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deep sanctuary city status. >> all right. >> and 16 days, 16 days until christmas. and one of santa's little helpers, that looks a lot like our next president is hiding in "studio m." >> lawrence: somewhere around here. >> brian: second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. unless i'm really off. >> where is that -- okay. here we government we start with a fox news alert. overseas, president biden calling the fall of syria a fundamental act of the justice as rebels take over the middle eastern country. >> lawrence: trump is clear that the u.s. should not get involved in the condition conflict. >> >> brian: do we have interest over there madeleine rivera he had white house. >> hi, guy, good morning. president biden says all of assad was long overdue also weary of the radical groups could take advantage of the turmoil in syria. >> at long last, the assad

regime has fallen, this regime brutalized and tortured and killed literally hundreds of thousands of innocent syrians. a fall of the regime is a fundamental act of justice. it's a moment of historic opportunity. the long suffering people of syria. >> madeleine: moving forward the u.s. is focused on preventing the resurgence of isis and mod derg. the stockpile of chemical weapons. the president also says the u.s. will engage with different syrian groups. but it is reportedly weighing the extent r. of which it should do so noting that some of the rebels have their own ties to terrorism. pl nt elect nypd vance making the same observations saying many of the rebels are a literal you've shoot of isis one could hope they moderated. time was tell. stabilize syria. like the president he believes russia's abandonment of assad led to his downfall.

he says now is the time for russia to negotiate a cease-fire deem with ukraine. trump had a trilateral volodymyr zelenskyy and emmanuel macron on saturday. trump tells the new york zelenskyy told him during that meeting he wants a cease-fire and wants to make peace. zelenskyy says he wants strong security for ukraine making sure russia or no other aggressor has a chance of returning. lawrence, ainsley and brian. >> brian: all right. >> ainsley: thank you so much, made. >> brian: as i mentioned earlier one thing president zelenskyy has got for a guy in theater. he has unbelievable political instincts. number one to unite a country to be war time leader. >> ainsley: sound familiar, donald trump. not in theater but television shows. >> brian: vladimir putin was performing there. understood the russian cultures. also jewish. so, understand he rose to the occasion. >> i agree. but then he realizes okay, donald trump, is saying end this

war in syria and ukraine. when he knows relates of the war. i'm going to deal with it. when he wins, he goes over and talks to him. he understood not to get involved with the impeachment, the first time around. he said don't worry about it. keep me out of this. and didn't witherer and shows up in france and make sure he gets some quality time there. >> lawrence: i do think he had one miscalculation. >> brian: big mistake. >> lawrence: it'ed a like he was on the campaign trail. evidence has since altered that donald trump great relationship in office now. and it looks like both parties have agreed that they want some sort of peace talks before it seems like in the past administration person mediator for those talks was the president of i can see how he would be part of the conversation in some way. >> ainsley: over the weekend optics, the rebels taking over syria. you saw them, you know, pulling

down statues, destroying. you see macron and prince william and donald trump. there is the video of what is happening in syria. donald trump gets out of the car and he shakes hands with macron sits between the first lady macron and macron's wife. jill biden on the other side. here is that handshake that brian loves. very interesting, right? it's already happening. biden is still our president. yet, donald trump is there representing america. >> brian: it's not like president candidate. he won. he is coming. like it or not, is he coming. deal with it and is he going to be stronger with more popularity. regular vote. he opens up something like 58% approval rating with the american people almost obama like took over. some moving parts.

