us, a free samsung galaxy s24 fe. >> i know kamala's word because she spends a lot of time complaining i won't agree to another debate. but the truth is i have debated twice this year. once against joe biden and once against david muir of abc. [laughter] that was amazing. >> brian: yeah, it was amazing. former president trump getting laughs while roasting the democrats at last night's al smith dinner as tradition would have it. vice president harris skipped the catholic charity event and instead sent an n. an awkward video featuring actress mollie

shannon. columnist mayorkas joins us now. what about her decision not to go can you figure out why? >> i know exactly why. the reason that she didn't go she didn't want to humanize donald trump. when you are calling somebody a fascist. you can't go do a friendly comedy evening in front of the cardinal with them. it's a huge mistake and what it really exposes and we see this increasingly is the smugness of this campaign. her attitude is i don't have to do press conferences, up until two days ago, i don't have to do tough interviews. her whole argument is i'm not donald trump. i'm not joe biden. well, i'm not donald trump or joe biden either. doesn't mean i should be president of the united states. there is no positive case here and this was just -- this wound up being a huge miss for her and really an embarrassment not showing up. >> i sat out this year of snl when mollie shannon was on it. this is pretty much a character mocking and i know everyone is supposed to have a good time and a sense of humor, mocking a

catholic -- a catholic school girl. and she brings the character back in an event where she doesn't show up for catholics but she brings back mollie shannon's character. listen to this. >> sorry, sorry. >> what's going on? who was that? >> i'm so mary katharine. >> very nice to meet you, mary katharine right now i'm trying to record my speech for tonight's dinner. >> i know. i want to say i'm catholic and tonight is one of the biggest dinners since the last summer. >> brian: no one in that room enjoyed seeing that character again. i will tell you nobody laugh you had. >> look, it's insulting, i mean kamala harris can show up in person for the call me daddy podcast but she zooms in for his eminence, the cardinal of new york city? i once got a note from cardinal dolan from a column that i had written about easter in the "new york post." it hangs on my wall. as a catholic it was deeply

moving to me to receive that from the cardinal. this is a guy who could be pope one day. kamala harris can't show up? yeah, it's a problem. >> brian: here is what jim gaffigan said. i'm not sure where jim's political standing is, but he is not anti-kamala harris. but he had to pointed out what she did do and how bad it looks. >> this is a room full of catholics and jews in new york city. this is the lay up for the democratic nominee. i mean, in her defense, i mean, she did find time to appear on "the view," howard stern, colbert, and the long-time staple of campaigning: the "call her daddy" podcast. >> brian: right. couldn't help but mock it. so, in retrospect, what happens because of this? >> well, i will tell you this, brian. donald trump beat hillary

clinton by about 2 points among catholics. joe biden beat donald trump by about 2 points among catholics. i don't think this is gonna help kamala harris repeat biden's victory among catholics. and i think whoever advised her to skip this dinner made her, a really, really big mistake. >> brian: dave marcus, thanks so much. appreciate it? >> thank you. >> brian: straight ahead in under two hours former president trump will join us on the kursky couch. that's his full screen. ♪ companies. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today.

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♪ >> lawrence: so we have a fox news alert. israeli forces have killed hamas chief and the mastermind behind the october 7th attack yahya sinwar in a chance in gaza. collectively quote no more delays, no more demands whether by negotiation or by any other means, all parties must immediately seize this opportunity to bring home the

101 remaining hostages, including seven americans before it is too late. joining us now former israeli ambassador to the u.n., who held that post, on october the 7th, gilader done, mr. ambassador, thank you so much for joining the program. you invited me to come to thetown view some of the video from october 7th. yahya sinwar was the mastermind behind that. is he now dead. what is your reaction. >> yesterday was a very happy day as you said mastermind the savage yahya sinwar is dead. we hunt him down. still we remember that the war is not over there are still 101 hostages held in the tunnels of gaza. hamas can still pose a threat

against israeli citizens. hezbollah is still threatening the cities of israel and iran is a threat in towards becoming a nuclear power. but, there is a huge opportunity now to destroy iran iran proxies in our region. >> lawrence: mr. ambassador, if you look at the wall we have a view of all the hamas and hezbollah leaders that you guys have taken out strategically. the question then becomes do you go after the iranian leadership as well? because, of course, they are now funding all of this. what's the next move? >> of course, i'm not going to tell the iranian regime what is our next move, but we promise

that we will retaliate to their attack as everyone knows we are discussing what kind of retaliation we are going to initiate against the iranian regime. but i truly believe. and i hope that the american administration understands that, again, this is an opportunity that we cannot miss. iran is the head of the octopus. the snake. call it as you want to call it. but, iran has been threatening all of us. threat also to the. >> lawrence: so right. mr. ambassador, i'm sorry to interrupt. but you brought up the american administration. kamala harris has been clear they don't want you to go into rafah. this is kamala harris right here. >> we have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in rafah

would be a huge mistake. let me tell you something i have studied the maps. there is no where for those folks to go we are looking at a million and a half people in rafah who were told to go there most of them. we have been very clear that it would be a mistake to move into rafah with any type of military operation. >> lawrence: see, the problem with that, mr. ambassador, is that maybe she didn't see the map of where yahya sinwar was killed. he was killed in rafah. >> well, obviously it was terrible mistake to pressure israel. i think many of us regret the fact that we didn't start the operation in rafah much earlier. whrve americaed by the administration. it only gives supply hamas with a new lifeline because. it gives hope they will be able to survive and they continued to refuse any kind of deed.

