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courthouse. >> brian: brawls on the gridiron. the football fights over the weekend. everybody is talking about this morning. we have haven't seen anything like it. >> steve: no kidding. second hour of "fox & friends." for this december 2nd. starts right now. >> brian: you are not going to believe it we thought we had the show set and this happened last night. fox news alert. president biden is threatening his son hunter. any offenses the son may have committed. at the white house. hey, madeleine. big 180 for a president who has song said he will follow the rule of law. the president says he changed his mind because he believes meant to break him politically. the president says in part here's the truth. i believe in the justice system. but as i have wrestled with this i believe raw politics has infected this politics and it led to a miscarriage of justice. hunter was supposed to have sentencing hearing on december 12th for gun case and

december 16th for his tax case. all of those now gone. but the president's pardon doesn't just cover these offenses. it covers any crime the first son may have committed between january 2014 to december 2024. and that time frame is notable given that hunter joined the boards of burisma holdings in 2014 and has been scrutinized for his foreign business dealings. the president says he made this decision over the weekend while spending thanksgiving holiday with his family. but nbc, which was the first to report this news the president had been talking about the possibility of pardoning hunter with its close aides back in june when hunter was convicted on gun charges. as to whether we will get any on camera comments. next few days the president abroad long awaited interest up to angola. karine jean-pierre and national security communications adviser john kirby will gaggle on air force one. the president held no news conferences when they had those

international summits last month in peru and brazil. lawrence, steve, brian and ainsley. >> steve: madeleine, thank you very much. >> brian: unfazed by the weather. same in the 60's as 20's. >> lawrence: she ran to the white house. >> brian: that is fantastic. we knew this couldn't happen. couldn't believe the way it did happen. i think it took almost zero courage. you do it on a sunday and then go to angola and then take your press secretary with you so no press conferences, just let the chips fall where they may. pardon your son to me is not shocking. pardon by bill clinton not shocking. never admitting that you were going to do it. saying definitively you wouldn't do it. and then going ahead and doing it. and then the letter that followed to explain what went into it is just full of holes and inconsistencies. leave his party susceptible to further damage.

>> in that letter i said i have fooled simple principle. just telling the american people the truth. no, you lied to us so many times. but about this specifically. you said you were not going to pardon your son. you said it over and over and over. you said you didn't know anything about your son's -- his businesses. you never discuss it. then there is video or pictures of you maying golf with his business associates. you said you didn't know anything about your brother with burisma. but he lied about this. and i think he was always going to pardon. he just lied because he was running for president and didn't want that to hurt them and effect the election. >> brian: over the weekend. >> ainsley: here's why i think he thought about it and knew he was going to do this. the sentencing for hunter is in a few days december 12th. the sentencing for the california case is on december 16th. so you have the delaware case and california case within the next few days. so i think he said i have got to do this now. and he pardoned him for 10 years. january 1st, 2014, four months later, he started working for burisma.

>> lawrence: ainsley, speaking of the lies the daily signal puts this way. some of the lies said from the white house podium. it's transitory, inflation. afghanistan was a success. the border is secure. robert hur lied. biden is fine. those videos are cheap fakes. biden had jet lag. biden had a cold. biden isn't going to be replaced. biden isn't going to pardon hunter. the great thing about this is that now it seems like the president of the united states agrees with donald trump get something done about it. finally all on the same page now. new regime in to change this corruption. >> on the way out. bill clinton pardoned his half-brother roger for cocaine. on the way out. donald trump pardoned his son-in-law, jared's father charles. but, what is unique about this case is both of those people had served time already. they had already done their jail

time. this is to avoid jail time. he has not been sentenced yet. and this is just certainly a gigantic get out of jail free card. axios says that they have got to break down why joe biden did this now. and what it says this actually kind of makes sense. for years joe biden has felt guilty because he became president and brought scrutiny on hunter biden. and there were investigations and all that stuff. and so, biden and biden's family believed that the attacks on hunter ultimately were meant to push him into relapse and imperil joe's. >> lawrence: you got to be kidding me. >> ainsley: give me a break. he had more opportunities than most kids ever do. >> steve: i'm simply explaining their rationale for doing this at this time. joe biden felt bad that his presidency caused hunter biden to get investigated.

