>> laura: it is her thing. >> laura: she is a icon. >> you don't mistake or.om w >> laura: tom wolf, we love so much, a dear friend of mine and you knew him. >> you always come in black. >> laura: i do not always come in black. i'm sorry, the lighting. >> you are so festive tonight. >> laura: you know what, you can talk to debbie haley. the lighting of the rockefeller christmas tree and the fox christmas tree -- no, the box christmas tree looks phenomenal and absolutelyey a beautiful. i guess telling us it is time tr go. >> we will go see the rockefeller christmas tree lighting. merry christmas. >> laura: merry christmas. do we have >> todd: a fox news alert, m manhunt underway for the gunman

accused of murdering united health ceo. it happened today, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are on capitol hill meeting with lawmakers to discuss their plan to slash government spending. what is on the chopping block? and tonight is fox nation sixth annual patriot award and guess what, president-elect trump will be in attendance. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. carley shimkus will join us live from the patriot awards later. right now we are going to chanley painter. >> chanley: brian thompson was gunned down yesterday outside his hotel. thompson is in the blue blazer,

a masked man walks up behind him and then several shots were fired at close range. >> every indication is this was premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack. upon >> chanley: the gunman escaped through alley bike, hopped on an e-bike and disappeared into central park. these images were taken at a starbucks right before the shooting. there are clues as to a possible motive. according to "new york post," nypd is investigating possible message of deny, depose and defend written on live rounds left behind by the masked aassassin. he was in new york for an investor conference, a fath er

and husband. his wife says brian was loving, generous,italentsed man who touched so many lives, brian was a loving father to our two sons and will be greatly mised. she told nbc news that her husband had received threats and the shooting comes as thompson and several executives are under investigation by the doj for selling combined 101.5 million shares two weeks before news of federal anti-trust probe went public in february. crimestoppers is offering $10,000 reward for information on the gunman. police obtained the starbucks trash he threw away, they may have his d.n.a. >> todd: retired detective will try to answer some questions.

what evidence are you honing in on right now? >> right now they are doing a canvas of the entire area, five-block radius, pick every piece of forensic and audio evidence and expand to 10 and 20-block radius. anybody coming in and out of the area, they'll know who that is, facial recognition, they will go through trash cans and alleyways. new d.n.a. evidence is possible a serious case breaker, especially if the d.n.a. is on record. they recovered rounds that can be traced back to a particular weapon if a weapon is found. they have good clues to start their investigation on and going forward. it is a good start, it is going to be a long travel to solve this case. >> todd: in your experience,

though, what is jumping out to you as oh, i want to find out more about this piece of evidence or that as linchpin that could bring everything together and find the shooter? >> well, we believe -- the public believes and based on video a silencer was used, that is a huge piece of evidence. silencer is not something you can go in any gun store and purchase, you have to file for a federal stamp to own a silencer and get an atf investigation to purchase a silencer. that is if it was purchased legally. they are going through records with atf, i'm sure. thanks to youtube, people can make their own make-shift silencer, if that is the case, it will be hard to trace.

>> todd: from the moment of this crime, everybody wants to know why, why did this happen? how do police in a situation like this begin to whittle down the possible motive? we have bullet shells reportedly with words written or engraved in them. we have an investigation by the feds into this ceo who was shot. we have an industry insurance that creates a lot of enemies. everybody watching this has probably had a problem with their insurance company at one time or another, rarely if ever has it led to somebody trying to kill an executive at said insurance company. we are not saying that happened here, it has led to speculation. how do you whittle down a possible motive in an effort to find the shooter? >> being the attack looked so precise and so particular toward an individual, it obviously

looked like it was planned. you do your msr's as far as motive, your money, sex, revenge. that is three biggest routes they go first. unfortunately, a lot of crimes like this, that is what they are connected to. not saying it is, detectives are going down those avenues, as well as every other branch of the evidence tree to find out the motive of this. >> todd: are you confident they will catch this shooter and based upon the evidence, when do you think they will catch him? >> we can't put a timeline on that. new york city police department detectives are best in the world. i worked with some of these homicide guys and they are the best of the best of the world. if anybody is going to get to

