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of "fox & friends" weekend starting with this, the defense has rested its case the in details about jordan neely emerge. what comes next? charlie: president-elect trump's team is taking shape with a flurry of new cabinet picks including a national security team on a mission to make america safe again. rachel: plus, new reports show that a signal that going vegan may not be as a healthy as you think. the final hour of "fox & friends" weekend starts right now. ♪ ♪ rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 9:00 already. here in new york city. you're looking at a live shot of beautiful nashville. brian: that does look lovely. rachel: i bet there was a lot of partying there last night.

charlie: i bet they're not playing christmas music in nashville -- rachel: i bet her. brian: i bet they are, actually. charlie: really? brian: we've been debating christmas music. rachel: yeah, to plait or not -- brian: i welcomed it at this time of year, charlie -- rachel: hard no. brian: he wants led zeppelin right up to thanksgivingis whenu start -- brian: rachel, you're siding with charlie. rachel: i am a question that doesn't like to get the whole christmas season going until advent starts. i really believe in those four weeks concern i'm a catholic girl. i believe in the liturgical calendar. it's a good question. we put it up to the viewers. they mailed us back. tracy says i love christmas music, but i want my turkey first, lol are. bring on the led zip lin, at least? -- led zeppelin, at least until after thanksgiving.

brian: patty says i believe christmas music shouldn't be played until thanksgiving day so, yes, i think charlie is right. maybe on this thing only, charlie. charlie: yeah, that's a rare thing -- brian: you don't get at lot of e-mails. charlie: and that never gets said in my house. jackie, my playlist radio is all christmas music starting november 1st. it's the most wonderful time of the year. embrace the christmas music, charlie. that is very strong from starting november if 1. i think -- november 1. brian: november 1. charlie: i would jump out the car window. brian: so jackie is going straight from halloween to, right into christmas. like, there's no buffer zone there. there's no buffer. rachel: thanksgiving is supposed to be that in-between space, but we'll see. brian: well or, charlie preserves it. charlie: yeah. you're still wiping makeup off from your halloween costume --

brian: i'd like to know what you'd dress up -- charlie: i haven't are dressed up forever. do you? brian: i was lou gehrig, and my son was babe ruth. rachel: i wore a garbage bag -- [laughter] charlie: a that's so easy. [laughter] turning now to this, or dan yell penny's lawyers -- daniel penny's lawyers resting their case as jurors won't return to the courtroom until if december. rachel: chanley painter is here with all of those details. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. all of a sudden evidence is in against 26-year-old -- all of the evidence is in against 26-year-old daniel penny if. his defense claims the former marine was protecting his fellow passengers and put on a robust defense case calling nine witnesses before resting

yesterday. now, the final witness revealing neely had an open bench warrant at the time of his death. the jury also heard from a defense pathologist who believes the chokehold alone was not the cause of neely's death. and through hours of grueling crossexamination, he maintains neely died from a combination of the effects of sickle cell crisis, schizophrenia, plus the struggle of the incident. penny himself chose not to testify. >> one thing that makes this case unusual in lot of ways, the jury did get to hear from our client, right? they got the hear from the him not only in the immediate aftermath of this incident, but a couple to hours later before there were lawyers involved in either side, and he had an opportunity to explain if himself, what he did, how he acted, what he perceived. >> reporter: closing arguments are next in the case, but

they're scheduled for december 2nd meaning the jury will have the entire thanksgiving holiday week next week off to mull over everything they've heard from both sides. penny if does face up to 15 years if he is convicted. guys, back to you with. charlie: thank you or, chanley. and earlier we spoke to dr. darren porcher, former nypd lieutenant, and he had this to say about the case. >> crime is running rampant in the city of new york. the social contract not being upheld. the nypd is at a deficit in connection with the personnel, to they have yet to backfill the personnel to have on the street the protect us as common citizens. so when we look at daniel penny's actions in protecting people that didn't have the ability to protect themselves, it really sets a bad precedent for us as a common if citizen to step in and help individuals hard in fear of a lunatic that's on the subway such as this particular case. the manhattan department a. is prosecuting a case that should not have come to fruition in a

