank you for having me on. i appreciate it. pete: turning to additional fox news alert, climate protesters in germany clashing with police this morning as they try to stop the expansion of a coal strip and end fossil fuels across the nation. swedish actress is expected at the rally after condemning them later today. simple for climate activism in

europe. all right. in oklahoma, the search for the missing 4-year-old is on going after authorities make an arrest in arizona. police taking 36-year-old yvonne adams into custody in connection with the disappearance and the caretaker being charged with murder and held on $1 million bond. atathena was reported missing after the postal worker found the child's 5-year-old sister wandering around outside. so sad. over one complaint that the flag represents "racist bigoted views". one outraged police union is challenging the ban and saying we will display it proudly and

not let anyone distort the true meaning and the blue line represents the men and women of law enforcement that stand in the gap between the lawless and the innocent. they believed in it enough that it was in the lobby and one complaint and they cave. great. new jersey congressman jeff mandrew and environmentalists calling for pause in offshore wind projects and spike in whale deaths, there's a concern this is happening because of ocean floor mapping and pumping sound down to the floor of the ocean and whales are washing up dead. hump back whale washed up on the jersey shore and it is the seventh whale death in a little over a month in the region. democrat new jersey governor phil murphy refusing to hold the development of offshore wind projects that we'll get to stare at on the jersey shore.

rachel: that was a republican new jersey congressman bringing this to light. what happened a towel the environmentalist demo democratsd they don't care the whales are washing up because they're making money? that's the whole green movement really is about. it's about money. all right, coming up, tornadoes ripping apart alabama and moving across the south leaving devastating destruction behind. we have a live report coming up. will: first, inflation may be slowly declining month by month but prices everywhere still sky high. stuart varney on why the price isn't right in biden's economy. ♪

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pete: joe biden taking a victory lap of sorts as inflation eases for a sixth straight month. what he's not telling you is that there's still painfully high prices across the board. let's crunch some of the numbers with stuart varney, host of va"varney & co." and american built. inflation is the name of the game and white house is trying to spin one perspective, what's

the reality? >> the headline is biden's inflation makes workers worse off and now he's spinning. he's saying and i'm quoting directly, wages are higher now than seven months ago testing for inflation. he's cherry picking numbers and in fact if you go back one year, real weekly earnings are down 3.1% and that's the impact of inflation. pete: break down the inflation numbers as you talked about. orange is 2020, blue is 2021, 2022 in yellow. what do they tell you? >> show you where it started and red line on the bottom is trump's last year in office. average inflation rate, 1.2%. pete: i like that. that's good. >> then the blue line and that's the first year of biden in office. got it, with inflation rate going up to 4.7%. the yellow line at the top is biden's second year in office where the average inflation rate is 8%. so you can see it started there.

pete: started here with biden. >> started with biden and pete: and still up there for biden. take ago reduction from here to there but not overall. >> yes, he's cherry picking the numbers and spinning it politically. he has to. he's on under political pressure with the documents. he's looking for something good here. p got to have something good to say. pete: inflation hits people in a lot of different ways and focus on the december 2022 cpi report and why in some of the places has inflation been -- this is not 8% stuff. this is way beyond that. >> yes, it is. eggs, there's bird flu and affected the market dramatically and it is the inflation that people are seeing and feeling regardless they don't know when it'll hurt you and up 42% and this is a lack after supply basically.

heavy demand and they've gone to war against gnat gas and everything else -- nat gas and everything else. people have a shortage of jet fuel going straight up and heavy demand for seats on planes and they can put the price up. pete: what has wage growth been looking at numbers on inflation? >> wage growth is about 5%, inflation about 6.5%. pete: on all of these numbers if your wages are only increasing 5% but you're spending that much more on this, on this, and on that, that's where the pinch comes from. >> you've been to the super market and heard people say i can't believe i'm paying that. i pay $10 for a loaf of bread two days ago. $10. a regular loaf of bread. that hits you and makes you realize what's going on. you can say now, are you better off now than you were two years ago? the famous question to jimmy

carter. the answer is no, i'm not. inflation and biden's inflation has done it. pete: the last slide that is inflation to your point under all two years of since biden took office across the spectrum, again, these are staggeringly high numbers and that bottom one on the right, 10,000 additional extra costs to families. >> the average family over the last two years an extra $10,000 in costs. that hits everybody and they're getting worse off. pete: because of real quick question, because of inflation going down a little bit recently, what's the fed going to do? think they start tapering their increases in rates. >> that's their expectation and 75-basis points and expectation is $25 basis points and that'll slow the economy. but it'll take a long time to get rid of 6.5% inflation. so you've got a slowing economy, steady inflation, that to me means moderate stagflation.

