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 awards by

fox nation, "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ freedom was a highway. >> brian: hi, everybody, how are you? [cheers] >> steve: hello. >> ainsley: thank you all for being here. >> steve: good morning. >> ainsley: good morning. [applause] >> steve: hello, folks. and welcome to brian kilmeade land. >> brian: long island and long island university. can you believe it? >> ainsley: what was it like when you drove in? you knew where to go. you were calling where do we go? what parking lot? >> brian: i remember the year we got here, the roof on this building collapsed in the snow storm. >> steve: oh good because it's snowing. >> brian: it's fixed now. this place is beautiful did. you have a chance to walk around? they have about 20,000 students here about. 4,000 live on campus. it's getting bigger every year. they have consolidated campuses. they won division one. once i left they realize we are in the clear.

[laughter] i had a great experience here it's going to be fantastic to see them hosting the patriot awards which is surpassing the oscars as the number one award show in american history. >> lawrence: that's what i'm talking about. >> ainsley: we have all of these beautiful individuals who came early this morning for breakfast with us. i asked them y'all bought the tickets before you knew donald trump was going to be here? they said yes. one gentleman said they are going on stub hub for $8,000. >> lawrence: no way. and they drove through the snow as well this morning. a little slushy out. >> steve: we are at the tillis center tonight at 8:00. people will be able to livestream the patriot awards. how far is the library from us because there's a big picture of frank -- i think that's franklin hall behind us right there. >> brian: renamed franklin hall. it is right diagonal. >> steve: and you graduated from here? >> brian: yes. >> steve: if we went over to the library. how substantial would the library fines have been? >> brian: very substantial. did i spend a lot of time in the

library. commons where you could study in the background. my roommates were in to napping. they napsd a lot. and that's when i would study. you guys go to nap before you go out a i will study. >> ainsley: you lived on campus where was your dorm? >> post hall straight up the road. they thought a great idea to give that cinder block look with the little no yum floor. and i waited for my family to rotate rugs, instead of throwing it out do you mind if i take that to school and literally take it to school with no body. my roommate god drunk are you going to clean that up after a while. let lowe sleep over. that's not going to be good. been so long let's just cut it out. we cut out the hole in the rug. >> ainsley: seriously? >> brian: yeah, that was the first year. >> ainsley: you lived with that smell for a while until it

dried? >> brian: i don't know what i was thinking. >> ainsley: boys. >> steve: great breakfast talk, brian. [laughter] >> steve: you will be able to watch the patriot awards tonight kicks off 8:00 eastern time. sean hannity is going to be hosting. if you have got fox nation you will be able to stream it at fox nation.com. >> ainsley: my dad said i need. this okay. merry christmas early. i logged on and then i paid the 1.99 a month for my dad and he says i'm a veteran. i could have gotten it for free. all right. it was only 20 bucks, dad. we're okay. >> brian: plus you get to see the 47th president of the united states will be here. we have not seen him since he won. [applause] >> brian: then is he going to france because he can. they built the notre dame cathedral so he is going to be there. be we did begin with a fox news alert. day two manhunt for the gunman killed blocked from our studio. they took out the brian thompson

happened midtown front of the hilton. >> lawrence: you got to hear this. the killer left clues that could point to a motive. >> ainsley: this story, my gosh, new details we are learning this morning and chanley painter has all the details for you. >> good morning, everyone. we are learning, like lawrence may have said he may have left a message on evidence found at the scene where 50-year-old brian thompson was gunned down outside a new york city hotel. police releasing this chilling surveillance video showing thompson in the blue blazer as a masked man walks up behind him braising his handgun. we paused the video right before several shots were fired at close range. according to a witness, the suspect waited all night for the executive to walk by. >> i hear three shots. and then when i looked man down. yeah, and then the guy crossed and run. he was here in this corner the whole night. >> after the assassination the gunman escaped through an alley way before hopping on e-bike and disappearing into central park. police are still searching for

