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♪ ♪ pressure. griff:st the 7 a.m. hour of "fox & friends" weekend starting with this as president biden -- is president biden quieted quitting after president-elect trump led negotiations on the stop gap funding bill? >> trump, i mean, he lowered the hammer. we wound up with a much better bill and we dodged or maybe i should say we doged a bill of massive spending. carley: texas dps sharing new and exclusive video of smugglers rushing to cross the border. lieutenant chris old chris oliveraz joins us now. peter: and outkick releasing their list of the worst christmas songs, in the prompter they said this was my favorite christmas jam. the second hur of "fox & friends" starts right now -- the second hour. ♪ ♪ -- serving none snow.

♪ santa's on his way, it's christmas every day ♪ griff: hello and merry christmas, almost, lee days to go. griff, carley and peter. and, peter, for two days you've been talking about the song on that list, christmas shoes, and the producers don't have it, but i've got it. ♪ daddy says there's not -- perth perth -- peter: it is too early for the christmas shoes. i don't want people to think i actually -- it's a nice to song. griff: it's a sad song. peter: very, very, very sad. [laughter] carley: are we allowed to play this? or we going to the get copyrigh- griff: i am on the nice if list. peter: christmas shoes, i looked it up because i wanted to make sure that my memory was serving me correctly. it came out in 2000. we'd been listen dog z100 in northern new jersey hoping for

some in sync -- carley: yeah, mariah carey -- peter: it's not even a song. it's kind of spoken word, a very sad story about a young boy buying shoes for his mom who at the end of the song passes away. griff: it's very sweet. carley: yeah. that's one of songs on the worst list, which we'll get to. peter: your space heater is beeping. carley: i'm sorry. i'm still battling the space heater. by griff and melting me out. by the way, best song, e-mail if us at friends@fox.com, beer's missing toe. carley: i still like kelly clarkson. peter: i appreciate that there is a place in the holidays for the christmas shoes, but it's just -- my issue is when it's just play9 on the radio -- played on the radio and you

listen to it by accident. if you want to reason to the christmas shoes, you should look it up. there's a very, very sad music video -- [laughter] it's very sad. the christmas shoes. it's -- but, again, there's a place for that. griff: it's sweet with. party party the biggest problem is it gets stuck in your head. and you don't want it in your head later. you don't want to be thinking about it later. ♪ [laughter] griff: in my if head. peter: so good morning. carley: if anybody gets shoes for christmas, they'll be thinking about this moment. griff: we are -- peter: christmas news, like christmas shoes. griff: nobody better hand the man with the direct pipeline or, to the extent that anybody does to the president of the united states, joe biden. is he quiet quitting on us? if. peter: yes, thank you, griff. i do have less than a month to use six years of joe biden knowledge that i am -- have

accumulated -- carley: you fold him on the campaign trail too. peter: i did. now there's this idea because trump so out there, maybe biden is quiet quitting. okay. i don't know why people are saying that he's quiet quitting. he gave a speech about it this summer. he said maybe there is a place for a new generation and new voices. a lot of people interpreted that just he's passing the torch to kamala harris. it turns out it might have been more like i'm turning in my white house badge. carley: yeah. he was pushed out -- [laughter] so yesterday we were told that president biden signed the funding bill into law. there was a lot of drama and hull balloon -- hullabaloo leading up to the moment, but then he picked up the pen and signed the bill behind closed doors. he didn't make a single comment about it, he hasn't said anything about it throughout the whole entire process.

