over by tears because the one night that the decide to have a christmas party is christmas eve which does not happen in any universe. >> todd: people want to be with their families joeio they do. mcclain children are at home. there it is night. christmas eve. able to shut down a lot of stuff as a result of christmas eve and john mcclain being there ultimately wins, of course, diehard absolutely is a christmas movie. i will be watching tonight as a as a matter of fact. >> todd: done be deal i can't. >> you mentioned will farrell, this is a side note. i think his best movie was wedding crashers 20 years next year. don't say wedding crashers lines around your kids they repeat them in day care and get called into day care. >> joe: i'm going to nunchuck you, todd. right now. nunchuck. "fox & friends" right now.

>> #:00 a.m. on the east coast, friday, december 20th. this is "fox & friends." the deadline. the deadline for the government shut down, midnight tonight, but a spending deal still looks out of reach as the house fails to pass this trimmed down version of the trump-backed deal. what comes next? >> ainsley: the first one on the left. >> steve: still not good enough. >> ainsley: second one on the right still fails. explosive report revealing those closest to joe biden. they knew about his apparent mental decline for years. lealeaving members of the media with regret. >> they should have pushed harder earlier for more information about joe biden's mental and physical well-being. >> steve: i know one reporter who pushed for four years. >> ainsley: exactly. >> steve: meanwhile, christmas five days away. one elementary school vice principal going viral for that holiday stunt. and if that is not odd enough.

some reindeer in training. that's a live look at fox square at this moment at 6:01 in new york city. >> steve: those are real reindeer. >> todd: they have been training. >> ainsley: doesn't that warm your heart. takes us back to our childhood. >> steve: tis the season. >> brian: brings back all the childhood memories. >> steve: from the artic circle? >> todd: "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: okay. it's a fox news alert. the deadline to avert a government shutdown is midnight tonight. but a spending deal still looks out of reach as democrats and republicans are playing the blame game. >> ainsley: aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest for us. good morning to you. >> good morning to you guys. i don't think anyone expected this stunner last night. 38 house republicans voted against the trump endorsed funding bill. bucked the president-elect.

including some who trump actually helped to get reelected in november. let me hold your hand and walk you through what happened last night. house speaker mike johnson put up a much slimmer 100 page bill. include farm aid, disaster relief and that debt ceiling attached to it as trump had asked. the bill was so slim even elon musk approved posting this picture on x. it is to the right of the previous bill on the left. president trump also endorsed it reminding republicans that congress must get rid or extend out to perhaps 202 # the ridiculous debt ceiling he wrote. without this we should never make a deal. remember, the pressure is on whoever is president. but the bill, you guys, was brought up for a vote under suspension which means it need add two thirds majority and republicans needed democrats. but yesterday leader hakeem jeffries came out trashing the bill. >> the musk-johnson proposal is not serious.

it's laughable. extreme maga republicans are driving to us a government shutdown. >> aishah: this is why trump and vance and now many republicans are blaming democrats. >> the democrats just voted to shut down the government, even though we had a clean cr. because they didn't want to give the president negotiating leverage during his first term or during the first year of his new term. and number two, because they would rather shut down the government and fight for global censorship [bleep]. they have asked for a shutdown. and i think that's exactly what they are going to get. >> so everyone is passing the blame around right now. again, republicans hold the majority in the house and should have had the votes to do this through the rules committee and only needing a simple majority vote. now, here is one of the no votes chip roy explaining why he tanked this. >> you can do a lot of damage in 116 pages. this 116 pages still continues to spend $110 billion unpaid for

it. adds that much more to the debt. importantly it, increases the debt ceiling. something on the order of two years something on the order of $5 trillion with no structural forms to reduce spending. our simple ask and we told the president, this we need have structural reforms if we are going to increase the debt ceiling. >> aishah: okay. so what is next? apparently back to the drawing board. >> what's the plan? >> we keep hearing that you going to run another bill tomorrow though? >> we'll see. >> aishah: so now it's all about leverage. who has it? and there is always a chance chuck schumer puts together his observe clean funding billing to try roll the senate republicans. senate works slow and could still see a mini shutdown. we have no idea what is going to happen the next few hours here. >> brian: aishah, in your estimates, when that vote went to the floor, was there a sense -- >> -- no. >> surprised by the outcome or