the man releasing these images of the suspect taken at a starbucks right before the shooting. >> the motive for this murder currently is unknown. but, based on the evidence we have so far, it does appear that the victim was specifically targeted. but at this point, we do not know why. this does not appear to be a random act of violence. >> but now we are learning some clues as to a possible motive found on evidence at the scene. according to the "new york post," quote: the nypd is investigating the possible message which appears to include the words deny, depose, and defend written on live rounds in shell casings left behind by the masked assassin. those reportedly words eerily similar to the delay, deny, defend which is about how insurance company deny valid claims for profit. in fact, thompson's wife tells nbc news there have been some threats. i don't know details. i know that he said there were some people that had been

threatening him. well the united healthcare ceo was in new york for an investors conference. evidence was the father of two. a husband from minnesota. now crime stoppers is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the gunman. the "new york post" also reporting that police obtained the suspect's starbucks trash he threw away so guys maybe there is some d.n.a. moving forward. back to you. >> ainsley: that's how they caught the killer remember out here on long island, the d.n.a. the pizza crust, he threw it away in midtown, manhattan. >> steve: right,. >> brian: massapequa. >> steve: the guy at that particular starbucks in midtown, manhattan, bought two power bars and a water. and he had a cup that he poured the water into and so all of that evidence is inside a garbage can that is now in police custody. you can't really tell from right there whether or not he is wearing gloves inside the starbucks. but, if he is not, this could be -- it could be a real clue.

but, what is so troubling is the guy appears to be an expert at it at one point and, lawrence, you are an expert at this kind of stuff. he uses a silencer or suppresser right there. and what happens at one point, the gun jams. >> lawrence: multiple times. >> steve: but the guy knew what to do so it showed he is a skilled gunman. >> lawrence: it's not just that when i was talking to some of my sources at the police department yesterday how calm he was. what. so people are telling me, he made some mistakes. they don't want to release it to the public right now because they don't want to compromise the investigation. they are hoping that they can get some leads based on the mistakes that he made there. though think he is definitely a pro. no doubt about it. he shot him right in the back. but there is also some issues with his accuracy as well. shot him in the leg, shot him in the back. they are wondering why he didn't

take direct hits and kill him that way. there is conflicting motives right now. >> ainsley: several things, was he a hit man, hired hit man? f. so why is he. someone who lost a child weren't getting healthcare through this company or was it the ceo was going to be questioned in this doj probe for insider trading executive combine $105.000000 in shares guys before the investigation. something he was going to say that someone else didn't want him to talk about? other thing is how do they get surveillance video in starbucks? do the police go all the neighboring businesses and say let me have your video? >> steve: they work in reverse. they have the video of him being shot at the hilton and look at the buildings around it and look at that video. nearby is a starbucks. there is the guy wearing the thing with the backpack. >> brian: seemed composed and multiple round of shots. midtown, manhattan, one of the busiest places in the country. john walsh said other things

maybe move him away from thinking it's a pro. number one a real pro-would have been wearing sunglasses. because you can see his face the whole time. >> brian: see his nose. >> lawrence: biometrics. >> brian: real pro-would have been about wearing sunglasses so he wouldn't be seen. had a half hour. probably learned how to build this whole gun he believes. reason why he jammed three times he maybe made it himself. maybe learned how to build that online or youtube. a lot of people build guns themselves untrackable. >> ainsley: isn't it hard to get a silencer? >> lawrence: can you fill out the paperwork and get it legally. they are thinking this may not have been one of those traditional purchases he may have constructed it himself. >> brian: do they think it's his phone they found? >> lawrence: they don't know. >> brian: they probably know. >> lawrence: that would go against the narrative of being a pro. you don't leave your phone. you don't dump the phone.

