dance, they are just stupid. what you should hate is the macarena. every time they do that at our wedding -- i am just saying i would rather do the trump dance. >> we are not doing the chicken dance either. >> those two should be banned forever. >> it goes to show that there has been a vibe shift. onwhat was once taboo is not anymore. >> if you are looking for something fun to watch this christmas, please stream "the great christmas show down." tom shillue hosts. i am going to be doing it, and it is the most fun you will have. thanks to everyone on the couch, and now here are our friends at "america reports." >> john: thank you. stunning a report saying that the biden administration is

considering extending protections for hundreds of migrants whose legal status is set to expire when president trump steps into the oval office. hello, i'm john roberts. ananita vogel, good day to you. >> anita: sandra smith has the day off. if president biden moves forward, it could greatly complicate the plans to get the border price is under control. after vowing to launch one of the largest deportation orders we have ever seen. >> on my first day back in the oval office, i will start an historic slate of executive order to close our border to illegal aliens and stop the invasion of our country. [cheers and applause] and on that same day, we will begin the largest deportation operation in american history. larger even than that of

president dwight d. eisenhower. >> john: live in the studio with more on this. a battle on immigration between now and january 20th. >> no doubt about that. karoline leavitt hinted what president-elect trumps actions on the border could be. >> securing this other border, looking at title 42. many of these executive actions are still being considered by our policy teams and their lawyers. >> the trump era policy that allowed for asylum-seekers to be expelled from the country in phoenix. suggesting he wants to get started right away. >> your border is a disaster. your border is a disaster, what's going on. and you just have a few days to wait. we are going to be fully operational by about 2:00 on the 20th. >> but "the new york times" is reporting the biden administration is considering extending print pr protections. allowing people from dangerous

countries to live and work in the u.s. legally. he would have to wait for those to expire or cut them off early. mr. biden is anxious about what's ahead. >> of course the president is gravely concerned about what president-elect trump i do, but as he repeatedly said, you cannot only love your country when you win. he is committed to the process of democracy. >> of the president take this action, it is believed it would make it harder for president trump to do for this group of people of people. >> john: of course by executive order -- >> lawyers might get involved. it will give us stuff to talk about. >> john: i think trump is pretty familiar with the territory. nice to see you. merry christmas. >> anita: john, disturbing case out of new york city garnering national attention after a woman is set on fire inside a brooklyn subway car and burned to death. the case renewing a focus on

migrant crime as police arrest a person of interest to was in the u.s. illegally. nate foy is live in our new york city newsroom. what more do we know about where this guy came from? >> we are learning quite a bit just in the past couple minutes. new statement from ice, 33-year-old sebastian, and according to dhs sources, he is a person of interest to not only is an illegal migrant from guatemala but was also deported in 2018 after being arrested by border patrol in arizona then reentered the country illegally once again. in an unknown location and time. take a look at him from yesterday. ended up winding up in new york where police arrested him after a woman got set on fire and died in brooklyn. the nypd approached the woman -- or the nypd says that he approached the woman, presumably

sleeping at 7:30 and let her clothes on fire. police later arrested the illegal migrant after three high school is recognized and reported him from the nypd wanted pictures viewed the brooklyn district attorney tells fox news "the depravity of this horrific crime is beyond comprehension. my office is committed to bringing the perpetrator to justice. this will be met with the most serious consequences. every new yorker deserves to feel safe on our subways, and we will do everything in our power to ensure accountability in this case." the nypd says the illegal migrant have a lighter in his pants, in his pocket, and when officers arrested him on board an f train later in the day in manhattan. the d.a.'s office as they are not expecting a court appearance to happen, and they do not have a timeline on when charges will be filed. we have also reached out to the medical examiner but so far have

not heard back. >> anita: just on horrific time and write at christmas time. thank you for bringing us that story. john. >> john: let's bring in a new york city council minority leader, chairman of the republican mayors and council members. we have this new information that says that he entered the country illegally in june of 2018. he was deported and then reentered the country illegally again. at some point after that. we don't know when. he is one of the so-called "got aways. there has been a lot of them during the biden administration. now we know where at least one of them went. >> yeah. donald trump and his executive orders and tom homan and his backbone cannot come soon enough for the people of new york because what the report is saying is true, this means that thers,

