there he is with the french president and joe biden is nowhere to be found leadership is back in country. >> carley: were you surprised he held a trilateral with macron and the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy? we have been 30 seconds before we head over to "fox & friends." >> joe: don't wait until januar. i'm running the country at this point. able he wants to get into office as quickly as possible to change things as quickly as possible. >> carley: four previous years. relationships already formed. he wants to hit the ground running. joe, thank you so much for joining us. have great day and watching right now "fox & friends" starts right now.

this is "fox & friends." more unrest in the middle east. the u.s. striking isis camps in syria after rebels took over the country yesterday as donald trump warns we should not get involved live report coming your way from the region. >> plus, trump sharing a message of unity to the folks who didn't vote for him. >> i will treat you as well as i have treated the greatest maga supporters. >> ainsley: drones spotted all throughout the garden state a pair of new jersey mayors demanding action. we're going to hear from them this morning. "fox & friends" starts right now >> brian: all right. >> here we go fox news alert. the u.s. launching dozens of airstrikes inside syria targeting isis after syrian rebels made up of every group

overthrew the assad regime yesterday. >> ainsley: president-elect donald trump is adamant that the u.s. should not get involved. >> lawrence: greg palkot joins us live from london. what do you know? >> hey, folks, there has got to be a morning after and this is it through a raucous and historic weekend for syria. last several days the rebel groan group hs 2 taken over a swath of syria ending in the collapse of the capital of damascus and toppling of dictator bashar al-assad. the assad family has ruled the country over 50 years. the last 13 years during a brittle civil war. hundreds of thousands were killed. injured, imprisoned and displaced. syria's backers, iran, russia and hezbollah either weakened or contract ised by other wars, the rebels seized their chance. but with several groups running various parts of syria and the hs 2 group having some

questionable past ties. the u.s. and israel aren't taking any chances, americans just hitting isis locations, israel targeting suspected chemical weapons sites. president biden says the u.s. would stay involved dintsdly and militarily. president-elect trump in a social media post said in part the united states should have nothing to do with it. this is not our fight. let it play out. do not get involved. the importance of this, missed by many. take a listen. >> this is so significant, the fall of the hassan dictatorship. the ripple effect is going to be remarkable. it's truly, i believe, equivalent to the berlin wall which led to a ripple effect of dozens of countries becoming free after 50 years of occupation and totalitarian control. when. >> when we interviewed president assad exclusively back in 2013 he was defiant even as we could hear the gunfire of rebels not far from his huge palace.

assad, by the way, has fled the country. and russia has granted him and his family asylum. all things end. back to you. >> brian: so, greg, you had a chance to talk to bashir assad. this killer responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands of people. and he also was responsible for a huge influx of immigrants into europe that created havoc and ousted a lot of leaders who were too, perhaps, permissive. how would you characterize the ophthalmologist turned brutal dictator, turned exile? >> at that time he thought, brian, that he was saving his country, that he was gathering the unity of his land. that he and his father had ruled for all those decades. in the beginning, brian, that civil war war a pretty straight back and forth political game but at the time we spoke to

assad, he was alleging that folks like isis. folks like al-qaeda were getting involved in it. in fact, by then, he was right. now, that raises a lot of questions but, he is far gone. back to you. >> ainsley: greg, what's the ultimate goal of these rebels? and what happens next? >> they claim that, in fact, they want a united country, a democratic country, one that respects various religious and ethnic groups. but, again, as i noted, this hht group was not a long while ago involved with al-qaeda. they have strong islamist ties. they have been denying that now. they have been saying they would include everyone, even though a few years back they were saying get rid of the christians, get rid of the alawites in the country that's another sect of the muslim faith.

