♪ >> ainsley: it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast. we are getting closer to christmas. it is tuesday december 17th. we have 8 more days, my friends. and this, brian kilmeade. welcome back. >> brian: thank you. i was gone forever. >> ainsley: one day. >> brian: yes. >> ainsley: we're glad you're back. lawrence is on assignment. he is off today ---he is working

but is he in texas meeting with joss anyone nungaray's mom and the d.a. kim ogbueze seeking the death penalty for two illegal migrants accused of killing 1-year-old jocelyn. 12-year-old jocelyn. >> the house doge caucus meeting on the hill for the first time today as president-elect trump get back into the office. >> people don't come back to work and into the office they are going to be dismissed. >> steve: okay. and are you the pranking mood this christmas season? we have some ideas that could actually help. >> what is this? >> happy holidays, dwayne. but do not open it until christmas. >> steve: wait until you find out what we are talking about. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. remember, mornings are better with your friends

♪ jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪ jingle bell swing and jingle bell rings ♪ bushels of fun ♪ now the jingle hop has begun. >> ainsley: brian has a stocking again today. they left lawrence's on today. actually they left yours on yesterday. >> brian: i'm getting reports i was on yesterday. >> steve: last week my stocking was missing, the day i was not here. people were reaching tout me hey, steve, are you okay? your stocking is missing. are you on the naughty list? >> brian: i remember the longest time that, you know, santa would stuff the stockings, i always thought to myself feel bad dawn never gets anything. i never realized it was my responsibility to put stuff in my stocking. [sighs] >> steve: for the children watching right now. you are not suggesting you are

santa. you are santa's helper. >> brian: as an adult i'm supposed to chip. in did i not know year. a lot of years unspoken disappointment. >> steve: nothing says christmas like i got an empty sock. >> brian: santa would get her other stuff. oh, it's too bad you can never get anything. we seem to get everything. >> ainsley: as you are an adult. why didn't put stocking. >> steve: we should salute dawn, she does make the presents from the kilmeade family positive. dawn is the facilitator. >> ainsley: thank you. such a good lead in to my story. two years ago i got a present from love dawn. so then this christmas, i cracked up in my kitchen because i get a package in my apartment. i open it up my kitchen table i look at the name and it says kristin abrams who is one of our producers in our ear. so, kristin i will give your gift in because i have kristin

abraham's gift delivered to my house. so sweet. so sweet to give gifts. i'm not making fun of that because i am very grateful. it's such a brian story. so yesterday, i get another box and this one doesn't have my name on it. it's just delivered to my house. >> brian: that is so wrong. >> ainsley: return address is the kilmeades. >> brian: that's all you got. there is something wrong. >> ainsley: a beautiful basket of all kinds of goodies. a great gift. >> steve: i don't have that box yet -- i don't have that basket yet. >> brian: going to go down to the last minute. let's see if they get it right. >> ainsley: i'm very grateful. >> brian: talk about saving money. >> steve: who let the doge out. the department of government efficiency, doge, is going to have their first meeting up on capitol hill. and, you know, for the most part, it's all republicans, a number of democrats have suggested they would work with it. but, apparently at their first meeting, and there is elon musk with his 4-year-old son when he

was out and about talking a little bit about doge up on capitol hill and talking to lawmakers. the idea today is apparently to create some structure of what they can accomplish and set some initial what they're referring to as first easy wins. unknown what the easy wins would be. but the main goal is to make recommendations to elon musk with the kids on his shoulder and vivek ramaswamy how to make government more efficient of course we all know efficient means run cheaper. so things they are cutting, brian, go through the list. or thinking about cutting. >> did i have a chance to talk to elon musk on saturday and what could i say to possibly interest him and i asked him when your son was in the meeting with all these lawmakers. he just stood there and listened. that is not -- how could you have a 4-year-old listen to how cost savings. >> how do we have one son named x. was that x. >> it was x. >> brian: he looked like an x.