pete: borrowing money will become more expensive and wage growth shrinking as part of china inflation and it'll take a long time. >> you like this stuff. pete: every single weekday 9:00 a.m. to noon on fox business, stuart varney, always a pleasure. >> thank you, appreciate it. pete: you got it. coming up, 220 democrats oppose a bill that would require medical care for babies that survive attempted abortions. we'll hear from two abortionme survivors coming up next.

rachel: welcome back. we're back with a fox weather alert and at least nine people are dead after severe storms and dozens of tornadoes ripped through the south. a powerful system destroying homes and businesses across georgia and alabama as rescue workers continue to search for survivors. officials estimating as many as 35 tornadoes may have touched down on thursday.

let's turn now to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our fox weather forecast. rick: good morning, rachel. when you get a storm in january, what's often behind the storms it's really cold and what's going on now and take a look at weather map with what's going on and cold air settled down across parts of the south and into the 20s and 30s across areas of mississippi and alabama and parts of georgia where we had the worst of these storms that went through and that cold air certainly making things rough. we do warm up slowly this week but it'll be a slow progression by the time we get towards tuesday and back in the 60s and 70s and right now behind the front that brought all the severe weather and snow in the southern appalachians and 3 to 6-inches for a few people there and we'll turn our attention again back across the west and we've obviously been dealing with the series of storms and three more storms lined up with better change and that doesn't happen till we get towards thursday or friday and one storm that's moving on now and another one coming in behind it and

we've had incredible amounts of rain and great news for the drought and bad news for the flooding and landslides and more of this coming but we see a change in the pattern and it's going to be very welcome out across parts of the west. all right, rachel back to you inside. rachel: thank you, rick. house democrats shamelessly opposing legislation that would require health providers to give immediate medical care to infants who survive an abortion procedure. >> the problem with this bill is not that it makes anything that -- it's not that it provides any new presbyterians from infant -- protections for infants and the problem is that it endangers some infants by stating that that infant must immediately be brought to the hospital. rachel: joining us now are two women that survivorred their mother's abortions and founder of the abortion survivors network, melissa and sarah.

sarah and melissa, thank you so much for joining us this morning. i'm going to let you just start, melissa. i want to talk about your stories but i can't ignore that sound byte that we just heard. howdies ingenuous is jerry nadler? >> i could use a whole lot more words to describe that but we continue to hear the same language during roe and after roe that born-alive legislation isn't needed and it is searching for a problem that doesn't exist but i can tell you as both an abortion survivor and someone that works with a population of abortion survivors, we have a problem in the united states that needs to be addressed, and this was a good first step in that direction. rachel: sarah, explain what happens when a child -- without this bill, what would happen to a child that survives an abortion? >> they'd be left to die and up to the physician to decide on

his own what he was going to do as it was in my case. rachel: okay. so now tell me what happened in your case. how did you survive an abortion? >> absolutely. my birth mother was an immigrant from honduras and came to america as a teenager and got pregnant with me she had seven children at home. she was referred to a chief physician known as [inaudible] and he was infamous in new orleans for being a doctor for minorities and delivered me in an induction abortion at 26.5 weeks and advised my mother to let me die on the table because i wasn't breathing and said i'd be a mental vegetable incapable of having a normal life. rachel: lie, lies lies and you're here and beautiful and alive and well. melissa, what happened to you? >> my story started 45 years ago, my birth mother as a 19-year-old college student was forced to have a saline-infused

abortion and i soaked in this solution for five days and should have been scalded to death and believed it was doing what it was supposed to and on the fifth day, i was delivered believed to be a dead baby and successful abortion andives accidently born alive. they were meant to leave me to die and i know one brave nurse rushed me to the nicu unwilling to leave me there past the minutes i was. i share with members of congress that my life, sarah's life and no child's life should be left in the hands of whoever is working that day to do the right thing. rachel: melissa, how many babies do you think this happens to? if there's a bill like this that by law requires nurses and doctors to provide medical care to an infant that survives an abortion. how many babies will be saved instead of left to die? >> it's really interesting