a terrorist group al nasra founder. worked with zarqawi. have $10 million boundy on his head if found. i'm in charge. all sects are going to be good. sects. all sects. including the christians, we are going to make sure that everyone is going to be protected no sense at all fire par doing indiscriminate. >> lawrence: earlier today senator tom cotton. here is what he said about the conflict. >> work with turkey and the region to try to help syria have a stable and government. with his neighbors and the united states. 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 land. syria has been used for a very long time as a transit point for fighters and for weapons going from iran into lebanon for hezbollah to attack israel. so, anything that stops those things from happening is a good development for the united states. careful what follow assad. it's not necessarily going to be that much better. it could be but it may not be. >> lawrence: i will say one part of this equation i many concerned about is, you know, we talk about you know, the conflict and staying out of it. we do have separations. and intelligence in syria. >> brian: 900. >> lawrence: some of the best fighters in the world. i am concerned about their safety. and what operations they are going to be involved with. the whole point of them being there is to stop isis and any other terrorist organization from regrouping. we do have a vested interest

there. >> ainsley: you remember when assad used chlorine and saharan gas. >> brian: poison gas. >> ainsley: on the children. i was reading he is a bloodier leader than his father was. his father took over in 1970 during the coup, his older brother was supposed to take over in a car accident. he come in. he is ophthalmologist. >> brian: alawites minority in their country. they used iran, russia, in this case in order to stay in power. and by all means. couple of things just to keep in mind. there is an isis prison there with the worst of the worst. we have to make sure that prison doesn't get open. hit 75 targets last night inside the country. israel did, too. so these guys are saying this is how they are doing it differently than the taliban. the current prime minister under assad is in power. they want to do a peaceful transition. they are trying to put -- outstretched hands to everyone. and also through intermediaries. we have already made contact with them. main goal would be force russia

out, stop the land bridge from iran. and stop russia from arming the rebels and hezbollah and hamas to create havoc with israel and everybody else whose allies to us in the region. that's how could he this moment is. >> ainsley: it's nine minutes after the top of the hour. this is new out of massachusetts. 19 suspects are arrested in a joint ice dea fentanyl trafficking investigation. and sources say 14 of them were in our country illegally. >> lawrence: this is incredible. fox news bill melugin reporting nearly all of the 14 illegal immigrants dominican republic. 10 being apprehended in the sanctuary city of boston. whose city council just voted unanimously to reaffirm sanctuary city policy. >> brian: the feds seizesing 2.3 kilos of fentanyl and 12-kilo as of suspected fentanyl and cocaine. officials say one kilo of fentanyl is enough to kill 500,000 penal and bring a lot of

money in, too. this is part of it. it's amazing how much is being done by this administration in the final weeks which is exactly the agenda of the incoming administration. this is another example of it. >> lawrence: what are these people thinking? you have got boston that has essentially doubled down and you see what is happening there. chicago. the only person. >> brian: denver. >> lawrence: denver as well. only person that seems to be open to some reasonable approach is new york city. all of them were impacted in the last election. they saw some gains in some areas of republicans. clearly you see that 60% of the country is more mass deportation. but now you are going to harbor illegals and now they are causing the death to americans? >> ainsley: they have no one to blame all these living room yacials come here. take new and everything for you. they bring in their drugs. they bring in fentanyl. people are going to die as a result. this is what a sanctuary city looks like. >> brian: absolutely. a couple things.

where does it come? precursors come from china. china says, their words. beginning to crack down on all of this going outs their country until nancy pelosi went over there and visited taiwan. then they said let all hell break loose and they did. the fentanyl goes into mexico. goes into cartels, now have more money than ever because of the illegal human trafficking. and you put those together. and then they storm a wide open border. it is the perfect storm of good news for illegal drugs. you could see how cracking down along the way could do a significant thing in reducing. along with the president trump has already talked about this. massive education. and you might laugh and say that but think about what they did for smoking with massive education. drunk driving with massive education. and you could put this into a next generation. >> lawrence: i don't think ainsley know, the damage. they think they are trying one thing but getting another. i remember last spring break i was reporting and you know, you had some people that were part of the military academy. one person overdosed just by