>> brian: axios saying that's their theory or are they saying that's the biden theory? >> steve: that's what i said, joe biden and the family feel that hunter -- they believe he was attacked. >> they were attacking hunter to push him into relapse and imperil joe's presidency. >> lawrence: everybody from all different -- such nonsense. when you have people from all different background that have had people that had disabilities when it comes to their -- the drug addiction. nobody is even talking about that. people are talking about the corruption and explain that to all the men that you put behind bars when you signed the crime bill and now you want sympathy for your son? you had no problem locking up all these other men back in the day spare me with oh this is because business dealing we found hookers and crack. only thing people care about

romanian billionaire. ukrainian burisma deal. the moscow mayor's wife. the millions coming out of china and the diamond rings, those are things that happened. this is the most luxurious crack addiction ever. with crack usually your life goes down, the more crack he did the life went up and millions come spiraling in. the fact is he didn't pay taxes on it was an additional red flag. >> steve: brian, what you just detailed those are things we know of. essentially this pardon, this unconditional pardon. anything he did. that includes the stuff we know about and the stuff we don't know about. ultimately earlier that was brought up joe has put his entire political party democrats in a pickle what did they do to joe biden, they got rid of him running for president and now i

don't think he cares i think he was going to do it regardless the son was not going to serve why the way the white house sold us two stories. hunter biden was a successful businessman and also, also he was an addict as well. the smartest man in the room that was also severely addicted to drugs. you cannot have it both ways. either he was this successful businessman that had all these connections or he was addicted. can't be both. >> ainsley: i think also he thinks as a dad, maybe, is he afraid to lose another son. and that's why he wants to take care of this son. that's more important to him. >> steve: right. >> ainsley: than watching his

son have consequences for breaking the law. and also, i am just -- i'm just -- i shouldn't be but i am just floored that those -- at the lie. i'm floored he told us over and over i'm not going to pardon him. i thought, wait a minute, he is either going to -- i don't think is he going to let his son go prison. so maybe he is assuming that k578 la will win. maybe they have a deal. kamala will pardon him in january. that way can he continue to say i'm not going to pardon. i'm not going to pardon. then you look at the sentencing. the sentencing is in a few days for delaware and for california. >> brian: just a coincidence. >> ainsley: right before that when he decides to pardon. >> brian: just a coincidence. he was thinking about that over the weekend. >> brian: i can't have any more cranberry sauce. by the way give me the paperwork i'm going to pardon hunter and i'm going to pardon him. >> steve: we knew it was coming. just before the pardon, hunter biden's attorneys put out a 52 page paper called the political prosecutions of hunter biden. so, it's like okay, that pops

out, and next thing you know, hills dad says i feel guilty about hunter getting dragged through the muck and so i have done this. >> lawrence: only political when it comes to hunter biden. who knew that they were above reproach with everything else but when it comes to hunter biden, suddenly they become political. >> brian: when president trump tries to pardon the j 6ers. i think he is going to have a lot of pushback. i looked at it, they suffered enough, they actually went to jail. >> lawrence: he is definitely going to do it now. he has all the political cover to do it right now after this. in no time and these people have already served some time. you got a praying grandmother praying outside of the capitol or right inside of the capitol. and she is doing 10 years, i think. you can see the pardons coming. >> brian: we have so much on this show today. >> ainsley: listen, hunter had every opportunity under t the s.