knew it was dead. >> people knew it wasn't going to pass when leader jeffries came out and said democrats would not be voting for it. we knew there would be people like chip roy, thomas massi and some others that weren't going to vote for it. you know the house republicans have a slim majority. what we did not expect, no one saw coming, i'm not sure if speaker johnson even knew that it was going to be such a high amount of house republicans. once it started shooting up toward the 20 and 30 nos that's when you knew this was not good. >> steve: aishah, the 38 republicans who voted no. they had a good reason. they went to congress to try to control spending. and what they said squishy bill didn't have a lifting of the debt limit they will probably would have voted for it. they do not want to give anybody, including donald trump, a blank check they said. >> aishah: i think it's a fair argument and that is the argument they are making. you heard chip roy what he has

been asking donald trump for. senator mullen also involved in these negotiations trying to help achieve trump's goals put it this way last night. this is all about leverage at this point. it's about getting the debt ceiling pretty much taken care of before trump takes office so chuck schumer doesn't come in and hold this over his head which is he going to. it's all about leverage. democrats will have very little next year so it's about trying to take that away from them now. >> brian: just real quick, what happens if it goes past midnight, do they work next week? do they just keep working or they quit? >> i seriously doubt if they actually stay. it sounds like they want to go home. there has been some backup plan ideas about passing a clean cr for a week i'm not sure that's going to happen. it's really hard to get people to come back after christmas between the new year holiday to do anything. we might see a mini shutdown. come back in the new year.

but, at this point, i mean, your guess is as good as mine. >> ainsley: ralph norman could have a mini shut down. >> brian: thanks, aishah. >> ainsley: wouldn't effect it. >> sa travelers. they are worried shutdown how would it effect travelers? >> steve: what would happen is all federal workers would technically be furloughed unless you are essential. with tsa about 20% of them into the go to work. and here's the other thing. >> ainsley: ralph said they can add and vote they would still all get paid. >> steve: they all get paid afterwards. they go to work without pay for as long as the shutdown. it's kind of confusing. buff there are two things going on here. one, there is going to be a shutdown tonight at midnight unless they pass a bill. probably won't, unless, as aishah said it's a one week deal or two week deal. at the same time, have you got donald trump who is asking for extension or lifting the debt limit. the thing about the debt limit e just doesn't want to have to

deal with it in the first three months. the current administration and the bean counters there. not exceed until mid summer. not something need right away. he is trying to have it passed on biden's watch. right now doesn't look like it's going to happen. >> lawrence: i spoke to the president last night around 10:00 p.m. >> steve: you were up late. >> lawrence: i was up late. i was following. this i asked him about mike johnson. he brought this to the floor. and no one expected this amount of republicans to vote against it. he said i have full confidence in mike johnson. he said it's not mike johnson. the freedom caucus blew it up. i asked him about him going to washington himself to handle the negotiation because that's what john kennedy said. he said that's a possibility. but there is about to be a shutdown. is he prepared for the shutdown. he also said why am i handling this negotiation when we have a current president in joe biden. he also said to steve's point, and i think the time something a

little different. he said the debt ceiling needs to be raised. he says schumer has every intention of using this the next two years as leverage when is he in office. a lot of people are come out there saying that elon musk is the president-elect. the democrats have to pick a talking point. either donald trump is going to be a dictator on day one and run everything and ruin the infrastructure of the country. or he ceded his power to elon musk. it can't be both. >> brian: the musk thing didn't bother the president. >> lawrence: no. it did not bother the president. as i said yesterday, the musk tweet was a warning shot from the president. hthey are in lock step. he appointed him. he is doing what the president wants him to do. >> steve: it all comes down to musk and trump can kill a bill but the question is whether,