should this person have been caught hours before he committed this crime. th u why new york city has become ungovernable. the democratic party has bet the future of all of us on sanctuary city allows an unrestricted illegal immigration. and the net result is that we have more crime, more chaos, more unease for good people like this lady who was just, whether she was homeless and sleeping on a train or going to work, she did not deserve to be burned alive for goodness' sakes. >> john: tom homan was on "fox & friends" earlier today. here's what he said. >> another example of an illegal immigrant killing a citizen. this is almost a daily occurrence now. shame on her. she supports sanctuary status in the state feared she welcomed thousands of illegal aliens to her estate. >> john: and what might have been the most poorly timed tweet in history, seven hours after that incident,

governor kathy hochul tweeted this. "in march i took action to make the subway safer for the millions of people who take the train each day. since deploying the national guard and the safety efforts, adding cameras to all subway cars, crime is going down and ridership is going out." she said that 3:40 yesterday afternoon. the crime occurred at 7:30 in the morning. do you have any idea what she was thinking? >> those democrats that i happen to disagree with, and then there are democrats who are disconnected from reality, and she is of the latter category. i challenge her, leave your police detail behind, get on the train at 5:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. in the morning, ride the subway by yourself, and feel the unease that regular new yorkers feel, whether there is a hardened criminal on the train or someone mumbling incoherently, causing you stress and anxiety. she's trying to convince us with a poorly timed tweet that what

we see and feel every day is simply not the case, but these are the same people trying to tell us that petty theft is on the decline, but we can all see about the toothpaste is still locked up behind the glass. this is what governing in new york state looks like today, and it's unfortunate we will have to suffer through this until we get donald trump back in office and people like tom homan and our new york city ice director can actually start prosecuting and getting rid of these people. >> john: i remember once upon a time mayor eric adams talked about crime on the new york city subway and said it is not the crime but the perception of crime that is the problem, but now he is singing a whole different tune after seeing what is happening to his city. says he is going to cooperate with tom homan. listen to what he said recently. >> we sat down and both agree on

violent individuals should not remain in our country. we have laws here in the city on how that can be handled. my legal team is going to sit down with his legal team to make a determination if an executive order can change that. >> john: he is getting blasted by liberals and progressives and says cancel me if you want. i'm going to look after new yorkers. just goes to show how about the problem has become in the big apple because not too long ago he was on completely the opposite side of that coin. >> yeah, he's getting some feedback from republican saying it is too little, too late. both republicans and democrats might be right on this, but i wish more democrats would come to the reality that crime on the subway, migrant crime around migrant shelters has reached new levels that's unsustainable. unfortunately something has to be done about it. more democratic official should act like eric adams unless like some of these wokesters, doubling down, protecting people like that guy who just burned to somebody. that man is now protected from

ice still to this day. even if we wanted to deport the guide today, the nypd cannot do so thanks to sanctuary city laws in the state. >> john: somehow i think that is going to change. joe borelli. new york city council minority leader. good to catch up with you, sir. i hope you have a good christmas. >> you too, john. >> not going to be a good christmas for the woman on the subway, by the way. what a horrible thing. we saw the pictures. he just lit her up. >> anita: you know, you use to live in new york. everybody rides the subway in new york. to his last point, mayor adams has had a turn on this, but there are so many other elected officials and mayors across the country who are fighting to protect criminals just like that guy, so we will see what happens. >> john: i used to ride the subway all the time period really is the best way to get around. never thought twice about it.

people go on the subway now, they certainly think twice. that's terrible. >> anita: we wish the family the best. moving on now, suspected ceo killer luigi mangione pleads not guilty in a new york city courtroom this morning to 11 state charges. we've got expert analysis on that case from two criminal defense attorneys. >> john: plus president biden commuting the sentences of 38 death row inmates. on that list, child killers and murderers of other ilk. we will get a reaction from liam terrel, and you can bet that he's got a lot to say about this, just ahead. >> this is beyond the pale. i think he cementing his status as one of the worst presidents in american history, certainly the side of woodrow wilson.