i read his wife's kathleen's book. wow, i know it's just her side of the story. what he put his family through and his children through. and his exwife through is unbelievable. >> steve: we saw that at the trial and hugely embarrassing to all the bidens, this essentially puts that all to rest. or does it? >> brian: right. i would say that one of the reasons michelle obama is not really tight with the bidens. >> lawrence: because of this. >> brian: they were tight with beau's family and his wildfire. they saw the way kicked it to the curb. she is probably out there with london's daughter -- what's the daughter's name? >> navy. comes as trump's pick kash patel bill melugin is outside trump's hq. he is in west palm beach on this beautiful monday more. >> hey, guys, good morning to you. president-elect donald trump has

said repeatedly he really wants to shake up the department of justice. and some of his recent picks show that it's certainly the direction he is going and that includes his pick for attorney general pam bondi she is going to be on capitol hill today where she is expected to meet with key republicans. now, bondi has been serving as the state of florida's attorney general she was picked by trump after matt gaetz essentially withdrew his own nomination poland repeatedly sued the administration over border policy. she a trump loyalist. chuck grassley said he is going to meet with bondi in d.c. meet with other republicans to pave the way for smooth transition and confirmation process. in addition to charles kushner who frump picked for ambassador to france. another big time splashy pick trump made over the weekend was his nomination of kash patel for fbi director. as you can imagine, that announcement sent shock waives through washington there was

mostly for trump during the first administration. trump has called him a brilliant lawyer and investigator. and quote an american first fighter spent his career exposing corruption. well, critics have said that patel just doesn't have the experience for this job. but republican senator bill hearing is pushing back current administration woefully inexperienced will turning these agencies around. ing fbi, and i look forward to seeing him take it apart. here is where things get interesting politically. the current director of the fbi christopher wray is in the middle of his 10-year term in 2027. wray has said he will not be resigning from his position. if trump wants to get kash patel

in that position as the new fbi director. not only will patel have to be confirmed by the senate. trump going to have to fire christopher wray. we'll send it back to you. >> brian: right about that. >> steve: he has fired an fbi director in the past. he probably doesn't want to do it again. that statement that came out on truth social announcing kash patel clearly that was to send a message to the fbi director, hey, i want you out. but if christopher wray doesn't want to go and they put out a statement. the fbi put out a statement, it's going to be a problem. >> yeah. that's where it's going to get very interesting in a political standpoint is you can kind of tell trump with his statement is saying wink, wink, you might want to step aside. this is the guy i want in the job. but if the fbi and christopher wray have both essentially said we're not going anywhere. we're going to keep doing the job. and chris wray himself has said he has no intention of resigning. we all remember what happened

with jim comey. when trump fired him i remember the helicopter following his suv when he got fired in l.a. at the fbi office that day. trump has shown is he willing to fire the fbi director if push comes to shove and in this case we will see what happens. >> brian: right. yeah. he just sent somebody over there with a note. [laughter] bill was in a different job back then. >> steve: he always has air cover though whether it's a drone or chopper he has air cover. >> ainsley: i do agree with you. he doesn't care. he will fire him in a heart beat especially what he put his family through. >> brian: raided his house. >> steve: he would rather he quit. >> lawrence: not just that the fact that christopher wray promised there was going to be some changes in the fbi. and it looks like that the problems have continued. and apparently both presidents agree with him. president trump's has been saying it for years. and now joe biden is saying the same thing. so you have got two presidents of two different parties that are saying that there is corruption within the

department. >> steve: trey gowdy has worked with kash patel in the past. kash patel has had a long career on capitol hill as an investigator with the intelligence committee. and all sorts of very high ranking official law enforcement things. >> brian: defender and prosecutor. >> steve: yeah, yeah. trey gowdy says hey, don't worry so much about mr. patel. he said this last night. >> worked elbow to elbow with kash patel for two years. you would not know the foundation or the funding of the steele dossier. not know about fisa abuse. had had not been a man named kash patel. is he quite candidly the most unfairly malign the person that i worked with the entire 8 years i was in washington. so i know the left is setting their hair on fire. it's because of what he found, not because of who he is. because of what he found. you would not know about the fisa shah abuse if it were not