now, they can pass the bill. >> ainsley: let's bring in our michigan congressman john james. congressman, thank you so much for joining us this early. >> of course. thanks for having me. >> ainsley: i know you voted yes for this but 38 republicans voted know. what happens today? some way we can pass this before midnight so the government doesn't shut down. >> one thing we don't do is give up. a lot of work to do for the american people. what democrats did when they voted against the american people they reminded us all why they got wiped out in this past election. it was really rich to sit there and listen to them talk about what the american people want. if they had any clue what the american people wanted. president trump wouldn't be going to the white house. we wouldn't have the senate and majority in the house. we are going to be pushing hard to make sure that we clear the decks for president trump. but we also are responsible by taking care of our farmers and emergency relief as well. >> brian: congressman, a couple things. people want to cut spending and they dare to cut spending and i understand it. like chip roy.

great guy, ethical guy, great morals. i understand it. if he is going to be this critical, he has got to get into leadership. these people go in there in the room and find out what it's like not just to pontificate but negotiate because you guys can't get everything you want. you don't have -- you bear have the house. you don't have the senate. and you don't have the white house. so there seems to be a reality check needed among some about how much power you actually have. >> yeah. the reality check is that we are still in 118th congress. the democrats still do own the senate. and the democrats still do have the white house. and the fact that democrats are the ones who shut down this bill, democrats want to shut down because they care more about power, you know what? >> brian: 38 of your guys voted against it. >> more than 200 democrats voted against it. you have democrats are saying hell no to giving the american people what they want. you have the democrats continuing to focus on power rather than focusing on the

people. and that is where we need to put our focus is making sure that we come together as republicans and that we unite to put the america first agenda out there. but we also have to put blame where the blame is required. and that is making sure that democrats actually come to the table, negotiate in good faith but democrats aren't interested in compromise. they are interested in capitulation. we have to recognize who we are dealing with. >> steve: congressman, the democrats didn't vote for it because the republicans took all the stuff the democrats wanted out of it how many times members of the freedom caucus voted against it how the president has a mandate. when it comes to his nominees for different things e should get his say. president is saying republicans, it's part of my mandate. i want this debt ceiling lifted. indefinitely. but they said no, you know what? that's the line in the sand. >> you know what? i have three small children. they all still believe in santa

claus. >> steve: they should. >> that's right. that's right. and they should. but, the worst present we can give our children is trillions more dollars in unnecessary debt. what democrats had in this bill are things like a new bridge, a new stadium. things that the american people. particularly folks in michigan have no business paying for. we have to make sure that we're responsible that we are putting america first agenda first we are being more efficient. what we were able to do going a 1500 page bill down to 100 page bill. just shows the americans, republicans' commitment to actually getting more efficient while also taking care of americans stuck by disaster in issues. >> lawrence: i'm curious, this is the one thing i don't get. do you know this is why you have a whip. you have leadership to know the vote count. we continue to see republicans bring bills that they don't have the votes for and then everyone is shocked. so, are you all not having

conversation? are members telling the leadership team that they're going to vote for something and then getting on the floor and not? why are we bringing bills if we don't have the votes? >> well, that's actually what's going on right now is people don't know how they are voting when they actually get to the floor there are some people and if you notice they will get to the floor and wait to the last minute and cast their vote. these are tough issues. and there are people who are still wrestling with this within themselves and within their districts. and it's tough to count. this issues why we have to play as a team. republicans coming together to work for the american people. yes, we do have a mandate. we also have a democrat senate and democrat white house. we have to work within the realm of reality and get something passed so we can take care of the american people. >> brian: you learned to work as a team. you learned that at west point. hopefully other people play team sports even tag in school, something. >> that's right. >> brian: appreciate it, congressman. >> steve: merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> brian: explosive report from

the "wall street journal." shedding light on how the white house functioned or didn't function with a diminished biden in charge. >> lawrence: incredible. peter doocy joins us from washington. hey, peter. >> peter: when i got to the white house four years ago with president biden, he was walled off because of covid. they didn't want him to get sick. but then he stayed walled off and now the "wall street journal" has this item with the headline how the white house functioned with a diminished biden in charge. and it comes with this quote: if the president was having an off day, meetings could be scrapped all together on one such occasion in the spring of 2021, a national security official explained to another aid why a meeting needed to be rescheduled. quote: he has good days and bad days and today was a bad day, so we're going to address this tomorrow, the former aid recalled the official saying. the president showed natural signs of aging but key allies always stuck their necks out to say no big deal.