donald trump was the one who with really got in there and negotiated a better, much shorter spending bill. so that's really why we're having this conversation this morning about joe biden, quote-unquote, quiet quitting. and it ended up being a bill that it was smaller in size. we saw stacks of people that went from 1500 pages to about 118, and here are some of the items in the bill that were cut out: $61 million in global engagement center's budget, $3.5 million in a pay raise for lawmakers and $50 million in extended drinking water programs. that's all the taxpayer money that could is have gone to these things that were stripped out of the bill that the president signed into law, like i said, behind closed coors. peter: one thing the about him signing the bill, we don't know exactly how it worked, but he doesn't really have to the sign it with a pen. there is this thing that presidents can do in certain situations, it's like an autopen. he just has the tell somebody to

push the button, and a machine will do it. carley: wow. griff: simes there's a ceremony and he'll give the pen to somebody -- cr we went from death e pen to ballpoint now to e-signature. i had no idea. peter: it might be. it's one of those things like the the omb director comes in and and the asks for a signature on a pad. carley: david marcus talked about how donald trump really work to straited a much smaller, better spending bill. take a listen to what he said earlier in the show to peter. >> the heads of the department of government efficiency, elon musk if and vivek ramaswamy, took to social media and x and started exposing what was in this bill, softening the target and then trump, i mean, he lowered the hammer on this thing. got an awful lot of pork out of the bill. we wound up with a much better bill and, you know, or we dodged or maybe i should say we doged a

bullet of massive spending. and i think e bill landed is so much better than where it started that it's very cheerily a victory. we're already seeing -- clearly a victory. we're already seeing nato reacting to trump's eminent return, zelenskyy and putin both say they're more open to some kind of a deal. we've certainly seen massive things happening in the middle east, so i don't know where joe biden is. carley: i love that line. he dodged or we doged a bullet. peter: i told him, i'm going to steal that for a white house briefing. carley: you brought up how donald trump wanted the debt ceiling to be raised, and he said that sometimes deal makers -- and donald trump, of course, is one -- hay tart the negotiation with an untenable, unreachable goal, and and he thinks that's probably what donald trump doing here. going to throw something out there that's never going to happen. but in the process you get to something better than what once was. that's what happened.

peter: yeah. and also donald trump didn't get the debt ceiling extended or removed. we forget, not the president. not yet. and so he got more than he would have gotten if he didn't insert himself. griff: like the rolling stones, can't always get what you want, but if you try hard enough, sometimes you get what you need. however that goes. meanwhile with, let's talk about chicago's mayor, brandon johnson, because there's new calls, a newspaper in an op-ed ed pushing, mr. major, if -- mre about chicago, you should step aside. the damage done to the school system tonight is only a part of the story. mr. mayor, in your handling of this entire matter, you have demonstrated you are not a mayor for all of chicago, but only your friends at the chicago teachers union. you've demonstrate thed you're willing to use your power while using the children you say you care about as political cover for your disastrous decision making. so what's this all about?

so friday night the chicago school board under mayor johnson's leadership voted 6-0 to fire the school's ceo, pedro martinez, without cause. he's now looking at suing. but it comes on the heels of the fact that the ceo refused to take out a $300 million loan with high interest rates which would have put the city at great risk. why? because of mayor johnson's leadership. let's just look at his record as a mayor. $98 82 million budge deficit, a proposed $300 million property tax hike. he spent over half a billion dollars on the illegal migrant crisis hitting his city. he ended chicago's shot spotter gunshot detection tech despite a 33-14 alderman vote in favor of saving it, so it really looks and feels like this may be the last straw when you've got

editorial business board saying he's got to go. carley: that's exactly what this is. we have seen so many videos of inside the chicago aldermen meetings. the city council meetings where you have resident after resident. and these people, i'm sure, have never voted for republicans in the past, but they are so fed up. the most important number out of the list that you read was that half a billion dollars to migrant fishing. they also -- funding. they also have shut down community centers and turned them into migrant housing facilities, and this i affects people in inner cities where these children, their parents are fight a battle every single day -- fighting a battle every single day the keep their kids in school, off the streets and out of gangs. and then the mayor goes in and takes that one facility that could keep them in school or in sports and off the streets, and they have had it. peter: okay. so the public schools' ceo gets fired. there's a dispute about why. but this morning when i was reading illinois policy.org,