courtroom. the manhattan d. ta. is an elected official, and he is catering towards the people that he believes will elect him for another term. but this has become more of a travesty for us as common if new yorkers. charlie: so he makes a really good point there. why would anybody -- we have a god given right to defend ourselves, and yet the city chooses to go after somebody who was defending himself and the others on the train instead of all of the criminals that are committing all the lawlessness. brian: yeah. and if you live in new york city and ride the subways like my family does, my wife does, i do, you know how much it matters to you to have people on the town that kind of look around and help out when something strange is going -- it's just a fact of life in new york city. i can't tell you how many times my wife has been on the train and related to me a story the about how, you know, there was something going on on this part of the train, this part of the train, but you know what? there were a couple of guys who

were paying attention to it, she could tell they were watching, it and made her feel like i think we're going to be okay. that's what daniel penny represents in this case. and if you live this reality, you know this city does not work without people like him. finish it just doesn't work. rachel: the world doesn't work without danny if -- daniel penny. women and children are vulnerable, and they depend on the protection of the state which, by the way, the state has failed its citizens, and somebody, a good man, an defended and protected the women and children on that train. and for that he is now facing time in prison. this is a travesty. it says a lot about our culture, and i really hope that the message isn't being sent to other young men and i, unfortunately, think it is to just step back and do nothing. charlie: by the way, society everywhere relies on this. and you live, you know, anywhere in the country, you expect people to do this sort of thing and to stand up and protect

themselves and those around. of it's just that for some reason there are these crazy politicians in new york that think you're supposed to go after and jail the person -- brian:ed good guys. charlie: yeah, the good guys. rachel: he's a hero, i don't care what anybody says. brian: you've also got to know truth from so-called misinformation. apparently, the feds blew $267 million trying to fight misinformation during the covid crisis. new york post has a cover on this. there's president biden, $267 million. here's what's so crazy about this. okay, you've got misinformation, what that far, of course, but what it turned out to be most of the time in this situation was people saying things that were actually probably accurate about what's really going on in the world as we've come to find out. but, of course, the experts knew all about it back then --

rachel: and they spent your money, brian, to lie to you, to censor you with. millions of dollars. brian: a quarter billion dollars. rachel: biden administration if blamed millions on fighting misinformation during covid is the 19 is true proof of government gone haywire. charlie: and, you know, it is the proof of the government going haywire, and so much of the bad things that happened with the federal government especially when it comes to spending is the fact that they just hav they keep printing all of this money, and so they have to throw it at things. they throw it at stupid the things. but this is very different. this is a very idealogically -- rachel: that's right, it's deliberate. charlie: -- deliberate. they're actually trying to go after anyone who was reporting, as you point out, brian, the actual truth. it turns out they were right about it whether it's can covid or whatever, and way -- they want the silence the voices that disagree with them. rachel: that's what you're see -- this election, and a lot of polls doesn't capture.

it captured people's anger at the border, with inflation, the economy, it captured a lot of stuff. we didn't see a lot of the covid anger. charlie: right. rachel: so many people upset about the tyranny that happened during or that period of time. if you look at all the nominees, dr. marty makary, rfk jr., you see people on that board who representeds dissenting, brave voices who came forward. and, by the way, many of the people were right here on fox news saying i don't believe this stuff. and if a government is going to spend that much money trying to g to keep the truth, quote-down unquote, from being put out there, i don't believe them. brian: you can add jay bhattacharya to that let's are, trump has nominated him to be director of nih. he got censored by his university, got attacked everywhere, the great barrington declaration. almost everything he said turned out actually to be what was