not quite sure exactly what we can defend on with this group and remember there are at least three other major groups running other parts of syria. so for millions of people, fantastic, happiness that assad is gone. but, for the experts who note region, they have some concerns. back to you. >> brian: yep. thanks so much, greg. so, a couple of things. they said come take the chemical weapons, i have them. iraq when saddam put threat. i wonder if we would find them. number the two person who deserves full credited is netanyahu. he takes out hezbollah, who are the body guards for assad. >> lawrence: after the president said no. >> brian: absolutely. he said don't kill nasrallah, he killed nasrallah so he captured the whole regime. then after iran strikes. they take out their missile defense. they take out their radar. and they have them totally distracted. got it. and now, you have a situation where the russians are

distracting ukraine. they are also protecting assad. so now iran can't protect assad. russia distracted. hezbollah not there. the rebels say okay. we hate you anyway. you are a minority government. the only reason wo you are in pr is because you are willing to kill kids. remember. >> ainsley: with the sarin gas and do whatever you to stay in power. went to putt and said can you save me. putin said no. is he going to live there now with snowden. so he is out. this country, these guys came in and i'm not naive. could be the same thing as the taliban. there is a $10 million bounty on the head of joe lanny who technically is in charge. is he saying the right things. the current prime minister under assad is . he said i'm going to talk about orderly transition of power and israelis have moved up golan heights to make sure no man's

region is guarded. the important thing get the russians military base out. that port out. that's how they get all the weapons to the houthi rebels. that's how they get all the weapons from iran those drones. kick the russians back out of there, it's in our interest. >> lawrence: iran is definitely on the ropes. what is going to happen with this new administration comes into power now? they have had attempted assassinations not only on him but their gration and they are wearing as well. people who helped them weaker as well. a russian can't do as much as they did. seen what happened in syria. they are a little preoccupied. it's not looking good for russia. >> ainsley: father took office in a coup in 1970, assad had an older brother who died in an car subsequent. he became ophthalmologist thinking he would never reign but he did. murdering more people than his father did. >> brian: iran is speeding

towards nuclear weapon only chance of surviving. israelis said we would never allow that they know they can get in and out. so with trump come in. biden would it have done everything to stop it. with trump come in. does he look at this and say do what you have to do? >> ainsley: you saw what he wrote on truth social. he wrote don't get involved. the last sentence of his post. >> brian: don't get involved in syria. for israel to take out iran's nuclear program, finish it off. that's a little bit different. >> ainsley: right. >> lawrence: lara trump is stepping down as the co-chair of the rnc as she weighs options for her political future. >> brian: could it be the senate seat that marco rubio vacated. announcement comes as will father-in-law unveils new pick for the second administration. >> ainsley: rich edson. >> rich: good morning. a handful of state department picks to end the weekend for president-elect trump. he has also named his former personal attorney and senior

adviser alina habba as counselor to the president. in that announcement he writes, quote. few understand the weaponization of the injustice system better than alina. fought with courage and unshakeable commitment to justice. as first generation american and middle eastern heritage a role model for women in law and politics. trump is filling out the statement department as well. christopher landau former ambassador to mexico during trump's first term as deputy secretary of state. michael knee damn former chief of staff counselor to the state department. and former national security spokesperson michael anton to serve as director of policy planning. they would serve under rubio. trump n nominated him for secretary of state that would vacate a senate seat here in florida. trump's daughter-in-law, lara trump has been floated for that job. she just announced she is stepping down from current position potioning quote at the rnc we had three distinct goals, surpass all fund raising

records. build the largest army of workers and poll workers to ensure election integrity and turn out millions of americans in pro-propensity voters in early voting. we accomplished all these. the job i came to do is now complete. i intend to formally step down from the rnc at our next meeting. governor ron desantis would get the choice in who fills that seat. this week former representative tulsi gabbard will meet with senators. trump nominated her as director of national intelligence. she has drawn criticism for her views on regimes in syria and russia. also this weekend, the president-elect was in paris for the opening of notre dame. he also met with french president emmanuel macron and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. afterward he posted on truth social that it's time for negotiations in ukraine to get that war finished to get a cease-fire done. he said ukraine is ready for it. he also mentioned that russia is weakened he knows vlad and he