usually my first read in the morning before doing a show, fewer than one in three public school students in chicago can read right now, and only one in five can do math at an elementary school level. chicago is a total mess. and, you know what? it's not just the schools. chicago's is such a mess, as we were talking about earlier, this is where tom homan is going to go and start the deportation program. it turns out many chicago residents might like to deport the mayor back to, i don't know, to cleveland or something. griff: yeah. peter: he is now more unpopular than lori lightfoot. griff: and he has no idea because when tom homan sayings -- says he's going to start with chicago, that's coming. you put your finger on top of the main issue that residents understand, and that is he's more emboldened to this teachers' union than to the actual students that he should be fighting for and trying to

make sure they get a better education than the results they're getting now. it's a sad situation early. carley: and the if editorial board in chicago is saying you've to got to to go, your time is up. we now have some headlines. the suspect in the german christmas market attack appearing in court late last night, the judge ordering the suspect to stand accused of killing 5, to be held in pretrial detection -- detech. we've now learned that local authorities received a warning last year about the suspect. the investigation remains ongoing. two u.s. navy airmen were shot down over the red sea in an apparent friendly fire incident. the military says it happened when the uss gettysburg mistakenly fired at and hit an american fa-18 fighter jet. one pilot and an airman onboard were both safely rejected and recovered with one of them suffering minor injuries, thank god.

the military had been conducting a series of strikes on houthi targets inside yemen at the time of this incident. spacex launching 30 satellites from a space force base in california overnight. >> 3, 2, 1, ugh in addition, liftoff. carley: the launch was pardon of bandwagon 2 mission which has two more launches planned for next year, and those your headlines. peter: and these are the worst songs of all time. [laughter] this first one i never heard of. carley: you don't know i want a hippopotamus for christmas? peter is that a joke? carley: no. it goes -- ♪ i want a hippopotamus for christmas ♪ peter: before this rendition, this was considered one of the worst -- carley: that's on my best song

list. griff: and your favorite song, the christmas shoes -- peter: a real downer and then last christmas -- carley: okay. peter: santa baby and wonderful christmas thyme by paul mccartney. -- people who work in retail, these are the songs except for -- carley: outkick.com did it. berth. peter: well, when you work at the grocery store and they have an eight-tack cd that's on a loop -- carley: yeah. griff: christmas shoes is your favorite song. we've cone a little digging, and rolling stone, magazine, describes christmas shoes this way: sometimes it's the little things that e mind you what the holidays are all about, like hearing this song in the car on z-100 and wondering whether you should dive out the window or to just set the whole car on fire. carley: oh, yeah, he's not a fan. peter: that is not reason for the season. carley: i still don't know if

i've ever heard that rendition -- griff: which i'm going to play again. peter: don't listen to it until after because it's going to mess up your makeup -- carley: okay. thank you for the advice and for looking out. i appreciate it. peter: coming up, new exclusive video shared by texas g gps -- dps shows migrant smugglers rushing across the border, a last ditch effort before trump takes office. measure stretch your budget. that's why we offer a free select tool when you buy select tools and batteries from our top brands. so, perfecting the holidays... oh, you're good. is easier than ever. lowe's knows how to help you holiday. hank used to suffer from what felt like a cold & flu medicine hangover in the morning. ha ha. haha! then he switched to mucinex nightshift. mucinex is uniquely formulated to leave your system faster, so you wake up ready to go. uhh, hank! try mucinex nightshift and feel the difference. need a last minute gift idea?

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♪ ♪ pressure if. griff: new, exclusive videos show the texas department of public safety catching suspected smugglers among the latest apprehension of illegal immigrants. [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] >> hey, get out of the vehicle! get out of the the vehicle. get out of the vehicle. get out. [speaking spanish] >> turn around. put your hands behind your back. you're under arrest for human smuggling. griff: dps found an unaccompanied 11-year-old ill illegal migrant at the border. joining us now is lieutenant chris oliveraz.

