>> todd: police searching for a murder of a new jersey councilwelcome in what is believed to be a targeted attack. >> ashley: ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. she was known for committing herself to serving others and serving god. >> place that in inhabitable, amazing -- the beautiful thing about god almighty, god is like a diamond, has many sides toim had. how i relate is different than

how you relate with him, that is the beauty of god. >> ashley: jackie ibanez has the latest details. >> police found the councilwelcome dead inside her car on wednesday night. the family heard multiple gunshots before calling police. >> our friends said there were two sets of four shot,s, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. they looked outside and saw somebody running into the woods which lead to the parkway. >> the fbi has confirmed it is working on the case, meantime, her family and friends believe she was targeted. >> for somebody to get so close to somebody and shoot them so many times, it has to be personal. it could have been many reasons why somebody would hurt somebody like her, she was a beautiful

soul and loved everybody and always smiled. she would take her jacket off to give to you, she was a light. >> the murder sending shockwaves through the community. she was a devoted wife, mother, emt and pastor. eunice was a dedicated member of the council, the fact she was taken to us by a despicable criminal act makes this incident more horrifying. her sister says she always wanted to upon had the community, she would always stop and have conversation with people and invite them to church. come, we'll feed you, don't worry, if you need a ride, call me. she was working closely with new police chief to reduce crime. she leaves behind an 11-year-old

daughter. >> ashley: bob hugen joined us last hour saying this is not typical for sayerville. >> sayerville is a wonderful town, a wonderful family-oriented place and unimaginable it could happen in that neighborhood. other forces came into play, it appears as from the information, does appear she was specifically targeted for this horrific event. she was a bright light and an opportunity to do so much for the community and state and to have this taken away from her and all of us and horrific. >> ashley: he is confident the case will be solved and the suspect will be caught. >> todd: another horrible story here. california doctor dead after being mowed down a car and stabbed by the driver. the suspect hit the doctor with

his lexus before stabbing him in the back and fired two rounds before he was unarmed. he will appear in court later today. police say this was likely a random attack. >> todd: the chief financial officer of alex murdaugh law firm took the stand saying she confronted him about missingund ifs the same day his wife and son were found shot and killed. >> i told him i had reason to believe that he had received the funds himself and that i needed proof he had not. >> what did he tell you? >> he told me again he assured me the money was there. >> todd: murdaugh took the money for himself, he is facing 100 charges relating to fraud crimes in addition to the murder crime. fox news alert, white house and

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>> ashley: back with a fokd, 335,000 people across texansing, arkansas and mississippi are waking up in the dark for the second day straight. winter ice storm reeks havoc across the midsouth. the roads are treacherous and the deaths are being blamed on icy conditions. hundreds of flights are set to slam the upper midwest and northeast this morning. low temperatures expected to plunge to negative 20, negative 40 in minnesota. senior meteorologist janice dean with the forecast. i was complaining to ash, my town will be one tonight, i should be celebrating, that was the least of the ills, the coldest air in years across the northeast will move southward and eastward. below freezing, below zero in a lot of areas across minnesota

and wisconsin and then there are wind chills, what it feels like, dangerous cold for the northern plains and the northeast and new england. take a look at the ice storm, that is starting to calm down. we have seen close to an inch of ice in texas up toward arkansas and you mention power outages, 258,000 without power in texas, stretching to arkansas and parts of jackson, mississippi, the state of mississippi, 15,000 without power and that will be the case for the weekend. it will take time for the power to come back on when you have damaged power lines from an ice storm. here is the arctic blast, negative 40 to negative 60 will be possible in some areas, especially in northern n new

england. partses of maine, new hampshire, negative 6, the coldest inner yoos and wind chills incredible for maine, vermont. negative 27 and negative 29 in boston. the bottom line, this cold air is potentially deadly, you need to be on alert for it. it is not going to be long lasting, by sunday and monday, things start to rebound. it is cold. be careful, foxweather.com, has you posted. >> todd: you had fun yesterday with phil? >> janice: it was so much fun. getting back to new york was an adventure. >> todd: border officials have seized 4 million in fentanyl with agents discovering enough of the drug to kill 30 million people. this comes as a top d.e.a. official is sending a chilling

warning about the mexican cartels who control the supply of fentanyl in our country. >> the cartels pose the greatest criminal drug threat the united states has ever faced. the ruthless, violent criminal organizations have associates, facilitators and brokers in all 50 states, cartels are destroying families and communitieses with greed. >> todd: retired ice and hsi special agent, whose partner was killed by the cartel, joins me now. has biden administration been honest about how active the cartel is in the united states? they are here. >> they are here and unfortunately, the biden administration will not react to the imminent threat we face. i agree with the drug forcement