for kash patel. >> brian: that's fascinating because he did a lot of the investigating. chuck grassley said christopher wray has not failed with fbi duties. slows. >> dana: for congress and oversight. hasn't lived up for promises. time to chart a new course. trearnts and accountability. mike johnson not a surprise is he going to support him. democrats won't and i saw andy mccabe over the weekend said everyone is upset at the fbi. nothing will be the same there. and fundamentally that's the point. andy mccabe he got a job after that lisa page the same way it goes on and on and on one thing trump people: 7th floor of the fbi. because they met fbi agents who tell. >> lawrence: not rank and file human problems they know they are stopping assassination attempts, got their hands full of terror, the border,

international stuff. and they also know that they feel differently a lot of the men and women of the field. than the people on. >> ainsley: always talks about how the field officers, is he so grateful to them. known a lot of them. many of them supporting him and surrounding him he has known them for a along time. watch the kids grow up basmg fk basically over the last administration. patel is very accomplished. he was the chief of staff for the u.s. secretary of defense. former federal prosecutor national security council. senior adviser to acting director of national intelligence. so he has been very loyal to trump and that's why the left doesn't like him. >> i think it's incredible that. trey gowdy also used to be a federal investigator worked with the fbi trey gowdy has been critical of former president trump as well. not someone team maga saying. this saying this as a former

federal prosecutor most maligned person. he says it's completely unfair. >> steve: kash worked on his committee. >> brian: he has no problem speaking out if he thought there was an issue. >> ainsley: 20 minutes after the top of the hour. fox news alert, closing arguments in the 2 of-year-old marine veteran daniel penny will begin today in new york city. >> lawrence: chanley painter outside the courthouse. hey, chanley. >> good morning, guys. in just a couple hours of jury of five men, seven women will return to the courthouse behind me for the all important closing arguments here in the state of new york. the defense goes first, we are expecting them to lay out their case for at least a couple of hours. before the prosecution has the final word. and over the last several weeks, prosecutors called more than 30 witnesses in his effort to prove that 26-year-old daniel penny went way too far recklessly placing 30-year-old jordan neely in a chokehold on a new york

subway train for nearly six minutes, causing neely's death. several eyewitnesses testified that neely who was homeless on drugs and suffering from mental illness caused them to fear for their lives after he entered the subway car, threw his jacket down and began yelling. prosecutors point to the length of the chokehold. the medical examiner said that was the sole cause of neely wants death. because penny had martial arts training in the military, he knew the risk of his actions. now, the defense is expected to argue that penny's actions were reasonable and justified under the circumstances. they called a psychologist and a defense pathologist who says neely's death was actually the result of a combination of s, including schizophrenia, synthetic marijuana, a blood condition and neely's efforts to struggle with penny in those moments. family from both sides are expected to show up at the courthouse today to sit in the gallery. in fact, penny's sister talked to the "new york post" over the weekend. saying this, quote: we have seen danny be so strong throughout all of this. when this initially happened, there was a lot of attention, and it's really scary and

uncertain. it makes you want to recede and hide. his strength has encouraged us. her brother does face up to 15 years, guys, if the jury does convict him of the top count of second degree manslaughter. >> steve: things get started 10:00 in the building behind you. thank you very much for a live report. >> brian: they tried to find something in the background lead to this. >> lawrence: incredible. >> brian: all they do is find meritorious activity while in the marines. they find him growing up the guy is a musician. they find that he is playing in the symphony and then they find out that he trains and surfs and works. what's he doing on that train get an advanced degree in downtown new york city. what does he feel he? hears the screaming, pops out his air pods, tells the stranger to held his phone and says let me control this guy. is he going to kill somebody. what does he do after sits down in a room with two cops and interrogate him and told him everything which he should probably never do.

