>> thanks, carley. >> thank you. >> carley: you are very welcome. >> todd: that ache sent is magical. ains. >> carley: both british and southern. >> todd: white campaigning with president-elect trump. he says he is out, done with politics. he tells the new yorker i'm never doing this again. i want nothing to do with this. it's gross. it's disgusting. i want nothing to do with politics. now, white is a close friend of trump. apparently that's going to stay the same. that's not changing he endorsed him at the rnc earlier this year appearing at his victory party. >> carley: that's so funny. he thinks that politics is messier and more of a blood sport than ufc. >> todd: he created ufc where people literally kick each other in the head. ed to have a great weekend. office starts right now. ♪ ♪

>> lawrence: it's friday 6:00 a.m. on the east coast, of course, friday november the 22nd and this is "fox & friends." gaetz is out and pam bondi is in and the left is terrified of trump's new attorney general pick. >> ainsley: plus, jussie smollett's hate crime hoax conviction overturned now. the brothers who say they were paid to fake the attack are going to join us this morning. >> brian: super bowl ring meet transnational crime ring. the sophisticated operation reportedly targeting pro-athletes special nflers. "fox & friends" starts right now. remember your mornings start better with friends so get dressed. >> ainsley: we get about get latest transition. president-elect donald trump tapping pam bondi as attorney general nominee hours after first pick matt gaetz decided to bow out. >> lawrence: alexis mcadams is

in pest palm beach, florida. >> how quickly things change in washington, d.c. and yesterday morning. we were on here talking with you guys about how it was going to be an uphill battle for former representative matt gaetz. he looked confident on the hill. those conversations with those senators there were going well. something changed and it changed fast. now pam bondi is in and matt gaetz is out. take a look here. this is who we are talking about. this is pam bondi who is now the new attorney general choice for president-elect trump. so if confirmed, bondi would lead the justice department and set the agenda for federal investigations and prosecutions. this is what trump had to say about bondi yesterday on truth social. pam will refocus the doj for intended fouse of fighting crime and making america safe again. i have known pam many years, she is smart. she is tough. and america-first fighter. she will do a terrific job as attorney general. this is one of the main reasons that bondi was floated and picked pretty quickly according to sources is because she said the doj need to be held

accountable. listen. >> merrick garland is our chief law enforcement officer and this entire country. we talk about the weaponization of fbi, the cia, atf now, the irs. well it all starts at the top of merrick garland. he has to respond to this. he has to be held accountable this is way too important for the american people and our justice system is at stake. >> that's what we heard, too on the campaign trail when we talked to voters in different states all over the country. they thought there needed to be a change and overhaul in washington, d.c. so trump is trying to shake things up. that's what he was trying to do with matt gaetz, right? it didn't work there was just too everywhere controversy. so much so that gaetz said, you know what? it's a big distraction and i'm going to withdraw my name. this is what gaetz said on that withdrawing. while the momentum was strong it's clear my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the trump and vance transition. there is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted washington

scuffle. this is then what he also posted about bondy. pam and i worked closely together when she was florida's attorney general. and i chaired the criminal justice in the state house. she is a proven litigator talking about ke kevin warsh, te idea of appointing warsh treasury secretary. he could later be the federal reserve chairman that could kind of be the path here on why he would want war be. there is other names as well long titles, people who have a lot of experience in the economic world. we will have to see contactually what plays out. next? we will see what happened with bondi. if there is any more action today at mar-a-lago. that was wild yesterday. everyone were worried about matt gaetz trying to push him through

and he said i'm out. we will see what happens today. >> brian: alexis, you quickly found out matt gaetz realized it was no path forward and called the president? is that what you found out? >> did i find out that matt gaetz called the president? >> brian: yeah. is that how it went down? >> we had heard so we had heard when i reached out to some members of the trump transition team yesterday they wanted to make it sure. they didn't say if he called trump right away. they said it was his decision on his own entirely. so if you kind of put the pieces together. he was the one that called and being quad somebody on the trump transition team. if it was trump himself. it seemed likes a more allegations continued to swirl, he didn't want to make any more trouble. they have enough going on at mar-a-lago trying to find the best people for these positions he said i'm out. i will find out if he did call trump himself. >> ainsley: any word on what he will do next because he was just elected for this congressional seat, he could actually go back in january. do you know how that would happen? would he have to get permission from the governor and secretary