>> brian: you don't go starbucks. >> ainsley: question for you all. i had something from my daughter's school yesterday i didn't want to miss. i wasn't at work yesterday. >> this is a few blocks up from us on sixth avenue? what is it like yesterday i knew you were doing the show could you see the cop cars outside? >> steve: you could. >> lawrence: there was a pretty heavy presence. also conflicting information when it comes to the bike. was it a city bike versus if it wasn't, and they have already reached out to the companies and trying to get that data. >> ainsley: city bike you have to credit card. >> lawrence: what city bikes were in what area during what period of time. >> brian: went into central park looks like a preplan. he disappeared. where is he now we don't know. big not only because it's four blocks from us. it's big because a ceo of major healthcare company. >> ainsley: my healthcare company. >> brian: do it in midtown, manhattan at a time when everybody else was around. lighting of the tree was in jeopardy for a while. is this just a one off or going to be a bunch of assassins in

new york city? what about this? more and more as we season with gears now. you see more and more people who were not on the trump team first time around didn't want to accept it. perhaps jealous of it. the guy who owns "the washington post" one of them. big critic of trump making sarcastic aim. trump took aim at jeff bezos at "the washington post." you got the sense things would be different in my view when jeff bezos told people at "the washington post" we are not going to endorse a candidate leading up to the election. he had a bunch of people quit. a guy losing $70 million people get so upset they would quit on him. jamie dimon has been talking to the president for weeks. used to be somewhat of a critic. you see elon musk who walked off the president's business council after what he thought was a controversy at charlottesville. firmly on board and those two are bros it seems. now is he working for him. the latest one to come aboard is jeff bezos of amazon saying nice

things yesterday. >> ainsley: he said he was optimistic with working with a calmer trump and help him reduce regulation. listen to what else he said. >> if we are talking about trump, i think it's very interesting. i'm actually very optimistic this time around that we're going to see -- i'm very hopeful about his he seems to have a lot of energy around reducing regulation. my point of view, if i can help him do that. i'm going to help him would do have too much regulation in this country. this country is so set up to grow. >> steve: is he absolutely right. and so, later today the department of government efficiency, doge, which is being headed up by vivek ramaswamy and also elon musk, they are going to go to the u.s. senate joni ernst is going to be hosting them this morning. this afternoon at 3:00, they are going to be meeting with both

houses at the behest of speaker mike johnson what is interesting about this and this kind of dovetails, brian, to your point about how some people who were not trump fans in the first trump administration, are now coming around. this includes a bunch of democrats. there are actually there is a thing this the house called the doge caucus. there are actually a number of democrats who are involved gerald moskowitz is on board. >> brian: florida. >> steve: he would like to make the social security and fema independent agencies that would are report directly to the white house. then you got ro khanna and bernie sanders would like to cut government spending, particularly at the pentagon because the argument they make is, look, they failed like 8 audits and stuff like that brim yent thing about the doge caucus is these people who may be on the other side of the political aisle, they can be on tv.

they can talk about government waste theyner have to take an official vote. so, in other words, it sure looks like they want to cut stuff, but they are not really cutting listen to their elites and comments. he is for deregulation. he was the first time as well. the only difference is you have a political mandate that just happened flint firefighters union the popular vote and electric electoral college. mark zuckerberg likes trump and wants to have conversations with him. he did have the conversation. he thought that it was fantastic what trump did after the attempted assassination. he goes he has never seen anything so courageous in his life thin they had the political cover now. i'm to the going to condemn them for coming on board. they are johnny come latelies, the american people finally spoken. a lot of us out here want a free market system. the border to be secure and now

they are on board. >> brian: at least acknowledge you were wrong. mark zuckerberg, if you want to impress me do. what elon musk did. let journalists go into the twitter files. go into the facebook files. i want to find out exactly what you were up to in 2016 and through the pandemic. expose what happened. maybe you didn't know. maybe you did know and find out who was really putting their hand on the scale the shadow ban, republicans and skew the pandemic. we have president trump and all of these leaders, billionaires behind him that impact all of our lives. we all order on amazon. monday i spent more than i should have for cyber but i saved a lot. >> brian: share her bills next hour. >> i have gotten a lot accomplished. bezos is on board. elon musk who is the wealthiest man in the world, right? with tesla. and then we have mark zuckerberg, we're all on instagram. we are all on facebook. i'm just excited about the fact that you are all working