>> steve: doesn't look like my of my ex's. >> brian: can you save $3 million for girl-centered climate change for brazilians. according to the heritage found out about dei scholarship program in burma. get rid of that getting rid of them here. 89 million for improperly stored gas engines. >> steve: that's from the festivus report. >> brian: 125 million racialized public health foundation. getting back to work is key. 90% of people are not back at work. get rid of them. >> we talked about this 90% of the people worked for the federal government are working from home there are all these vacant buildings as a result of that after covid people went home and never went bark. almost 8,000 vacant buildings, another 2200 are partially empty. federal buildings are costing us, the taxpayers $8 million to

lease and maintain and another 7.7 billion spent for the energy to keep them running. >> steve: right. there are two things to think about regarding this. so 90% of the federal workforce works from home. are they working efficiently? maybe maybe if it's working out leave them at home and then sell all that property. get rid of all that property. it doesn't make any sense. if people aren't in a building, the government doesn't need the building. maybe we do have them at the little home office at their where they are able to do their job. did bring up bring up yesterday in wide ranging press conference from mar-a-lago, if you saw it here on fox or heard it, he was charming. he pretty much addressed everything. but one of the things that -- two things bothered him. one the border wall, we are going to talk about that in a minute how biden has auctioned it off also the other thing the 11th hour of the biden

administration, somebody in the administration has signed a waiver so the government employees do not have to come back to work for five years. he addressed that yesterday from mar-a-lago. watch. >> if people don't come back into work, come back into the office they are going to be dismissed. somebody in the biden administration gave a five year waiver of that so that for five years people don't have to come back into the office. it involved 49,000 people for five years they don't have to go -- they just signed this thing. it's ridiculous it was like a gift to a union we are obviously be in court to stop it. >> ainsley: if they are efficient, then i say fine works for them and the government, fine. if he are not being efficient, bring them back to the office and bring back vacant buildings

not using. >> brian: i'm totally against it. they have to be back at work. if you look at anything that elon musk talks about he says you have to build on relationships. divowt press each other to be better. you have to be accountable to your superiors and your -- there has got to be a sense of camaraderie and mission and that's his whole point no one is talking cutting benefits right now. talking about the way the benefits are distributed. the way work is done. one of the prerequisites from everything that he has had success in manufacturing is getting people together. have upthink attitude. a sense of goals and just can't do it at home except for very rare circumstances. in this case civil service you don't have the option. go deal with the union perhaps to and to a degree maybe but got to get people back towork. what it's going to do thin the herd right away. exit badge allow them to look for another job. you can't do it. when you go to work. you got to go park.

right? you have to grab something for lunch. the local economy benefits from you being at work. it's proven over and over again. you see it. if there was a way wall street would have bought into it. everybody back to work. you see jamie dimon back to work. any successful executive wants these people back together. the other thing is he going to do is move their offices. >> steve: let's see what they are going to wind up doing. he did say because the waiver has been signed and it's legit. he is going to have to take them to court. then ultimately it's going to be determined by a court local level, federal level, the supreme court. this could take a long time. >> ainsley: let's see. president-elect trump hhs secretary nominee r.f.k. jr. is back on capitol hill today to continue meeting with senators ahead of his confirmation hearing. >> brian: peter doocy is live in washington, d.c. peter? >> peter: r.f.k. jr.'s turn to

try walk down the hallways senate office building with 25 microphones in his face. there is a lot of interest into different ways that the access to vaccines could change if a man long reported of being skeptical of vaccine side effects is in charge of health and human services. >> mr. kennedy, what's your position on the polio vaccine? >> what you said previously about the polio vaccine. >> do you support it? >> yeah. i support it. >> peter: kennedy has a fan in bernie sanders at least when it comes to kennedy's position that the food supply is contributing to obesity and by beats in the u.s. sanders is not ruling out a meeting with kennedy and he is not yet signaling how he'll vote. >> no, i think is he going to be much less radical than you would think. i think he has a very open mind or i wouldn't have put him there very much less radical. but there are problems.