>> lawrence: there has been more focus on him than the person who terrorized people on a daily basis, suddenly people have go fund me accounts for the family. i just want to know where the family when he needed help on the day-to-day basis. so, i don't like being critical of people, but when you -- this is going to too much in new york city. if we decide that we're going to do mob justice against daniel, no one going to come to the rescue anymore. they do realize that if they decide to do this, and prosecute this guy and the jury doesn't look at the evidence that is presented, people aren't going to come to the rescue ever again. >> steve: and the evidence clearly shows, there is plenty of reasonable doubt. >> lawrence: 100 percent. >> steve: hard to take the prosecution's case and square it with what he did. >> ainsley: such as his heart was still beating when daniel penny took his hands off of his neck. >> brian: my pleasure to toss to ainsley again for the news. >> ainsley: turning now to more headlines for you. israel announcing that a 22-year-old israeli american soldier from new york who was

thought to be one of the remaining hostages has been killed by hamas. officials now saying he was killed in a battle with terrorists during the hamas onslaught more than a year ago. the body taken to the gaza border. victim whose parents was holocaust survivors one of four americans still believed alive under hamas captivity. colorado police say they are optimistic that they can solve the cold case murder of jonbenet ramsey as early as next year. one investigator telling the "new york post" over the weekend, quote: i'm not sure what it will take to bust it wide open. but, it feels like it's within reach. we're hoping for 2025. this is our year. the 6-year-old was found dead in the basement of her family's boulder house on christmas day in 1996 and gone unsolved ever since. although police say they are still actively looking into dozens of leads into her death. and after a weekend of brawls in the college game -- in college

games, brian, do you want to take this over. >> brian: ohio state and michigan after the big upset by michigan, they decide to plant a flag in the middle of the field. a brawl ensued. it got scary and dangerous it. doesn't stop so they came out with pepper spray and cops. thankfully it did not spread into the stands. the both teams were fined $100,000. it didn't end there. similar scenes breaking out after florida beat florida state in the big rivalry game, obviously. they tried to plant a flag in the middle of the field. doesn't go over well with the team that lost. terrible sportsmanship for the team that won. nc, north carolina same thing. from their schools tried planting their flag on their opponent's field after a win. arizona state not to be denied and beaten. keeping to their name the sun devils planting a pitch fork in the field against the university of arizona. that resulted in a brawl, obviously. already playing a football game. so this thing might have -- some people say this dates -- you are in a fight.

2017, i got texted by a friend of mine this really started when baker mayfield put a flag in the middle of the field after his big win. >> steve: it's turf, so they don't actually plant it, it's just more symbolic. >> brian: yeah, you are not supposed to do that. >> steve: that's a multi million dollars field. >> ainsley: i didn't get much reaction last year. carolina beat clemson, thank you very much. that's huge, it's huge for the earhardt household and for everyone in south carolina. >> brian: feel bad for the people of clemson. >> ainsley: do not feel bad. >> brian: they always win. >> ainsley: they win a lot. coaches complemented one another. they are awesome people. >> steve: we hope your team won yesterday. >> lawrence: more "fox & friends." >> brian: that would be impossible. ainsley: thank you for your action. >> lawrence: we got reprimanded during the commercial. ♪ up on the house top click, click, click.le downt through the chimney with good saintsh nick.

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♪ >> steve: listen to this. officials say at least 85 people had symptoms after eating thc contaminated food at a wisconsin pizza shop a couple of weeks ago. todd piro is here with the story. todd, thc should not be in pizza. >> todd: it should not, steve. this is a wild story a report

released by state public health officials detailing the incident that left those 845 people with symptoms. officials say those affected ranged from the ages of 1 to 91. including 8 kids. several pregnant women also experienced symptoms. at least 27 people went to the emergency room after experiences dizziness, anxiety. nausea sleepiness, increased heart rate, paranoia, panic attacks and vomiting. how did this happen? incident occurred after employees at the restaurant went to the shared community kitchen to borrow oil for making a batch of pizza dough. the owner further reported they believe that the oil used was thc infused oil like steve said that is not supposed to be in pizza. the authorities initially thought it was pizza contaminated but later said sandwiches, garlic bread, cheese bread also affected. the restaurant was closed following the incident. allowed to open two days later after consulting with health officials. >> the restaurant has since