of state? >> yeah. well he had said, right, that he was bowing out that he wasn't going to be involved at all. so it is still an option though if you look at it and look at kind of the law and what could happen that he could go back to washington, d.c. i saw yesterday that his wife was posting an end of an era and end of a chapter in d.c. it. could be that he goes right back and tries to finish some unfinished business so you never know, right, with matt gaetz so we'll see. >> lawrence: that's right. >> brian: thank you so much, alexis. >> lawrence: what i'm hearing the numbers were too high. some. quotes up to 10 senators. they really wanted the president to use his political capital. some of the senators that said no were actually great allies of the president. the president was like you make your case. the numbers were to a point where these senators said, even a hearing wouldn't convince them. and now we have a new nominee. >> ainsley: because they know him. they know who he is not like some of the other appointees where they have never worked with him. they needed to have a hearing. that's what i heard he didn't

have the votes. that was all it was. >> lawrence: go ahead, brian. >> brian: obviously you are right. i would add to this. the president wants someone competent but watch his back. even though he acts like it didn't bother him. how many times was he indicted? how many times was he tried, civil, criminally, the impeachment, the russia investigation. nonstop. who could have stopped it in the department of justice. who could have gave him a heads up the department of justice. sessions was overwhelmed. whitaker took over briefly. i thought barr did a good job. he needs somebody who knows him and vice is a versa. i think he made unbelievable choice in pam bondi. they have been together a lot. advising each other. comfortable. she has been on the trail. she was battling in 2020 to make sure there was no election integrity issues. look at her background. >> lawrence: ainsley, what is her resume? >> ainsley: she has a lot of experience. not only the first ag of florida. served as ag for 8 years. nominated now for the u.s. attorney general, the highest

job in that -- in the land for her business. she is an all-time -- long-time trump ally and one of his lawyers during the first impeachment trial. she chaired at the america first policy institute. spent more than 18 years as a prosecutor down in the state of florida and as i said, the first female attorney general. >> lawrence: democrats are freaking out right now. don't take my word for it. look at some of the late night shows yesterday on the other channels. >> they say that she is very competent. she know what is she is doing. she understands the department of justice. if i'm the democrats, you guys should have let gaetz come. because now you have someone that is intimately aware of what happens in the department of justice. has had to work with all the agencies and divisions in the department of justice. because she was attorney general of florida. and she is going to clean house. and she knows the president, she knows the line, but one thing i like about pam bondi and i talked to her on several occasions and i always asked her why didn't you run for higher

office? she always tells me i'm a prosecutor at heart. and that's the type of person that you want to be. you want to have as the attorney general for the country. lawrence. >> brian: she focused on drugs. worked to shut down pill mills. she worked with kellyanne conway and the huge progress and worked on human trafficking. man do we need expertise there with 300,000 that we can't find that have crossed the border. helped to recover more than one billion dollars in consumer protection. antitrust claims. so, look, the resume is impressive. >> lawrence: she is qualified. >> brian: 20 years in the courtroom. that was one big thing they said about matt gaetz he you know what side of the courtroom to walk in because he is a law enforcement trey gowdy said i didn't even know he was a lawyer until he was put up for this position. so, i think it's a great pick. i think she is going to sail through. there will be people bring stuff up but i think she will sail through. you can't touch her.

the supreme courting jussie smollett hoax situation. >> ainsley: after he straight talk plea deal violated his rights. >> lawrence: chanley painter explaining how this all happened. >> the court's decision had nothing to do with smollett's actual guilt or innocence. had everything to do with his constitutional rights being violated when in the court's opinion he was prosecuted a second time after a valid plea agreement. it was almost six yearsing a when smollett called police claiming he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. >> why did you hesitate to want to call the police. >> you know, there is a level of pride there we live in a society where a gay man you are considered somehow to be weak. i'm not weak. it feels like if i had said it was a muslim or a mexican, or

someone black, i feel like the doubters would have supported me a lot much more. a lot more. and that says a lot about the place that we are in our country right now. >> even after a jury convicted him at his sentencing, smollett maintained his innocence, watch. >> i am not suicidal. >> stop black people. >> i am not suicidal. i'm innocent. i could have said i was guilty a long time ago. >> now the two men who say smollett paid them to help stage the attack had this to say. the decision today had nothing to do with questioning our testimony or mr. smollett's guilt but rather on the conduct by the cook county states attorney and giving mr. smollett a sweetheart deal that only celebrities, social status, and influence can afford. the as narrow brothers spoke to fox nation in 2023 this is where