i mean, we don't do as well as a lot of other nations and those nations use nothing. and we're going to find out what those problems are. >> the president-elect is trying to help speaker johnson out a little bit. johnson only has a one seat majority now so trump is, according to a cnn report today considering picking a democratic congressman jared moskowitz to be fema director. he has experience doing that job in florida under ron desantis, but it would give mike johnson a little bit of breathing room that he does not have right now, which would presumably help the president-elect when he takes over. back to you. >> steve: it's like chess, okay. i'm going to take that guy over here to help me with that guy over there. >> peter: yes. florida chess. it's like oh, i have already got so many republican from florida in my cabinet. democrat from florida, too. >> ainsley: do you need a politician, look to that state. >> steve: thank you, period. >> brian: is he definitely judge moskowitz. i remember him brawling with james comer.

something about him. maybe he got word that he wants to do it. >> ainsley: he leaves his seat and then there is a special election? >> steve: it would give him a little breathing room trump is trying to do so much in the first 30 days but also the first 100 days. it would be interesting, does fema need senate confirmation? i don't know. but i wonder how many democrats would actually vote for him. >> ainsley: do you know what part of florida he is in. >> brian: i'm not really sure. >> steve: meanwhile, talk a little bit about this. donald trump was railing against the fact that somebody that the biden administration had given federal employees five more years they could work from home. he also talked a little bit and you have heard this as circulating on the internet right here on the fox news channel. people talking about in the 11th hour of the biden administration, the parts of the border wall that are still existing down by the border they're shipping them off. apparently they have been auctioned off.

more details in a minute. yesterday, it absolutely infuriated donald trump and he said hey, joe, stop it. >> he ordered an additional 200 miles of wall. it's very expensive. and now it's about double the price of what it would have been six years ago. and the duration is trying to sell it for 5 cents on the dollar. knowing that we're getting ready to put it up. and what they are doing is really an act -- it's almost a criminal act. i'm asking today joe biden to please stop selling the wall. we are going to use that to create a strong barrier. >> brian: so, a couple of things. so the question is that wall was fine. that was going up. trump wins 2020, it is up. gets 5550 up i think he has 450 occupy. dan patrick i heard a report that it was rotted. >> steve: that's what he said on friday. >> brian: our state commission, who is in charge of building looked at it and reported to us

that except for a few panels you might have been able to use, most of it was covered in concrete or just been rusted out. a few panels that might have been usable were not worth shipping from arizona to texas. if we did it, we were going to go buy it. but that is also on joe biden. he knew the wall was there. it became abundantly clear that it was effective. border patrol had told him that he could have easily said put it up. hey, guys, already in the works and paid for. instead he allowed it to rot in the desert. >> ainsley: donald trump. he was explaining how the wall was build. cuff see the cement inside those. he was saying that the outside is steel. >> steve: super tough steel. >> ainsley: pour concrete. hard to take it down once it's put up. >> those are. so walls. that's file video. >> brian: more money wasted. >> steve: here's the thing. i looked this up this morning. after biden stopped the construction, the pentagon actually was worked on disposing

supplies that were unused. and a lot of the supplies were used by border states and u.s. customs and border protection requested and apparently they did -- they received about 60% of the remaining stuff. states and border patrol took 60% of the stuff. the rest was sold by auction at gov planet an online auction site. so, brian, given what dan patrick said down in texas about this stuff being junk for the most part. it is unclear exactly what is up for sale. but, that stuff right there, that looks completely usable. >> brian: yeah. also he said he offered to buy it. texas was going to buy it from the federal government. and the joe biden refused to sell it to texas. they were going to do it themselves. they spent 400 million a year in border security under trump with biden it's been about 3 about the a year. because they have to to do it

themselves. that's mayorkas -- who would ever hire him again? flat out lying saying the border was fine that the wall doesn't work. that people don't need it everything he said was a lie. >> ainsley: look at all of that. >> steve: look at all of that stuff. >> brian: this is why they lost. >> ainsley: that's the auctioneer's site. so much material. only been four years. i wouldn't think it would be rotted or rusted yet. they were going to use it what's the difference being a wall an being on the ground? >> steve: dan patrick said on x and told brian that apparently the stuff was either rusted and unusable or covered with concrete which makes it tough. the wall worked it. did slow down migrants from coming into the country illegally. >> brian: electronics go on it and the electronics also paid for. the surveillance cameras. all the ce sensors. we don't want to see them.