should agree to it back to you. >> steve: steve. >> brian: every time he can zelenskyy talks to president trump. so smart. he saw him at the opening of the notre dame cathedral and had a chance to talk to him then. i think is he tired of losing tens of thousands of people a month. russians are losing more. so, they are thinking about drafting 18-year-olds. i'm surprised they didn't before. this quote is very interesting. >> ainsley: this what he told "the new york post." he says he wants meeting zelenskyy wants peace. we didn't talk about the details. he thinks it's time and putin should think it's time because, when he has lost, when you lose 700,000 people, it's time. it's not going to end until there's peace. >> lawrence: background negotiations reaching out to putin. apparently he is open to talking to the president. that is something new. that is something new. putin, i think, according to joe

biden, they have not spoken. the fact that you have donald trump saying, look, i understand. this has been a bloodbath. let's get both of the guys to the table and try to broker some deal. i think we all should be rooting for that eventually, after every war. there is talks. >> ainsley: it was interesting when you saw the video of him with macron, and his wife, and getting out of the car and they are shaking hands and then they go to notre dame. i'm like -- look at this. >> lawrence: fully -- >> ainsley: we still have, what another month and a few more days to go until he is gnawing rated but biden is not there. age. >> ainsley: jill biden was there image of them sitting next to each other. donald trump created a fragrance for men and women put it on social media a fragrance your enemies can't resist.

like jill biden she can't resist me. >> brian: hysterical. >> lawrence: this is what she said about the talk. very nice. she couldn't have been nicer. it's politics. you have to get used to it. she was very nice. and we had a very nice conversation. >> ainsley: i love that. >> brian: the response is from most people she voted for trump. she had to vote for trump. >> ainsley: she wore red. >> brian: not over the fact that she was stabbed in the back really by nancy pelosi. as far as i could tell, maybe this book is going to be written to tell me a different story. i don't think she maneuvered to get it but she stepped into the breach. >> ainsley: look at that image, brian. >> lawrence: according to the reporting she was not happy about kamala harris even being appointed to vice president after the. >> brian: why was that? >> lawrence: accusing joe biden of being a racist. saying he was against busing and all of that. i think there are some grudges there, still. not just for removing him but also it being kamala harris.

>> ainsley: wasn't it interesting that he sat between the macrons. they didn't sit together put donald trump front and center in the middle of them. joe biden and then ashley their daughter on the other side. >> brian: nato. pay 2%. macron said pay 2%. is he just under. his government collapsed. he is not in a powerful spot right now. in fact, trump mentioned back stage he goes can you believe i'm going to france the whole government collapsed? what's going on am i going to be safe over there? that was mentioned at the patriot awards. i like the president's message yesterday on meet the press. >> ainsley: covered a lot. he said he is not going to fire the fed chief jerome powell. he said he will deport millions of undocumented illegals, but first it will be the criminals. he is going to extend the tax cuts. wants to find the legislative solution to keep the dreamers in the u.s. january 6th called them

political thugs and creeps they should go to jail. weighs wronged. he will not appoint a special prosecutor like they did to prosecute him to investigate joe biden. he said i'm not looking to go back into the past. rhett tri biewtion will be through success. >> lawrence: this is what he had to say. let's watch it. >> i'm going to treat you, every bit as well as i have treated the greatest maga supporters. there has never been anything like maga in the history of this country. these people are so dedicated to making america great again. it's very simple. i'm going to treat them just the same as i treat maga. we are going to treat everybody good. we want success for our country. we want safety for our country. i want to treat everybody the same. i want to treat them well. and at the end of this four year. going to have a big head start because there for four years recently. a lot of bad was done during the four years i wasn't there. we have some things we have to do. the prices and all of that we have to get the criminals out of our country and bring down crime. people have to be able to walk