>> right after the debate, you insisted that president biden is extraordinarily strong. given where we are now, do you have any regrets about what you told the american people? >> no, not at all. not at all. >> i talked to president biden, you know, regularly, usually several times in a week. his mental acuity is great, it's fine. it's as good as it's been over the years. >> do you think the president should undergo some cognitive testing. >> no. >> to the extent that we are having this conversation. i don't see any need to do that. >> peter: things have changed a lot. but no obvious second thoughts. >> you prepared to leave the white house, any other regrets that you have. anything you wish you would have done differently. >> i guess if i thought a lot about it there would be something specifically but not generically. >> peter: i had a front row seat to a lot of this and at various

times was basically told not to believe what i was seeing or hearing. the president misspoke. the president has a cold. but now the dam appears to be breaking. this "wall street journal" item interviewed 50 people familiar with biden's operation. back to you. >> brian: peter, you had this story in august. the "wall street journal" began to dip their toe in the water on this very topic and they got blasted. you gotten blasted when you questioned the president's acuity. kamala harris offended that people even bring it up. they talk about interaction between biden and many of his cabinet members were infrequent. tightly scripted. one cabinet member stopped requesting calls with the president because it was clear that such request wouldn't be welcome. the cabinet. peter doocy can't get an interview. his own cabinet can't get a meeting. adam smith, who is chairman of armed services tried to tell the president how bad afghanistan could turn out, he couldn't get to him. this is cataclysmic.

>> peter: it raises a lot of questions about who was making key decisions you mentioned the afghanistan withdrawal. if the president was as diminished as this story makes it sound, that would be a huge problem, and it could explain why certain decisions were made that turned out to be catastrophic and why no apologiesy ever paid. to your point, brian, when the cabinet met all nine times, which is the least in the last several decades that a president has had their whole cabinet together in an entire term, there was a different item a few months ago where cabinet secretaries were being asked to submit their questions for the president behind closed doors in advance the way it worked they would ask a question prescreened and the president would have a card with the answer even in a closed setting i hear a lot of

complaints and there was a bite in the open why wasn't there more coverage of the president's age and acuity earlier? >> steve: you kept asking. >> peter: i kept asking the whole time. and a lot of the stories that we would hear that we would try to report out are second hand. but it's a lot of stuff like oh, you would hear from somebody on the staff or somebody that works at the white house it. looks like the president was falling asleep somewhere. okay. hard to confirm that but we have tape of him falling asleep at events as recently as his most recent foreign trip. >> steve: you know, it was off the record last friday there was a holiday party at the white house. you had a brief interaction that has not been reported and it kind of speaks to how his aides rip you out of the room when you two started talking. >> peter: it was actually kind of funny. i took my sister mary as my plus one. and, when we got up there i

said, mr. president, this is my sister mary. the first thing he said to her is you know my sister tries to control me. and the first lady and the press secretary who is standing off to the side were trying to keep the line going. and they did. so it was quick. a lot of that. >> steve: he might have said something i would like to talk to you later and it was come on, peter, there he went with your sister mary who tries to control you too. >> peter: it's true. i made sure that mary did what i always do at these white house parties. they have like napkins with the presidential seal so just make sure that as many as you can grab on the way out. >> steve: that's the lovely parting gift. >> lawrence: this sem bare wassing as a country. everyone is talking about the republican party and who is debating this bill and elon musk. who is running the country right now? and the fact is that the report

said this was months into the presidency. that means it wasn't about covid-19. he was diminished before he was sworn in and only got worse when he was in office. i don't understand how they have any credible anymore. >> ainsley: so serious and such a big deal because if this was going on when he was making decisions about the afghanistan withdrawal, how do you think you would feel if you are the parent that lost a child at the abbey gate. >> steve: who decided? >> brian: how about fought for 20 years in the war fought for the right reason and built a society that had somewhat representation of women and people had opportunity. iny this disqualifies barack obama, hillary clinton, chuck schumer,. >> steve: all of them. >> kjp. they all lied to us. told us he was fine.