we waited for smollett to come. i saw him out of the corner of my eye. that's him. let's go. that's when we started yelling the famous slurs oment would us to yell. i threw the i threw the first about i didn't want to hurt him. he wanted to look like he fought back. that was very important for him. >> in a press conference, smollett's attorneys yesterday, called this a vindictive persecution not a prosecution. the special prosecutor dan webb said this, quote: make no mistake, today's ruling has nothing to do with mr. smollett's innocence. the illinois supreme court did not find any error with the overwhelming evidence presented at trial that mr. smollett orchestrated a fake hate crime. and despite the court's ruling, the civil case brought by the city of chicago is still spending against smollett in an effort to recoup the $120,000 in overtime expenses. the chicago police department incurred for investigating these

claims. guys. >> ainsley: okay. thank you so much, chanley. so this is -- we're talking about this again. jussie smollett. so, remember. the two brothers. he hired them, right, lawrence? he paid them wrote them a check if you beat me up. told the press and media he was beaten up by a maga hat wearing white supremacist. >> lawrence: he promised the brothers acting careers as well. this is what the whole scam is about. there is two layers to this. on one hand i agree with the court in the sense of you can't try someone. >> ainsley: double jeopardy. >> lawrence: you can't just do that the united states legal system is not perfect, but this is one of the reasons why we are the greatest right now why this happened, a, and number two, the judge allowed this plea deal to go forth. this should have been tried like any other case but it wasn't,

brian. kim foxx disgrace outgoing state's attorney. >> the amount of attention to filing of a false police report charge and the energy that resulted from that is something i won't understand. it's important to note all along that this was not a legitimate prosecution. so i'm grateful that the court has finally put this to rest. >> brian: does she really not understand the attention? do you understand is he an actor claiming a race crime in the middle of chicago? and giving away. >> ainsley: and continued the lie. i am not -- i'm innocent. >> lawrence: it's crazy she says the amount of attention. the original sin was all that national media outlets, including kamala harris as well, who was attorney general at the time -- i can't remember if she was u.s. senator at the time. defending him as well. all the celebrities went on the social media pages, we just

showed you the video with good morning america as well. so, and the thing. >> brian: ran to his side america is a racist country. >> lawrence: the cops, ainsley, never believed him in the first place they just had to prove it. >> ainsley: kim foxx gave him a sweetheart deal dropped all the charges. he only had to serve 15 hours of community service and $10,000 bail. >> brian: could i just say this is the worst hoax ever? did anyone sketch this out? >> lawrence: unbelievable. >> ainsley: the brothers gave him up immediately. he paid us. here's the check. >> brian: i love how they threw down imaginary person in the reenactment. >> ainsley: you would think if you are going to pay someone not that you should do it but be smart about it. like he wrote him a check with his name on it. >> lawrence: how greedy do you have to be. your contract negotiations isn't going well at empire. so you decide that you are going to use this hoax to elevate -- so you can get more money. this is what this was all about. could have had the country in the middle of a race war just so you can get more money.

>> brian: we were doing a great job on his own without his help. [laughter] britain britain has he been working since? >> brian: i think it would be hard to get a waiter job. a great special on fox nation. another reason to get it. reenactment. the brothers come on. >> lawrence: they will be on later. >> brian: in very good shape. they should do a fitness video. >> lawrence: maybe there is something there. >> ainsley: i can't imagine. i don't want to get beaten up. more money do you know why carley is standing over there. >> lawrence: she has headlines. >> carley: i was enjoying the show. are you sure? >> brian: go ahead. >> carley: fox news alert to get. to say serious situation in the u.k. a live look at london where the u.s. embassy is on lockdown as u.k. police continue to investigate a suspicious package. london metro police say reports of a loud bang nearby the u.s. embassy was caused by controlled