issued an apology to customers. says they are working with local authorities to improve their security and storage protocols to prevent it from happening again. i would think so. they would want to improve upon that lawrence. >> lawrence: should not be in pizza. thanks,ed to. president-elect trump waste nothing time to fix the border crisis. reportedly doing you the taxpayer are, $182 billion. blue cities feeling the pinch. in new york city, people are paying nearly $6.5 billion. in chicago, more than a half a billion. and in denver, more than 350 million. as its own mayor still vows to resist trump's agenda. joining us now john fab brie tory served as the head of ice in the denver region and joins us from aurora, colorado. thanks for joining the program john, when you see these numbers, i'm sure this is only a portion of the cost, right? >> yeah. absolutely. like we are not even looking at

the whole state, colorado is a sanctuary state. so it is a magnet to illegal immigration. so, the numbers that they are focusing on right now are just what they think that's come in in the last year. we're not even looking at the numbers that has been here for the last decade that colorado has been a sanctuary state. >> lawrence: so, of course you hear a lot of the democrats in the media now upset about the mass deportations that tom homan and the president-elect have promised. tell us why can be done in a humane way as well as the do the promise the president said he was going to do which is stop the illegal activity. >> yeah. look. it's very important that, you know, we focus on immigration enforcement. president trump said that he is going to do that all these democrat politicians out there causing political theater talking about president trump how bad this is going to be. this is what needs to happen. we need to focus on illegal

immigration enforcement and let me tell you something. border czar thomas homan is going to be the closing act on this political theater. the law will be enforced. >> lawrence: yeah, 100 percent. the former president has made it clear once they secure the border. then they are going to make it effect tiff legal immigration. that's important in the conversation as well. not only getting the folks that shouldn't be in the country out of here. but making sure people can do it the safe and legal way. sir, thanks so much for joining the program. >> thanks. >> lawrence: so president biden pardons his son hunter of any offenses from the past decade, but, remember this campaign message? >> each, each of success equal before the law. no one -- no one is above the law. ♪ which penetrates deep to target the source of pain with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medicine directly at the source. voltaren, the joy of movement.

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>> will you accept the jury's

outcome? their verdict no matter what it is? >> yes. >> and had you ruled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. i said i would abide by the jury decision. i will do that. i will not pardon him. >> brian: not true. fox news alert this morning. fallout. fallout over president biden's big reversal as his pardon -- has he pardons his son hunter after repeatedly claiming he would never pardon his son hunter, fox news legal editor kerri urbahn joins us now. your reaction to something we all knew was coming and the letter that followed to explain. >> yeah, we knew this was coming. we knew he wasn't telling the truth. we knew he was going to do it one way or the other. fantastic politically speaking from donald trump. offering part in from hunter biden that i think donald trump will be able to pardon a whole host of people january 6th

people in the media would complain they always do preemptive pardon for himself and then, of course, he doesn't just now have a mandate from the american people, cleaning up the justice system who are sick of lawfare. now he has it from president biden, too. they're all in the same page. so, they all agree that there's a problem in the justice system, the pardons are going to become a lot easier and also joe biden just pulled the ultimate move in overriding the doj which, of course in the past people would go crazy anything to say about what the department of justice was doing. so i personally think president biden just made things a whole lot easier for donald trump going to turn to. >> brian: first time can i remember donald trump coming out blatantly against him. governor jared polis i understand it's his son but he can't support this action. it's a bad precedent. going to be abused by later presidents, case in point. and congressman greg stanton a democrat from arizona, i respect

biden but i think he got this wrong. this wasn't a politically motivated prosecution. hunter committed felonies and convicted by a jury of his peers. bwhat i find stunning and must bother you as somebody who lives nut law world. he says i trust the justice system, the justice system but not now. not here. i decided to make the decision why wait? we know you didn't decide over the weekend. so, why do -- why would someone -- if you were his attorney, why put all these things that are so easily edges plotted in a letter to explain something so controversial. >> because i don't think he cares. he is trying to have it both ways on his way out. >> what does he have to lose at this point? nothing. there will be a 224 hour, 48 hours. what kind of ramifications does hunter biden face for this? nothing. i think that, again, politically it's good for donald trump, it's