across the street and buy a loaf of bread without being shot. what i say to them i love you and we are all going to work together and wring it together. and do you know what is going to bring it together? success. >> lawrence: a great message of unity. and i just have to say. it was a wide ranging interview and ainsley you went through some of the topics. but to bring up 2020 in the interview. it's over. your message of democracy in and 2020. that is over. the american people have decided. so why even brings that up in the interview but as you said, brian, he handled it perfectly he goes no, no. and we made it too big to rig this time. which was his entire campaign message. >> ainsley: more popular now than i was then. this time it was too big to rig the first one did i not know the after the election until it came out over the weekend no. notes, he just was relaxed.

almost as if it was post presidency if you ask me and reflective. >> lawrence: calm. >> brian: everyone has their own styles. i would never start an interview after historic election and being the first interview and say something to the effect of you have overcome four or five indictments and two impeachments, people thought you were done to win a contested primary, do you believe that you have won the biggest come back? give me something to start with and then did you go down maybe i was hoping for too much. i think can you in the very first interview give a sense of a profile before you get to what are you going to do with illegal immigrants. >> lawrence: started off wrong. >> brian: than that's a style thing he shoe was not allowed to. when it comes toil lime grants i worry about illegal immigrants mom is crying because she has to leave her husband is a criminal.

>> ainsley: her husband is a criminal. >> brian: criminal illegal. i worry about that image and losing public sentiment. when it comes to the dreermings it's not their fault. the dreamers can i work that out which is part of the give and take of a deal watch. >> the dreamers are going to come later and we have to do something about the dreamers because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age and many of these are middle-aged people now. they don't speak the language of their country, and yes, we are going to do about. >> what does that mean what will do you. >> i will work with the democrats on a plan. the democrats have made it very, very difficult to do anything republicans are very open to the dreamers. the dreamers, we're talking many years ago they were brought into this country. many years ago. some of them are no longer young people. many cases become successful. great jobs and some cases they have small businesses. some cases they might have large businesses, and we will have to do something with them.

>> you want them to be able to say that's what you are saying? >> i do. i want to work something out it. should have been able to be worked out the last three or four years and it's never been worked out. >> lawrence: narrative that he is heartless and. >> tom: homan: he picked up more babies than any of these guys. got awards under barack obama back in the day. this notion that the administration doesn't want to be practical, they are saying get the criminals out of here. also the people in this life, 10 million crossed illegally get them out as well look i'm willing to negotiate with democrats to protect the dreamers if you give us long-term border security. it's just that simple. there is going to be entire pr strategy. moment that the deportations start happening they will show people crying and make it about that and not about the negotiation. >> ainsley: they might. but they would be smart to be careful when it comes to that

because the majority of america voted for him. >> lawrence: that's true. >> ainsley: see this as a major problem. gut wrenching when you see people stories other side he also neigh interview said not promote on abortion bills. january 6th reuters he most likely will pardon them r.f.k. jr. is going to many investigate the discuss credited links between vaccines and state your full name. he thinks pete hegseth is going to get confirmed. >> brian: put pete up there let pete be pete, put him through this process he can't be stopped. carley shimkus is back with us. >> carley: ps it was night to nice to have a weekend off. i'm feeling much, much better. big story rocking the music world, jazeera is showing a jay-z is showing a.