the root of this evil, it's them. >> todd: it appears there is a st trail. now your former colleagues have to connect the dots. this is shocking the nation right now. now pete hegseth will spend another day meeting with senators as he fights to save his nomination. brooke singman. >> brooke: president-elect trump is considering possible replacement? wake of growing questions about pete hegseth's conduct and ability to make it through confirmation process. pete hegseth is undeterred, writing it is a textbook manufactured media takedown. talk to those who served with me in guantanamo bay, iraq or national guard, they support me and i'm honored by that. i won't back down from this fight. i look forward to meeting with senators, not a show trial in

the press. pete hegseth has been meeting with republican senators to address alleged sexual misconduct and allegations of a drinking problem. >> allegation was made about him being intoks toks intoxicated several times. >> stop drinking all together if he becomes secretary. and rest of the allegations, how do you -- >> i asked about that and he stated they were untrue. >> brooke: joni ernst saying, i appreciate pete hegseth's service to this country, something we both share. we had a frank and thorough conversation. hegseth responding, thank you, senator joni ernst for your service and commitment to this process. trump continues to fill his cabinet, including paul atkins,

sec chair and commissioner of social security administration. trump tapping kelly loffliblofler and billy long. pete hegseth has received renewed -- from the president-elect trump and does not plan ongoing anywhere. >> todd: brooke, thank you. today in d.c., elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are taking doge to capitol hill, they are set to meet with new senate doge caucus before talking to house republicans. doge is republican led, it is already seeing bipartisan support. lance gooden will attend the meetings today and we'll talk to him later this morning. on the hill, ronald rowe will

testify before the task force for first time since taking over the agency. this is house panel's final hearing, they are expected to address secret service failure during the assassination attempts. he said july 13th was failure of secret service to secure butler site and protect president-elect trump. critical gaps in secret services obligations, i'm committed to ensure secret service never has a failure like this again. rowespaz will outline changes including addition of special agents and expanded tactical coverage, that panel's final report is due next friday. listen to this. after florida officer was killed in a crash, a nine-year-old boy decided he wanted to pay tuition for the officer's child by

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>> todd: jurors in the daniel penny manslaughter trial will return to hear a partial readback from the cross-examination. medical examiner testifying the chokehold killed jordan neely. jurors asked to rewatch three videos, including cell phone video, police body cam footage and penny interrogation interview. and defense is accusing alvin bragg of downplaying -- no minimum prison term if convicted of second-degree manslaughter, defense says that is improper since the marine veteran could face 15 years. penny has pleaded not guilty. florida community honoring three officers killed in a crash last week, on the side of the road

waiting for help with one deputy's disabled motorcycle. an suv overcorrected and struck the deputies, killing two on scene. the deputy died days later, his daughter sharing an emotional message at his funeral. >> to my dad, my daddy, we had a saying we said to each other and i've said it throughout this week to him while in icu, and at his private service. i love you, you're my life, my world, my everything. >> todd: now nine-year-old is doing his part to help by starting a lemonade stand to raise money for the son of deputy diaz. charlie alsup is raising money and christina is his mom.

charlie, there are not a lot of nine year olds that start fundraisers like this. why did you decide to do this? >> i just saw a need and i just thought that is what jesus would do. i thought i could help. >> todd: that is a beautiful statement, you made moms and dads, brothers and sisters cry across america with that statement. ch christina, you must be incredibly proud, as a mom, what does it say about charlie he decided to do this? >> parenting is hard and i think as parents, we question whether choices we're making are the right ones for our kids and when you see something like this, it makes you feel good. i must be doing something right. i think charlie just has a great hard and he's a good kid and we

are blessed. >> charlie, your dad is in law enforcement. you know what the children of law enforcement have to go through on a day in and day out basis. you know when your parent leaves, there is a chance he or she may not come home that day and that is a tough burden for a little guy or girl to have, is that one reason you decided to help knowing what kids of law enforcement go through? >> charlie, to you. >> i don't know. >> that is okay, that is a tough question. how is the lemonade? >> it's good. >> how much have you raised so far? >> about $400. >> every little bit helps. daycare is expensive.