giving cpr. that's how dangerous. you look at the back of the eraser of a pencil. that's amount of fentanyl that can kill u that little portion of it. >> ainsley: sometimes i'm hearing like a grain of sand can kill you. yeah, it's very scary. scary as parents. my friends that have kids in high school or college, if they go to a party they say don't ever take a drink from someone only get the bartend tore make you that descrank if you are at a imeart don't ever accept a drink or don't ever do drugs unless you get prescription medicine from your doctors. >> brian: started as pain killer massive way to reduce pain but man has it been abused. 12 minutes after the hour. donald trump sat down and chose meet the press for first interview. one of the questions was about retribution. everyone was concerned about retribution. by asking that question. do you realize you are saying that he was attacked for no reason? you don't want to punch back, do you? he said, listen, i'm -- success would be my best retribution. but, watch. >> i'm really looking to make

our country successful. i'm not looking to go back into the past. i'm looking to make our country successful. retribution will be through success. if we can make our -- this country successful, that would be my greatest -- that would be such a great achievement. >> you wrote on truth social in 2023 that you are going to appoint a real special prosecutor to go after joe biden. now you are saying you are not going to do that. >> i will say this. no, i'm not doing that unless i find something that i think is reasonable. but that's not going to be my decision. that's going to be pam bondi's decision and to a different extent kash patel. they i think they are both going to get approved. >> brian: look, i'm not going for it but something there just egregious and they want to go for it they can go ahead and do it. that's not going to be his focus. he has too much to do. especially because two years. got two votes. i have the advantage of two votes right now. should go up to five in the house. so i can't be sitting there

focusing on all these investigations. it's not going to be his focus. don't you like kash patel the more you read about him. so perfect in there. >> ainsley: a fighter. >> brian: unearth. a lot of things buried. also trey for someone a staffer. why do people hate kash patel on the other side. trey gowdy puts it out there. he exposed the entire russian collusion hoax. they don't want him to go in there and uncover all of the rest of the he corruption there i like donald trump said in that interview look i'm not trying to go for vengeance if they find some corruption within the department they are going to get it out. >> ainsley: he also said he will not fire the fed chief jerome powell and he thinks pete hegseth can get confirmed. >> lawrence: tide change. entire grassroots campaign of

people known him for years. been in the movement saying look, calling in their senators. i think the president really put a red line. is he telling senators, listen, i want my nominee. this is not going to be a matt gaetz situation. much different. we can't have allegations by unnamed sources win the day. >> ainsley: i thought having his mom on was smart, too. >> brian: is he a fighter for the fighters. and is he talking about getting families five days of healthcare on military bases. he is talking about getting them the pay increases that they deserve. combat pay in a timely manner. fixing the v.a. has always been a tags passion of his. i never thought about that. so is he going to let the ceo, this very qualified ceo do a lot of the management stuff, like mattis did. is he going to focus on the fighters and rules of engagement. that's a lot for the privates and the corporals and lieu tenants and fight these wars and deployed for months at a time. that's what i think and adds for pete, too. it's looks really promising.

i think that's great. now to a fox news alert. the nationwide manhunt for the suspected wanted suspect wanted for killing the united healthcare ceo intensifies as we get a new look at the person of interest. >> ainsley: brooke singman joins us live in the studio. they have to know who this guy is, right? you can see his faces a clear as day in some of these images. >> police are revealing new images of this person of interest entering a taxi in the city. that data timeline highlighting his steps after fleeing on e-bike through central park before taking a cab to a bus terminal more than 100 blocks away from the crime scene. so the nypd scouring the city to learn that the suspect went for atlanta. it was found the suspect took a greyhound bus there when he fled. divers were also seen searching a lake in central park after other potential possessions of the killers were found in the park. 50-year-old thompson was shot dead on wednesday by the gunman in what appeared to be a well-planned out hit outside the