really going on in the world, and yet he was not allowed the speak by the so-called experts. rachel: and thanks to this administration and doge, this accountability office that's being, you know, developed under trump, under the leadership of vivek ramaswamy and elon musk, we're going to start to see juse tip of the iceberg. i think that this censorship industrial plex that was funded with our own dollars, our own tax dollars, i think we're going to find more and more of that. charlie: and, by the way, i think that, you know, under the current -- the undercurrent of this election probably was influenced very much by that anger about -- rachel: i 100% agree with that. charlie: -- what we all a went through. rachel: absolutely. speaking of government overreach, i just in the last hour interviewed a woman named britney patterson from a rural community in georgia, and she allowed her 10, almost11-year-old son -- well, she about didn't allow him. he just decided the walk to the

store -- can. charlie: heaven forbid. rachel: heaven forbid, by himself. and somebody, some nosy lady reported it to the cops, and the cops showed up at this woman's house, this mom's house, and arrested her and took her away. basically, in front of her own child, by the way. do we have a clip from that interview? okay. let's see that. >> i do want to clarify that they never officially in writing or verbally have offered to drop any charges. they said, you know, possibly, maybe if i sign the safety plan. but that was never anything official in writing. i think it's an important conversation because the reality is that as parents we should have that autonomy if whether we want to wrap our kids in bubble wrap or whether we want to give our kids a little more freedom and autonomy. it should be our decision as parents and not the decision of some government authority who

doesn't even know our kids or our family. rachel: guys? i know that you have a lot to say about this, charlie. we've been talking about it during the break. charlie: it's mind-blowing, the idea that you have police anywhere in the country but especially you think of sort of rural georgia as being sort of a reasonable place. the idea that they're going to come and terrorize a mom if over something like this, i just find it absolutely mind-blowing. if you cannot the trust, finish if you can't have a 10-year-old child and trust them to make important decisions like, you know, walking down the street, then you've got lots of other problems. can and terrorizing the parents is insane. brian: i mean, mundane decisions. walking down the street the a friend's house. let's be clear, like, the problem we have in our world is we have way too many kids who are absolutely stuck on a screen and cannot detach their eyes from the screen. they're learning how to not have conversations with people, how not to relate. maybe the best thing in america

right now is a kid walking down the street to a friend's house face to face to go do something slightly risky like climb a tree or chase a leaf and run into a sign and end up with a kid on -- cut on his chin for all of america to see. rachel: like your kid. brian: that's how you learn to become an adult and deal with risk and reality, which is life. rachel: a lot of people are having the can conversation about free-range childhoods. there's another piece of the story that i found fascinating because as soon as i heard this story, i was just mortified for that missouri how traumatizing -- for that mom. hay -- they did that in front of her children, caused way more damage than she did by allowing her -- her son walking to the store alone. but i thought about that little 10-year-old boy who was abandoned by the cartels in the desert, and our border prl

rescued him, and he was just crying. he was so scared. the cartels abandoned him. and our border patrol swooped in and rescued this boy. do you know what our government did with that young boy? reunited him with his mom who was in a shelter. i didn't see anybody arresting that mom, you know? charlie: right. rachel: and, again, this sort of weird thing where if people send children over the border, our government pays to reute them with their parents, hair uncle or aunt or in a lot of cases people that aren't even related to them. but here we have a mom arrested in front of her family and in front of her children because if she let them walk to the store in rural georgia. charlie: the government is literally using your tax dollars to aid and abet human trafficking at the border, and then you have some sheriffs down in rural georgia arresting a mom for being a good mother. it's insane. rachel: outrageous. all right.