lt, it's unbelievable these videos you're sharing. there seems to be a surge of migrants trying to get across before the crackdown comes with the incoming trump administration. >> right. good morning, griff. so, of course, as you know, you've been out to the border for the past four years now, and even more recent when you were down in eagle pass, texas, we talked about these issues and these concerns where even though the numbers are lower, we're not seeing these large groups by the thousands, but we are still dealing with human smuggling and and those who want to evade capture and are trying the sneak into the interior either by being smuggled by with human smugglers or trying to sneak in through private if ranches and trying to locate individuals that are trying to sneak in. this is a real concern to us especially as we approach january. i think the desperation is starting to settle in as many people are trying to make their way to the united states especially in texas, we don't know what's going to happen. so we could see more of this

human smuggling. we could see more illegal immigrants trying to sneak in and evade capture by circumventing checkpoint s. but that video shows the hard work our troopers do every single day and how they remain ready and how we are prepared for any type of surge especially between ports of industry. but more so, you know, focusing and trying to go after these human smugglers and rescuing children can and trying to avoid and deter any possible criminal activity at our southern border. griff: and, ht, when i was with you in behalf rick county, you and i were -- maverick county, you and i were out and we saw the smugglers trying to find open areas where they might be able to get people across. and you were telling me then that smugglers are benefits more than ever financially because if they're charging more. >> oh, absolutely. i mean, right now the human smugglers and criminal organizations in mexico, i mean, they're using this messaging by the new administration, by these policies that are going the take effect, you know, come january,

using that to their advantage to increase their profits by charging double what they would morally charge to get people across that border. it's a very profitable business now, and i think we're starting to see more of the dangers as well as they smuggle numerous people in vehicles especially in some of these high-speed chases where they have no regard for human life or the motoring public as well. and that's a real concern to us as a police agency. but, again, you know, our troopers are going to be ready. we're going to combat these criminal snugglers and try -- smellers and and try the reduce some of these illegal immigrants that are being victimized by these smugglers. griff: lt, we had one group come through on one day that had migrants from if peru, colombia, venezuela and ecuador, and tom homan, the incoming border czar, yesterday we talked about what to do with migrants from countries like venezuela when they don't take them back. here's what he said. >> i.c.e. offices across the

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♪ ♪ carley: listen to this remarkable story here. a group of texas high school students and an athletic trainer heroically jumped into action to save their teacher's life who went into cardiac arrest doing an after school skate club. their quick actions helped ems quickly take over and bring him to the hospital where he was released last month. here to discuss is the teacher who went into cardiac arrest,

adam compton, the trainer who helped revive adam, amanda boyd, and a high school senior who helped out as well, steven. good morning to you all. thank you so much for being here. adam, we are so glad that you are okay. so el tell us what you remember about what happened. [laughter] >> you know, for me, i don't actually remember a whole lot because of going into cardiac arrest. i was trying to take things pretty easy that day because i wanted to go out the next day and sat down for what i thought was just going to be a few minutes. felt myself kind of snap out of what felt like a day dream which really kind of alarmed me. i'm supposed to be there watching the students, what not. so i asked one with of them, hey, how long have i been out? he said, a few minutes. and that's the very last thing that i remember until i'm in the hospital. so you'll is have to talk to these guys over here about everything in between. carley: you had no idea what was happening and all the people who

were -- all your students and teachers who were helping save your life so, amanda, several students ran to get you because you're the athletic trainer. what did you see when you arrived, and also what was going through your mind? >> at first they told metathat he had passed out so, you know, not thinking the worst, ran over to him and he was on his side. and he, he had lost all color in his body. immediately, i knew that he needed serious help. and so i pulled him over from -- he was on his side, so i put him on his back and took his pulse, and there was no pulse there. immediately, i knew he needed cpr if he had any chance to live. carley: and, steven, you were there, and thank god you were because, amazingly, you were just trained in cpr. so what did you do when your teacher wound up in this situation? enter we did, the skaters and i, we sort of took on different

roles. two people went to get ms. if boyd, one person administered cpr, and the rest of us just made sure he was okay. as soon as, ms. boyd ran, aidan and i ran to to go get the aed. as soon as i came back with it, make sure all the pads are on and that we gave him a shock. and once the pair med eckings came -- paramedics came, i let them take over and let the gravity of the situation sink in. carley: steven, you're so young, how did you feel when you had to to use the training that the you just learned? there you were saving your teacher's leaf -- life. >> yeah. [laughter] we were all scared, 100%, but i think i was the most confident because i knew if i was calm, that it probably would lead to a better outcome. because if you're panicked, it's going to be -- you're going to be, like, thinking what to do next and not thinking, like, in order what to do.