>> steve: now people are trying to do what to do with the stuff. the wall did work. it slowed down people coming into the country. and the problem is when they come into the country and they commit a heinous crime, lawrence is not here today. is he down in the houston area. and is he speaking to the da down there kim ogg. and also jocelyn nungaray's mother. she was murdered, allegedly, by two migrants in the country illegally. he is preparing a big report for tomorrow. we wanted to share a little of his interview he did yesterday with them with you right now. >> i wish people would wake up and see that and see that i'm not just going for the republican side. i'm going for the side that's trying to make a change and trying to make a difference and trying to protect our country. my dad has always said country with no borders is not a country

at all. and that's 100 percent factual and i haven't felt safe in the country i live. in i have another child i have to worry about. there is more kids. i have little brothers, cousins, these kids are supposed to be our future. and we're supposed to protects them at all costs. >> crime has no party. and i wouldn't say i'm different than the average democrat or republican person who wants to protect our children. it's just not a political issue and to make the border or crime or murder actually political doesn't serve the crime victims. >> steve: she is right. >> ainsley: she is asking for the death penalty. guy came into our country illegally. the little girl 12 years old. the way she had to die, take her last breath was unthinkable and heinous for any parent, any

human being to have to imagine what she went through. >> brian: these venezuelan gangs aren't just stuck in the border. they are 16 states. yesterday came out small town of utah says the sheriff's office says we do not have the capacity to stop these gangsters in our country. >> steve: because they are here. >> brian: federal troops into utah to save small towns from illegal immigrants that were let on n. on purpose. it is insane. ceci it is part of joe biden's legacy that that happened on his watch. >> tom homan said something very interesting. >> it's hard to undo that. >> we have a plan for countries that will not take their people back. and kantz announce it yet. but i think you are going to be pleased with. >> steve: it could actually work. >> ainsley: we just asked him could you take them through another country and then from that country send them back to their country since they are not taking from the u.s.? he said we have a plan. we have a plan. >> brian: carley shimkus has a plan and your goal and your plan is to do the news. including some news out of russia. >> carley: that is where we are going to begin. that's right, brian. a fox news alert to get to.

senior russian general killed in moscow earlier this morning by remotely detonated bomb hidden in a scooter outside of his apartment building. a ukrainian official said its country secret service carried out the attack. eliminating the chief of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces. of the assassination comes just a day after ukraine's security service leveled wash crimes against the general. meanwhile, in new york, prosecutors in the gilgo beach serial killer case on long island are promising a, quote, major development in the case of suspect rex heuermann is due back in court this morning. heuermann has already within charged with the murder of six women on long island and prosecutors are working to secure indictments for the murders of five others who remain -- whose remains were found near gilgo beach. the prosecution says it will provide update after the 9:30 court hearing. president-elect trump is suing "the des moines register" and its top pollster ann seltzer for

fraud over its final 2024 presidential poll. seltzer released her final des moines register sponsor poll of iowa three days before the election. showing vice president harris leading trump by three points. trump ended up winning the hawkeye state by more than 13 percentage points. the lawsuit seeks accountability for brazen election interference. and if fun is on one of your loved ones christmas list this year. we have an out-of-the-box idea for you. franco frank packs empty boxes have the most ridiculous products inside. when you open them up, they actually have your real gift inside. the design to add laughter to gift giving and found at pranko.com or amazon. we have some on set to show the audience. hilarious. >> here is one of the -- this is one of the boxes.