together. >> steve: it is unity. i'm always skeptic. they are doing it because it's their highs. mark zuckerberg, now that donald trump is in charge of the federal government for the most part, he doesn't want mark zuckerberg doesn't wants donald trump to regulate social media he doesn't want them to open up and take a really good look at a lot of stuff. a lot of these people who suddenly we didn't hear them say anything before trump was elected now smartly, because is survival. >> brian: they are kissing the ring. >> steve: they are indeed. if that's what it takes for donald trump to get them on board it looks like they are on board. >> ainsley: successful businessman and get our country in order cut out waste. >> brian: with the lack of regulation integrity. i don't want to just drop the regulation and go to town. i hope they do it with integrity. those regulation also come right back. >> ainsley: speaker johnson says said he would like to ax pbs and planned parenthood when he was on with martha.

we will see. also happening today on capitol hill. actingsecret service director ronald rowe is set to appear for the first time before the trump seassassination attempt task force. >> steve: two attempts made against the now president-elect's life. >> lawrence: brooke singman is in washington. hey, brooke. >> good morning. ronald rowe is expected to testify on capitol hill today. answer question about the abject failures with regard to the secret services response to the assassination attempt against president trump on july 13th in butler, pennsylvania. now, roe will say in his opening statement that he is responding to the abject failures of the secret service. he said that they did not adequately secure the butler farm show site and protect the president-elect. he said his goal is typically prove the mission effectiveness and rebuild public trust. he said while he cannot undo the harm that's been done, is he committed to doing everything in his power to ensure that the secret service never has a

failure like this again. now, that's a quote from his prepared opening statement that he is expected to deliver this morning. the panel is also set to question roe over the september incident where agents arrested a suspected would be shooter outside of trump international golf course in florida where trump had been playing. roe plans to outline the changes he has made to prevent future incidents including hiring more agents and expanding tactical coverage. those improvements came after the secret service's last permanent director kimberly cheadle resigned 10 days after the first attempt after pressure from lawmakers. task force already released an interim report and final report will be released next friday, december 13th, guys? >> steve: hey, brooke, thank you. very they're row report. thorough report.the exdirector . how about mr. ro.

people in washington are going i don't know if he is the guy. >> he is the acting director right now. it will be interesting to see if he is able to actually make and implement those changes within the secret service and if the lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are satisfied with his response today, of course republicans and democrats criticize the secret service in both the house and the senate after president-elect trump -- i mean candidate trump back in july and september had his life almost taken twice over because of the failures. we will see if lawmakers are satisfied with his response and what they have within able to find and what he has been able to do since those horrific events back in july and september. >> brian: brooke, we're satisfied with your response. that's the key. >> thank you. [applause] >> lawrence: thanks, brooke. >> steve: ever since the two attempts we have been around the president's circle gone down florida to see what they're doing at pbi, palm beach airport

and in fact because the president is going to be here tonight here at the tillis center, secret service has been here a couple of days think are out in the snow in the rain in the parking lot screening everybody. rank and file has been good. >> brian: dan bongino. >> lawrence: he protected. he knows his stuff. after the assassination attempt a lot of the whistleblowers went to straight to bongino and giving him inside information about what is happening. >> brian: what was missing from that report? the most interesting thing. we know nothing about the would-be assassin, right? what happened at his house? we don't even hear from his family. we don't hear from his classmate. >> we need to find that out. i'm not going to ask you to do this, carley, because you have a full plate. but there should be investigations about. this and by the way great to see you again. >> carley: i can now confirm that you guys look great in new york city and equally wonderful on long island. and very smart because you are

sitting in front of a college campus, a college building. >> and when i was on "fox & friends first," i said it's not patriot awards mandate by you 365 days a year that's what i was told. >> brian: public support. this is what the people want. >> he is very center list, all right. shall i get to some more news? okay. let's do that. jurors in the daniel penny manslaughter trial are returning to a manhattan courtroom in just hours as deliberations enter a third day in new york city they will hear a panel read from the medical. killed homeless man. jurors asked to re-watch cell phone and interrogation interview. the defense is accusing the manhattan d.a. of down playing