health hotel in midtown, manhattan. the ceo of united healthcare's parent company is defending the insurance industry saying, quote: we guard against the pressures that exist for unsafe care for unnecessary care to be delivered ultimately unsustainable. it does not reflect reality. award for any information on the suspect's whereabouts. guys? >> brian: before in new york city. to the hotel and the other hotel and comes back. shoots him with looks like veterinarian gun. hood to be loaded. jammed once, shot reload. >> ainsley: they found monopoly money in his bag which was in the water in central park? >> brian: i think it has something to do with the healthcare industry in particular. >> ainsley: or united healthcare they think is monopoly or does

whatever they want? >> lawrence: i think this is -- you know, early on professional guy motivated by some type of rage with the system. we saw that with the shell casings that have all those names from that book. we see that with the monopoly money. and he is very sloppy. and i think his sloppiness is what is going to give the tips that investigators need to capture him. we saw what happens at the hostel as well. he got a little too flirtatious with that young woman and he was able to get a shot of his face as a result of that there is the footage right there. so we will see what happens. >> ainsley: look at that someone out there knows who that is. it's as clear as day. >> brian: this is what one expert is saying, the monopoly money he wanted you to find his bag. >> lawrence: 100 percent. >> brian: he says the money must cymballize the monopoly of the healthcare. uhc has created over 150 subis i can is comprising pharmacies,

hospitals hospice and insurance according to reddit. so that's what they're saying monopoly the things on the casings, he is sitting there -- does he know camera is in that cab? looks straight in it. takes his mask down to flirt with somebody. and then disappears within 30 minutes through the park. leaves his backpack and then is out of new york city in 30 minutes. >> lawrence: he has some sort of training to be able to do it. not every killer has the intelligence to be able to do that. and still toy with investigators -- it's almost been a week and hasn't been captured yet. >> ainsley: i can't wait for them to catch him because i want to find out what the back story is. what happened to him in the motivation? why did he do this? take out the head of a company who is a father and a husband? >> brian: how about this? a columbia senior lecturer professor basically says today we mourn the deaths of 68,000 americans needlessly die each year so insurance companies like

brian thompson ran can be multi millionaires. goes on to say something more st. louis university professor also mocks the fact that he was shot. so many people thinks it's not a big deal of that ceo of a healthcare company gets assassinated that's nuts. you can't kill people. >> lawrence: you can't murder people. >> brian: can we agree on that? 7:00 in the morning, four blocks away, the busiest city in america, just shooting people with a veterinarian gun. >> ainsley: snl is getting criticized for making fun of it. talking about piece hegseth is going to be on sean hannity's show tonight we just found out at 9:00 p.m. >> lawrence: first appearance on fox ever since he got the nomination. i'm sure it's going to be great interview. sean will have great questions to ask him as well. >> brian: nominees for the most part have been told to stay off television. that's why we can't book them all. a lot of people are pulling for him. including carley shimkus.

you have the news. >> carley: yes, i certainly do. got some major news that happened out west. at least 10 people are hurt after a police officer on a motorcycle crashed into a group of people who were at a christmas parade in palm springs, california, over the weekend the officer reportedly losing control of his bike while atemedding a trick sending the 10 people, including himself to the hospitals, all are expected to be okay. the california highway patrol says it's investigating the incident. and mayors in northern new jersey are demanding action from governor phil murphy and the feds this morning after drones have been spotted across the state. two of those mayors joined us earlier. >> it does not make anybody feel good. it doesn't make anybody feel safe. let's look at the physical part of this. these drones are larger -- some of them are the size of a car hood. if they lost power and fell. they are going to hurt or kill somebody. someone. >> these are commercial groans. these are flown as patterns, they are flown in tandem. so either a large corporation as

the government is really the only organization that would be big enough to be able to purchase and fly many of these critical condition crun news as they are now. elf on shelf with a maga twist. trump on the shelf make christmas great again. is he hiding in our studio. the question is can you spot h him. >> are you working this camera right now am i supposed to spot him? >> ainsley: lawrence told us where he is can you find him? >> carley: from the shot above. have you seen him. >> carley: i know where he is i spotted him already. >> carley: do you know where is he. >> ainsley: yes. there he is. running the camera. >> carley: working the camera. >> lawrence: ha ha. >> ainsley: a friend of mine got a trump elf and named him drum