permanent interest. if you got this box. you are just think i don't need a cat hat. and then you open it up. and there is whatever you wanted to put in there. >> ainsley: look at this one. >> steve: so clever. >> tiktok baby influencer kit. this little babe has a nose ring. look at this, this baby is in the tanning bed so wrong but funny. this one has a full face of makeup on. baby be beautiful. then you open it up and can you put your real gift in and look what we found. >> steve: it's trump on a shelf. >> brian: the elf moved. that's good news. >> ainsley: i'm not supposed to hold it. i'm not supposed to pick it up. >> brian: what we doo we call it. >> ainsley: you picked the name without us agreeing jolly don. donald trump. >> brian: big brain jigsaw puzzle. can you do that one. 12,000 pieces and it's all blue

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♪ >> ainsley: we are back with a fox news alert. police have identified a 15-year-old gerbil as the shooter behind the deadly shooting at the christian school in wisconsin. garrett tenney is live outside the abundant life christian school in madison right now. garrett? >> ainsley, good morning to you. this is a small private k through 12 christmas school just 420 students including some students as young as 3-year-old kindergartens. this is where police say shortly before 11:00 a.m. yesterday a 15-year-old girl who was a student armed with a handgun opened fire started shooting in

a study hall. turning the gun on herself. life-threatening critical condition. police were inside the school within three minutes of the first 911 call which came from a second grade student. >> a second grade student called 911 to report the shooting had occurred at school. let that soak in for a minute. a second grade student. >> so far the shooter wants parents are cooperating with the investigation. detectives searched the 15-year-old girl's home and piecing together a timeline leading up to this tragedy trying to figure out how the teen got the gun. and biggest question why they carried out this tragedy even now or especially now, folks at this school are holding on to their faith. >> we also have a very strong faith in our community that in spite of tragedy god is working

and we believe that god is good in everything and he turns beauty for ashes. i had a number of families who mentioned that to me that this wasn't a surprise to god and that he is going to do something mighty with it. we are holding on to those words and we are continuing to believe and trust in him. >> we're expecting to get an update from police later today on the shooting that took place just nine days before christmas ainsley? >> ainsley: thank you so much, garrett. over to you, brian. >> brian: chaos chicago mayor's $40 million short-term loan and next year's $17 billion budget forcing brandon johnson to clear the public twice in order to get it passed. look at this. in meeting will stay in recess. >> brian: unbelievable after four tries the budget passed by two votes while johnson packaged the spending package as a new

way forward for the city. what's he talking about? our next guest is one of the 23 alderman who voted against the budget. anthony joins us now. bring us inside the room arrest night. what was it like? >> it was total chaos. when you look at everything that you saw just that segment, there was just total chaos. and we're trying to pass a budgets. we're trying to get real answers. we are trying to do what is right by the people of the city of chicago. and we couldn't get real answers from the budget director. we couldn't get the right information we needed to make a good, educated decision on how to move the city forward. and we're still spending money. hundreds of millions of dollars on migrants. and we want to continue to feed the city of chicago when we are trying to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on migrants. >> brian: no end in sight he doesn't want to cooperate by somebody bring the number down by less than come in. they say in chicago the numbers you are giving under brandon johnson, the mayor.

$527.5 million. let alone the inconvenience of airports and police stations and around. i mean, obviously, people are fed up. doesn't he hear this? >> well, we would hope he would hear it, but it doesn't seem like he does. we tried working with this mayor. it's about 15 to 16 of us who have been around and know the city. and know the budget very well. and he won't even talk to us. he won't even entertain our ideas about trying to right size the city of chicago. we tried right size. our budget is extremely bloated. we increased our budget $5 billion in the last four years. we can't sustain that type of growth. and so we tried to right size it. we tried to have cuts and efficiencies. and this mayor totally ignored all of that and wants to just continue to spend money. >> brian: anthony, real quick, for people outside the city that don't look at the budget you see, what else are you spending things on that you shouldn't be? >> well, when you see that the mayor at the end of the day he

bought about 6 votes to get his budget passed. he gave aldermen letters that said we're going to do certain things in your ward that should be getting done anyway because it's the right thing to do shouldn't hold things over their head to get their vote. the mayor is holding services and goods over their head in order to get their votes. these people are so desperate to do something for their communities they sold their vote very cheap. >> brian: almost like they have no's os. right? it's incredible. it's not like your education system is booming and recreational facilities are fantastic. they are not. must be frustrating. continue to fight, anthony. thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: you got it. the house doge caucus ready to tackle millions of dollars of government waste in its first meeting. it's happening today