christina, people in law enforcement community there, i know sheriff bradshaw pretty well and this shook that community to its core. how is everybody coping with this tragedy? this just happened basically. >> yeah, it just happened and happened directly outside our neighborhood. when our community leaveses the neighborhood, we pass by the three flags on the side of the road. as a community, everybody wanted to help, not everybody knew how, not everybody knew the officers. charlie created an opportunity for people to feel like they could help. when families go through things like this, they don't always know what they need. charlie just gave the families ability fo focus on next minute and next day and not think of other burdens and gave our community the ability to

contribute. >> todd: it is a beautiful gesture. if you want to help, go to pb -- that is a mouthful, you can see it at the bottom of the screen. charlie and christina, thank you. bold move wearing an alabama shirt, you have done enough for the community they'll overlook your college football message you are sending with that shirt. thank you two for being here. you are a good man and you have a bright future. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy selling their plan to trim government waste as they head to capitol hill. meeting with the doge duo, and what they think of their ideas next.

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>> unproven benefit is one best left. >> i'm sorry, every medical treatment has a risk. even taking aspirin. there is always going to be a percentage of population under any medical treatment that will suffer a harm. >> todd: wow. supreme court heard oral argument on tennessee's ban of trans medical treatment for minors, majority appears ready to uphold the ban. i always caution, questioning may not show what they are thinking. happening today elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are headed to capitol hill to speak with lawmakers about new department of government efficiency. lucas tomlinson. >> lucas: 36 trillion in debt and many believe cuts need to be made and reign in cuts.

enter elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to help lawmakers show them where to do it. the two men lead doge, wouldn't be a government committee without an acronym. yesterday vivek ramaswamy told axios doge not planning cuts to social security and medicare and said following about those payments. >> that is a policy decision that belongs to voters through people they elect to congress whether or not they will pas laws that would or would not cut medicaid, medicare and social security. there are hundreds of billions ending in hands of people who should not be receiving those payments. >> lucas: elon musk seen alongside president-elect trump, musk has been meeting with world leaders and incoming trump

nominees. here is challenge to cutting debt. 13% is paying down debt, interest payments are larger than the defense budget. ent entitlement spending, social security and medicare account for 35% of annual government spending. challenge for lawmakers and elon musk and vivek ramaswamy to cut from a 40% portion. >> todd: it will not be easy. texas congressman lance gooden will be at the meeting and joining me now. i love drilling down on specifics of doge, i find it fascinating. in that meeting today, what advice will you give? where will you tell the guys to cut from? >> i will say have at it, one big thing is the rule-making authority these federal agencies have abused over the years.

so many rules on the books, not laws. laws are passed by -- one first thing president trump will do is rescind many and doge will work on getting rid of regulatory burdens created. they will say the president is overstepping, but the president is undoing prior overstepping over the years. we will make sure washington bureaucrats have to show up to work. they will not want to show up five days a week and they'll be shown the exit. as member of congress, i will tell mr. musk and vivek ramaswamy, they have our full support. we'll have hearings and help them out when they don't get answers we'll haul people before next congress and get answers and help them do their job

better so july 4 2026, when they are expected to close this up, this is a huge success. >> todd: here is billions if not trillions of dollars. rules are first thing they need to start evaluating, that is where other cuts come from. here is speaker johnson about what is ahead. listen. >> we have a long list of areas where there are waste, fraud and abuses. the oversight committee in the house has a new subcommittee that will laser fo us can focus on that. >> todd: there has always been waste, there should never be fraud. why is our government allowed fraud, to persist this long? why is it taking doge to finally do away with fraud? >> there are so many protections for bureaucrats, the deep state

is so strong and i think this idea that we need this in the first place is a symptom of the abuse and problem chronic in our federal government and this comes from lessons president trump learned in his first term. he is so excited to get back here next month and do things he wanted to do the first time. you learn in your first term and i think you will see quite a bit of action he would have like to have gotten done. here we are and we are happy to be here, we'll get it done and this republican congress will share the message we stand ready to help. >> todd: joe biden is reported ly considering preemptive pardon for many trump rivals, dr. anthony fauci, liz cheney. they write president joe biden's senior aides are conducting internal debate whether to issue

preemptive pardon to range of current and former public officials who could be targeted with donald trump's return to the white house. putting aside questionable legality of preemptive pardon, i don't think it is legal, let lawyers go through that. what precedent would that set? >> we think people running our government are guilty of something. secondly, many folks don't want a pardon. i saw adam schiff tell someone he does not think it is a good idea and does not want president biden to do this. this sends a terrible message. so many average working class americans sitting in prison for things they should not be. hakeem jeffries has asked joe biden to prioritize them over these pardons we're seeing. the message is this