well, fox news reached out to the fannin county sheriff's office in georgia and they said we do not comment on pending cateses. what they -- cases. what they did say, and he said she wasn't given this information, they said, well, we're going to drop the charges if the mom agrees to put her child concern her gps track her child on her phone. now, the mom said they haven't told me that yet, but that's what the report that we got request in the news report said. what to do you guys think of that? brian: the government tells you you've got to put a gp, s on your kid, or what, they willsome that's effectively like them putting a f -- gps on your kid. that's totalitarian. that's not hyperbole. that's what totalitarian means. charlie: it's a complete upside down world. turning now to your headlines. a watch belonging to nf if l superstar travis kelce was reportedly found in rhode island after his kansas mansion was

broken into last month. this comes just a day after the nfl warned players about a potential crime ring from if south america if targeting them. the nhl and nba issuing warnings to their players as well. his teammate, chiefs' quarterback patrick mahomes, also had his missouri mansion burglarized last month. michigan congressman-elect tom barrett will be literally following in his great grandfather's footsteps come january after successfully securing the house office space once occupied by his great grandpa and former congressman over 90 years ago. he joined us earlier. >> citing an opportunity and exciting moment, of course, for my family. he's best remembered for adding under god to our pledge of allegiance. it was really done to separate us from if our cold war adversaries, the communists, the soviets that really doesn't share our belief in god. it was something that, certainly, my family's very

proud of. charlie: he says his whole family is planning to join him when he moves into his office in january. a harvard medical student is revealing his cholesterol went up after he tried a vegan-keto diet for week. >> the reason my ldl cholesterol went up on the vegan keto diet as compared to the darn, sore-like quito was because of calories. keto diet. under the vegan key toe -- keto diet, i cut calories. rachel: everyone around you hates you. [laughter] shar march exactly. he says losing 4 pounds after taking in less calories on his vegan diet drove up his ldl cholesterol which is sometimes the called bad cholesterol. and those are your headlines. one thing i think is really

amazing about that storyl playes working for the newspaper in detroit, there was a ring of criminals that would look in the newspaper and see when somebody had funeral, and they would hit their houses when the funeral was. and they would go and figure out where the address was. well, that's what's going on here. they know they're at practice, they know when they have games -- brian: or on the road. charlie: yeah, exactly. that's what's going on here. brian: depending on who your team is, sundays may feel like a funeral. dropped one game. all right, senator marsha blackburn joins us next.

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hews. today. charlie: president biden and senate democrats are trying to push through judicial nominees before leaving the white house while the gop if faces criticism for several vote absences that could have blocked those judicial picks. senator chuck grassley slamming his fellow lawmakers telling fox news, quote, senate republicans must do everything they can to top this conveyor belt of radicals.

but tennessee senator marsha blackburn was present9 this week for those crucial votes, and she joins us now. thank you for joining us, senator blackburn. what do you have to say to your fellow republicans about missing these crucial votes? >> you know, charlie, one of the things we have to realize is that chuck schumer and the democrats have learned absolutely nothing in this election cycle, and they are going to be working overtime to try to push forward their agenda because they've lost the house, the nat and the white house. the senate and the white house. so we're going to have to walk and chew gum at the same time, and we've had some wins in blocking some of these judges for the circuit courts, and we're also going to have to make certain that the on day one donald trump is going to be able to have cabinet members approved and getting to work. and we're going to have to give

him at lot of clear runway to get his agenda through that hundred days. it's going to be vitally important, and we are so excited about turning our attention to 2025. charlie: absolutely. and you're so right that democrats are taking this opportunity. it's kind of like a smash and grab operation. >> yeah. charlie: but all the more important and, obviously, some of the republicans-missed these things are j.d. vance who is buzzy being the vice president-elect and marco rubio -- busy -- and marco rubio who is busy being secretary of state nominee for secretary of state. but what can be done to make republicans in the senate realize that what you understand which is this is still a very important time when democrats have nothing left to lose, and they're going to do all they can to jam a bunch of radical on to the courts for lifetime appointments. >> and we had everybody show up

finally and, of course, everyone is going to work to block these bad nominees. and we had a judiciary committee meeting this past thursday and, charlie, as you well know, what they're trying to do is push up their nominees, and we are going to do everything we can to block 'em, to hold 'em, the make certain that we don't get those, that they aren't able to get some of those votes that they are wanting to get. we will go back the first week of december, we will leave therr 202th. and in that period of time, they're going to have spending measures that are going to be on the floor. and as i said, whether it is nominees they're trying to put in place or people that the they're trying the stuff into the administration if or money that they're trying to obligate