explodes after officials discover that suspicious parcel. and this just in. separately. london gatwick airport says a large portion of southern terminal evacuated as a precaution as they investigate a security incident there. we will keep you up to date as we learn more on both of these situations. a caravan of 1500 migrants is marching through southern mexico in homes of reaching the u.s. southern border before president-elect trump takes office. the caravan is made up of mostly men, women and young children from central and south america and the journey takes around 16 days without strong. trump says he plans to seal the southern border as soon as he gets back into the white house. now to pennsylvania where democrat bob casey has finally conceded to dave mccormick over two weeks after election day. and the senator elect says it should not have taken this long. >> we're excited to have this resolved, finally. yeah, mathematically it was clear from election day on that the election was over. there was just not a path to

victory. we need to step back and look at what happened in this election and make sure it doesn't happen again. the other thing we need is voter i.d., because we are never going to confident in election until you have voter i.d. that's something i'm going to fight for day one in the senate. >> carley: republicans will now hold 53 seats in the senate. it is finally official. and happening today, the capitol hill christmas tree is arriving in d.c. this morning, after a long journey from alaska. and just yesterday, we spoke to a north north carolina tree farr where the white house christmas tree was chosen. >> our farm was extremely fortunate. i think we are going to have a relatively normal harvest. but our hearts goes out to the other farms that lost trees. homes, and family members. it means a lot to us, including our parents. our parents started the farm in the 1950s. >> well, the tree from cartner's christmas tree farm in new land, north carolina withstood hurricane helene.

and that is a really cool story, ainsley. did you that interview. i'm sure it was great to talk to him. >> ainsley: yeah. i'm so proud of them. >> brian: we do have more news about trees. >> carley: yes, we do. >> ainsley: our annual christmas tree lighting is tonight. >> brian: come over, carley. the family christmas tree lighting. >> ainsley: we have a special performance of chamber singers high point, north carolina. impacted by the hurricane. raised a ton of money for their neighbors. it's a beautiful school. >> lawrence: we messaged all our people at fox weather to make sure that we can actually do this outside. >> carley: so it doesn't rain on our parade. >> lawrence: if not. >> brian: it's going to be within "the five." >> ainsley: what happens if you haven't seen it before. "the five" does their whole show outside. they all talk. and jesse took the microphone and went around and interviewed different people that work at fox. we had a prayer from a rabbi. a prayer from a catholic. >> brian: we had cardinal dolan.

>> ainsley: cardinal dolan has been here. >> carley: is it too early to be in the christmas spirit? >> lawrence: never too early] jingle bells] >> carley: so excited to do it. maybe saint nick that appears? i don't know we will see. >> brian: another saint story. we also have saints on fox nation series. >> carley: see if he shows up this time around. >> lawrence: try to get in early. starts 5:00 p.m. get around here 4:30. >> ainsley: sixth avenue between the avenue of the americas. >> brian: carley you are here. >> carley: ainsley's read. >> ainsley: go for it. >> carley: okay, fine. with a new attorney general pick what could the future for the justice department look like? >> brian: don't read my stuff, please. we are going to ask a top contender for the fbi director role. ♪

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♪ >> brian: well president-elect trump nominated former florida attorney general pam bondi for the u.s. attorney general spot bigger spot obviously. matt gaetz he w. drew his name and praised bondi as a stellar selection. who exactly is pam bondi. first female to serve as attorney general. served almost 20 years as a prosecutor. she knows her way around the courtroom. even though as ag you are

probably not going to be in the courtroom much. good to know what you are up against. combat opioids, know that's a huge problem. worked with kellyanne conway on that. and we are talking about trafficking. this is one of our major issues in this country. we have a child slave labor problem. she will track it down and be relentless and long time ally of former president trump. and that's key. she knows the president. she understands what he wants to accomplish. and i know you have to keep the department of justice separate. but it was eric holder that said i'm here to be president obama's wing man. and poland has that same approach who could blame her? meanwhile our next guest is considering -- under consideration. and one of the finals to be donald trump's fbi director. and just met with the president-elect last week. former michigan congressman and perhaps even the next fbi director mike rogers joins us now. first off, crushing loss, double dignity deficit. lost by point 3%. how do you deal with that? what do you tell your team? >> listen, i had one of those where i won by, you know a

very -- 111 votes and i have had one now that i have lost by .3%. i prefer winning it's a lot better. listen, we have done everything. we didn't leave anything on the field. this was a race that nobody thought we should win. nobody thought we could be in. nobody thought they should invest. in we had the least amount of financial investment and we had the most -- the closest race in the country really to winning a seat that people think we didn't win. we did it by talking about real important things, brian. stopping reforming doj. getting the fbi back on track. making sure people could afford groceries again. all of those things worked and that's why we closed the gap. >> congressman, your background and by the way you closed the gap with the republican party in tatters in michigan. you really had to do it yourself. let's talk about the fbi director. worked intelligence. sit down with the president it's confidential. what is your pitch to replace christopher wray?

