♪ >> guy: it is 7:00 a.m. on the east coast, monday, december 23rd. it's almost christmas and this is "fox & friends." this "new york post" photo showing police arresting the man you see right there. sources telling us that person is in the country illegally. officers accusing him of setting a woman on fire and killing her in the new york city subway. >> governor hochul, shame on you, there is nothing that you can say that is going to make this right in new york. >> brian: plus president-elect trump doubling down on his threat to retake the panama canal as he made his first rally style speech since election day. and he said it yesterday. watch. >> we're being ripped off at the panama canal. we will demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america. >> carley: and denzel washington becoming a minister after admitting you can't talk about religion in hollywood. wow.

the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now and, remember, mornings are better with friends. >> brian: get dressed. ♪ frosty the snowman ♪ was a happy, jolly soul ♪ with a corn cob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal >> carley: good morning. welcome to "fox & friends." it is monday, december 23rd, two days until christmas. that makes it christmas eve eve. >> guy: they got our names on the stockings. >> carley: they were sewing those all night long. >> guy: that is delightful. >> carley: little kid counting down for christmas december 1st. oh, it's finally hang. >> brian: i remember one year i was convinced my family was off. and that christmas eve was actually christmas day. i was one day off. and i said if we do not decorate

this tree, this whole holiday was going to be blown. >> carley: you thought christmas was december 24th. >> brian: i was certain everyone had it wrong. >> guy: on the calendar. >> carley: how old are you bine brian 20. >> guy: in college. >> carley: always had strong opinions. >> brian: i have always been wrong. >> guy: strong but wrong. >> more on that later as the show progresses but i was amazed. this when the president is speaking a lot when he was on the campaign trail, do drive people crazy. new audience same message every single time and sometimes you carry the message. wow, it's the same speech. since the president won, he is putting new things into all his remarks. whether it's a patriot awards or what we saw yesterday in front of charlie kirk's group. will. >> part of like when you are running for office you want to be consistent. now that he has won. it's not like he is making some

giant crazy turn. is he starting to put meat on the bones of what the agenda is going to be now that he has got the power soon of governance. >> carley: watch a little bit from what he said yesterday. watch. this so we got the highest vote ever for a republican candidate. we won by 36 points with young people. that never hans. a republican loses by 36 or 40, so i'm going to have to start thinking about tiktok. we did go on tiktok. and we had a great response. we had billions of views. billions and billions of views. they brought me a -- they brought me a chart. and it was a record -- it was so beautiful to see as i looked at it maybe we got to keep this sucker around a little while. back in the oval office. i will sign historic slate of executive orders to close our border to illegal aliens and stop the invasion of our country. [cheers] and on that same day.

we will begin the largest deportation operation in american history we will create the new department of government efficiency headed by elon musk. and no he is not taking the presidency. i like having smart people. you know, they are on a new kick, russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, all the different hoaxes and the new one is president trump has seedseedceded the president to n musk, no, no. that's not happening. [laughter] but elon has done an amazing job. isn't it nice to have smart people that we can rely on. but, no. he is not going to be president, that, i can tell you. and i'm safe. do you know why? he can't be. he wasn't born in this country. ha ha ha. [laughter] has anyone ever heard of the panama canal?

huh? because we're being ripped off at the panama canal like we are being ripped off everywhere else. when president jimmy carter foolishly gave it away -- gave it away for $1. $1. [crowd boos] >> during his term in office it was solely for panama to manage not for china or any other country to manage. it was given to panama and to the people of panama but it has provisions you got to treat us fairly and they haven't treated us fairly. if the principle both moral and legal of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america. [cheers] in full, quickly and without question. that was some of the things talking about. iron dome for the country. i want green land from denmark and by the way i want the panama