before. donald trump takes office, our job is going to be to stop as much bad stuff because, as i said, they have learned nothing, and give donald trump the clear runway he needs so that we have an amazing first hundred days in 2025. with the donald trump administration. charlie: so, of course, you'll be extra busy because you've also been named vice chair of the nf -- nrfc for the '24 cycle. how are you feeling how that's shaping up? >> i feel very good about that. tim scott and i have put a lot of earth into looking how the nrsc would be shape ised. that's eat the committee that that tends to our senators and their re-elections. i'm going to be working on incumbent retention to be for those 20 republican senators that are up. and, charlie, we're already focused looking at what is happening with their communication plans, their

campaign plans, their fund raising plans to the make certain that for those incumbent republicans plus the open seats that that we will have in ohio and florida that we are getting to work, taking nothing for granted and making certain our incumbents win and that donald trump will have a strong senate majority all four years of his administration. charlie: you'll be busy and we'll be watching. thank you, senator blackburn. >> you got it. thank you. charlie: it's gift-giving season. will cain may be out of the office, but he still sent some special american-made gifts the ring in the holidays. that's next if. ♪ ♪ the military you're really close with your brothers and your sisters that are in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles

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america safe again. brian: trump's former deputy national security adviser kt mcfarland calls trump's new picks first rate additions to combat growing threats a around the world. charlie: kt mcfarland joins us now. great to see you, kt. so, obviously, especially in the national security realm you all really have your hands full. >> oh, yeah. laugh. [laughter] i mean, the world'sen on fire. the great thing about the picks president trump has made, i've known them all for decades, there are even kids i've mentored who have grown up and have big positions, but they have three things in common if. one, they understand that president trump is the boss x they sign on the to the trump policies of peace through strength, america first. the number two thing though is although they all have a lot of experience individually, with the system they know how it works, their not part of it. i think one of the great things about pete hegseth was one of

the defense industry lobbyist said, who who's he? if i don't know who he is. rachel: i love it. [laughter] >> and if then the final thing which is really in keeping with president trump himself, i mean, the courage that president trump has had to stand up for what's right in the last four years is reflectedded in his choices. each one of them has gone through the fire. each one of them has had to stand up to their institutions and say what you're doing is wrong. and is so i think that when you look at whether it's mike waltz at the nsc who stood up to, you know, he's a combat veteran and he stood up to the military and he said, look, wokism isn't doing it. dei hires, we need to get back to war fighting. or marco rubio who stood up to a lot of his colleagues on capitol hill and said, okay about the middle east and russia but, look, the real problem is china. look there. and probably tulsi gabbard, the bravest of them all, who stood up to her own party for what she

thought was right, and they're savaging her for it. and yet she's someone who has the respect and integrity of not just conservatives and republicans and women everywhere, but national security community. they're all great. rachel: i couldn't agree more. tulsi gabbard, very interesting. a while ago when she was discussing the ukraine war, she talked about bringing the spirit of aloha to this environment meaning that the let's just talk about peace. let's talk about diplomacy. and here we are, joe biden's about to leave office, and as he's leaving, he's basically toying with world war iii, allowing american-made missiles to go into russia and really destabilize the world just before he leaves. and many people are saying that this is being done in order to prevent donald trump are from entering into office the way he wants to, with the peaceful

transfer of power that this, you know, potential world war iii situation could impede that. what are your thoughts on that, what should be done about zelenskyy, what should trump do? because we know he wants peace. >> you know, rachel, this is one of the most upsetting things about the way the biden administration is leaving office. it's like let's just make sure that donald trump is going to have a really hard time negotiating a peace if agreement. rachel: yes. >> let's just make sure we grew it -- screw it up. and if they're potentially walking us into a war. when they've now allowed american missiles to go long range -- not fired by americans, but going into russia, it's killing civilians. the russians are going to now fire weapons -- they may kill american citizens in -- what happens if american citizens die in you know, we could be walking into a war because of the biden administration's incompetence and, frankly, nastiness that nobody wants, nobody's prepared