organization, i have dealt with the cartel. yes, the cartel is the most powerful cartel in the world, the jaleco has billions to operate, you see video of the amount of equipment and money. they are responsible for bringing fentanyl and methamphetamine and they are now included themselves in the human trafficking and human smuggling because they are making billions on that end, as well, right now. >> todd: no matter how much we, fox and people like yourself highlight the problem, it is getting worse, not better. look at fentanyl seizures last year, marked record high 14.1 thousand pounds seized. three months into fiscal 2023, we are on pace to break that record with 7.2 thousand pounds

already seized, how do we reverse this trend? >> we are screaming at the top of our lungs and you are right, we can't seem to get their attention. let me tell you about seizures, they are great and i welcome huge seizures, they are good keeping poison off the streets. when i saw seizures go up and worked narcotics on the border, that wasn't a good thing. the higher the seizures, it is coming through every part of our southern border and the maritime issue, in the seepo -- seaports. let's not forget about the victimings and families affected who lost loved ones. this is where the administration needs to focus and pay attention to families. real people have lost loved ones to poisoning and the connection

this poison has to china and china and the relationship in mexico with cartels and that flow that continues to come in here, we need to designate cartels as foreign terrorist organizations to do something about this. no longer are days of investigating cartels for two years and i arrest you and i will build the case, that doesn't work anymore, todd. we have to go above and beyond to take them out. >> this comes down to joe biden securing the border. assuming he doesn't do that, what would you do if you were in charge to target these cartels, which basically according to my sources have become nation states, it is like mexico is two countries, the government and cartels. what would you do to target them? >> first off, you are right, there is parallel government being run by cartels in mexico and first thing i designate them

as sto's, it would bring resources. we cut assets and seize assets all over the world, not just mexico, like d.e.a. mentioned, heavily present in the united states and 40 to 50 countries around the world, we need to attack them differently, we don't need to spend so much time investigating them anymore. it is the border, we need to get agents back on the line. 80% of border patrol are not patrolling the southern border, they are processing illegal aliens coming into the country. need to enforce own laws, give them back authority and take them down. >> we got to hold mexico accountable, we can't have three amigo summit, everything is not awesome, they got to do something in mexico to stop this and they are doing nothing. thank you for your insight and for doing what you do, we

appreciate it. congresswoman ilhan omar removed from the foreign affairs committee, how did the squad take the news? >> this is about targeting women of color in the united states of america, don't tell me, i didn't get a single apology when my life was threatened. thank you. >> i am so sorry our country is failing you today through this chamber. >> todd: joe concha is on deck and will react to all that next. joe. gs are getting clearer.♪ ♪i feel free to bare my skin yeah, that's all me♪ ♪nothing and me go hand in hand♪ ♪nothing on my skin♪ ♪that's my new plan♪ ♪nothing is everything♪ achieve clearer skin with skyrizi. 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months. in another study, most people had 90% clearer skin, even at 4 years. and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses.

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>> todd: hunter biden's legal team saying they never confirmed the existence of the lainey wilson despite confirming the existence of the laptop in a 14-page letter. >> ashley: brooke singman will break this down, if you can, brooke, good morning. >> brooke: that is right, hunter biden and his legal team are

denying the laptop existed, even after calling for a criminal investigation this week. hunter biden lawyer wrote letterses calling for investigations into multiple trump allies and john paul mcisaac, who discovered the laptop. hunter biden's team say the letter does not confirm a laptop. mac isaac and his attorney responding on tucker last night. >> i've been dealing with intimidation for the last coupler yoos, this is not as bad as being accused of being a traitor and working with russia to affect an election. >> this is someone with so much money going after someone who is really the little guy, he is

doing it purpose, trying to intimidate. >> brooke: i spoke to john ratcliffe, who says this is a cover-up. in october of 2020 on behalf of the u.s. intelligence communities, ratcliffe said there was no intelligence to support the laptop was part of a russia dissemination campaign. he pointed to people claiming the laptop was part of a russian smear campaign, telling me you have had the bidens lie about it, hunter biden, joe biden, biden administration, biden officials, democratic party, democratic politicians, the left-leaning party. april of 2019, isaac says the laptop was dropped off in need of fixing.