canal. i asked the green room about the panama canal. no proof that china owns any portion. 72% of all traffic is american. prices did go up 15%. nearly $5 billion over the last year. they say it's because of low water levels and they have onto slow down the amount of traffic that goes through. do you know what? rattle their cage. make them justify it. and let's see if we can get the prices down. after all, we are a frequent customer. >> guy: i think part of it is national security. you think of greenland, for example, the artic is a major, i think, battle area for the future in terms of who controls the artic. i think the same applies to the panama canal. china may not control it, but my understanding is have some very strategic interest in that area. so, part of this i think is trump starting the negotiation, we want the whole thing back and then the pan maybians might say hang on, no. but let's have this conversation. trump just announced yesterday his ambassador to denmark which owns greenland. can you imagine having that job

now or being the ambassador of panama. you are going to have a busy opening few weeks here. >> brian: paypal mafia. ken mowery ambassador to denmark. sure i want something to do. >> carley: with this exact thing in mind people on truth social for purposes of national security and freedom through the world. the united states of america feels that the ownership and control of green land is an absolute necessity. this something that he brought up during his first term in office. and denmark, which i mean, green land is a sovereign nation. but under the kingdom of denmark's authority, i guess. >> sovereignty. >> carley: autonomous nation? >> yes. >> carley: donald trump was mocked for saying it. but he clearly has a plan for why he wants to control greenland or take it under the united states' umbrella. one of the things pure speculation here is he is talking a lot about how to get criminal illegal immigrants out of our country. and countries like venezuela that we don't have relations

with won't take them back, maybe he will build a facility in grown land and ship them there. that would for sure be a deterrent for people to come to the country if they know they are going to greenland. >> guy: very cold. >> brian: my prediction we get it. >> guy: get it, get it. >> brian: we get greenland. >> ainsley: it's huge. >> brian: december 23rd, 2024, i believe by the end of his term we will get greenland. because he loves real estate. >> guy: mark it down. >> brian: we will see. i will tell you. what i wonder what denmark needs from us. >> ainsley: i wonder what green land feels about this how they feel about it. >> guy: they do have a government. >> carley: do you know the population of it? 56699 people. that's because 75% of it is covered in a sheet of ice. and the capital city is nuke. >> really? i never would have picked nook. >> guy: nuuk.

>> brian: iceland is nicer than greenland. >> guy: iceland is greener than greenland. greenland is ice. >> brian: name iceland so no one would come and greenland. >> carley: i think that's true. >> brian: fran tarkenton of the vikings? >> carley: where is brice. i better there is truth in that i learned that in school. >> brian: type of things expect news network i bet you there is truth to that. >> carley: my speculation on why trump wants greenland could be totally off. >> guy: as soon as you start saying this might not come out right but. [laughter] >> brian: save that for radio. >> guy: a lot to cover this morning. starting with this fox news alert. a man under arrest after allegedly setting fire to a sleeping subway passenger in new york city.

just awful. that woman was killed. sources telling us that the suspect is in the united states illegally. >> todd piro joins us now. >> todd: migrant arrested who lit a woman on fire and burned her to death on that new york city subway train. high level nypd source telling fox news digital he entered the u.s. illegally in 2018. we do want to warn you the video we are about to show is graphic and disturbing according to the nypd around 7:30 yesterday morning the suspect approached a sleeping woman on the train and lit her clothing on fire with the lighter. video shows the suspect sitting on a bench afterward and watching the unidentified woman burn to death inside that subway car. the suspect was apprehended after three high schoolers recognized him from images released by the nypd. officers finding a lighter in the suspect's pocket when he was arrested. >> at this hour, i am pleased to announce that a short time ago

alert nypd transit officers took a person of interest into custody. i want you to know that this apprehension was another in what has become a series of joint efforts involving different times between the police and the public we serve. >> new york governor kathy hochul though getting backlash for this post just hours after the woman was set on fire on that subway. quote: i took action to make our subways safer for the millions of people who take the trains each day. since deploying the national guard to support the nypd and mta safety efforts and adding cameras to all subway cars. crime is going down and ridership is going up. again, kathy hochul posting that just hours after this horrific incident. back over to you guys. >> i don't know if they did a timing tweet or something like that. but it's one of the most idiotic statements, ever. and if she didn't retract it right away, maybe she is proud of it or she has no staff at

