>> it is 8:00 a.m. on the east coast, monday, december 21, this is "fox and friends." president biden commuting sentences of death row prisoners. >> plus, joe manchin torching democrats as he prepares to leave the u.s. senate. >> been so maligned from the st standpoint, it is toxic. >> brian: cardinal dolan joins the curvy couch with his christmas message, potent, interesting and humorous, he brings that all to the table. final hour of "fox and friends" starts now, get dressed, a robe does not count. ♪ ♪ the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. since we have no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it

snow. >> brian: i did not realize how depressing that is, i have no place to go. i want everyone snowed in. two days until christmas. [laughter] >> brian: nobody invited me over, i hope everyone is snowed in. >> carley: but it is as long as you love me. >> brian: he has somebody with him? carol t >> carley: that sounds like a romantic christmas. >> brian: i take it back, i overreacted, i feel terrible. >> we forgive you. >> brian: guys in for steve. you are in for ainsley. >> carley: yes. >> brian: she is probably watching. >> carley: i hope she is. >> brian: for the record, they get along, i don't know what you heard. >> not what i heard. >> ainsley: she is a walking angel. >> brian: you are a handful. >> really? >> do you agree with that?

>> no, total professional. >> brian: no, she is one of the nicest people you have ever met. >> carley: todd is shaking his head. >> brian: how did he get involved? >> he was there and shaking his head. >> brian: chris, you being quiet? >> carley: let's do this, two days to go until christmas and families are getting shocking news, president biden announcing commutation of 40 federal death row inmates, including child killers and mass murderers like jose torres who murdered two girls and a woman between 2005 and 2009, torres stabbed an eight and nine-year-old girl in 2005 and four years later, strangled naval officer amanda

snell to death. >> brian: thomas stephen sanders shot a four year old and cut her throat back in 2010 and he gets life. >> guy: merrick garland recommending all but a handful of death sentences be commuted, bomber, upons synagogue bomber and dillon routh nussinov all profile and all with political sensitivity. i imagine if you are a loved one of the other 37, what about our justice and our kid. i am against it in cases where there is any ambiguity about guilt. some are stone-cold killers, proven beyond a doubt and president biden waves this wand

and i think families will be very unhappy about this. >> carley: if you were shocked by the 1500, this should shock you from the core. going from death row to serving life in prison, which means they are waking up happy today. can you imagine being the mother of the two little girls who were murdered and hear biden administration is going to give killer of your children a win. and thinking behind the scenes in ebs cludeing dillon roof routh and the other, they are the worst killer. look at a mother and say the man that killed her two daughters is not among the worst? >> brian: you have to wonder if he's doing this. 37 of 40 will get life instead of death. why would he do this? he's going to go visit the hope

and the pope is against the death penalty. he is also campaigned on the fact how much he loves abortion. you go see the pope, yeah, i'm pro-abortion, the good side, i'll save some death penalty. let the fetus die and the mur murders live. >> carley: i sympathize with people against the death penalty, cha joe biden should have done to leave a mark on this, is something he did not do, "wall street journal" said did not give priority to bills to end punishment when in office and did not call on states to eliminate the death penalty fchl he wanted it to be ands a priority for his administration, that is what he should have done.

sg >> he is presenting this as principled stand against capital punishment, we will not let the next guy carry out the executions. why the exceptions if you are principled? all about politics, if you are one of 37 other families, sorry, your politics did not matter, these are flagged for reasons. >> brian: not the only brutal death we are talking about. >> christmas time, too, we've been following this. man under arrest for setting fire to a sleeping subway passengers in new york city killing that be innocent woman and sources tell us that suspect, you see him there, in our country illegally. >> carley: todd piro joins us with more.