not bad for joe biden. >> and i will say this. brian, i thought it was interesting in his statement about them treating hunter differently. i actually agree with him a little bit on that. they did give him special treatment upfront. the only reason they did because of those whistleblowers. and then when the political pressure was so intense as to what they had done and then we saw all fall apart in court that's what they changed. they made a deal with hunter. they never should have made in the first place. that was bad. >> that's special treatment. but then they pulled the deal which by the way is also not fair. once have you done something like that. so they messed up his entire case. he is not wrong. and that he was treated differently. i just have a little bit of a different perspective on how differently he was treated. >> brian: real quick on the plea deal. he said they had to carefully negotiate a plea deal agreed to by the department and unraveled in the courtroom. unraveled in the courtroom because the judge said i have never seen anything quite like this. can you explain it? and both sides go no. start again. >> right.

i think that's a point of truth in the statement. i think that hunter biden and his lawyers were genuinely surprised. i think that doj had worked out this plea deal of a lifetime. hoping it would go away giving special treatment. they got caught and exposed. and then they leansd in really heavily. that's what happened there. >> brian: kerri, i know so much more we can talk about. perspective. and one person smiling lives at mar-a-lago. thank you very much. appreciate it? >> thank you. >> brian: is meta failing our kids? dr. siegel on a new study that suggests the answer is yes. but he promises to explain. plus, a brand new episode of martin scorsese's the saints is available right now on fox nation. focuses on san sebastian. >> you are a defender of rome. we must reestablish order. >> i'm here to help you save

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donate presents and toys to the kids out there in north carolina. not just asheville, but all over the area that was affected by helene. and if you would like to help us give, send, go.com/holiday toy drive. i thank you for coming today. you want to say hi to ainsley in the studio where it's nice and warm. >> hi, ainsley. >> ainsley: hello, thank you. thanks, janice. >> janice: you got it. >> ainsley: new study shows that instagram is failing to block dangerous content which could influence our teenagers. researchers are sharing self-harm images on fake profiles for as young as 13-year-olds which the company is supposed to identify and remove but it didn't. and instead allowed that content to spread. here to discuss is fox news senior medical contributor dr. marc siegel, good morning, dr. sealing? >> >> dr. siegel: hi, ainsley. >> ainsley: tell us about this study. >> dr. siegel: this is pre-existing problem which you already said. a huge epidemic going on around the world where young teens, 7

to 24% of them have had some incidents of self-harm, cutting or something like that. that's really, really disturbing. a study in nature last year showed that over three hours on social media a day contributes to this. now, why would it contribute to it. because there is a lot of violence on social media, because there is a lot of self-harm videos on social media. now, meta says and i call this the war of artificial intelligence, because, meta says that it polices social media, instagram for this. and, according to the european union, they have to. the european union has a digital services act that says they got to be doing that meta says that they removed 12 million videos last year. 12 million. but then along comes a company called digital accountability in denmark that does a trial balloon, ainsley. it puts up 85 of these to test meta and none of them are taken down. none of them are taken down. so, we don't know why. we don't know why meta says they

take them down. but, in reality, the study shows they didn't. and i have a theory on that. i think maybe they can't reach to the small videos. my biggest problem is this is contagious. because, if you see something, an image of self-harm or video you are going to share it. more and more people see it. >> ainsley: i wonder if it's problems outside of instagram. think about if you were in middle school, it if had social media and suicidal thoughts and saw that on instagram might not see them. i don't know if the problem stems from harmful content before its reported through the thrive program which shares signals about violating suicide content for investigation. now, when these danish researchers when they were doing this study. they created its own -- their own simple ai tool to analyze

the content. they were able to automatically identify 38% of the self-harm images and 88% of the most severe. so, if they can do it, the question is why can't meta? >> that's what they are saying. rai works. you have the same ai. before you were a great talk whk show host, i think you had a psychology degree. your point people bring to the table there is absolutely right. people are already suffering. people already have anxiety, depression, images of self-loathing, then they see it on social media. it's an ample fire, absolutely right. >> ainsley: dr. siegel, great to see you. >> great to see. >> >> we have more "fox & friends" straight ahead. ♪

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