all. >> and a man was -- two men, thank you so much, todd, two men were also stabbed on a subway in queens. they were slashed and one of them died. 26-year-old survived. 36-year-old man died yesterday as well. >> brian: again, you need the public to help, guy. you have three high school age guys who spot, this they tell him. they shut the train down. in come the cops. i don't know what they are going to be facing. and they just shut it down and wrangle this guy. who has to be different type of deranged. >> guy: you say bravo to the kids for spotting him. see something, say something, they did it. and then he is in handcuffs which is fine. of course, it doesn't help the victim. and i think a lot of americans and new yorkers look at this and say they got the guy but he should have never been here in the first place in the country illegally according to our sources. and we had gotten reports that was at least something of a track record, criminally, right. >> at least one. >> one prior arrest and, he is hanging out in new york, a

sanctuary jurisdiction. kathy hochul was out there quoting the statue of liberty poem, all this stuff. justifying these brutal policies for years. now she has this brutal tweet. i mean, this goes right back to her doorstep. and other so-called leaders in this state. >> carley: here is tom oweman, incoming border czar on all of this, watch. >> this another example of illegal alien killing an american citizen. almost a daily ecurrency now. historic number of criminal aliens walking the streets. because this administration's policy and sanctuary jurisdictions. and lax immigration enforcement. ice has anywhere hands tied. secretary mayorkas have given them priorities that they can't even go and arrest an illegal alien anymore unless is he convicted. convicted of a serious crime. then maybe they can arrest him. under president trump, we had historic lows in illegal immigration. we had the most secure border in our lifetime. they came into office and purposefully, by design, unsecured the border. wrote 90 executive orders

abolishing everything we did to give us the most secure border in our lifetime. this wasn't an accident or mismanagement. this was on purpose. he needs to be held accountable. >> brian: more momentum. that's why 54% of the american people wanted mass deportation. that's what tom homan should keep in mind, throw it out there. all the nominee have been victims of these crimes, i watched rachel morin's mom yesterday with president trump. he looked me in the eye and i knew i was very quiet when i first met him. wanted to make sure it wasn't for politics. i could see how he looked at me like a father and grandfather. i feel like tom homan is acting the same way. >> carley: yeah. is he doing the work, too. he will meet with anybody republican or democrat. he already spoke with eric adams. can you guarantee that they are going to have a plan in place come january 20th. and during trump's speech yesterday in arizona. he said by 2:00 p.m. on january 20th, the border is going to be a much different situation. >> guy: think about the upgrade at border czar from kamala harris to tom homan. someone who doesn't care at all or worse, just someone who cares

in his bones and has for years. and is going to be on this mission with a purpose. >> brian: absolutely. all right. 15 minutes after the hour. let's talk about democrats. and basically they are trying to recalibrate, find out who their leader is, what their mission is and what went wrong. they sat down with three focus groups and came up with interesting conclusions. >> carley: politico has a headline saying new research shows the massive hole dems are. in even voters who previously backed democrats cast the party as weak and overly focused on diversity and -- >> guy: no kidding. >> carley: when asked to compare the democratic party to an animal. one participant compared the party to an ostrich because quote they have their heads in the sand and absolutely committed to their own ideas even when they're failing. another likened them to koalas who are complacent and lazy about getting policy wins that we really need. democrats are not a friend of the working class anymore. can you believe what i just read?