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4578g today on capitol hill brief the house intel committee on those drones. madeleine rivera is live outside the white house where it is hard to see the drones in the daylight, maddie. >> hey, good morning, steve. a lot of talk about drones. president-elect trump weighing in as well. he says that a federal government know what is is happening. they are just choosing not to comment. federal officials are pushing back on that saying they are trying to be transparent. for the most part they know what is happening. 500 tips of drone sightings the last few weeks. out of those they say there are about 100 they do need to follow up on. so far here is what they gleaned. >> our assessment is that this

is lawful, legal, commercial hobbyist and even law enforcement air force activity. some of it is manned, some of it is unmanned. we absolutely acknowledge that a lot of these are probably drones but they are flying legally. >> one municipality is taking action. ocean county sheriff's office is launching own drones to get a look at what is up in the sky. >> no. this is not government -- i know what we pay for our drones. and we can't afford what is up in the sky in new jersey right now. facts are that these are large device that are in the sky and, of course, one of the problems we have is differentiate what is real and what is not real. >> national security council spokesperson john kirby says the biden administration is pushing for new law us that will give state and local police the same authority as federal agencies to counter drone activity if necessary. kirby will be appearing on "america's newsroom" later this

morning. steve? >> steve: all right, madeleine, thank you very much. live report. all eyes on capitol hill where later the house doge caucus, the department of government efficiency is holding its first meeting about its plans to cut government waste. our next guest, a founding member of the caucus, waste nothing time getting to work with two new bills aimed at slashing fraud, costing billions to you and me, the taxpayers. senator james lankford is a founding member ever the congressional doge caucus he joins us right now from, i guess, kind of unofficial doge headquarters there in washington. senator, good morning to you. >> good morning. merry christmas to you. >> steve: you are the perfect guy to be on this. because, for years, have you had the federal funnellables books where you detailed all the government waste. so, today, are all the house members and senators going to say elon and vivek, here's a list of stuff to start cutting. >> that's pretty much where

house working on theirs and we are working on ours and working to try to separate the pile of government waste in two stacks. what can the executive branch do on be their own by declaring agencies need to be more efficient. we know what is our job and their job and take off on it. something i literally worked on 10 years. good to be able to get the initiative going right now to be able to say let's work on this. honestly, steve, this shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> steve: right. >> everyone should work on government waste. >> steve: right. if we're going to send our money to washington. nobody likes spending money to washington. at least don't waste it. that's why i are introducing two antifraud bills one extends the statute of limb accommodations pandemic era programs. unemployment insurance, fraud, and allow states to withhold payment from fraudulent claims. put up some of the federal fumbles details climate change

study on road safety in ghana: the list goes on and on. these guys are going to have such a gigantic list. it's going to be a shopping list. actually, it's shopping list. it's a chopping list. isn't it. >> it is a shopping list. what we are doing break this into big categories. drag shows in ecuador that the state department paid for that grant to be able to do it. if ecuador wants to do drag shows, that's up to them but the american taxpayers shouldn't pay for that. that's a slice of it. it's not just going after that grant. it's trying to determine how did that happen and how do we stop that from happening. it's like government waste in spending. it's not just that it happened. how did that happen and how do we make that stop. the two that i put out there deals with unemployment insurance. right now a rule in place that you have got to go after fraud within 14 days. if you don't go after it in 14 days you literally have to give someone who you know is committing fraud extra benefits on unemployment. that's dumb.