>> todd: migrant from guatemala arrested with the death of a woman who was lit to death on a subway train. he entered the u.s. illegal in 2018. video we are about to show is graphic and disturbing. according to nypd, around 7:30 yesterday morning, suspect approached sleeping woman on a train and lit her clothing on fire with a lighter. the suspect was seen sitting on a bench and watching unidentified woman burn to death inside that subway car. three high schoolers recognized him from images released by nypd and officers found a lighter in the suspect's pocket when he was arrested. new york governor kathy hochul getting backlash for this post just hours after this. i took action to make our subway safer for mill knowios who take the train each day. din deploying national guard to

support nypd and mta and adding cameras, crime is going down and ridership is going up. back to you. >> brian: absolutely insane. thanks, appreciate it. when you feel about, you see this happening, i say to myself, is this an old story or new? cover of new"new york post" sho and they did the investigation and we got confirmation that you have an illegal imupons grant on train, sees a woman and decided while she's nodding off, lights her clothes on fire. i did not know clothes were so flammable. >> carley: maybe a fluid on -- >> brian: he watches sitting there. that shot enabled us to capture him. that is what kathy hochul in a bizarre statement said look how good our saurveillance is.

cops arrest him. >> carley: talking about families of victims, imagine being this woman's family and learning what happened to her, it is too hard to comprehend depravity and world we live in employs >> he sat there and watched it. >> carley: he sat there remaining at the crime scene and watching it unfold. one transit police chief talked about what first responders are going through today. they saw what happened to this woman. >> brian: hit her with a fire extinguisher right away. >> carley: she died, it will be in their mind forever. horrible. he should not have been in this country in the first place. >> that's it. talk about horrible stories and there is a parade of them without saying all illegal immigrants are dangerous, that is not true. every time an illegal immigrant

commits violent crime, there is extra level of righteous outrage because that person should have had no opportunity to be here and victimize anyone in the first place. when you see rising public polling in support of not just deportation of criminals, just broader mass deportation, a lot of people have reached end of their rope with this type of story. >> brian: if criminals are going to be first and will take a year and a half to get bulk of criminals out. he had a violation in arizona, at least one. when you have a criminal that can do something this horrific, something in between violation of arizona and here and maybe it happened in guatemala, not sure. >> carley: here is tom homan. >> this is another example of illegal alien killing american citizen, almost daily occurrence now, criminal aliens are walking

the street and this administration's policy and sanctuary jurisdiction. ice has their hands tied. secretary mayorkas can't arrest an illegal anymore unless he is convicted of a serious crime and maybe can arrest him. under president trump most secure border in a lifetime, they came into office and by design unsecured the border and wrote 90 executive orders. this was on purpose, he needs to be held accountable. >> carley: that's right. >> brian: no question. "wall street journal" story about more major issue for the president controlling border and getting out illegal imknow grants. democrats were in denial up until last few months of this election cycle. they said there was no problem

with crime, we felt differently, there was no problem with trans-gender men playing in women's sports, we felt differently, so did the country. working class does not identify with democrats anymore perform i don't see much argument, democrats are akrdadrift, they leaders. >> they are trying to recalibrates, they have democrats going all in and opposition party opposes. guys like john fetterman want to work with the president to root for the success of the country under trump administration. different democrats approaching this trump term to start drntly than circa 2017. >> carley: joe manchin was democratic senator before becoming an independent and decided to leave senate. jim justice won his seat.

yesterday he essentially gave his closing statement and did an interview with cnn and this is how he described democratic party. watch this. >> i am not a democrat in form of what the democratic party has turned into, national brand, absolutely not. brand got so bad, de-brand so maligned from standpoints, it is toxic. they have basically expanded upon thinking we want to protect you there and tell you how to live your life on that far on. >> carley: isn't that the truth. he watched the party go further to the left and he's saying democratic party need to ask themselves how they lost people like me. so many people, first-time

republican voters this election cycle that felt like democratic party was telling them what to do and how to live their life and if you don't do what we say, you are cancelled. >> this is good advice, good analysis. feels like maybe a parting midil finger. do you think he may be angling? >> brian: you wouldn't think, 72 years old. he looks great, played with nick saban in college. he was in the president's box for army-navy game. president wanted him to buck his party more, if not for him, we would have two more states or supreme court might have added supreme court justices and he wanted to make d.c. a state. do

donna brazille said this is about rebuilding a brand that is durable and reaches people. so when you look at domestic plsz, they are about spending and fighting trump. foreign policy, don't tell me you thought they had a good foreign policy, china got more expansive and middle east in co chaos. israel was able to buck hezb hezbollah. and iran allowing overthrowing of assad. trying to get back into the nuclear agreement. >> carley: it's a new day and people are hopeful now. >> soon, very soon. >> carley: more headlines starting with fox news alert. young boy fighting for his life