>> brian: i know. >> the animals? that is so funny. something like that is going to stick. you are hearing it from inside the democratic party as well as well as outside. there is clear frustration, "wall street journal" also has another article about how this is a moment of chaos, obviously, for the democrat party, because they don't have a message or a clear messenger. who is going to be the next leader of the democrat party, maybe hakeem jeffries, needs to increase name recognition. >> guy: we will see something within a civil war of the party over next couple of years. you have democrats who are a little bit more pragmatic. 59 least want to win elections, seeing all of this and saying we got to cool it on some of this crazy identity stuff. some of the gender politics. we have gone way too far out on the left. but there is an entrenched powerful loud activist class that's like the beating heart of that party. and they are not going to just sit there and take it, right? they are going to fight on this stuff. >> brian: i love what you said about the word maga. you try to label it as a

negative situation. people don't look at it that way. you drive -- drive through pennsylvania, fetterman referenced it i have them all over it rhode island. trump stores say maga. disparage people giving theme label they embrace. think twice. they say three things. some democrats blame biden. others blame inflation. and others blame last -- losing hold of culture. and i will do something else. the subtitle of all of this is every single one of the people that covered for joe biden, who was barely in office, who was basically was a shell of what he was and what people thought when they elected him. he wasn't doing anything. cataclysmic decisions. the brushback, pushback and blasting of anyone that said why does joe biden not speak to anyone? why doesn't he con fir with anybody in the senate or the house or even give interviews with friendly outlet for four years? he wasn't there. so, that's the problem. he wasn't a bad leader, he was a

bad leader 34% approval rating right now. at least the american people think so. he was a non-leader. >> carley: no cabinet meetings. they hired a speech coach. they were trying to cover. cover for him the whole time. >> guy: when we on this network and elsewhere just notice things with our eyes and ears and observed the president. >> brian: the shuffle, 9 vacant stare. >> guy: white house came out and said cheap fake. we're the liars. and then that whole thing blew up on the debate stage june 27th. a lot of voters who weren't really sure how to react to all of this, once that whole thing fell apart in front of their eyes, 70 million people tuned in for all of that oh. they were lying aggressively to all of this. maybe the cheap fakeers have a point and the rest is history. >> carley: that's right. i remember when it was reported that when he was walking from the white house to the plane, to air force 1. they were going to encircle him with people to try to protect him and then he would go up the small set of stairs. before we get to headlines, you

said you like something that guy benson said in the 6:00 hour. did you like anything that i said? >> brian: give me a second. >> carley: i'm going to read. this i will give you some time. >> brian: no, i liked everything that you said. >> guy: good save. [sighs] >> brian: what guy said. >> carley: i didn't mean that i don't want that to happen. more things to get to. happening today. sources tell fox news that the house ethics committee report former florida congressman matt gaetz is said to be released. committee investigating the former congressman for years for allegations including sex trafficking, drug use and accepting bribes, all of which he denies. gaetz withdrew his name from consideration for president-elect's attorney general last month saying he didn't want to become a distraction for the incoming administration. just two days before christmas and amazon workers remain on the picket line this morning as another facility. this time a ware house in queens, new york, just joined the strike. here's a look at all the facilities being affected as the

strike enters its fifth day. logistics experts are warning that several holiday shipments could face lengthy delays as a result. emergency rescuers at one colorado ski resort after a ski lift got stuck in the air. a total of 174 skiers and snowboarders were rescued after that lift cracked in cold temperatures and thankfully automatically shut down. it took workers over five hours to get everyone down one by one using a seat attached to a rope. thankfully nobody was hurt. officials say they are still investigating. and listen to this actor and director denzel washington has received his minister's license after being baptized in new york city over the weekend. it comes as washington has recently complained about how you, quote: can't talk about religion in holiday. the award-winning actor saying, quote: if god can do this for me, there's nothing he can't do

for you. thisthe sky literally is the li. those your headlines, what amazing message that he became a minister. >> steve: especially at christmas beautiful. >> brian: i know he is doing interviews because they came out with that sequel 2 gladiator. but i was shocked he incident mates that he was not the best person earlier in his life. i didn't even know that. to me, this guy has been iconic actor. everyone has looked up to him for the longest time. i think is he holding himself to another standard. a stornsd the american public already looked at him as generational talent. right? great in everything he is in. >> he might just recognize biblically, all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of god, including denzel washington. hey, i'm right there with you and sending that message to the people of this country right around christmas. i think it's wonderful. it's great. >> carley: he said he can't talk about religion in hollywood. i think he brings up a good point. which is why there are -- there have been really successful