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>> john: suspected killer luigi mangione pleads not guilty at the new york state supreme court, 11 state criminal charges following the murder of brian thompson. alexis mcadams now lives in new york city with more. alexis. >> hi, john. this is the first time luigi mangione was able to go in front of a judge for his state cases. how many cases does he have against him? federal case and state case. that's why he was here today. take a look. the video of him walking into court there. surrounded by police. this is kind of what we have been seeing for days. he is wearing some khakis and a red sweater with a white shirt underneath it. he appears to be pretty calm, as, someone can be facing murder charges. this is him in court. we have the camera inside, new at this courthouse. don't know how long that is going to last for in this case,

but he said not guilty. there are two separate cases against him. hit with three murder charges in new york including murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism. it looks like something out of the scene of a movie. he was flown into new york city. we watched this live last thursday. his legal team saying this is an example of why he might not get a fair trial in new york, because of all the publicity. watch feared. >> on display for everyone to see and the biggest stage perp walk. it was absolutely unnecessary >> and his lawyer there, karen, saying that the mayor of new york city should not have been part of that perp walk. but this new picture is interesting. snapped just moments after he was taken out of court. appears to be smiling in the back of a cop car. everyone is trying to get all angles of him. he kept looking straight with authorities, but he is smiling

pretty big. now back in federal custody, heading back to brooklyn, new york. a federal indictment could be coming in the next days. back to you. >> john: whether he gets the death penalty or simply life in prison if he has found guilty, his life is over appear no question about that. alexis mcadams for us. >> anita: for more on this, let's bring in mercedes and lexi. ladies, great to have you both here today on this, so we were all watching this this morning as it happened. he certainly got cleaned up for court. got a haircut. he is wearing a normal outfit. but you know, he did plead not guilty to 11 counts, including first-degree murder. there is so much evidence here. there is his notebook with notes on the planning of the murder. there is a manifesto, and correct me if i am wrong. i think they were able to link him to the gun nor the bullets. let me start with you. how do you go about defending

this guy? >> you know, i had seen his lawyer talking about this case prior to being retained, and she had made some noise about a possible insanity defense as may be an option. i don't know if that's something she said because the family was listening and trying to get into this case which is a huge profile raising case or if that is something that they are considering. i think that would be an incredibly difficult road to actually make an insanity defense based on the evidence that we have that shows that he knew exactly what he was doing. he planted four weeks and months. it does not appear that he was working under some mental defect. he knew his conduct was wrong, and you would need to prove those things for an insanity defense. i think at this point they are going to try to attack the evidence that was obtained however they can. motions to suppress. other pretrial motions, and at the end of the day if those are

unsuccessful, it will just be about getting the best deal they can for him. >> do you agree with that? >> you bulls have very critical evidence against luigi. and it is to suppress it by saying that when he was arrested, it was inappropriate and therefore anything that flows from that, exactly to your point, the manifesto which details his anger towards health care and in particular, particular, united health care. and the call for the execution of other ceos. the ghost gun which the bullets are linked to the crime scene. those are things that are so significant and also these are key evidence against luigi mangione. if you as a defense attorney can suppress it because obtaining it at the time of his arrest in pennsylvania was appropriate,

that is how you can suppress it, and that's when you have a shot with the jury. but if those motions to suppress or deny and the evidence comes in, it is particularly difficult for the defense to come out from under because lexi is exactly right. this type of approach, especially the insanity approach, less than 2% of the cases around the country are successful when the defense takes on the defense of insanity. very, very difficult. juries don't want to hear it. they don't want to think i'm going to excuse that horrific behavior because they did not know right from wrong. it does not jive with the ju juries. >> anita: it would seem to be a tough sell, given all the planning he put into it. alan dershowitz weighed in on this. he has an op-ed talking about how he would defend luigi mangione. he said the case is not comparable to o.j. because his

manifesto virtually admits to having committed the crime here and his attorney could of course challenge the admissibility of the document as o.j. challenged the admissibility of some physical evidence. but even if the manifesto were to be excluded, there seems to be more than enough evidence to convict. he went on to say in this piece what he could see possibly happening, long shot, if you had a couple of sympathetic jurors and then you have the attorney using the insanity defense, and may be those jurors would buy into it. lexi, thoughts on that? >> jury nullification is always a concern. that is clearly what happened in the o.j. case, but there have been more high-profile cases than this. there are people who feel very strongly about donald trump. there was no jury nullification in new york. it is a concern. to try to weed out the type of people who would nullify or who could not be fair and impartial