after getting hit in the chest by a falling drone over the weekend. a drone-powered holiday light show in orlando went horribly wrong. >> oh, no. i don't think they are supposed to be falling. >> that little boy is recovering after getting open heart surgery yesterday. the drone companies it is working with faa and city officials to find out what went wrong. happening today suspected unitedhealthcare ceo killer luigi mangione will appear in new york city in courtroom to be arraigned he faces 11 state charges, first and second-degree murder and terrorism charges. the suspect is facing a number of federal charges including murder with a gun and stalking. and president-elect trump wants u.s. to buy greenland, writing on truth social, for purposes of national security and freedom through the world, the united states of america feels that

ownership and control of greenland is a necessity. trump wants to reclaim the panama canal if the country continues to charge fees. the president of panama says the canal will continue to belong to his country. america's most popular christmas movies, what do you think of this list? michele wants to know how "elf" did not make top five. jeremy offering another big omission with "miracle on 34th street," i liked it. >> it's good. >> angie said her favorite film did not make the list and agrees that fred claus should have been in the top three spot. >> that was you. >> brian: not me, so underappreciated, brings human

side to santa. you don't think much his family. >> carley: we hear of mrs. claus a lot. >> brian: he was willing to accept him, he put on weight later in life. >> carley: is that part of fred claus? >> brian: little of what i know and egg little -- >> inside info. >> carley: my husband read "twas the night before christmas" to brock this weekend. animal, four legs, same size. >> brian: get this kid to a zoo quickly or he could come to the studio. >> we had a caribou here, didn't we? >> brian: bring it home and put in your house. >> carley: if i dragged that

caribou down the streets of new york, people would be like, that is not even the strangest thing. >> brian: i saw a guy walking a lawmakera and no one was -- before the bike lane, sitting there walking across and no one was watching him. i thought it was strange. >> for the record, i offered suggestion, carley never seen "christmas vacation," must see. >> carley: i'll see it. >> brian: meanwhile trump touting gop youth movement as he captured more young voters than any candidate in a decade. >> we won half of all voters age 18-29, never been anything like that. with young people that never happens. lowe's knows the best holiday tradition is taking your tradition to the next level. so, if you find a lower price on the things you - want. - need.

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with young people, that never happens. a republican loses by 36 or 40. >> and congressman elect spoke at that event and joins us now. when we look at share among young people donald trump was able to win, you have to go back to 46% of voters 18 to 29 went for trump, up 10 percentage points from four years ago. to what do you attribute that success? >> if you look at the state of the country, it is tied with why all sorts of demographics, whether hispanics, arabs and blacks in the inner city. they look at saying their generation can no longer afford a home or what their parents had. they want generational change. look at what drove them to the poll, credit charlie kirk's

organization turning point, drove so many young voters to the polls by making sure they get out and vote. president trump's success was beautiful and young voters went out and will be part of the republican party for a while. basic truths are out the window and common sense seem to be forgotten. with president trump back in office, we'll bring back our country to normal again. >> you'll be sworn in matter of days in the new congress. what do you and president trump need to deliver for voters who are giving republicans a second look? >> absolutely, here in arizona, we have to deliver on border security. i see it and talk to my con constituents, i think president trump will solve it quickly, especially with selection of tom homan to help solve border crisis.

fentanyl be ing brought in from china, it is a disaster. not just affecting inner city. when i was a former prosecutor fentanyl used to be $20 a pill and now it is a $1 a pill. immigrants have flooded our country and are strain on our resources. i think we will win re-election in 2026, it will buck the norm. when the president wins presidential election, party in power does worse, i think 2026 will be opposite. >> t trump flipped arizona. great to see you, happy holidays, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> when we come back, cardinal dolan will join us with a christmas message. you don't want to miss it straight ahead on "fox and friends." ing

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>> carley: two days to christmas and less than half of americans will attend church services this year. >> brian: 56% would go if invited by somebody they know. >> joining us on archbishop of new york, timothy cardinal dolan. >> i'm inviting you back. if that is true, you heard me, come back, we need you and love you, they come back for christmas. >> how much of that message need to resonate with faithful and

christians. you can reach out too people this time of year and say why don't you come with me, sound like a lot of people are thirsting for that information. >> evangelicals are a little bit more robust in going out. catholics are usually shy and it is up to them. we are launching a new program, guy and carley and thanks, brian, good to be with you. blessed christmas to you. we are launching one-on-one and that we're asking each of our people to invite somebody else to come. a lot say guess what, i find that other challenge we got is we need priests. i always make it my business, if i'm like with servers or lecturers or meeting young college students, i say, have you thought about being a priest? yes, i have and nobody ever encouraged me or invited me.