religious movies that have been made by smaller studios. we have fox nation the saints. which is very well done and has been hugely successful. and then other movies. >> guy: christmas pageant apparently really good. >> carley: hallow app. that mark wahlberg. many people in hollywood who believe in god and showing it now. >> brian: whole feeling that religious movies are niche are over. people are desperate to find a winning. marvel is running out of juice. morally themed movies, many of which the number one christmas movie in the country right now is this guy who produced the chosen. so i do think things are changing. if for no other reason, just forget about religion, it's working. so, people are going to the movies and hollywood, if they are in the business -- if they want to stay in the business, some way shape or form they will

embrace it. >> carley: good change. >> guy: if not if for no other reason than profits. >> brian: he does great work for the boys and girls club he says saved him as a kid. straight ahead west virginia independent senator joe manchin torches democrats on the way out the door. >> the brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's toxic. ♪ 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.

wounded warrior project empowers post-9/11 veterans and their families with life-changing programs and services. i faced my ptsd, and i'm a better husband and father because of it. we help warriors get the expert care and support to thrive. i got involved. i got healthier. i got to be an athlete again. through our programs, community and advocacy, we're proving anything is possible. learn more at wounded warriorproject.org/connect

(♪) i'm a little nervous. (♪) do you tell me when it happens or... [footsteps] (♪) [exhale] (♪) (♪) [sniff] (♪) [giggle] (♪)

(♪) did he just leave? come on, bring it back. if he smells this good. he's got my attention. gravité. the new cologne for men by particle. visit trygravite.com use the promo code and get 25% off. bring him back, please. (♪) what if your mobile network wasn't just built to work out here... ...but was designed differently to also give you blazing fast wifi where you are most of the time? reliable 5g, plus wifi speeds up to a gig where you need it most. xfinity mobile.

xfinity internet customers, ask how to get a free 5g phone and a second unlimited line free for a year. where can nfl fans get a great deal that turns christmas day into game day? x marks the spot. the nfl is streaming christmas day games exclusively on netflix, and you don't want to miss a moment. gather round the game because nothing says holidays like family and football. now xfinity customers can add streamsaver including netflix, peacock, and apple tv+ for just $15 a month. stuff your stockings with tons of entertainment and tons of savings. bring on the good stuff. xfinity.

those benefiting include child killers and mass murderers. like jose tores put behind bars after murdering two girls and a woman between 2005 and 2009. tores stabbed an 8-year-old and 9-year-old girl after sexually assaulting them in a chicago suburb in 2005. then four years later he strangled 20-year-old naval officer amanda snell to death in arlington, virginia. another one is convicted murderer thomas steven sanders he shot a 12-year-old four times and cut that little girl's

throat in louisiana in 2010. attorney general merrick garland recommending the president biden all but a handful of death sentences be commuted. those exceptions include boston marathon bomber dzhokhar, pittsburgh killer robert bowers and church shooter dylan roof. people believe this move comes as a way to block president-elect trump from carrying out federal executions. the president releasing a statement saying quote in good conscience i cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that i halted. brian? >> brian: that's pretty amazing going out without being in a blaze of glory. thanks, meanwhile, 31 minutes before the top of the hour. outgoing west virginia senator joe manchin torching his party on the way the door calling it toxic. >> i am not a democrat in the form of what the democratic party has turned itself into, the national brand, absolutely not. the brand got so bad the d brand

has been so maligned from the standpoint of it just it's toxic. >> brian: here with reaction is fox news contributor "the washington post" columnist marc thiessen. your reaction to senator joe manchin who i guess technically went independent at the end. >> well, is he right. and that's why he is an independent because the party, you know, ronald reagan famously said i didn't leave the democratic party. the democratic party left me. the same is true for mansion. look, there has been a titanic shift in the parties. the republican party has become the party of the working class. and democrats became a party of coalition of minorities and coastal elites. but, in the last election. trump gained with almost every minority group in the country. they lost ground with minorities. so they are fast becoming a party of cultural elites. that's why, you know, that's why the ad that trump ran at the end of the last election, the democrats are for they-them i'm for you was so effective because it rang true.