eight months later the fbi take possession of the laptop in 2020, the "new york post" was given a copy of the hard drive. house oversight hearings into joe biden and his family are set to start wednesday and chairman james comer says the scope of the investigation will include hunter's art deals, his laptop and social media censorship before the 2020 election. >> todd: the media facing renewed criticism are if coverage of the hunter biden laptop story. after claiming new york was disinformation. >> seeing if e-mails are connected to russian disinformation effort. >> it is so obviously a russian investigation. >> likely russian disinformation. >> russian disinformation

effort. >> 2-1/2 weeks before the election, this laptop appears somehow. >> ashley: joe concha is joining us now, they accused several people of using it to weaponize this story in a 14-page letter, but then went back and said, just kidding, now we want the federal and state prosecutors to look into the critics in an investigation, joe, which is it? >> joe: wow, it is enough to make your hair hurt. see if we can unpack this, hunter's legal team is admitting the laptop does belong to him after years of denial and many in the media, like you just played, called it russian disinformation and now tell jacqui heinrich that it is not admission. attorney tells me lawyers are not acknowledgement that the

laptop is hunter's. this is like o.j. promising to find the right killers. it would be a situation like, this has nothing to do with us, let's move on. when we look back on the way this story was handled since before the presidential election of 2020 that ended close, if you remember in terms of votes, this will go down as ultimate act of conformity. "new york times," "washington post," cnn, npr, pbs, pick your acronym, they were in lock step dismissing this story without a hint of curiosity and to this day, they do not give it investigation or attention it deserves considering a sitting president may be involved, todd. >> todd: yeah, horrible pr messaging, that is your area of expertise, but also this is bad

lawyering. you heard andrew mccarthy say that letter was an admission and that is not how law works and he should know that. i want to get to this, which is my favorite story of the day, the squad members melting down and crying racism after the house votes ilhan omar off the foreign affairs committee. >> this is other taeting women of color in the united states of america, i didn't get a single apology when my life was threatened. >> congressman ilhan omar is where she belongs. >> i am so sorry that our country is failing you today through this chamber. you belong in the -- >> the gentlewoman is no longer recognized. >> cue the academy awards, you had rashida tlaib wailing uncontrollably and anna presley

plowing through and i haven't seen aoc this fake upset since she fake cried at the border. >> joe: i don't even know how to unravel this, another unpacking exercise. adam schiff and eric swalwell were removed from the house intel committee, last check, those are two white guys and marjorie taylor green was removed during the last democratic-controlled congress, white girl and a white guy. aoc and rashida tlaib are saying removing ilhan omar for anti-semitic comments is about targeting women of color? this is 31 flavors of stupid with sprinkles on top, ashley. >> ashley: i don't know how to respond to that, it is not just about ilhan omar. it is not just about her being a

woman of color, it is about them not doing their jobs correctly. >> it is about ilhan omar comparing the united states and israel to hamas, to nazi germany, like she did, saying it was about the benjamines when it comes to israel. when confronted on that quote, she said, i had no idea about this troep about israel and money and jews. this person cannot be on the committee. if you agree with this and pulling folks off the committees, you still have to look at the comments overall and say, should this person be on this particular committee? ilhan omar's words speak for themselves and it ain't got nothing to do with color. >> ashley: if she didn't know it was anti-semitic, this is more reason she should not be there. thank you for an unpacking

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>> ashley: the biden administration just blocked plans for a brand-new mine that could have helped america secure energy independence, white house is imposing a ban in the national forest in minnesota, which contains 95% of the united states nickel reserve, 34% of the nation's copper and 88% of the nation's cobalt, now many worry this will increase china dependence even more. pete stauber, energy and mineral resources, joins us now. thank you for being with us, congressmen. >> good morning, northern minnesota, 41 below zero. >> ashley: i hope you have the heat on, what are you repercussions to this mining ban? >> well, it is simply

unacceptable, as you said, ashley issue the 95% of nickel, third of copper and other group elements, these are critical elements we use in everyday lives, in our defense, computers, iphones, tablets. these are critical minerals we can mine in the united states of america safely with the best labor standards and this administration refuses to mine the minerals in the united states of america, yet enters into memo of understanding with china for their minerals. to is simply unacceptable and immoral, we know they use child slave labor, that is a fact. over 40,000 children mine this. this administration turns a blind eye to that and we have the minerals here in the united states in northern minnesota.