because part of the problem in the u.s. is we don't have any reporting requirements federally and we don't have even just a handful of states that report out the number of abortion survivors. if you look through state reports in minnesota and texas, we have babies surviving boshes and it's being reported like it's supposed to be in the state but in those reports, they're still recording that those babies are being left to die. this is not acceptable and something has to change at the top to trickle down to the rest of the states and we know statistically we'll be putting out research of the abortion survivor's network based on canadian data and there are thousands of babies surviving abortions every year. we're hearing from women now who are having babies survive both chemical abortion pi pills and o we aren't even capturing those that survive in the first trimester. rachel: absolutely. 40% of abortions are chemical abortions done at home. sarah and melissa, thank you for

sharing your stories and it's so important the fact this is not regulated and we don't even have these numbers says a lot about this industry. and the kind of transparency and honesty we need around this issue and you're both doing your best to bring that to account and hold people accountable. let me say, i'm glad you both survived and both alive and what a blessing you're using your lives to bring more attention to others going through the same thing. thank you so much for joining us this morning. god bless you. >> thank you. rachel: coming up, the cdc sounding the alarm on a possible link between pfizer's covid vaccine and strokes. dr. robert redfield used to head the health agency and he's going to react to that. but first, president biden is accused of stashing classified documents and will and pete go off the wall next with a questionable way this has all unfolded.

pete: the investigation into joe biden's st stash of unclassified documents is unfolding. let's go off the walls. will: they've found classified documents in three separate locations coming to joe biden. documents that date back to his term as vice president. they were found at his vice

presidential library, the pen biden senter and two separate locations at a house of his in delaware. pete: that's right. the biggest staring revelation in this whole process is that joe biden had a think tank. which if joe biden can have a think tank, anyone can have one. there's classified documents and we were alerted to that on monday and on thursday we find out joe biden, these may not be the documents themselves and could have been stored with a corvette and we learned there was a document found in an aadjacent room and in the same house and one that hunter biden with the home address. will: pete brings up joe biden's think tank and it would be announced it would be launched in 2017 and put a little perspective on funding going not necessarily to the pen biden center but the university of

pennsylvania in general and in 2014 does $a 54 million received by upenn by china. pete: that's staggering when you think -- ivy league institution taking multimillion dollar donations on the regular and this is before joe biden was there and if you look at time frame as we walk forward here, we know at a minimum $30 million of those chinese donations came after the biden penn center was founded there and they knew joe was there maybe through the connections and more money flow. will: to your point, a staggering amount of money being funneled into a american university from china and gets more concerning when you see 23 million of that is an anonymous gift going in that direction and always the story is one of potential corruption at minimum potential influence by a foreign government.

pete: biden's salary and fancy office that overlooks the capitol and unclear if they want to model after the clinton global initiative and they didn't have to raise money. they didn't raise money and went through upenn and we don't know who gave that money. will: on that note, what potential inflection points of compromise there might be and people start to focus on kathy chung and a former top aid to president bide and had connections to hunter biden as well and he recommended her for this job. wanted her to work for him as well. and now it's important to note that law enforcement is set to interview kathy chung. p she's in the middle of this and she was in the vp's office and she was involved in moving materials and belongings from

biden's office at the end of the administration and she was in charge of her schedule and hunter biden knew her before and recommended her to be the secretary and helped move it out and wanted to work with her afterwards and if anybody knew things about documents and dexter loomiss and recommendations of who they should be talking to, it's kathy chung but we don't even have a picture of her. we can't find a visual of who she is but she's right at the center of it. pete: we have e-mails and look at this, this is from kathy chung. thank you for calling and thinking of me after the initial shock of taking in what you said, how can i pass up a opportunity to work for the vice president of the united states? pete: five exclamation points and another e-mail in and around september of 2015. kathy chung sent this to hunter and others. please find attached an invitation to the state department lunch in honoring chinese president xi hosted by

president biden on september 25th and let me know if you'd like to attend. kathy chung inviting hunter biden and others to a state department lunch in for the premier. just saying. interesting. interesting. pete: interesting, one would suggest a worthy investigation. we're dealing with a self-reported violations here by the biden cam and go through the time line. november 2, another odd detail and biden's lawyers randomly digging through a closet and go, hey, look, oops. there's stuff here marked classified. it was a little too close to the election to be notified and the oops keystone cop lawyers or were they keystone cops. when did they know and what did they know and when were they notified and we're not learning about it till later on. will: december now and initial documents found at penn biden

center, now they're finding other documents and these are the ones they found in delaware at the various homes and they're beginning to build all of this by december 20th but you and i we don't know anything about it and in fact, we can find tape of them talking about or appointing a special council at the time when it comes to president trump. the perception, the way that they're behaving is as someone that would have completely clean hands. pete: in and around the time that merrick garland is learning about this classified information to your point and announcing a special council on donald trump. it wasn't until january 9 we get the initial set of classified documents announced and another special council appointed by merrick garland to overlook what joe biden has been doing. will: robert herr appointed to look into joe biden. a little overview of the classified documents, off the wall. reigns leading which he will, to you. rachel, over to you. rachel: they say where there's smoke, there's fire but i see the fire. thanks, guys. great off the wall.