administration is kag nizant that their justice system has been weaponized. and i think they are worried about what is to come. >> todd: say jack smith accepted a pardon, it would be admission he did something wrong, i don't think for his career going forward is what he wants. good point. excited to see what comes out of today's meeting. appreciate your time. today fox nation's sixth annual patriot reward tonight. honoring everyday heroes, take a look at the forecast for tonight. janice dean like from long island in new york. inside weather will be perfect, outside getting there may be a different story, janice? >> janice: yes, we are fully climate controlled at tillis center for the patriot award.

i know you are coming later this morning and i'll update the forecast. northeast is getting a slushy mess, including long island, as people head into the sixth annual patriot reward. look at the map, cold air in northern plains, midwest and northeast. temperatures are below freezing and we're seeing snow across areas that have gotten 60 inches of snow downwind of erie, lake michigan and ontario. it is a slushy mix on long island and new york city, north and west of cities you're getting the snow. that will continue throughout the day today and winds will be a problem. here are snowfall totals across interior section of the northeast and downwind of great lakes, getting an additional

6-12 inches. we will see potential for heavier rainfall over the next couple days. the northeast, we are getting the bullseye of the storm system. it will be messy. people have to make sure they are prepared. foxweather.com, for latest details and fox weather will have an reward tonight. had one last year, it was wonderful, they'll sponsor a patriot award and sean hannity will host and brian kilmeade went to liu, his alma mater. there is replica of the white house on campus and i'll do that during "fox and friends." lots of fun, we're going to have a great time despite the weather. back to you. >> todd: home game for brian kilmeade. see you in a little bit looking forward to an amazing day. back to the manhunt for the

assassin who murdered united healthcare ceo in front of a major new york city hotel, right down the road from fox. there is a probe into united health as investigators search for a motive.

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>> todd: bitcoin topping $100,000 for first time ever, after president-elect trump picked paul atkins as next sec chair. bitcoin has been rising since the day before the election to an all-time high of 74,000 on november 6, the day after the election. a fox business alert. manhunt underway for the man that shot and killed united healthcare ceo brian thompson. there is an investigation at united healthcare for insider trading. cheryl casone here with more, what do we know? >> cheryl: he is one of the executives and several did sell shares two weeks before it was revealed there was an anti-trust probe launched by doj into the company.

numbers here, and not saying this is related to the killing, there are many motives being floated for this. the executives sold stock in days leading up to the investigation from the doj going public. now ceo brian thompson sold 15.1 million, first time he had ever sold stock in the company since he joined. the chairman netted 75 million. and the chief accounting officer and chief people officer sold, as well. it is not clear if he was part of the doj investigation. a quote from merrick garland said justice department will check unlawful consolidation and monopolization in the healthcare m market. here is the deal, this is about

3.3 billion acquisition of a home health and hospice care. united healthcare is largest in the world, over 50 million patients and multi billion dollar company. that investor day yesterday, they were going to talk about expectations, good old boring conference yesterday at the hilton. projection for 2025, 455 billion dollars, this is 562 billion dollar market cap company, that is the business side. back in april at their headquarters, there was a huge protest about claim denials on patients. i want to bring this up, protesters were organized, this is months ago, they were talking about, his wife said there were threats made against him. this is not even 24 hours old,

if you have a motion, you have motive, i heard your law enforcement guest in the a block mo money. i think that there is a lot will come out of this investigation. and i have faith in nypd. they had a huge data breach, a third of american's information exposed. back to the stock sales. usually general counsel will advise executives and go through stepses, if you do major stock sell, whether convert to cash or defer compensation, it was deferral on compensation, he wasn't going to get it tomorrow, you would go to the lawyerings. fact they are being investigated for insider trading and fraud means missteps were possible made. you have murder and the other