pet. he came in from the north pole. thank you, santa. >> brian: is he a wearing a trump watch and smell like trump's cologne? >> ainsley: all these products. >> lawrence: have you smelled the president-elect does. >> ainsley: he has his own scent out. >> ainsley: called fight, fight, fight. new watch line. he has wine. >> lawrence: quite the entrepreneur. >> brian: you have some competition. >> lawrence: we are not going to name trumpet. we will give the audience an opportunity to name him. >> brian: friends@foxnews.com. write us right now it's going to be great. >> ainsley: help us name our elf. >> brian: go buy one. we can't tell people that. >> ainsley: we got this from the north pole. ask santa.

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♪ >> brian: fox news alert. the u.s. striking dozens of isis targets in syria. as many as 75. hitting the islamic forces toppled the assad regime as the ousted dictator went to russia. he asylum, according to will kremlin. the growing unrest forcing israel to ramp up security along its border. shares with syria. actually moving their forces up through the golan heights. our next guest knows all about keeping israel safe. adam boehler has been tapped by the administration. incoming. as the special envoy for hostage affairs. he also worked extensively with the abraham accords and knows the region well and all the players. adam, your thoughts about what we should be looking at and worried about with this change in leadership. >> well, i think interesting developments here as you see, israel pushing further into syria. they are really trying to establish two things.

a real zone so they can make sure that not more weapons and firefighters close to israel. the second thing they are looking for is they are finding and destroying chemical weapons. which is interesting because everybody thought there were chemical weapons in syria and turns out there are chemical weapons in syria. the most important thing we should be thinking about right now get americans home. there is an american that's there. in fact, there are four or five more. i think that information is somewhat classified. but, american austin tice has been in syria for 9 plus years. that regime is collapsing. you see that bashar went to russia and now you have rebels that may or may not be friends to the united states. >> this might be the moment

establish legitimacy to the rest of the world and the u.s. they have kept the prime minister in place g. under assad for a smooth transition of power maybe a statement all sects and religions are going to be safe, including the christians. if they want to show that we are supposed to believe them. why not give us this guy? you believe there might be four or five other americans there, too. this would be a great gesture. and might this be the moment where they -- somebody if you approach them right now they would do it? >> i think that's exactly right, brian. i think now is the time to get our hostages. hope is there. and i think to the rebels, if they want to say they are a real country, that they are not islamic extremists. then they should turn over our people. they should find them and turn them over and it would be a very strong gesture of friendship to the united states. >> brian: how much credit does israel deserve for, this taking

out one body guard hezbollah, diminishing another one in iran and distraction of russia in ukraine? that was the perfect storm that left assad naked. >> it's very difficult for everybody on the american side, given the current presidency's choice to just do nothing and only use words. and so what has stepped into the void is in israel that steps into and actually blows people away. they blow them away because they create a situation where pagers blow up and hezbollah, they create a situation where take out nasrallah and now the big difference is the president of the united states, trump, just got elected just by being elected have you seen things change in the middle east, syria. the rebels got emboldened. russia, ukraine, suddenly ukraine want to talk about a cease-fire. they didn't before china

released three american hostages. there is now a cease-fire between electric none israel coming. all of those things trump promised peace would start through strength already started since his election. >> real quick, adam. i'm over time. is there a game plan to get the russians out of that syrian military base and out of that snort is there one that you know of. is there one that you implement? >> that's future policy decided by the president, brian, sorry. >> brian: all right. we got to get him out. that would be one thing to get their influence out of the ream great ramifications great meeting with the secretary of state, our word is transition very smooth and respectful between all parties. hopefully that kin continues, thanks so much. adam boehler, appreciate it. meanwhile straight ahead. another big story. daniel penny's jury deliberates on the lesser charge after