>> brian: absolutely. so, let's talk about something else that i think is going to be a much bigger story and stunningly was barely a theme over the weekend. the "wall street journal" and "new york times" talked about a vacant joe biden. in the white house couldn't really do the job. good days, bad days, some invisible days. miranda divine expands on it saying joe biden has been in president in name only since he was inaugurated. and one of the cuts from the story in the "wall street journal" now that he is no longer powerful, his bumbling, stumbling senility is newsworthy no matter that his newspaper consistently charted his decline in real time only to be accused in the white house of ageism and cheap fakes. the worst scandal in white house history is the worst held secret in washington. this is going to get bigger, isn't it? >> oh, huge. and, look, they are not even pretending that he is the president anymore. keep in i understand moo, just a few months ago, he was running for four more years. you look at joe biden today, when he was falling asleep at that table in africa with world

leaders and tell me that man could have served four years as president of the united states? he just launched 75 airstrikes in syria and didn't even address the american people. military action in syria bombing sites all across the country. biden is sleeping through it. he just commuted all those sentences that carley was reading about. do you think he really was aware of every person in every single case that he carefully examined all their records and said yes, i have come to the conclusion that despite these horrific crimes they should be pardoned? this guy is an absent president. he couldn't serve four more years he can't serve four more weeks. >> brian: you had a great column in the "the washington post" just about ukraine to keep in mind when we go into negotiations to bring an end to the fighting. and this the is natural resources that ukraine has and what it would could for russia when if they got t. >> mark: yeah, donald trump famously said that in the biggest mistake america made in foreign policy was not getting

iraq's oil. ukraine is a mineral super power. it has $26 trillion worth of uranium and titanium and all these rare earths that we need to power lithium and electric cars and cell phones and everything. putin wants that. that's one of the reasons why he invaded. so the american people have invested $183 billion helping ukraine defend itself from russian aggression. they deserve a return on that investment. and so we need to make sure that reneg katie a tunnel to support donald trump to negotiate peace that is stable that can outlast his presidency and allows the american and ukrainian people to work together to develop those resources for the west. not for putin and xi jinping. >> brian: i know. remember, afghanistan had rare earth, too. guess who has it now? china. >> yep, china. >> brian: we handled three topics. many people think we couldn't have got it done but we did leading up to christmas. thanks so much, marc. >> it's christmas, baby. >> brian: absolutely.

nothing marc thiessen can't do. talking about somebody special you know how am talking about frank silver tunnel 2 towers. gold star fallen first responder families. and today, frank siller is back. he joins our 12 days of givingri ♪

last year alone, those viruses hospitalized nearly 1 million people 65 and older.

that's nearly 1 million moms, dads, favorite uncles, and grammas. if someone you love is 65 or older, talk with them about vaccines, because to you, they're not just another number. independence, with that declaration, america was born. inspired by a belief in the god given rights of every human being, and in the good that comes from exercising these rights well. the founders of our great nation chose independence, as do we. hillsdale college accepts no government funding, because independence makes possible the good to which we aspire.

>> adam: cold weather for lots of folks across the country. certainly on fox square. i'm wearing the big winter coat, otherwise i wouldn't be and i would rather be inside. take a look at some of those temperatures across the country. it's not just here. feels like -- this is feels like. this is when the wind chill picking up right now, 4 degrees in new york city. negative 2 in boston. negative 7 is syracuse. balmy in chicago. 23 degrees, is there going to be a white christmas? that's the case for some folks,