let's fix that. >> steve: you have been looking at fraud and waste for a very longer time. but, this time you are actually going to have help not only from elon and vivek but also probably federal employees have reached out to you. i know i just got an email from a federal employee said the waste is outrageous. this person says my office has a broken shut off button and the lights are on 24/7 for the last two years. and apparently they have reported it and this person got in double. and was denied a promotion. you know how it all works. >> oh, listen, nothing flies all a dad like the light being left on all the time. >> steve: drives me crazy, too. >> turn the light off. that's a given. there is just a million ways we are reaching tout federal employees. they see it firsthand. many of these employees are frustrated as well. they are taxpayers as well. they want to be more efficient. we are asking them to also share their ideas with us so we can actually get this thing fixed. >> steve: okay.

very good. senator, thank you very much for joining us life. good luck today with your chopping list. >> we will stay on it. merry christmas again. >> steve: merry christmas to you, sir. meanwhile, georgia state senators lay the ground work to keep men out of women's sports. coming up. ♪ at patriot mobile, we take the word service to new heights. serving customers with top tier mobile service is our business, but our mission is to honor and serve patriots, like harry mcbrien.

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>> janice: good morning, earn. it's a beautiful -- it's not raining here in the northwest. that's the good news. we have a break in the weather. take a look at the maps and show you all my friends in the back of me. showers and thunderstorms moving off the coast of the northeast. and a better day today. but tomorrow, more rain in the forecast, maybe some snow and some freezing rain. and the rest of the country a fairly quiet. we do have a couple of weakening systems across the central u.s. and the west coast. fox weather.com for all of your latest details. where are you from. >> north carolina. >> where are you from. >> virginia beach. >> where are you from. >> indiana. >> indiana. kentucky. >> janice: yell yell. >> oklahoma. >> go sooners. >> janice: fantastic. who am i tossing back to? >> brian. >> janice: brian kilmeade from massapequa, new york. over to you. >> brian: thank you very much. that's where i will be heading a little bit later today after "the five." meanwhile toll today on capitol hill. charlie baker right there the former governor of massachusetts be set to testify about illegal

sports betting everywhere from college to pros and its impact on college sports specifically it. could mean a lot. so much money. so much has changed. ground breaking report is expected on ai. artificial intelligence. a press conference is sets to discuss and recommend -- discuss it and recommendations to reel it in. that's part of the reason some say reel it in. some say let it go because china is catching up to us. and today the house caucus formally votes on which democrat will leave the oversight committee. you are looking at the two rivals. last night jerry connolly who is older beat aoc who is younger. we will see if that sticks today because that's what nancy pelosi wants even though she is getting a new hip in luxenberg she evidently still has new pull. go over to ainsley. >> ainsley: ththank you, brian. i'm back here. >> brian: oh. >> ainsley: president-elect trump vowing to protect women's sports and state g.o.p. legislators aren't waiting for inauguration day. georgia state senators now laying outs some new rules.

a new set of rules shifting authority to the state legislature and requiring schools keep biological males out of will's sports and locker rooms. here with how this will all take shape in 2025 is fox nation host abby hornacek. good morning, abby. >> good morning, ainsley. tell us what you know about this. >> we talked about atlanta's lpn men in golf. sport to follow. that's what we are seeing happening here in georgia and the lpga's case. they overturned a rule that has been around since 2010. and to could so. >> they cited a science-based approach. and georgia lawmakers are kind of following suit, they are pointing at things like bone density. lung capacity, increased muscle mass, just other ways that biological males have advantages

over females it. will be interesting to see. these recommendations still need to make it into the legislative process moving forward. but i think, you know, about president trump coming n january. it's going to be i think we are going to see a lot of things unfold. >> included some things that many of us haven't thought about if a private school play as public school then trornd males are are or females can't play these women's sports. i didn't think about that one and the locker rooms and changing rooms solely based on your sex at birth. we will continue to follow that just guidelines that the senators are laying out to come up with a plan for 2025. abby, you have a new special on fox nation and it sounds so cute. welcome to santa school. what is it this? >> abby: yeah, you know, ainsley so much fun. i went to midland, sa santa clas cousins 170 because as we know there is only one san that

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