penny's punishment after saying there is no minimum freshman if the marine veteran is convicted of second degree manslaughter. penny has pleaded not guilty and faces up to 15 years in prison family of the hawaii woman who went missing at lax last month is calling on police to release the video they say shows her crossing into mexico. meanwhile a new twist this the story now has the fbi reportedly looking into disappearance connected to immigration scheme involving a possible green card marriage. l.a. magazine reporting the fbi is now involved after the woman's mother discovered that she may have engaged in a secret marriage for money. the magazine also saying she was apparently scammed out of the proceeds by the scheme believed to be concocted by a former partner of hers. and hunter biden spotted for the very first time since his controversial pardon seen smiling after he left a fast food restaurant in san da barbara, california.

first one ignoring media questions as he got into the back of an suv and drove off. former house speaker nancy pelosi says she is in favor of president biden's decision to pardon his son, despite repeatedly promising the american public he wouldn't. pelosi telling the hill, quote, i support the president. and happening tonight, just stepping from the white house, the national christmas tree lighting ceremony will take place. president biden will be in attendance as they light up that 40-foot tall norway spruce. expected to begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. the christmas tree is going to be lit up tonight. >> steve: it is, indeed. just steps from the white house. i have been going to that for a long time. i just googled the date in 1988 i was there when ronald reagan lit the tree and i was in the tent area in the back and do you know who this featured performer was? >> carley: who? >> steve: johnny mathis back in

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>> we're worrying about too much about why it happened. it's who do d. this that's why the detectives have to focus on. three things have to predict follow their leads and look at the video. i predict this individual was in new york city before this event happened canvassing the area, right? eaters with family or friends. he may even be in a hotel. but, if he paid for cash that's not going to help them. they are going to have to hope he used a credit card. >> brian: i will stop you right there. if you believe he was casing this case first which logic would bring you there. are you looking through all the video from all the neighboring buildings from the milton all the street cams right now from past weeks? >> yes. that's called an extended video canvas. then you have to see did he give a legit. e-bike no g.p.s. not going to lead them anywhere. also they found a cell phone in the have a fin at this where th. look to see hot previous calls. were there call and say whose phone is this and from there try to lead it from there.

pictures, emails. one of the people threatening like the wife said. >> brian: go through the timeline and what stands out. 6:44 the victim walking alone towards the hilton you see there after exiting the hotel. shooter is lying just waiting there for him to walk out. shooter then runs to an alleyway between 54th and 55 hit. once on west 55th the shooter continues to walk on sixth avenue where he gets on e-bike. the shooter rides north, gets to central park. 6:38 the shooter rides the bike into center drive. and they were all over central park last night. >> officers are going to have to see pre, before he got there where did he come from also. the reverse of everything. from there, all the forensic. that's really what is going to matter. if they can get a fingerprint or some kind of d.n.a. sample, it can lead to a possible conviction other thing i'm watching john walsh last nights and he says i don't think he was a pro. any pro-would have glasses on that would further mask his

appears we accept people wearing masks now. >> i don't think he was a pro-just because he racked or shot that accident matter. investigators have to find out who this individual was. get him in the box and question him. and find out why he did what he did. >> from what you saw and how he planned, do you believe he has a plan for the next day? do you believe there is a plan in place for him to get away? what made me think he wasn't there for five minutes e was there hours on end. did he not know when this individual was going to leave to go to that conference. he planned on staying out there as long as it took to wait until this individual came out to do what do what he wanted to do. >> the nypd is the greatest. reason why they are called the greatest detectives in the world. sooner rather than later. >> brian: great to see you. round of applause for joe. [applause] steve. >> brian: honoring or men and women in uniform. johnny joey jones here to why we

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>> lawrence: so president-elect trump's defense pick pete hegseth will spend another day meeting with senators on capitol hill. bill melugin is live in west palm beach, florida with the latest. hey, bill. >> hey, lawrence, good morning to you. pete hegseth is digging heels in. he says the media is trying to give him the brett kavanaugh treatment. he is not going to stand for it and he is not going anywhere. he penned an article in the "wall street journal" yesterday. quote, it's a testified manufactured media takedown. talk to those who served with me in guantanamo bay.