>> ashley: how many jobs will this take away from american workers? >> thousands. you havin mooing jobs and businesses that service the mines and strategic national security. ashley, if the communist country of china and russia stop selling to the world, we're in trouble, we cannot depend on them. >> ashley: i want to get to this topic, it is interesting timing considering everything with chinese, everything we talk about has to do with china. the house is investigating john kerry secret negotiations in china now. you are not on the oversight committee, but with your background in energy, i want your thoughts on the secret meetings between kerry and china. >> well, i think james comer is on top of it and he will have and hold oversight hearings, but

the fact of the matter, what does the communist china have over this biden administration? why refuse to use united states labor and why put a special envoy and john kerry to secretly make agreements with the country of china? it is unacceptable, we have to put america first, america workers and america security first. >> ashley: the house oversight chairman james comer sent a letter to john kerry, you continue to engage in activities that undermine our economic health and threaten foreign policy under guise of climate advocacy and a lot of people are nervous with that term threaten to foreign policy national security, all of it right now. congressman, thank you for being with us, please stay warm. grab a jacket and put the heat up.

>> we will. thank you. >> ashley: have a good day. >> todd: don't light your gas stove, according to the biden administration. new internal biden memo revealing it was serious about banning gas stoves before of course the public uproar. the memo dated october 25 says, consumer product safety commission has responsibility to ban consumer products that emit hazardous substances, there is sufficient information proposing to ban gas stoves in homes. this led to the white house walking back on the comments. president biden claimed he was never in favor of banning electric stoves. where do their minds go that they think they can ban things like this. >> ashley: like there is not bigger fish to fry right now. >> todd: maybe ban the border. january jobs report coming out

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>> ashley: the january jobs report is expected to be released hours from now and expecting huge hit to big tech after companies laid off thousands. >> todd: cheryl casone is here with more. >> cheryl: yes, we'll get the january jobs report on fox business this morning. will big layoffs, in particular toward end of the year and beginning of january, be reflected in the data? not sure, the data is collected first few weeks of january. the market will look at wages for american companies, so far this year to put a finer point, 58,000 tech jobs have been cut and ceos are getting ready for a recession, but the numbers for big tech companies, apple, amazon, google, the stocks are under pressure this morning because they all missed

onernaings. that is a big shock for these behemeths. >> todd: how did amazon miss on earnings? >> cheryl: it was a rough one. a lot of pressure up there, in particular. i'll tell you for amazon, amazon web services, i don't want to get too wonky, it is not about what you get at your door step, they are jamming on that front. jamming on the deliveries, web services -- >> todd: all thanks to my wife. >> ashley: i might be, too. we could see movement on this special session into reedy creek called by desantis. >> cheryl: yeah, this is interesting, the governor talking maybe february 6, this will come up as an issue. he is calling special legislative session for the

state to take over disney's reedy creek. the session could happen on the 6th. his press secretary confirming it could happen. i can confirm the governor's office expects a special session on reedy creek. this started in the '60's, disney said, we will create a city, let us control the city. desantis, because of the fight over parental rights laws long story short, it looks like disney is probably going to lose privileges on a permanent basis. the governor is not backing down and it is true, is it true that disney debt as a city should bleed to state coffers, there is a battle between the two sides. >> todd: there is a reason to do

what he is doing, but he wants to appear tough in front of the american people. >> ashley: they like it. >> cheryl: it comes down to dollars and centses. tax breaks, enough of you controlling your own everything. >> todd: disney makes some dough. >> ashley: just a little bit. >> cheryl: they said they were going to build a city, it is not a city, it is disney world. >> todd: this smithsonian story is wrong on so many levels, not least of which somebody in a taxpayer funded institution would think they could think about kicking somebody out. >> cheryl: you sound like nikki haley. it is true, south carolina republicans are blasting the smithsonian for kicking out catholic school students over wearing pro-life beanies. the smithsonian responded, they

say basically asking visitors to remove hats and clothing is not in keeping with protocol, we provided retraining that day. one student involved finally spoke out on hannity last night. >> addressed by two women in all black, presumably security guards and they tell us indirectly, they say all people wearing a pro-life hat, take it off. immediately, we're confused and decided to sit against the wall and were approached by a large man, as we were walking out, we had to catch our bus. and he comes up to us rubbing his hands together saying, y'all are about to make my day. >> cheryl: they were in town for the march for life. that is a huge pro-life event in

d.c. why would anyone be shocked they were wearing pro-life beanies. >> ashley: that is how they were identified by the group and keeping track of them. >> cheryl: yeah, but high school students, to be clear. >> ashley: adults talking to high school students. >> cheryl: we'll see you for the jobs report later. >> todd: "fox and friends first"ed the pentagon monitoring a high balloon hovering over the united states. jonathan gilliam will assess this. >> ashley: and steve doocy is live at the big biscuit, it is my hometown, they are my chiefs, too, facing the eagles in the super bowl. >> steve: it's america's team, ashley, just say it, we're outside of the big biscuit and the boss said, steve, why don't you do a diner in kansas city,