pieces of the story coming to light and getting attention now. >> todd: it is important off the top you mention, this is just one thing we do not know if it is connected or not, key point to mention. we're not even at 24 hours, 6:48 east coast time in new york. we don't know so much and don't know what we don't know. nypd will get out and hopefully find out what happened. it appears, now go to detective part. this individual may have been sloppy with trips to starbucks, leaving d.n.a. on stuff he threw out. >> cheryl: he normally had security and many executives travel with security. for whatever reason, he did not have security yesterday morning. what is interesting, we live in new york city and have gotten

immune to shootings and crime on subways, this sent shockwaves through city of new york because of brazenness of the attack. he used a silencer, this was well planned. i can say that with all confidence. >> todd: who knows when somebody will be walking streets of new york city 6 t:48 oned with morning, seems questionable. cheryl casone, always a pleasure. thank you for your time. >> cheryl: we'll have more coverage on this story. >> todd: don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria. tonight is sixth an patriot reward. carley shimkus live at the tillis center to give us backstage look at all the fun happening tonight. do we have my colleague? thanks for showing up to work, carley. >> carley: todd! everything looks great, i'm excited for you to come down and

see this. everything is being set up. i'm standing on official fox nation red carpet, your fox favorites will lineup and take pictures tonight. i want to show you more. follow me. this is what we're calling radio row. this is where brian kilmeade and jimmy failla will be doing their radio shows later today. this is all-were approximate, multi functional event. this is radio row here. we are in the tillis center, this is huge fevenue space for patriot award. when you walk in here, we have fox shop. you can buy some -- people scattered, you can be in the shot. you can buy christmas gifts if you need a pa patriot reward har snow globe.

t-shirts and scarves and everything and this theater, getting to the main event. this is -- you know what, i mentioned brian kilmeade radio show. he has -- >> todd: a picture, look at that. >> carley: a poster of him and he went hear, this is just a stand-still always here. throughout the whole year. this is a moment everybody has been waiting for, this is where patriot reward will take place later today. it is beautiful and set up for "fox and friends." there is a studio audience, we'll talk to the people already here for the "fox and friends" studio audience. if you can come follow me. look at this big auditorium and setup that has taken place. you can see, can you see

lawrence? he's there early. he gets the gold star. these are some people here for "fox and friends." how about that? [applause] >> are you excited to be here? >> very excited. >> are you going to the patriot reward tonight? long day for you? how do you feel about donald trump coming? >> really surprised. >> are you excited? >> very excited. >> how does everybody feel about "fox and friends" coming from the tilles center? little taste what is going on, everybody is equally excited for you to come down. >> todd: i will be there in short order. stop it, not about me, it is about the heroes, i'll check in in a little bit. we got to run, this is story of the day. you have seen donald trump perform ymca with song playing in the background, now founding member of village people is

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now. it is awesome to have you on the program, victor. you initially though asked trump to stop using the song because you were getting so many complaints. why did you change your mind and allow him to do it? >> well, i decided to allowed president-elect's continued use of ymca because he seems to genuinely like the song. some other artists were strong him from using their music, so i decided to contact bmi and told them to not to terminate his political use license because he seemed to be bringing so much joy to the american people with this use of ymca. >> todd: victor, it's not just the president. every american, dare i say every american in the world loves when you wrote it did you think it would be basically everywhere?

>> one never knows, you know. time is the only thing that makes you know. so i never had any idea. >> todd: the question on everyone's mind now, will you may at the inauguration, victor? >> well, if you were to ask me today if village people would perform at the inauguration, i would probably say not because we would be concerned about endorsement. however, the president-elect, because the president-elect has done so much for ymca and brought so much joy to so many people, the song has actually gone back to number one and is still number one today. so, if he were to ask village people to perform the song live for him, we would have to seriously consider it. >> todd: we know he watches. so mr. president-elect. the ball is in your court. finally, before we let you go, you're in entertainment.

you've been dancing for decades. what do you make of the dance? >> well, that's the trump thing, you know. we do the show we spell out the letters but when he does it he s his little move and that's his groove. and it works for him and that's what's important. >> todd: i mean, look, this has obviously become a bigger issue because of the president-elect using it so much and legitimately loving the song. i mean, let's face it. it's part of all of our growing up. i mean, i remember this song at every single dance and every sing gil gel life experience. so on behalf of every one of us who listened to your song over the decades we thank you victor willis and thank you for coming on the program. curious to see if you go to the inauguration. with that, the patriot