iraq, afghanistan on or about the national guard. they support me. i'm honored by that i have never backed down from a fight and won't back down from this one. i look forward to an honest confirmation hearing with our distinguished senators. not a show trial in the press. hegseth has been meeting with republican senators up on capitol hill all week long. is he trying to shore up support for a future confirmation hearing he met with senator joni ernst yesterday who wrote on x, quote: i appreciate pete hegseth's service to our country. something we both share. today as part of the confirmation process, we had a frank and thorough conversation to which hegseth responded, quote: thank you, senator ernst, for your service to our country and commitment to this morning process. hegseth met with roger wicker the incoming chairman of the armed services committee. hegseth pledged to him he would stop drinking if is he a sec

def. >> representation was made about him being intoxicated several times. so the questions that every member will be asking him led to this statement. >> and he would stop all together if he becomes secretary. >> exactly right. >> the rest of the allegations in the new york article and the like how do you respond? >> i asked about that he stated categorically they were untrue. >> we should point out that every allegation made against hegseth has basically come from an unnamed anonymous source while dozens of on the record named sources have stood up in his defense. if things do go south with his nomination, multiple sources confirm to fox news that president-elect trump is seriously considering replacing him with florida governor ron desantis. sources tell us that trump and desantis met face to face about it right here in palm beach on tuesday they had a conversation about it during an event for fallen law enforcement.

so we'll keep tabs on this as this story keeps developing. guys. send it back to you. lawrence? >> lawrence: thanks, bill. great job. let's bring in retired marine bomb tech and fox news contributor joey jones. you just heard bill's report and he talks about pete's op-ed. this is what pete says in that op-ed. i have never backed down from a fight and i won't back down from this one i think these words are posh because, as i say yesterday i feel like he something kavanaughed. these are unnamed people and the same people that are going to have to vote on this have had unnamed people accuse them of things. >> i disagree with the little bit he is not being brett kavanaughed. he is being donald trumped. he is being accused they said donald trump was unqualified and couldn't do the job though said he didn't have good moral character. they used a family member against him. everything they have done to pete they did to donald trump. and donald trump ended up being one of the best presidents we have ever had i'm proud of pete

for sticking to this. for these senators, someone like lindsey graham to make the comments he made a couple days ago. lindsey graham has never shied away from an opportunity to ride donald trump's coat tails. he had no problem with salacious allegations proven false when it dime donald trump and lindsey graham getting to raise money keep his seat now concerning when it documents empty concerns. no the truth is lindsey graham doesn't care about these attacks. he cares about being able to wage war everywhere he can because that's what he advocates for. to his credit is he honest about it. i'm not attacking him for it. if that's your problem sit pete in front of you and ask how he would run the department of defense what kind of policies the president wants and how pete hegseth would implement those policies. don't sit here and go in front of a camera and say character attacks are concerning because, listen, god forbid we put a microscope on any of those people. that's also the problem as well

the elephant in the room is that the last book pete wrote highlighting the corruption, the dei in the military. he didn't make any friends in washington with it because a the loft people that are going to be voting, back this type of agenda. and so we have all these leaks. no one wants to go on record. some of the stuff has been discredited. and i just think that the voters have to put the senators on notice, right? >> listen, part of the reason why president biden is such a failure is how he withdrew from afghanistan. pete hegseth, j.d. vance, several undersecretaries, several down ballot, dod appointees that president trump is looking at, mike waltz. all of these people serve in a 20-year war that was completely fruitless, as far as the american people go. and took so many lives from us that shouldn't have, someone with that perspective, if you want the senate as lindsey graham -- if you want us to fund the ukraine war and get involved and bring them into nato and go into israel and have the

american troops on the ground. you need to do more because we say it's going to make us safer. >> lawrence: so right. you are going to be honoring other veterans at the patriot awards. >> joey: i don't know how much i can talk about it but it's going to be really special night. the award i'm involved in and person i get to present with i don't know if i get to say that man, it's going to be so special. i hope people are here or tuning in. >> lawrence: you got a nice tan today. >> joey: makeup artist. >> lawrence: more "fox & friends" live from the set of the patriot awards. that's coming up with our live studio audience. ♪