carley: cool urn pressure. so, adam, how are you feeling now? how are has your recovery been both physically and emotionally? i'm sure this is a lot process. >> yeah. [laughter] physically, it's been -- i've been really fortunate. because it's just this genetic condition that eventually causes an electrical problem, the pacemaker's a pretty final solution. and i've been able to return to my full regular life. i was just skating yesterday, as a matter of fact. tbrr. carley: god bless you. >> thank you. [laughter] new emotionally, it's been really good. we had thanksgiving not long after that, i was able to spend it with my family. we actually went to california over that time. we've got the holidays ahead of us right now. carley: a lot to look forward to, yeah. hey, adam, we're running out of time, but how do you feel about amanda and steven jumping into action and helping out at a time of crisis for you?

>> i'm just eternally grateful. that's what it comes down to. it's amazing. thank you guys so much. i'm glad y'all were there. [laughter] carley: we are too. students are require proked to receive -- required to receive cpr training between the grades of 7-12 which i think is a fantastic idea. it saved your life. adam, amanda, steven, thank you all for joining us. merry christmas. >> you too, thank you. carley: griff, over to you. griff: thank you, carley. what an amazing story. those kids are heroes. turning now to today's headlines, lara trump is removing herself from consideration for marco rubio's vacated senate seat, announcing the decision yesterday while teasing a big announcement for her future that could be coming next month. rubio's former seat remains open for the next two years. florida governor ron desantis hopes to have an appointee by january. and president-elect trump

announcing a series of new administration picks yesterday including apprentice producer you see here mark burnett for u.k. special enjoy. burnett worked with trump in 2004 to launch the show which helped boost trump's fame ahead of his first presidential election. burnett is a 13-time emmy winner is and has also led the products of many -- production of many notable programs including survivor and the martha stewart show. and finally, an owl make its way down a virginia family's chimney and replaced the star on top of their christmas tree with itself, much to the delight of the family's children. watch. [laughter] >> on the tree. [laughter] >> if he had flied a little bit lower, he would see the door open. >> look at that guy. [laughter] >> he's, like, this is the perfect spot. griff: it is the perfect spot. the owl was eventually captured and released back into the wild

by a local animal rescue employee k and those your headlines. but, rick, i have a jack russell head angel on top of my tree, and i'm not sure that owl will have luck with that. we're turning to you for the weather -- rick: the owl is way better than yours, sorry. that is the coolest thing i've ever seen. i can't believe that story. i also don't know how you capture an owl in your place to to get it out safely. amazing. all right, it is brutally cold, the coldest air we've had in two years in some places across the northeast. a lot of snow cover. 26% of the country has snow coffer, and a lot of people wanting a white christmas. we're going to get it for some. we're also going to get a fair amount of rape, unfortunately. a warmer weather -- of rain. a warmer weather pattern sets up. take a look out west, the amount of precipitation this week, a lot of rain, a lot of mountain snow across especially the

pacific northwest. we will get rain in towards the l.a. basin as well. rain across parts of oklahoma, arkansas, east texas, parts of louisiana. that is going to cause for some flooding tuesday into wednesday. you're going to want to watch for that. a little bit more snow if across parts of the northeast, and in the northeast if we might see a few more flakes falling on christmas eve. griff, back to you inside. griff: rick, thank you very much. meanwhile, it's the may the best friend winch we have a football competition -- win with. we have a football competition coming up just because. you see peter there getting ready. but first, john mclemore is cooking up christmas with his must-have recipe for the perfect ham. oh, boy. it's ham time. ♪ if what are folks 60 and older learning these days? new perspectives! ♪ how to fix things. ♪ fun recip... (high pitched sound)