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♪ >> lawrence: so a fox news alert. today deliberations resume in penny's chokehold case here in manhattan. the jury now considering a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide after the court dismisses the top charge of second degree manslaughter. after jury deadlocked was twice deadlocked. is the move just a desperate attempt for a guilty plea? here with insight, fox news legal analyst gregg jarrett. so, gregg, i mean, i have set in court a lot of times as a private investigator. i guess i have never seen this done before. once the jury has reached some

sort of verdict. if it's hung or not, then that's pretty much it. the judge issues a ruling. either they retry the case. something was different in new york. why? >> well, it was improper, lawrence, for alvin bragg's prosecutors to suddenly decide to drop the top charge of reckless manslaughter after spending 8 weeks telling the jury that penny was guilty of it and, you know, the judge let them get away with it. he shouldn't have. and, in doing so, the judge contradicted his own ruled that the jury could only consider the lesser count if they found penny not guilty of the top count. well, that didn't happen, did it? so, now, the judge is telling the jury oh, forget about the law. forget about what i told you. his ruling also violates the new york procedure law. that forbids dismissal at this late stage during deliberations unless both sides agree 9

defense didn't agree so, you know, lawrence, i think if there is a conviction, it will get overturned on appeal. >> lawrence: i don't want to hop on you, i don't want to skip past that because i was a little confused there as well. at one point, the judge agrees with the criminal defense and says, listen, legally what they are saying right now is true. which is why i was confused why he allowed them to return to deliberations. >> yeah. it really makes no sense, the law doesn't allow the judge to do anything under these circumstances at this late stage than to declare a mistrial. that's his only choice. and, yet, you know, he decides to do the exact opposite, so, you know. it's bewildering. it's tough to figure out. but, as i say, you know, this will create, upon a conviction, and there shouldn't be in this case, a serious appellate issue.

>> lawrence: so, gregg, the fear for a lot of jay-z fans, best friends with puff daddy is that he would be named in some of these lawsuits. happened, the person that alleged that he raped is a minor. this is jay-z's response. he said my lawyer received a blackmail attempt called a demand letter from a lawyer named tony bucks buy. these allegations are handwriting useless in nature. i implore to you file a criminal complaint. have you made a terrible error in judgment. i'm a young man who made it out of the projects of brooklyn. we have a very strict code and honor i luge forward to showing you how different i am. i know tony buzz bee, he is from my home state of texas. for jay-z to say go after me criminally and if i'm correct there is no statute of limitations for a minor, right?

no quo about that. jay-z calling them blackmail, an attempt by an names accuser, and her lawyer, to extort cash from him to avoid negative publicity. and, what you just showed there, you know, the rapper is daring them, all right. if this really happened. file a criminal complaint. it's a shrewd move publicly if he is innocent. and he makes the argument, hey, if i did, this shouldn't i be locked away, so, you know, put it up there. there are things about this, lawrence, -- this lawsuit for money, that are suspicious. it allegedly happened 2 # years ago. she is 13. who drops a 13-year-old off at radio city music hall to meet performers by sneaking in? jay-z was not even named in the original lawsuit. that is a huge red flag and her lawyer has filed some 20 such

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>> janice: good morning, everyone. it is a beautiful day here in new york city. and you know we are going to expect some rain in the next couple of days, for now we are going to enjoy it. my friend, what's your name? >> huck. >> where are you from? >> oklahoma. >> >> janice: why aren't you in school. >> because i'm on a trip to new york. >> janice: very nice. are you having fun? >> yeah. >> janice: excellent. do you want to do the weather with me. >> sure. >> janice: thanks to everybody who came today. i'm so excited that you are here with us. take a look at knox. can you tell me what the temperature is, okay? >> okay. >> janice: here comes the map. what is it? >> 46. >> janice: and with -- what's that big icon there. >> sunny. >> janice: well done. everybody. we do have the potential for showers and thunderstorms in the next 24 hours. so he we will watch that our first batch moves. in could see some snow across england and next batch on wednesday or thursday. evidencier rain in the forecast. pretty good looking day across the country.