campaigned to get him another four years until he fell apart in june. they hid this from the country. this is so beyond politics. our country had no legitimate president. >> lawrence: the entire time. >> brian: functioning government. >> ainsley: not the only lie. >> brian: and jill. >> steve: the "wall street journal" said it started on day one of his presidency. meanwhile, today it's a big holiday get away kay and storm slamming the upper midwest with heavy snow in wisconsin and dakotas could get up to half a foot of snow. >> brian: this system dash dash impacting flights during the busy holiday rush. over 290 flights are canceled so far the reindeers always take it the worse. >> lawrence: scrambling. 40 million people are expected to fly january 2nd. >> janice: check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. >> janice: no traffic for the reindeer. they fly through everything.

they are the best and here on fox square. we will talk to them later in the show. storm system across the northern plains, the midwest, northeast. the next storm system moves into the west. one we are watching this afternoon. a blast of snow and overnight as well. definitely delays for some of these big cities. here are your airport delays, not only for today but saturday, new storm moves into the west. otherwise, you are not too bad a travel day over the next couple of days. christmas eve forecast. storm in the west bringing snow to the mountains. we have, you know, weaker system over the mississippi river valley. interior section snow. and christmas day not too bad if you are traveling that day. but hopefully everyone is in place at grandma's house or wherever you are going for your christmas holiday. steve and i match by the way today. >> steve: indeed. very nice. >> ainsley: i like it. >> janice: i have waited all year wear this. >> brian: i love the frayed on the bottom. >> janice: attention to detail.

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>> steve: president-elect donald trump's legal battle is finally over after a georgia appeals court disqualified fulton county d.a. fani willis and her team from the trump election interference case. the appearance of impropriety generally is not enough to support disqualification. this is the rare case in which disqualification is mandated and no other remedy will suffice to restore public confidence in the integrity of these proceedings. attorney ashleigh merchant led the effort to oust fani from the case and joins us now. ashley, good morning to you. >> good morning. >> if you would, start at the begibeginning explain how you hd knowledge that nobody else had that nathan wade was having a relationship with the d.a. fani willis who hired him? it's a unique set of circumstances, really relationships.

i knew nathan wade. i knew nathan wade personally and fani willis and their friends and law partners. in the legal community we were talking about this and they devulgd all of this information to me. i start started tracking it down and closing different loops and investigating and it blossomed into something that i knew i had to do something about and became actionable. >> steve: right. we saw it play out months ago where the judge in the case was trying to figure out, you know, is there a conflict of interest here? it was so obvious it was. the irony the case of the conflict of interest was stronger actually than the case against donald trump. >> i know it. really was. it was something that you couldn't turn your eye away from. i think that's what the court of appeals said. this is just -- it's one of those things that you know it when you see it. it's the appearance of impropriety. it is so great that it had to be enough to kick them off the case. i think it's really clear, i know, how fani willis has dug in

from the beginning. she started this and you know, she could have done the right thing early on whenever we brought this to everyone's attention and said hey, let's have a new central prosecutor handle this case. let's have someone else look at it. i think she was terrified because her case was so weak. she didn't want to have someone else look at it. >> steve: she was saying up in the bitter end she would wait until the end of the trump term to bring this case if necessary. donald trump had a statement to fox news digital, he said there is no way such corrupt people can lead a case and then take over by somebody else. the case is entirely dead. everybody including the wonderful patriots caught up in this four years, the asmart move for georgia would be to end this, drop the case that never should have been brought. technically, they could keep it alive. it's really up to the state, right? >> right, it's up to a group