same with mass. come on back, we need and love you. >> carley: need that invitation. >> they will always say like yesterday, we were jammed, we love coming. we do it every sunday, come on back. this beats victoria's secret any day. >> brian: when you go to church on holiday, a lot of priests are passive aggressive, where the hell have you been? >> yeah, that back fires. we say glad you are here, we're delighted to have you, we're better with you here, hope you enjoyed it. what about next sunday, check in? >> carley: get people to come back, especially if they have a buddy. i'm roman catholic and there is a way of doing it. stand at certain time, sit at certain time, sometimes people are nervous. if you have someone to guide

you. >> yes, when to put in the collection basket and everything. [lau [laughter] >> brian: "chosen" is a huge hit and religious shows getting attention. >> "the saints" on fox. >> brian: there is a reason sc martin does it. if attendance is down in church, how do you solve that? >> you wonder, and you just cited a poll. they tell us that belief is going up, belonging is going down. now in one way, they tell us that is going on all over the place. different clubs or associations, people are not joining. belief is going up, i don't know if you read the "new york times" or not, they are hardly

pro-religion. david brooks and ros duthought were talking about faith and detecting there seems to be tremors that maybe people are rediscovering faith and church, religion, belief, virtue, we're hard-wired for that, we can't get along too well denying it all the time. throughout history, we had religious reawakenings. >> guy: it is cliche, maybe corny, jesus is the reason for the season. it is true. remind pus of good news. >> yeah, it is true. somebody was telling me they had all presents under their tree and their four year old was being looing there and said, mommy, all presents are blocking the crib, move the presents

aside. bingo, there it is. everybody, look, we're all united in noticing darkness in the world. you have a tough job reporting it everyday, dark, somber stuff, we are united in tagging darkness, we need to be united in looking at the light and christmas about the birth of one who proclaimed themselves light of the world. that is what we need now. we need the light, we need the star. we need the fire of faith and love and hope. that is my message, folks. >> brian: you open for an idea? >> bring it on. >> brian: archaeology, they go back and say that story everyone thought my be a myth, some stories might be enhanced, how come archaeology seem to back up the real story of the bible?

if you could incorporate the that. >> it is actual, real, genuine, you are right, the more archaeologists dig, they say guess what, there is evidence this happened, there was recent study of bones of peter we believed were buried under st. peter. and archaeologists said this looks accurate, they do testing, this is pretty genuine. faith and see what you are getting at, brian, faith and reason are not enemies. faith and reason are allied, strange god, best gift was faith and naturally was reason and had two clashing. faith and reason are very closely aligned. you are rhythm, science, archaeology bolsters it. >> who is talking about god more

is donald trump, especially after his assassination attempt, he said, i think i was spared to save this country. how do you feel about him saying that? >> he was kind enough to say that to me and i think he means it, twice. >> brian: you have known him a long time. >> i think he is very genuine. he specifically refers to his guardian angel, he thinks he felt personal protection of the lord. >> i shared with him a story you may be aware of. when president reagan met john paul ii, both had survived assassination attempt and rig an said mother theresa visited me, he spared my life. and john paul looked at him and said, she told me the same thing, why don't you say we work together. look what they did. now we have to think, carley, god is doing that all the time

with us, sometimes it takes a real smack in the face to say, i did not notice that. >> carley: how do you feel about the death penalty?y gut talks, i listen. my gut sometimeses this is a good thing. when i let reason go on, i'm thinking boy, i know there is a visceral part of me that would want the death penalty for brutal crime. on the other hand, they tell me, it does not work, it is not deterrent, i agree with the pope, strict, rigorous imprisonment with no parole for vicious criminals is the better thing. we get blasted because of protection of baby in the womb. all life has dignity and deserves respect, no matter where it is at on the spectrum,

we owe them dignity and respect. that is culture of life. i think sometimes for some people, that is you have to to believe the baby in the womb, for a lot of people it is hard to believe for hardened criminals, we better embrace them all. >> don't miss al smith dinner if you want to be president. >> glad you said it. >> great night for you guys >> >> good and thanks for being there, us guys were great. we're missing silverware, by the way. >> stop it. >> brian: best green room ever, roger goodell, bob kraft, john marra. >> more football than baseball. it is always the world series and all. blessed christmas, folks. >> guy: we'll be right back with more "fox and friends." lowe's knows the perfect gifts