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>> janice: good morning, everyone. how are you? we are live from the tillis center on long island. i see the audience. live audience, thank you for coming today. everybody. the sixth annual patriot awards tonight on fox nation. we will be streaming live. of course, we have got to get people here. take a look at the weather maps. here in the northeast we have a winter storm. we have a slushy mess that is moving across the northeast.

north and west of new york city. that's where you are going to see the heaviest of snow and we have a blizzard warning in effect for parts of the appalachians up towards pennsylvania and west virginia if you are driving you want to take dryer. messy for the morning commute. on the border of the freezing mark in the new york city area. just be cautious. you know, some years we are going to have school closures. look at this across the great lakes yet again 12 to 18 inches of more snow on top of 60 inches of heavy snow over the last couple of days. and the temperatures are very cold. as far as south as florida so that's going to be another big story we are following fox weather.com for all of your latest weather details. so excited to be here and do you know what, steve, ainsley next time you see me i will be broadcasting from the white house. stay tuned. >> steve: oh, that's a good tease. thank you very much. >> ainsley: thanks, janice.

>> steve: # minutes before the top of the hour on this rainy thursday. >> ainsley: slushy. >> steve: mary has sung the national anthem for four consecutive presidents, all of those guys. >> ainsley: look at those pictures. tonight she is set to take the stage right here at the sixth annual patriot awards. mary millben, our friend joins us now. >> hello. >> steve: how about a round of applause. >> ainsley: mary, tell us what we can expect tonight, president trump will be here. >> first of all it's great to see you all. "fox & friends" and certainly an exciting night. i'm so excited the president is going to be here i haven't seen him since election night it will be great to see him and all of our heroes. this is my first time doing the patriot awards. and there is no better place to be than to celebrate our country, honor god and honor our wonderful heroes. >> steve: indeed. i have read your biography. you are the child of a preacher god and patriotism are pretty

much the two pillars of your life. >> almost 50 years seeing america's national thome and career that's been built and honoring god and our country. at least once a week that i get to sing the national anthem and patriotic music and meeting heroes and wives and families. i will tell you we are such a blessed people. a blessed country, thanks to our heroes and those who sacrificed their lives for our freedom. it's exciting to honor them tonight. >> ainsley: mary is from oklahoma and white house intern and then you ended up singing and performing for four presidents. >> that's right. >> ainsley: tell us your story. >> and a quick scale white house intern presidential appointee for president bush. >> events around washington. >> ainsley: how did you discover you had a voice. >> i had good friend worked for

first lady laura bush and they knew i grew singing in church. sing christmas carols for a white house tour that turned into singing for the holiday season and then going on to sing for four presidents. i will tell you my favorite experience, certainly of course is singing with president trump. and being a part of the election season certainly this year. and now seeing him elected and headed to the white house. it's been a great journey. and i thank the lord for that. >> steve: right. we a. >> steve: if you would reveal one time where you kind of forever got where you were. >> i tell you always have to say a prayer before you get up and sing these songs. >> steve: there is no teleprompter. >> songs everybody knows every single word to you. i will tell you it was a moment here recently when i had to sing for the republican national convention for president trump. >> steve: what happened? >> i was in the middle of the

anthem and i just got caught up in the energy and the people and the moment and i had to collect myself very quickly. i think i held a note longer to make sure i was in the right phrase >> ainsley: i love that dress. did you have that dress made? it's perfect red, white, and blue. >> i did. wonderful designers. in fact one of the designers will be here tonight catherine and peter who are the designers of niko blue. they designed the american flag dress. this dress and the dress you will see tonight at the patriot awards. >> steve: listen, i know the weather outside is frightful. >> that's right. >> steve: it's a real pleasure. round of applause for mary. >> ainsley: and sean will you with you tonight, too. she is good friends with sean, too. >> yes. he is hosting tonight. >> ainsley: i know. >> steve: mary millben is going to sing god bless america. if she forgets we are here to help her.

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