called prosecuting attorney council pack. they can decide what to do. burt jones who is our lt. governor in georgia. he has taken off the case early. weighs separated out and fani willis was disqualified. they looked at they said we are not going to prosecute. this i have always thought it's a new central prosecutor, someone who didn't have a financial interest in this case and political interest in this case looked at it, that they would see things differently and they would decide that the taxpayers, the courts, the people who are charged in the case, they deserve this case to be dismissed. >> well, congratulations to you, this is what you were after. you really cracked the case, so christmas came early for you. >> it did come early. thank you so much. >> you bet. ashley, thank you very much. all right. ainsley, you have got some headlines? >> thank you, steve. that's exactly right. the "new york post" reporting that ice freed 124 migrants who stormed the border in el paso, texas back in march because officials did not view them as the security threats. the mob was criminally charged

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borrowers. and this comes at a high cost. more than $4 billion had to be approved ahead of this move with the administration touting that they have secured $180 billion overall for forgiveness. >> and finally, an elementary school vice principle in carson city, nevada, getting into the christmas spirit, dressing up as an elf on the shelf. look at that school district officials. [coughing] >> school officials say he has been having a ball creating mischief as he pops up surprising places around the campus. steve, i need some over can will you take over? >> steve: regarding this principal, each morning a poem is posted on the school's facebook page so that kids can discover what their elf has been up to like visiting the nurse's office. mark rodina, the elf vice principal saying, quote: i wanted to create something fun and memorable that would smiles to everybody's faces and he did. how cute is that?

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court is going to do is there any reason to believe they are not going to follow through on legs that passed lawfully. >> no, no. this -- bytedance legal's track is about to come to an end. there are going to be two options here, brian. one is they are going to shut it down and the other is sell it. we think we have a solution for china, which is buying it without the algorithm and the solution for americans. and -- there is a verksz of tiktok that is safe for americans either a ban on or about purchase and we are in front of the line to buy it should they decide to sell. >> brian: frank, is there any doubt in your minded that the chinese able to get any of our material news feed without a security risk. >> no doubt. what is in my mind doesn't much matter. you saw the strong bipartisan support for the legislation.

you saw the judges on the appeals court rule 3-0 that this thing needs to be shut down. have you seen the supreme court take this case in record time. i think what they are going to do is close this case, basically. and, again, like i said, we will have two options. ban or sale. and have you heard president-elect trump say he doesn't want to see it banned, that he has a warm spot for tiktok. i do, too. i don't want to see iten baaed. let's make a deal here where we can create a version of tiktok that is safe for americans. opened by americans. and people can enjoy this platform. make even more money. those creative people that are using it. and the key here is let's save tiktok for americans. >> brian: so, when the president says, you know, they helped me win and get young people, those eyeballs are there. but the people have explained it to me that the genius of tiktok. it's addicting and they have an

algorithm that instagram and other outfits have been unable to -- other platforms have been able to replicate. why would you buy something without the algorithm that allows viewers to last a long time and buy the base? why. >> that's the key. yeah, that's the key question right there. brian we have been building five years that's what technology is all about. we have a clean made in america stack that we can move the 170 million users on tiktok over toe this stack rather than their data being stolen and aggregated and algorithms applied top down. we will enable individuals to own their identity, data and relationships. to get the feed they want. they will have an even better experience on tiktok. creators will make more money on tiktok. and it will be most importantly safe for americans to use it and that's the key. >> do you think you have enough money? do you have any idea what the

price tag is? we have raised what we believe the u.s. tiktok without the algorithm is worth. now, let's be clear. bytedance has not decided to sell. and bytedance has not said if they sell what they are selling. so, of course, we need to have more conversations around this. but, look, brian, i have done a ton of deals in my life. this is not unusual. where somebody says not going to do something and then ultimately they change their mind. i think the key here. key here everybody has to win. with what we are talking about china wins because they are not selling the algorithm. president-elect trump wins because he keeps it alive. the users win because the platform stays alive and, of course, the shareholders of bytedance get some money for the u.s. platform we think it's a win all around and most importantly american citizens will be safe.