sexually assaulting a 13-year-old with shoidz sean "diddy" combs after the year 2,000. accusing the lawyer who brought the suit of blackmail saying quote you have made a terrible error in judgment thinking all celebrities are the same. we protect children. you seem to exploit personal for personal gain. i look forward to showing you just how different i am. the rapper adding that his heart breaks for his wife beyonce, their three children as they -- the family deals with this situation. officials in pennsylvania are certaining for at least two suspects accused of hurting her mother and killing a son during a home invasion. thieves stole a family's car which they later found abandoned. the investigators are still looking for this white car spotted racing off where the invasion happened. and the person inside who they believe was involved police are

offering $5,000 for any information leading to an arrest. and new out of massachusetts, 19 suspects are arrested in a joint ice dea fentanyl trafficking investigation. 14 of them were in the country illegally. fox's bill melugin reporting that nearly all of the 14 illegal immigrants taken into custody are from the dominican republic. 10 of those migrants being apprehended in the sanctuary city of boston. whose city council just voted unanimously to reaffirm its sanctuary status. seseize kilo and suspected fentanyl and cocaine. the new jersey drone mystery continues. residents reported even more sightings of mysterious drones flying over their neighborhoods. the majority of these sightings coming out of new jersey and staten island. they have also been spotted flying over a near military

bases as well as trump's national golf course in bedminster. local officials are demanding answers from the federal government. including a pair of mayors, from the garden state who will join us later this hour. looking forward to that interview, guys, this story, i don't think it's getting enough attention. these drones are apparently as cars flying in the sky. who is flying them and where they are coming from. maybe they are program gomple drones. >> ainsley: rachel campos-duffy coming on the show some some of kids have taken videos over her house. >> brian: otherwise we would not have her on unless they took pictures of drones: senator tom cotton on the right approach cotton on the right approach that is best for america, next. ♪ free select tool when you buy select tools and batteries from our top brands. so, perfecting the holidays... oh, you're good. is easier than ever.

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what should america's role be right now? >> brian, first off, it's very welcome news to the syrian people. they have suffered under the assad dictatorship for more than 50 years. also humiliating news for our adversaries, russia and iran, which have been propping up assad for over a decade. russia has two major bases there in syria they have helped to support the houthi rebels in yemen that have been attacking our sailors in the red sea. but we also have to be guarded about the future as well. i don't think we should expect democracy is naturally going to flower in syria. we have to protect our interest as israel does as well. that's why the united states and israel carried out those airstrikes over the weekend to make sure, for instance that, isis remnants in eastern syria

weren't taking advantage of this period to gain more lands or that those chemical weapons or other weapon depots you mentioned weren't falling into the wrong hands. we want to work with our partners like israel and turkey and the region to try help syria have a stable government that's going to have peaceful reemtions with its neighbors and with the united states. trust but verify. i think in this situation we need to distrust and verify anyone who might come to power in syria. >> brian: the president, just to paraphrase came out, president-elect trump said we should have nothing to do with this. not our fight. we should have nothing to do with did. i really believe america's main interest is to get the russians out of syria. their military base, their port. it's allowing to ferry weapons to iran and get weapons from iran and to arm the houthi rebels who are rocketing us in the red sea and rocketing israel on a regular basis.

do you see it that way? >> >> yeah, brian, anything like this rebillion i don't know that diminishes a russian and iranian power in the middle east is good for the united states. good for israel. good for our arab friends bases that use in sir area waste stations use a tack american naval ships and the freedom of commerce in the red sea. syria has been used for a very long time as a transit point for fighters and for weapons going from iran and to lebanon for hezbollah to attack israel anything that stops those things is a good comment for the united states and good development for israel. we have to be guarded and careful about what may follow assad. not necessarily going to be that much. could be. >> brian: sunni and enemies to iran pretty clear this is what donald trump asked about the

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together. is he on track? is he gaining momentum? >> brian, i expect the republican senate is going to confirm all of the president-elect's nominees. i had a good meeting with pete hegseth and poland. i know many of these nominees, two arkansans have been nominated as ambassadors, kelly loeffler, doug collins and i served together. go back to 32 years to bill clinton's transition only two nominees out of 72 cabinet secretary nominees in which senators of the president-elect's party voted against them. so no one should be surprised that a public senator senate is going to confirm the president-elect cabinet secretaries. >> don't be surprised if your new book, seven things you isn't a say about china becomes a best seller like your others. it's coming out shortly. preorder it now. thanks so much, senator, i don't know how you had the time to write it pretty impressive. thank you so much. talk to you soon. >> thank you, brian.