we begin with this, air raid sirens are heard across ukraine earlier this morning as russian missiles hit critical instrategies structure in -- infrastructure in kyiv and other cities. no injuries reported yet. this is the first attack on the capitol in over a week. meanwhile ukraine st is getting more support from the united kingdom and the british prime minister is giving the green light to send tankers and artillery systems to the forces. a california mom filing a federal lawsuit against the chico unified district for allegedly pressuring her 11-year-old daughter to be transgenderrer and keep it asecret. this is a fifth grader. this outraged parent joined jesse watters to discuss. >> never gave permission for the school counselor to see my daughter one-on-one, which she did. my daughter mentioned to the school counselor she wanted to tell me and the school counselor

dismissed her request and was trying to get her to come out to other people first. rachel: blood is boiling and i cameras in the area imagine how that mom feels -- can't imagine how the mom feels. when students are struggling, they need their family. hello, by their side and not cut out. wow. air new zealand is correcting the report after a false claim made by prince harry in the new memoir, spare. harry writes that his wife mememeghan markle book add first class ticket for their wedding and her father ended up missing it. air new zealand said it does not offer first class tickets and the airline mocking harry in the tweet introducing sussex class, apparently coming soon. that's good. a royal tailor break his silence on the reported fallout between kate middleton and me meghan mae

before that royal wedding saying it was stressful and every bride maid's dress had to be fixed and those are your headlines. i love all the royal news. coming up, white house accusing governor desantis of playing politics onthe border despite the u.s. coast guard begging for help to deal with the crisis. miami mayor francis suarez joins us next.

>> we've seen governor desantis do political stuns and that is -- stunts and that's how he perceives to fix this issue from florida. he is not dealing with the problem, he's actually creating a problem. will: look, hours after the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre slams desantis, the u.s. coast guard asks for help on the shoreline. mayor suarez, great to see you this morning. is that fair what she says about governor desantis, it's all political stunts? >> no, look, it's never fair when the federal government asks a state or local municipalities to help them with a crisis that's bye been created in large

part as a result of failure of their policies to turn around and criticize them for the very help they're giving them. i can tell you that just this week we had a boat of about 100 haitians land on our shores and a big park in virginia key and our police department, our fire department was there to render aid in assistance of the federal government and their role as border patrol agents and it make nososense to ask for help and criticize the very agencies trying to help you. will: mayor suarez, i'm curious, where do they need help from local authorities and help from florida? is it manpower and how is the federal government tasked with this job somehow not up to the job? >> i think what's happened here is several fold. the first is the administration sending a message to a lot of latin america countries like cuba and venezuela that they're not going to help; right h you look at the cuba situation after the july 11 protest and the

administration prosperitied to help the cue bin people -- promised to help the cue bin people and didn't -- -- cuban people and they didn't help and in the case of creating out of miami and florida a border city and a border state, that's what we've become. obviously that requires more resources and of course if they're overwhelmed because the amount of people coming are high in numbers and as a federal government we have to teped up and help because -- step up and help because they can't do it on their own. will: mayor, i've spent a lot of time on the southern burdener texas where i'm from and a lot of legal mexican american immigrants and this country want the process followed in the exact same right way. what is the attitude quickly with the cuban immigrants, legal immigrants in florida to illegal

immigration? >> oh, it's similar, of course. i think everybody who comes to the country wants to be here legally, they want to, you know, you'd think they want to be here legally so they can have a opportunity to stay here and not fear being returned to their country of origin. will: mayor, i appreciate you answers that on a tight timesh c line.ng thank you. s more "fox & friends" coming up.

♪ ♪ looking for some hot stuff, baby, this evening. ♪ i need some hot stuff, baby, tonight ♪ will: jacksonville, florida. looking beautiful this morning here on "fox & friends." ed good morning. welcome back in, will cain, rachel campos duffy, pete hegseth.