winter weather systems moving across the midwest right now. snow in northern michigan that does ultimately work its way into the northeast. some of those pink colors you are talking about maybe 6 inches of snow maybe more in higher elevations. slowing down travel, maybe just a bit. not huge travel days today. if you are waiting until tomorrow more travel trouble as we are looking at a couple systems move across the sun tri. those are the weather headlines for now. tossing it inside to a much warmer guy. >> guy: all right, adam. come inside and thaw off and we will send you back outside later. inside tunnel 2 towers honoring fdny firefighter stephen siller who courageously lost his life on 9/11. since that day the foundation has donated over 1,000 mortgage-free homes to injured veterans and gold star families and families of fallen first responders. the founder and ceo of tunnel 2 towers is frank siller and he

joins us now. merry christmas, it's great to see you. you guys do really important work year around. 200 houses more plus just this past year. for viewers who may not know, talk about the mission and what you guys achieve. >> well, listen, my brother was a first responder who died on 9/11. he left behind a wife and five kids. and we realize, it took us a while before we started doing this work. you know, we started the foundation right away to honor what he did and the sacrifice of so many on 9/11. especially first responders. but, you know, when we saw the price that our first responders pay all the time and our military and then leave behind young families, we made a promise that we're going to make sure that we take care of every family in america who dies in the line of duty protecting us, leaves behind young kids. that's what we do year in and year out. over 1500 now mortgage free homes plus we're building smart homes for catastrophically injured service members. we are proud of the work we are too long.

honor my brother and first responders that sacrifice lives every day. >> guy: so tangible the help that you guys provide. you kind of think about it, if you go through this horrible circumstance, as you did, losing someone so close to you, then, you know, at some point your mind turns to all this stress, financial and otherwise, and what your organization comes in and does is just say here's a giant, huge ticket item off the table. we got. this and that's the american people making that happen. give us an example of the type of families that you do help. >> that's your viewers that do that. and that's why i'm on fox all the time because without fox, we can't get this beautiful work done that we do. so, we just gave a smart home out last week in our land o lakes village in florida. we have let us do good village, because saint francis said while we are here, while we have time, let us do good. and jonathan rodriguez, the police officer from ohio, that was paralyzed by a drunken driver while he was responding on a call, and we built him this

beautiful smart home that we gave away. actually can see pictures of him now. so, yeah. this village that we're doing down there is for over 100 of our recipients. could be a gold star fame. could be a fallen first responder family or catastrophic service member or first responder. >> guy: people donate to tunnel 2 towers going directly to this. how do you vet these stories? >> you know, so everybody in america by now knows us, once again because of fox. when something like this happens, people contact us and say, you know, there is a police officer in our community that was catastrophically injured. well, we come in and we take care of them. but we have a big team. and, look, one thing we are very, very proud of this year in the last year and a half i announced on fox on veterans day a year and a half ago or so, that we're going to take care of -- eradicate homelessness. 10,000 homeless veterans getting all the services they need to simulate back into society.

it's working. we're working hard, we have so much work to do. we ask people to go to t2t.org. if you buy your kid a gift. why not donate the same amount of money it. could be tunnel 2 towers. i am asking you tunnel 2 towers other good organizations out there. you know where your money is going here. people see where their money is going. take care of your children but take care of the people who protect us and take care of the families who pay a big price for our freedom. dam. >> guy: and veterans. god bless you for the work you do. >> thank you. guy guy to donate to tunnel 2 towers he just said at this will remind you t2t.org or scan that qr code right on your screen. thanks again, sir. i have donated myself and such a worthy cause. still ahead here on "fox & friends." the reason for the season, cardinal dolan joins us right over there on the curvy couch with his christmas message for all of us. and if you are still looking for the perfect christmas dinner desert, we've got some ideas. look who it is.

we will talk about that, yum. coming up. ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ lowe's knows that holiday list can stretch further than your budget. with mylowe's rewards... yes. you get member deals and earn points when you shop. so, you can get more and give more too. join my lowe's rewards for free today. lowe's knows how to help you holiday. need a last minute gift idea? get the weathertech gift card! for laser measured floorliners, cargo liner, pet feeding system or the new garage wall protector. get your gift card instantly at wt.com

is a bitcoin etf the same as owning bitcoin directly? while bitcoin etfs might offer a familiar face, they lack the true ownership and flexibility of directly investing in bitcoin. with itrustcapital you can buy and sell real bitcoin 24/ 7 with the tax advantages of an ira. real bitcoin means no middleman, no restricted stock market hours.

choose the path of direct bitcoin investment with itrustcapital because access equals opportunity. invest in bitcoin at itrustcapital.com today.