>> and, of course, he hasn't said is he going to do that yet and those deliberations were ongoing i couldn't talk about those things. the bureau has lost confidence in the american people. >> this is a tragedy. you think of the serious problems we have, brian, with human trafficking. 30,000 people in this country illegally who have been convicted of rape or murder. this is where the fbi should be applying its resources. it should not be engaged in politics. and the culture of the fbi on the sent floor needs to be changed. and that has to have kind after reckoning. you know, can you cure the cancer without killing the patient that's exactly what needs to happen at the fbi with pam bondi who understands how to go after fentanyl problems. who understands how to use the department of justice and produce of these cases. with a functioning fbi that is not focused on politics that is actually focused on crimes that

are happening in neighborhoods that are destroying lives. that's kind of the thing that needs to happen and somebody who has been out there and put bracelets on people and done investigations. from stem to stern. i think that helps you understand how you get agents refocused to their purpose there is a lot of agent that want to get back to work. >> thing if you talk to president trump on or off camera he will say to you i don't want to blanket criticize the fbi. he knows the agents. and there is a huge difference between the agents out in the field, 35,000, and the ones that are in the building. the andy mccabes of the world. that clearly had a huge problem. peter strzok, had a huge problem with trump as president. and we saw with the laptop being dropped off with biden as president. i don't want to go over the mechanics of that. but the fact that there is people at the fbi that would look at a laptop and just keep it quiet until after the election, how do you get rid of a culture that is almost waiting for somebody to challenge it?

>> here's the good news. i know how to challenge and it i know how to refocus. that cultural rot has got to go. any personal animus that somebody would have politically that is still engaged in doing investigations is in the wrong business. you know, the fbi, when i was in the fbi, we didn't have these problems because you never -- i didn't even know the political affiliation with everybody on my organized crime spot. i couldn't tell you. you know, you had some ideas, but nobody talked about it. nobody talked about a president. nobody talked about what that president should or shouldn't be doing. we were focused on what the fbi is supposed to do. listen, that's exactly what the fbi needs. you have to change the culture at the top. you have to get rid of all of these folks, the public integrity unit has been trying to criminalize politics for the last 20 years. that needs to be revamped. all of that has to happen. it has to happen soon. and, again, here's the good news, if agents are will willing to get back to work. there is plenty of places they can go to get back to work and doing the things that made the

fbi the premier law enforcement agency in the world. it can still be that. but, boy, does it need leadership and it needs to clean out the rotted that's happening in the senior levels of the fbi as we watch it happen today. and traveling around the state of michigan, by the way, brian, people have lost faith in the fbi. and they don't even know it. not showing up for a senate hearing, they think, i mean that, uberous is exactly what people are seeing outside that say i have lost faith in the fbi. somebody like me? i can restore that faith. >> brian: what you are referring to is the fact that hhs secretary and christopher wray. head of the fbi decided to blow off a house hearing yesterday and talk about the terror threats in our country and democrats were as angry as republicans. mike rogers is saying that wouldn't happen if he was in charge. mike, great to see you. sorry it didn't work out i hope this works out for you. i think you would do a great job. >> thanks, brian. >> brian: straight ahead, a home athlete series of home break in

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daniel penny's lawyers calling a pathologist to the stand where he reached a much different conclusion than the new york city medical examiner's office about how neely died. he testified that penally's chokehold did not alone cause the death of jordan neely. the doctor performed more than 9,000 autopsies says it was the result of quote combined effects of sickle cell crisis, schizophrenia, struggle, restraint, and synthetic marijuana. he says the chokehold alone would not cause someone to i do die. the new york medical examiner who performed the autopsy previously testified that his death was caused from compression of the neck. this was before before they had neely's toxicology reports. nekneel. if convicted the 26-year-old marine veteran faces up to 15 years in prison lawrence over to you. >> lawrence: thanks, todd. after a series of break-ins at