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freedom. penny could face up to four years in prison if convicted on the criminally negligent homicide charge. lawrence? >> lawrence: crazy what is happening. >> ainsley: couldn't get him on the manslaughter now. >> lawrence: crazy, they are swish of switching it out. growing manhunt for the suspect wanted for killing the united healthcare ceo in new york city last week. the search spans from central park to atlanta. updated timeline highlighting his steps after fleeing on an e-bike through central park before taking a cab to a bus terminal more than 100 blocks away from the crime scene. "america's most wanted" co-host kelly ann walsh joins us now. thank you for coming on the program. as they get closer and i think they pretty much know his identity, do you think they will eventually release the name of the guy or do they not want to spook him? >> i think once they find his

identity they will release that to the public because, really they don't have much that they are sending us. we have a few of these images with his mask slightly pulled down. but we don't know much more about him. especially the fact that he has been taking public transportation which, on his part is smart. although it is public. the police don't have a single vehicle that they can put out and say he is in this white car. it has this license plate. he is making it very difficult for law enforcement to provide information to the public. so if his name is found out, i think they will give that and put that out so that people can help track him down. >> lawrence: so, as it relates to the timeline, i know there was talk about d.n.a. since we haven't heard anything about any profile or something like that. does that mean they didn't grab anything or are they just waiting? i remember when i was covering the iowa case with bryan kohberger they waited for a while until he was eventually in custody. they used that for the criminal profile. >> that's absolutely correct. they could be holding that card

close to the chest. but they also had collected somewhat they thought was some rappers and a cup that he may have discarded. that either might not have turned out to be his or if his d.n.a. isn't in any registry their they are not going to get a match either. it's possible they have his identity through d.n.a. at this point i still think they are looking for his identity. i'm not totally sure that they know exactly who this guy is. >> lawrence: callahan, as we continue to look at this case. is this a professional or not? what do you think? truly i don't believe sea professional. the messaging on the bullet casings is a little too personal. i do think he has been me particular also in the planning of his escape. i think the planning has the or wrath a civilian planning something out. he has taken his time and prepared parts is luck he is it s. still out there. >> lawrence: at first i thought he was professional even with

the monopoly money in the bag. kind of toying with the cops. a professional typically doesn't do that. they are just there to do their job and leave we will continue to follow. i know new york's finest is on top of this. thank you, sir. >> th thank you, lawrence. >> lawrence: drones lighting up new jersey skies. two new jersey mayors demanding action. they are next. ♪ simply having a wonderful christmastime ♪ ♪ a wonderful christmastime ♪

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>> janice: good morning, everyone. happy monday. heavy rain coming towards the southeast and southeast the next few days as we take a look at the maps. lohse from the -- well from the gulf of mexico. that's going to provide a lot of heavy rain along the gulf coast, the southeast, and then we have separate system across the northeast, that's going to bring much needed raflt for some of these areas, you look through wednesday, flash flooding is going to be a concern, as we could get a fast three to five inches and across the northeast. this is our first system.

our next one moves in on wednesday. and that's going to bring heavy rain along the coast and interior section snow for parts of the northeast. also want to point out that we have fire weather danger for southern california santa ana winds are back not only today but tuesday where we have extreme danger and wednesday as well very dangerous for this area. we will provide you especially if you are traveling across the eastern third of the country and santa ana winds are going to kick up. fox ainsley.com. head into the holiday season over to you. >> ainsley: several new jersey mayors including next guest from the state and government as mysterious drone sightings light up the sky in 12 counties. and it's still unclear where they are coming from. so, in a letter to governor murphy, 22 narrow mayors write,