for. but they're all trying to -- they're so bitter and angry that they just want to skew it up, and they shouldn't -- screw it up. they shouldn't be doing it price for. this i think trump should tell him your funding is going to be, you know, cut off. probably should have been cut off a long time ago, but this is just a disaster. kt mcfarland, thank you so much. >> pleasure and an honor. rauner: always an honor to have you on. brian: let's turn now to to chief meteorologist rick reichmuth for our weather environment. rick: it's actually starting the feel like christmas. it's cold. we finally had some rain, and we finally got our temperatures down. show you the maps, we have been is dry, we've had the fires across a lot of the northeast, and now we finally had a storm that brought a lot of snow to places dealing with fires, and that is great news. it also has brought the rain with it, about an inch and a half in some spots because this drought has really exploded over the last couple of months

because of this dry stretch. can we're going to -- and we're going to get into a drier pattern in earn, storms are going to move quicker. the big travel day, wednesday, storm brewing right across the central part of the country could cause some travel delays. that brings rain, know to the northeast on thanksgiving. and behind that the sunday travel day, more problems across the central plains. lots to talk about here over the next few days. we'll keep you posted. guys? brian: don't move, the macklemore boys have tips for your thanksgiving feast. you'll want to see this, it's next. ♪ one look at you and i can't disguise. ♪ i've got hungry eyes ♪

rachel: thanksgiving is less than a week away -- brian: and whether you're serving a smaller meal or extended family, we have all the a dishes you'll want at the table. charlie: the macklemore boys joins us now with their tips for turkey day. >> what's up? how are y'all? rachel: you're making this easy. >> so growing up, i watch m.d. i dad -- my dad open the refrigerator, get a jug of milk and a pickle every day of my

life -- [laughter] and we have personally been to mount olive, north carolina. it's an american company, almost a hundred years, and we wanted the show you guys how to start your thanksgiving day with your family. you can do a small charcuterie board or a big one, and you can actually feed each other all day long are, advertise -- appetizers or even a full meal. we've got 14 different pickle flair flavors, cheeses, kip, beef, pork and chicken. we have filled it up for you guys. and then dad is going to show you how to the smoke and brine the turkey. so we've got the ap atize theres to get your day started, feed your family all day long and then prep the turkey. >> that's right. and what we love about mount olive is, they supplied us for the pickles for the concert series for 15 week, so we decided to bring it into thanksgiving. but now let's talk about the number one thing that you are going to do for thanksgiving x and that is a turkey. whether you're going to smoke it like we do on the master built

gravity series grill or smoke pers, this is how you brine your turkey. lane's barbecue, lanes barbecue.com, and you get this kit. it makes it is simple. people get intimidated by doing a brine. what lane's has done, when you get this to your home, you get the two spice, you get the brine bag, and you get everything that you need to basically put this into your refrigerator overnigh- rachel: get this. >> that and water, put it in the brine bag overnight,. >> two gallons. 24-48 hours -- rachel: explain to people what brining does to the turkey. >> so we inject our turkeys when we deep fry 'em, brine 'em when we smoke 'em. it is infusing all of those flavors into your turkey. and if i promise you, when you do this, the lane's spices, the sbg goes on the outside. that's salt, pepper and garlic

that gives you the spices that you need, and spell bound gives you a little bit of a barbecue flavor x. this is the bag. and charlie, i think -- where's charlie? you're doing yours with stephanie? charlie: that's what we're doing. we're going to do that. >> brine it overnight. and, or or again, all of these are available, master built.com, lane's barbecue.com -- >> that's your smoked turkey. and good ran rancher's is doing hams this year too. brian: awesome. we'll be right back, more "fox & friends". ♪

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