we do need some of that rain across the i-5 corridor. that's the good news. it's going to cause a messy commute. wave to everybody inside. i want to say hello to this one lady here who made me a nice cookie. what's your name? >> faith. >> janice: do you have a cookie for ainsley. >> i do and for hayden and lawrence and brian. >> janice: you were busy. >> i was. >> janice: look at that, ainsley. >> ainsley: i love her name. faith. >> ainsley: that's so sweet of her she made one for our kids, too. thank you, faith, merry christmas. that's so nice. >> janice: over to you, my friends. >> ainsley: the fda could ban artificial red food dyes within weeks as the petition calls for the elimination of the red 3 chemical found in thousands of our products and comes after trump's comments from trump's health and human services pick. >> fruit loops in our country is just loaded with chemicals and food dyes that are carcinogen nic and cause adhd in your kids.

if you go across the border to canada or to europe. you have the same product but it has no dyes in it has good ingredients. >> ainsley: here to break it down for us dr. marc siegel. good morning to you. so red 3. what is red 3 and how can we get rid of it? >> it's scary stuff. comes from petroleum. it's actually. >> ainsley: so we're putting petroleum in our fruit loops. >> for a long time now. it's been banned from skin products since the 190s. so i wonder why is it not allowed in skin products yet, something you put on your face but yet a kid can eat it? you are talking about that very bright cherry stuff. brian is saying what are cereals going to look like without this stuff? look, it's been banned in the european union and u.k. throughout most of asia and australia. why are we so late and why now? there is a new marshall in town, isn't there? a new marshall with president trump and r.f.k. jr. so they are afraid. jimmy jones who is the head of fda food division is now responding to petitions from the

public from consumers and from, of course, the house of representatives. and they are going to get it out of the food, finally. but it not only related to possibly cancer, by the way, in animals they have studied it in high doses with cancer. but also adhd. attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. all of these food dyes can be relate dod. this 26 studies seem to have shown it. it's a grace that we have nine synthetic dies in our food in the united states. >> ainsley: hopefully they will get rid of those. what's the problem? if they know they are bad and banned in other countries, some of them are banned in certain states here in the u.s. why would they keep them in? is it the lobbyists? is it the food industry that is pouring so much money? they save money by using these chemicals instead of using something natural? >> do you know what's great but. you give the answer in the question. >> ainsley: not good. >> they want a little kid to see this and say oooh i want to eat it and, the preserves it stays on the shelf forever. here is their line.

the fda's line is we can't prove that it causes this. and they do enough post market analysis where it's already on the market. they are not studying it enough. only 5% of the nih budget looks at food. this is all a disgrace when dr. marc siegel says food is medicine. we got get it out of there and do it now. again, they are doing it because they know it's going to happen one way or the other. so they want to do it now. they did the same thing with cold medicine let's get it out of there before r.f.k. jr. tells us to get it out of there. >> ainsley: do you feel better when you go to other countries and eat some of their fresh food italy for example. >> i agree. >> ainsley: thank you so much. hand it over to carley for headlines. >> carley: i certainly do. hey, ainsley. former president-elect trump reflecting on his, quote: great talk with prince william after the reopening of the notre dame cathedral in france. trump telling the "new york post," quote: i asked him about his wife and he said she is doing well. i asked him about his father. and his father is fighting very

hard. and he loves his father and he loves his wife. both king charles and princess kate are recovering from cancer. the principal settle of wales appeared at her annual christmas caroling event on friday. latest episode of martin scorsese presents the saints is out now on fox nation. focusing on saint max amillion colby. >> i have to go with them always by our side, everywhere. >> i would like to take the place of this man. last chance to get fox nation for 1 point # 9 a month. >> >> carley: wow. watch all four episodes of the saints on fox nation.com. more "fox & friends" moments

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