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>> todd: a fox news alert now. a u.s. official telling fox that the gang of eight has been briefed on that chinese surveillance balloon hovering near critical u.s. military

sites. >> ashley: jonathan fill yam joins us with the latest. so far we know the balloon has been floating above air force base higher than commercial air traffic and it's the size of three buses and includes a technology bay. how did u.s. officials not catch this? >> i think that's the question out of all of this. i'm not worried about weather they have the ability to jam this thing and its ability to capture whatever it is looking for. but, how did it get over the united states? i mean, we can look at golf balls and see the dimples on golf balls from satellites track meter rights traveling 50,000 miles per hour into the united states. we don't have the ability to see a balloon moving slower than an airplane moving towards the united states before it even gets here? and it really makes you question

what is norad, the cia, the nsa, all these people that we believe are able to look and see these things, space command, this brand new space command, why couldn't they have caught this? because this is a national security blunder. not the first time, admittedly that they ever saying this has happened. how does it happen again? that's the question that needs to be asked right now. >> todd: i think this all goes to the overarching concern raised by you and ashley if our enemies can get a very slow moving balloon with a lot of other stuff attached to it over u.s. airspace, then can't they get a really fast nuke over u.s. airspace? to me, that's the main issue. they have got to answer that question. but my question for you, jonathan, are you buying this notion from the department of defense that the reasonable they can't shoot it down is because of concern that the debris field that it would create could potentially harm people? >> well, first of all, this

thing, like ashley said is as big as a bus, right? so, it's not like it was a small little thing and, todd, they recollected drop a nuclear bomb from a balloon just as easy as they could from a fast-moving plane. so i don't know if anybody has even considered that yet. but, it seems like if this thing -- if it's hovering, and they shoot it down, it's probably going to fall pretty straight down to the earth. and i don't know how vast this area where it's above. but i'm pretty sure that they would be able to track and kind of come up with a place that this may crash if it's just loitering in one place. and the fact that they keep saying that it's over this airspace, they have been saying that since yesterday. that does cause me great concern because if they have the ability to control where that hot air balloon goes from china, then maybe it's not being blocked from seeing what it wants to

see. >> ashley: i think americans have every single right to ask questions and be incredibly concerned especially when it comes to china and our national security. but we do have to get to this. hunter biden's lawyers deny admitting the laptop's existence and demand for criminal probe as the house oversight hearings into joe biden and his family they are going to start februar. so they said in that 14-page letter that the laptop was womennized now they are saying no never mind we need investigations by the federal and state to look into these people like rudy giuliani and steve bannon what is this on the lawyers? i feel like the laurels they should have known better than this. how do they say it's not hunter's but it should be looked at because it's very important. it's one or the other. right? if we look at this from a legal standpoint and somebody put something on a computer that's abandoned and it has nothing to do with hunter and it's made up and that gets leaked, is that really against the law?

something is completely ban donned and try to get in touch with them and they tonight return the call is it legal to copy what is national security issues and give that to somebody who might do something with it that is -- has connections to the government? what is happening right now is what concerns me with the democrats because you have to remember, ashley, all this has taken place inside the beltway and that is that is owned by the left. they can say ridiculous things we can look back and say how could they each be bringing this up but the left has a way of making things stick at least to the point where they cause great stress on people like giuliani or others. may not get him in trouble cause great stress and cost him a potential amount of money that's what i fear. the other is going to descrcket

us from the underlying problem. andy mccarthy saying this is ridiculous, achieving its goal detracting from joe biden. we will leave it there. jonathan t. gilliam. thank you, sir. have a great weekend. >> ashley: thanks, jonathan. >> you too, thank you. >> todd: all right, cue up the music. we want to end with a special announcement. yep, carley officially a mom. her son brock edward born on monday weighing 7 pounds, 1 ounce. mom and baby both happy and healthy. we have been texting with them all week long. congrats to pete, her husband, and of course to our friend carley. beautiful brock there. >> look how cute he is. look how great she looks. just giving birth. >> todd: did you have any question that carley would look good following the birth? >> ashley: i shoe she would. look at him. is he absolutely precious. i cannot wait to meet him. and i'm so glad that everything went well for her and they are just now starting their lives as a family of three.

>> todd: her husband pete played football in college. i think the name brock edward, i don't want to say the last name because that's private. it's the name of a tight end. the kid is going to play tight end at some d-1 school so recruiters listen up. brock edward. >> ashley: congrats, carley. >> todd: with that, "fox & friends" begins right now. happy weekend, everybody. ♪ ♪ i'm coming in high ♪ been thinking about you all week long. baby, don't keep me waiting. [cheers] ♪ i'm coming in hot ♪ >> steve: look at all these people