pro-athletes homes, the nfl is issuing a security alert to teams as law enforcement believe south american crime ring is responsible for the burglaries across the country. here to break it down retired nypd detective dr. oscar odom. is he also a professor as well. professor, let's get into this. how do they know it's a transnational gang that's doing this? >> well, one of the things they use a lot of evidence from radars to different technology to see. you could use pings on cell phones and able to trace the patterns and techniques that they used. so they were able to put all of this information together and realize that coming from across the border a lot of these people are coming across, and committing all these different types of acts. >> now, they have taken this merchandise and staying here in the country or are these people taking the merchandise and going back to another country? >> they are doing both. they are seeing how they can sell it here and also taking it back to their countries and sell it there. because they can make money from it over there. but they can make more money

over here and then sending the money back to their country. >> lawrence: how do we stop them? >> we have got to close the border could we have to watch all of this and look at these different things. prosecution taken place to give them a tap on the wrist and let them go. that's a problem. we have to make sure we enforce the law to the fullest elks tent of the law to make sure they are punished. >> lawrence: talk about other breaking news when it comes to jussie smollett. the illinois supreme court did not react to the original when it comes to the crime that may have occurred with jussie smollett. but they did say that the court reached the agreement. and that they cannot then recharge him again. what are your thoughts on? >> travesty of justice. because of the fact i understand the fact of double jeopardy. you can't be tried twice for the same crime; however, look at the impact that it had. had police officers running all over the place trying to find somebody. we could have caught up with innocent victims who had nothing to do with it whatsoever. prosecuting them. wasting time. looking for fingerprints. all this manpower. it cost so much money. hopefully civilly he will have

to pay. this. >> lawrence: this is what his attorney is saying. watch. >> this was a vindictive persecution. not a prosecution. let's not make any mistake about that. jessjussie is back to where he . presumed innocent. he absolutely wants to move his life forward. i think people should start asking questions. how did this happen? and what were the facts that we never bothered to look at. because everyone was distracted with public opinion. >> well, what i will say is this. is he talking about the law. is he not talking about what actually happened. because if you are dealing with what actually happened. is he guilty. he said it. he staged it. we have witnesses that confirmed the acts that he committed. so, therefore, this is why it's a travesty of justice. because of the fact that he actually committed the crime that he got over on. >> lawrence: why did the judge -- i mean, there is at love criticism for the d.a. there county, but why did the judge accept the agreement? >> right. that was unfortunate, also.

i guess they wanted to expedite the series of the court to prevent it from being clogged up so they figured probably is he well-known, whatever. so we give them this. this way we get it out of the way. they don't have to waste any of their manpower you prosecuting him and digging so they just gave him a deal. >> lawr lawrence wow, as you said justice was not served here. thank you for giving us time. >> thank you for having me. >> lawrence: late teen nicknamed god's influencer just named a saint and fox spoke to his mother. >> inside the church, sacramento,sacrament,the cross .

>> ainsley: good morning, everyone. happy friday. take a look at what is happening. we have two storms on both coasts, the heavy rain aolong the coast northwest and northern california. inland snow. and then dealing with this mess across the northeast. it's going to cause a lot of travel problems coastal areas could get a mix as well throughout the day today. see it snowing in trenton, scranton and binghamton.

and this is going to linger throughout the day today through saturday as an area of low pressure moves offshore that is going to mean the potential for more rain and snow or ice. sunday looks much better but, of course, we have a tree lighting here in new york city at 5:00 p.m. it's going to be a game time decision but i assume we are going to have some rough weather. just be prepared if you are coming to 48th and sixth. there is the snow for the interior section of the northeast there is the forecast again today. we will continue to keep you up to date. if you are traveling either coast, you need to pay attention. central u.s. looks really good this weekend. okay, ainsley, i think that we might be inside for the tree lighting but we don't know yet. >> ainsley: whatever it is, we will take it. we're going to have a lot of fun, it will be great. >> ainsley: just at the >> ainsley: it's the thanksgiving and christmas season. we have so much to be gratefulful for. ains. >> janice: absolutely. >> ainsley: catholic church will get its first millennial saint.