quote: the lack of information and clarity regard clarity and operations has caused fear and frustration amongst our constituents. we respectfully urge our office or your office to take immediate action to provide transparency and address these issues. joining us now are two mayors who signed that letter. we have mayor sam morris of mind hill township and mayor matthew more relevant low. good morning to both of you. thank you for joining us. >> good morning, ainsley. thank you for having us. >> ainsley: thanks for coming on. i know you talked to the governor. what did he tell you after receiving this letter? >> well, the governor was very nice in calling me back yesterday. and basically said that the same thing we have known all along. there doesn't appear to be any safety concerns. but that there is really no information as to who is piloting these drones, what they are doing. where they are going or where they are coming from. >> ainsley: just saying monitoring the situation.

no safety issue. no threat. so that doesn't make you feel great if you are living in new jersey or seeing these drones. they are industrial drones. do you have any idea who might be operating these? >> >> it does not make anybody feel good or safe. look at the physical part of this. drones are large. some of them are the size of a car hood. some people reporting the size of a small car. if they lost power and fell, they are going to hurt or kill someone. so, and as far as we know, they are not authorized to be up there. i mean, i spoke to the governor last night about 7:30. he said he reiterated what he said to matt that they are very frustrated. they are frustrated with the feds. i said to him i said governor, these things have limited power range in life. and they are -- they need to be followed. so i kind of said to him and i said to others this idea i came up with follow a drone home program. somebody get a drone up there, somebody get a helicopter up there. they have to come back to earth.

and then we are going to know who is driving them. if they don't know, they need to know. that's what our residents are demanding from us. i think that's why we have matt and the other marsz why are getting a lot of heat for something we have zero control or say over. >> ainsley: mayor, i work with a lot of people work at fox news. i'm asking what their concerns are first it's military bases are below where many of these drones are flying. the spy balloon comes to mind. what are you hearing from your residents? >> well, you know, we understand that the area between morristown municipal court and the drive through down to bedminster that, goes right through morris county. and we do have the arsenal. a military base where that we understand is a high security and the truth is like sam said. if this is a national security

issue. we would feel fine if we could just tell our residents, our neighbors that was the case. and then we would be able to at least know something. what we continue to tell people is the only information we have is that it's not a security issue. but we don't know where they are coming from or what they are doing. there are a lot of them they tend to only come around at night, and they are very is systematic where they fly. there is something -- there is a pattern to them. and they are pretty much every night. our police is logging anywhere between 12 to 20 phone calls a night of drone interactions. and it's just really unnerving. >> ainsley: mayor morris, what are your residents saying. governor had a briefing are mayorkas. can we trust the feds to do something about this? >> i don't really -- and i think matt and all the other mayors agree we don't want to go at or be negative with the enforcement agencies. we think but that we do think that they need to -- they need

to let us know what they know or let authorities around us know to reassure us you know, for example. let the morris county sheriff know who is as reputable as they come, jimmy, let jimmy know. if jim tells us he has been made aware. then we are okay. right now it's -- we're in the same boat as most residents. it's just pure ignorance. right? >> ainsley: tell me about these drones. they are industrial cronies. huge, the size of a front of car. where do you buy these? who can -- who buys these? are they outrageously expensive? owned by like individual or would it be a company or would it be a country? >> neither. >> can i tell you. [talking at the same time] >> ainsley: sorry i will go with you more relevant low, first. >> sorry, sam. these are not something pick up on amazon. commercial drones. they are flown in tandem. a large corporation or the government is the only organization big enough to be

able to fly as many as these as sin cran news as they are now. people say they are not the type that has propellers on the top. the rotary wing, also fixed wing that they have seen grid pattern moving from place to place and they are coordinated. not likely something you are going to see or someone is going to be able to purchase and fly recreationally. >> ainsley: all right, mayors, thank you so much for coming on with us. we appreciate it. thank you for finding answers for us. if you hear anything else, let us know: big thank you to our partner bass bass pro shops for styling our "fox & friends" studio for the entire month of december. ♪

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