sadly, again, you cannot negotiate with these savages, they should be eliminated. we will continue to hunt them down. and, again, i believe that when it comes to iran, we should get the backing of the administration to retaliate forcefully because, again, iran poses a threat to the entire world. and we are the vanguard of civilization and we need your support now more than ever. >> lawrence: mr. ambassador, i just hope the administration puts aside being so naive. it's common sense when you are going out there putting pressure on israel saying don't go into rafah that maybe the leader of the terrorist organization is going to go and find his way there and hide. thank god that you guys didn't listen and he is dead today. thank you so much, mr. ambassador. >> thank you and as i said, we are restoring our deterrence but we needed support of the

american administration now more than ever. it's a huge opportunity now to destroy iran proxies. we shouldn't miss it. >> lawrence: there is a lot of americans like me to support you guys. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> lawrence: you got it. stick around, we got a big day here on "fox & friends." the former president of the united states, donald trump is going to join us live from the curvey couch. ♪ he bragged he■d debate any time, anywhere. but now he's ducking kamala harris. he claims he's a master debater.

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>> janice: good morning, my friends, happy friday. take a look at the current wind chill because it feels cold across t the upper midwest. temperatures are going to go up over the next couple of days which is great news. overnight lows still dipping into the 30's and 40's for the mountainous regions of north carolina in towards tennessee and you know we are still in that mode of helping the folks in north carolina after helene so many weeks later continue to keep you up to date on the forecast. good news is much of the east coast is affected by high pressure. west coast that's where we are dealing with quite a bit of snow in the higher elevations fox weather.com for all of the details. steve, over to you. >> steve: thank you, j.d. both the trump and harris campaigns are both campaign

candidates are actually in michigan today as early voting begins in detroit tomorrow. the race remains a virtual tie there. the latest poll show harris leading trump by two points which is, of course, inside the margin of error. meanwhile control of congress is also on the line. in another key race in michigan, democrat elissa slotkin holds a slight lead over mike rogers in the run for u.s. senate. joining us right now is the founder of t the midwesterner michigan. kyle, good morning to you. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> steve: it's good to have you. when we talk about the balance of power, that is important. let's blue sky. this if kamala harris wins, and if she has got unified congress where she -- the democrats have the house and the senate, she can pretty much do anything she wants. but, if the republicans hold one or two of the houses, suddenly she has got to essentially work with congress as kind of a

moderate joe biden, which we never really saw. >> right. and so you have got this situation whereas you showed, the presidential race is neck and neck. mike rogers is a couple points behind elissa slotkin. what we are seeing on the ground here in michigan is china, evs are playing a huge issue in this race and other congressional races. because what is happening is elissa slotkin voted for ev mandates. but she is now trying to claim that she didn't. and she actually is running an ad in michigan where she says i live on a dirt road and because i live on a dirt road, i can't own an ev, which is strange to me because as we saw during the hurricanes, salt water and evs don't mix. but apparently according to elissa slotkin evs and dirt roads don't mix either. >> steve: i got a feeling if alelissa slotkin saw that ad.

what? they are fine on dirt roads. kyle, speaking of tv ads, every swing state has got a different bouquet of tv ads. one owhat the main themes you ae seeing in michigan. >> evs and china and chinese companies are major issue. the rogers campaign and outside groups are talking about how elissa slotkin signed a nondisclosure agreement to learn the secrets of a chinese battery maker called goshen and then basically keep those secrets from michigan taxpayers. and that's not going over very well and that's another issue where she is on defense. and so what we're seeing is as the largest car maker in the united states, michigan and evs, it's all a very big issue. >> steve: absolutely. and going back to our original premise where if there is divided government, one party has the white house and the other party has at least one of the houses of congress.

some of the things that could be stopped if kamala harris is elected by a republican in congress include the climate policy which she wants to change, the affordable care act. raising taxes, appointing progressive judges and things like that as well. so we will have to stay tuned to find out what happens. kyle, thank you very much for joining us today from the great state of michigan. >> thanks. >> steve: you bet. from michigan to california we go, carley. >> carley: big news out west impacting the economy. oil company phillips 66 announcing plans to shut down massive oil refinery in l.a. this facility is responsible for about 8% of the state's refining capacity. the news comes just days after governor gavin newsom set new regulations on the oil industry claiming this new law will prevent price spikes in the future. oil refinery will close by the end of 2025. and listen to this, a top amazon executive issuing an ultimatum telling employees they can quit

if they don't want to return to the office five days a week. amazon web services ceo saying, quote: if there are people who just don't work well in that environment and don't want to, that's okay. there are other companies around. the executive adding there are three days in office policy quote didn't accomplish anything. not a good day for baseball after the guardians stunned the yankees. >> game three. fly. deep drive. left field. fry is watching. it is walkoff home run. david fry lights up the cleveland night. >> the guardians pulling a 7-5 victory over the yankees in game three of the alcs. meanwhile the mets following to the dodgers in game 4. shohei ohtani setting the tone early on. >> there is a shot, right center field, and owe ohtani lights te

fire. >> carley: there it is the dodgers one win away from the world series. steve over to you. >> steve: thank you very much. former president donald trump is going to be live in this room. he is going to be here on the curvey couch. put down the remote. he's going to be with us in less than an hour. ♪ type 2 diabetes? discover the ozempic® tri-zone. ♪ ♪ i got the power of 3. i lowered my a1c, cv risk, and lost some weight. in studies, the majority of people

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