>> brian: no one doubting popular keep it an american company spying device that puts our national security at risk. thanks so much, frank, we hope you get it and hope you make the announcement here. >> thanks, brian. thanks a lot. happy holidays to you. >> brian: same to you and everybody watching. meanwhile, it's our 12 days of giving. and today we highlight the organization warming hearts this holiday season blankets of hope and their mission, next. ♪ he's making a list ♪ checking it twice ♪ gonna find out whose naughty or nice. ♪ santa claus is coming to town ♪

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>> ainsley: day 8 of 12 days of giving. today we are highlighting mission blankets of hope. practice empathy and kindness by writing handwritten letters, the kids do that and they go and donate the blankets to people who are suffering from homelessness. they have now impacted 300,000 lives over the last 8 years. blankets of hopco founders mike and nic theo join us now. thanks for being here. >> nice to have you ainsley. good to see you again. >> you have been on a few times. our viewers will go to your website. this is so sweet.

this started out as you saw homeless people on the streets of new york, or whatever cities. and then you took them blankets. >> yeah. >> it's morphed into something else, right? >> i was commuting into my corporate job in new york city. as many new yorkers see there is a lot of people in need simple give out a blanket. videos online and the news picked up our story. my fifth grade teacher saw he us on the news and saying nick i you saw you on the news and 200 students like to help out. light bulb helped out. this could be so much bigger than mike and i making an impact. if we could get the kids involved in this movement of kindness that's powerful. >> ainsley: i distantly thought i need to tell our school so you can go into our schools. what is the reaction when you call the schools and say we would like to come and teach these kids about kindness. >> we have a waitlist of about 30,000 students right now of schools that are dying to

participate in blankets of hope? >> we don't have the funds send in the blanket right now. blankets free of charge. a lot of these schools that want to participate don't have the their own funds to pay for those blankets. we rely on the generosity of the public donors to basically sponsor these students and get them to participate. >> ainsley: we have a lot of viewers this morning. hopefully they will all donate. nick, how does it work. >> a school will go to our website and sign up. once we have the funds we ship the blankets right to the school. students go through a 30 minutes kindness workshop. walk the kids through empathy exercise hand write a letter and attach to their blankets, teachers will collect them and donate them to a local homeless shelter right in their community. doesn't matter if the kid is 5, 7, # 1. every single student makes a direct impact on someone's life in their community. >> ainsley: what do you say to the kids teaching them about kindness.

>> one message we tell them every single time the secret to living is giving. that's the one message that we try to drill into their minds. one really cool thing happened recently where we started this nine years ago now an elementary student has grown up into a high school student and recently got surprised by email from this high school student saying hey, i participated in blankets of hope nine years ago. can i please spearhead this at my high school? our mission is to inspire this movement of kindness and planting seeds into these thinner's minds that we're hoping eventually blossom into more and more acts of kindness. and that was just proof for us that this mission is really working. that really touched us. >> ainsley: i bet your family so proud. had you big jobs in corporate america. you quit those to start. this thank you so much. beautiful message at christmas. >> thank you for having us. >> ainsley: you are welcome. find out more information on their website it's blankets of hope.com. blankets of hope.com. hand it over to lawrence.

>> lawrence: great organization. >> ainsley: over to you guys. >> steve: thank you. five days away from christmas and, lawrence, it's the 20th and time to open the advent calendar and look what we have got right there. >> steve: these are really cool. did i try to puts them on. they are koala berra by uggs. slip ons. >> lawrence: they are comfortable. not exactly my size. they are available from j.c. penney. they are 80 bucks. get them online or in the stores. they are great for indoor lounging or outdoor errands. >> lawrence: walking on a. >> steve: faux fur. cozy and stylish slip-ons are perfect for anyone who loves comfort with a touch of cool. look at that delicious. merry christmas, everybody.

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