carlos acutis. he was 15 years old when he died of leukemia in 2006 and he will be canonized in april. nicknamed god's influencer, carlos was a devout catholic chronicling catholic miracles and credited with two miracles of his own. lauren green sat down with carlo's mother and joins us now. lauren, we have been sharing these stories. >> i actually start to tear up to listen to all of this, talking with his mother was just amazing to talk with this woman. because one of the first things i wanted to know did an angel come to you like came to mary and say you are going to be with this really wonderful child? no, very normal birth. she said odd thing she got him a little lamb when he was baptized. she said my favorite animal is a zebra i gave him a lamb. now she realized is he lamb of god. >> ainsley: shepard. >> lauren: lamb of god of jesus. >> ainsley: i have learned so

much about this young boy, and you told me that and it might be in the soundbite so maybe we will play the soundbite and we will talk about his life and what he has taught you and what he taught me. > >> lauren: the first thing to set this up soundbite he was an amazing child. that he was very smart. she said he showed extraordinary faith but most importantly he was actually very mart. he actually began talking at 45 months. take a listen to this. >> he was very advanced. and, of course, also the perform of his faith and the way he was able to speak, the fact that -- since he was very small, he wanted to church, sacrament, the cross of jesus. and so, lawyer. >> lauren: he was credited two miracles, one confirmed in 2020. a brazilian boy was healed of

pancreatic illness. >> ainsley: he had prayed. >> lauren: his mother had prayed to carlo. another one in 2024. confirmed that a young woman was actually healed of a brain injury after a bike accident. also prayed to carlo. he was extraordinary in the terms that we talk about miracles. no, the websit web eucharistic materials. he taught himself computer coding e taught himself -- he was obsessed and devoted to god. in fact, one of the things he said is that his life plan to get close to jesus. that's my life plan. on his death bed, at the age of is a he said i died happy because i didn't spend any minutes of my life in things god doesn't love. >> ainsley: sweet. >> lauren: extraordinary. he has given so much influence and so much inspiration to the young generation. this is what bishop robert

barren talked about. this is what the church needs to bring the youth back to church. carlo c acutis is not in robbing and gash. is he in t-shirts and nikes. >> ainsley: normal 15-year-old. nanny thought he was too nice. tried to toughen up. when children try to take your toys you need to stand up for yourself. he said to her jesus would not be happy if i lost my temper. i mean, what a precious child. >> lawrence: precious child he stood up for bullies. he was the voice of the xavier. >> ainsley: canonized in april. you will be talking about that. talk about the saints on fox nation. this is such a wonderful series. new one is going to drop this weekend about john the baptist. >> lauren: john the baptist precursor of jesus. born about six months before jesus. basically distant cousins. but he has this incredible journey of paving the way for

jesus. and this is what the prophets in the old testament talked about. that there would be one who would actually pave the way for the messiah. and john the baptist is that messiah -- is that person. >> ainsley: i think we have a clip of john the baptist. watch this. >> come and be baptized in the river jordan. >> where are you coming from? >> jerusalem. >> i'm preparing the way for another. >> how much longer are you going to let this filth stay alive. >> what do you want? >> his head. >> sign up for fox nation for 1.99 a month. >> lauren: the daughter danced and then the, the head of john the baptist. >> ainsley: and jesus grieved. >> lawrence: the whole idea jesus is this human being but he is also divine. john the baptist is one of those figures that is a pillar of the church that we should

understand. understand that god doesn't make mistakes. this is all part of it. people today are looking for a deep spiritual path. they are looking for truth. for the catholic church there is only one truth. it is jesus. i am the way, the truth, and the life. and so these -- the series on the saints really paved the way for understanding what -- why they were so devoted. this is not random piesness. this is devoted to jesus. i think that's really important joan of arc, colby, of course and saint francis favorite place to be. >> ainsley: family friendly options on fox nation. watch it this weekend with your family. check out lauren's devotional light for today and podcast lighthouse faith. thank you so much. lauren green. >> lauren: thank you so much. >> ainsley: hand it over to carley. >> carley: i could listen to you all day. that was so good, thank you very much.

thank you ainsley and lauren. dave coal yea getting more support from co-stars. after being diagnosed with hodgkin's. now actor candace cameron. sending her prays to help coulier through it all. >> when i saw him start losing his hair, that's when it kind of hit. i told dave and mel the best way can i support is you pray for you every day you know my faith is strong. and i real like that's where my strength lies is in prayer. >> candace also says she was introduced to her christian faith during her time on full house. volvo being celebrated on social media for recently pro-family commercial. >> i have this feeling we are going to have a daughter.

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