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>> brian: amazon workers are still pickets scomb it is growing. we are in new york where workers are striking.

madison. >> good morning, it is day five of the strike here. you can see the strikers behind me, this is the smallest group since thursday when it started. it is 14 degrees, that is making things difficult. we are two days from christmas. this is crucial time for teamsters to get their point across before the holiday across the country. we saw protests at seven locations and it expanded and we are up to nine locations. thousands of drivers are teamster drivers protesting. they want amazon to sit down with their union to recognize their union and enter into nego negotiations for a contract. amazons they have no intention meeting with teamsters or drivers, they do not employ anyone part of the teamsters union. i want to bring in a driver here. chris, amazons you are not an

employee, what is your response to that? >> how aren't we? i am driving their vehicle, have their vest on. >> amazon's position is they hire third-party employees, you want that to ifrj cha. we are two days from christmas, this is smallest i've seen the group, is enthusiasm waning? >> we have picketers at this location and a location in brooklyn, they are going on strike, as well, it is a global movement. >> thank you, they say they will keep striking until amazon meets their demand. back to you. >> brian: thank you. try to stay warm, i know it is getting cold. kathy lee gifford is joining the couch, she is here just feet from me.

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it's the care bear. a true friend bear to celebrate friendships, available at amazon and all wal-mart. i can toss it over to my true friends on the couch. guys. >> thank you very much. taking that home. we're very excited for this. from her decades on television hosting iconic shows to her four "new york times" best selling books and her amazing music -- is it six? >> six. >> somebody didn't read my bio again. [laughter] >> she is not shy. >> we have some video. check this out. just want to make sure. >> who do i sue? >> she has a wonderful song called jesus is his name. let's clean up the segment. >> that's an older one.

>> what about this? herod and mary. >> i studied in israel and it is upsetting to me i haven't been able to go for a long time. i'm so excited. i think it will be a whole new era there. >> brian: i agree. >> thank god. anyway, i went on one trip there. you think you know herod. i went on a full dive into him. i was obsessed with him. my mom said what is this with herod. i believe jesus is the greatest stories ever told and herod on the greatest story never told. we have to do a movie on this. he was a genius. the greatest architect that's ever lived. just the ruins alone that are

still there. >> good guy, bad guy? >> babies start out good. he wanted to make his father proud and he did anything he can do to gain power including murdering. i do a audio on this. took me four days to do it. there is nobody named joe in it. thank god his first name was doris. everybody else is other big name. >> isn't it amazing? we had cardinal dolan on and you talked to going back to israel and archeology and the real history of the time. >> we're careful about being accurate. we know tons about herod because of josephus. mary a little less but great works about her that have with stood the test of christian church time.

so we are very careful not to say we made this up. >> this would make a great gift. >> the whole point of it my son said mom, you love the great epic stories in the bible but the bible if you read it -- i read it at one point in my life 11 times straight, 11 years, something that tyndall house did the bible in the year. i said i'm not learning anything new. that's when i started studying rabinically. you study the scriptures in hebrew and greek. anything else is usually a bad translation of the bible. it's a new series. this is a first of hopefully many books. ancient evil/living hope. are you asked do you think there is more evil in the world today?

you would think so. people have cell phones and so many cable news shows and you hear about it and see stuff instant and you think my gosh, what did they do? did they just set a woman on fire in the subway? now that would make the news but anyway there is -- i said you know what? the truth is in script in genesis, right there in the dawn of time was the serpent. evil was already there. if you believe that stuff. and the good news is that evil is with us all the time but the presence of god is what gives us hope. it always outshines the darkness. >> brian: we have hope and ten seconds. >> you leave me for last always. >> we save the best for last. >> that is such bunk. i know you all. >> merry christmas. >> the suspect police say shot and killed unite