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♪ ♪ griff: there's no better christmas meal -- excuse me -- than ham. i'm spitting there, i'm sorry. [laughter] don't eat right there. peter: -- with your mouth full. griff: that is ham, jalapeno, pimento cheese. it's unbelievable. how'd you come up with that? >> well, so my dad and i sat

down about a year ago and decided to write a cookbook, gather and grill, and we wanted to basically write down our family recipes. and today, we're going to slide this way. and today we were talking about ham, and merry christmas all of you out there. carley: merry christmas. >> it is so hot today, all the food was warm about seven seconds ago. it's cold -- [laughter] part of the segment that we're talking about today is actually what do you do with your ham and what do you do with leftover ham because in the south what do you to do with your ham that gets put in your fridge. we've got a good rancher's ham. we did the advent calendar with them. you put in your order, they ship it to your front door. we just did gifts if for a lot of people who don't live near if us, it comes many in a box just is like that. brought to your front door. the ham on the smoker for 2-3 hours, 250 on the master built

auto ignite. it is an electric charcoal, digital grill and smoker. we're going to smoke that for about 2-3 hours, 225. you can also grill it -- peter: i'm just going to interrupt at in this point, why is there a sword on the smoker? [laughter] in well, we asked hunter biden if he would let us -- no, i'm just -- peter: that does look like something he would have. >> and your dad's a good cook, by the way. he wrote the forward to our book. we smoke the ham and then when we take the it off, we want to get that to 140 degrees internal temperature. and then we want the talk about what do you do with your ham after you smoke it. carley: that's right. >> a lot of people smoke the ham and then they put it on a table, they slice it and serve it. you can also put a glaze on it. we have actually got out of our gather and grill cookbook, you

can get that on amazon or our instagram or facebook, we have got a slider on a wonder bread bun. this is a ham with comeback sauce. carley: that looks so good what's comeback sauce? >> dueck's mayo, red wine vinegar, start, pepper, garlic to taste, and it is the greatest thing to put on beef, pork or ham. rick: because you come back for more, right? peter: my personal favorite part other than the ham, the forward is by steve doocy. >> good, dear friend of ours. carley: congratulations are in order, because you got married this week, didn't you? if hook at you, and your lovely wife -- [inaudible conversations] >> come on. carley: you're part of the fox namely now as well. congratulations. >> what's awesome is my dad married us. carley: who i was just texting with. >> -- the state of georgia ordained him. carley: he's a wonderful man.

[laughter] if. >> congratulations. >> our fantastic food stylist, who wail is part of the reason we're even together about a year ago she was, like, you better call her. carley: congratulations. and be sure to use code fox for 10% off at master built.com. for your purchases today and tomorrow, right? >> today and tomorrow. >> -- when we found out about j.d. and when i saw her -- carley: oh, that is so sweeten. you are so lucky. congratulations. [inaudible conversations] carley: i don't know what's about to happen here. griff: up next on fox and friends, we are having a friends battle over one of his favorite sports, football, thanks to betty's bounces. may the best friend win. carley and rick compete and i eat ham. carley: okay, so i have to put this on? i'm assuming it goes like this?

in is that right? >> [inaudible] carley: why am i tethered to this? peter: because you're going to throw a football into a hole. are. rick: i don't fit into mine. peter: do you need a hand, rick? carley: is it in that i'm -- have we started? peer party we have not started yet. if. carley: okay. i feel confident. [laughter] oh, oh! i get it now! i get it now! peter: okay, one -- griff: go, rick, go! rick: two. griff: we have two! we have two! we got three, we got three!

we got five! come on, one more. we got six! finish look at that. we got seven. [inaudible conversations] griff: ten! peter: ten seconds left. 8, 7, 6, 5 -- >> 13! peter: -- 2, 1. carley's down. griff: rick won. peter: i think rick won. what was the final count? griff: we have 13 over here. good job, good job. carley: that was such a workout. rick: hold on. griff: -- continues after this, we catch our breath. carley: yeah, i can't breathe. ♪ ♪ last christmas, i gave you myn

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