♪ >> guy: the race to get home for the holidays is on and fox

business correspondent jeff flock is live for us in philadelphia this morning at the airport there. hey, jeff. >> fortunately i'm not going anywhere guy this morning because everybody seems to be, yeah. busy out here in philadelphia and all across the u.s. take a look at the numbers. aaa always does a travel forecast for the christmas holiday. they say 107 million people will be traveling by car. that's not quite an all-time record but, by air it is. 7.85 million, i think, is the number there that they are protecting that, would be an all-time record. the people cruising, busing and training also a record. all pre-pandemic breaking record. misery so far is minimal. our friends at flight aware do misery map where they show where the worst trouble is mostly in the east so far but it's early. just about 100 or so delays and a couple of cancellations so that's good news. the busiest airports, of course, well the usual suspects, l.a.,

denver, chicago, dallas, jfk, it's going to cost you though if you have to fly over christmas. if you got a fare less than $180 for the round trip well, you got better than average, up 4% from last year. international travel and cost up, too. 16,000 -- or $1,600 the average round trip overseas. that's up 13 percent. >> and if you got to stay somewhere, i don't recommend new york. the lights are beautiful but the hotel is going to cost you $430 the average seasonal hotel fare in new york. if you want to go somewhere cheap, i would go vegas. that's about $100 on average. although you may pay in other ways. it's a gamble though, guy, if you are going anywhere, because there is a lot of people traveling this holiday. >> carley: that's right. well, brian just said that everybody coming to new york can stay with him for free. >> brian: which was something i said in the break not to everybody.

>> carley: update your graphic. jeff, thank you so much. always desert on christmas day. here with the christmas classic add to your table. celebrity chef david burke who is amazing and so is restaurant upper east side. the table looks gorgeous. tell us about these deserts. >> classic christmas deserts, come back during the holiday season. some of them don't come back because they are very old. you'll log. luckily i have a bakery, yule log sells well classic roll cake present it with a fun cookie on top. >> brian: if you didn't have that is it almost impossible to do that in a standard restaurant. >> it's a little harder to do tradition. figy pudding. i never made figy pudding. sticky toffee, dry fruit, date

nut bread. bananas, this one is sticky toffee. that's eggnog sauce. this is bred pudding similar to sticky trophy pudding. popular. i like sticky soft. figy pudding i wouldn't sell any. >> not a great name. >> neither is mince meat pie it? >> is sweet. >> nuts a and boozey raisins: gingerbread house. chocolate cake. these legs represent the rockettes. >> carley: really? >> rockettes came out of st. louis in the 40s. i designed that for the restaurant there. >> i thought it was the leg lamp. >> classic sweet bread, ravens and citrus. the italian fruit cake. super classy. it's a coffee cake. >> does it always come with a knife. >> no, i did that the that.

i had to plug my name. >> brian: fruit cake think heavy and no one eats it? >> there is good and bad fruit cake. just like when things get mass produce you had you get what you pay for sometimes. this is the bark candy cane bark. and all that if you get some of this cinnamon bark it's good for garnishes. classics, eggnog a nice way to serve it at the table and then we -- cannolis, pan cot that. that's eggnog pan cot that. this is a pea con pie dried cranberries with booze. >> brian: people at home can they make this or go to your restaurant. >> make it dixie lake bakeries new jersey 87 years old. all of our restaurants are open on holiday weather service deserts like this. we have an advantage on the pastry size because we have bakery in our portfolio or there is some good bakeries all around

that you can find. >> carley: so gorgeous. steven, thank you so much. >> happy holidays. >> carley: get us in the christmas peter, more "fox & friends" straight ahead ♪ fr ♪ ee 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.