based on their feelings about him or people who have very strong feelings about him and the health care system. i do not personally necessarily think that it is a realistic concern. >> anita: mercedes, quick response there? >> no, lexi is right. you get jury nullification, look at these support that luigi has. the last time he was in court, we started to see signs saying "free luigi." it's unbelievable, so it would be foolish to think that there is not going to be at least some pre-existing support in the jury box, which goes back to make sure those individuals, if you're the prosecutor, make sure the individuals who have the pre-existing bias are not part of the jury. but the defense, obviously they would welcome it. at the end of the day, maybe a hung jury is a victory for the defense and some plea deal can happen behind the scenes. >> anita: we know he has an

excellent attorney. i am going to miss pronounce her name. so we will see what happens there. it's going to be interesting to watch this play out. thank you very much. good to have you. >> thank you. happy holidays. >> john: china once the united states is playing with fire, taking direct aim at military sales to taiwan and the philippines. could it spark a regional arms race? >> anita: plus, why russia's president putin might want to meet with president-elect trump about ukraine. what putin wants and why ukraine needs to make sure it stays out of his reach. mike pompeo is next. >> the american people have invested $183 billion helping ukraine defend itself. yo they deserve a return on that investmentrisk. or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss.

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>> anita: welcome back. a severe energy crisis pushing

iran's economy to the brink of collapse despite some of the biggest deposits of oil and natural gas in the world. stephanie bennett is in london with more on the growing public anger. stephanie. >> years of sanctions, mismanagement, aging infrastructure has really taken a toll on iran's energy sector. plus you have israeli strikes that have really pushed the situation over the edge. to try to combat this, they have been rationing their supplies, forcing them to close our work at reduced hours. schools have moved online, shop set home left in darkness. and they've been denied power. "the new york times" reports that 17 power plants have completely taken off line this weekend the rest were only partially operational as of last friday. iran's president apologized and said the company down the country has reached a breaking point. the country's government is scrambling to contain each

crisis. in february, israel blew up two gas pump lines. their oil ministry so that they would start to import gas from russia, and currently saying that has also plunged. they lost an ally after the collapse of the dynasty and intentions will only grow when president-elect donald trump takes office. expected he might be bringing back a maximum pressure policy. experts say without any significant reforms and investments in infrastructure, it's likely that this energy crisis will continue. >> anita: a lot going on there. stephanie, thank you. >> john: president-elect tromp says vladimir putin wants a meeting as soon as possible to talk about the war with ukraine. this comes as ukraine's president zelenskyy says that there is a greater willingness. mike pompeo joining us now. good to see you. here's what the farmer -- here

is what the former and president-elect trump said. >> i don't want to brag, but we were right about just about everything, including foreign policy. these crazy wars. one of the things i want to do quickly and president putin said he wants to meet with me as soon as possible, so we have to wait for this. we have to end about war. >> john: he says to end the war before he takes office, do you think any meeting has to wait until after he takes office? >> there is already more deterrence today then there was just six months ago before the election. president trump coming into office will fundamentally reshape the way both the ukrainian and russian people as well as their leaders think about this conflict. it does not surprise me at all that president putin wants to speak with him or meet with him

just as quickly as he can. the ukrainians have done great harm to his military. he recognizes that he did not get what it was he was seeking which is political control of ukraine. he also realizes that the weakness that's out there for months and months now a couple of years that permitted him to do precisely what he did to invade europe is no longer going to be sitting in the white house, so the fact that he wants to have a conversation would not surprise me a bit. president trump has already spoken with president zelenskyy a couple of times in the recent months, and i am very hopeful president trump can get the guns to lay down and get an outcome that restores the deterrence that we have for four use during president trump's first term. >> john: how might this come to an unmet? what would it look like? >> yeah, i wrote about this in "the wall street journal" a few months ago. we are going to have no one get the totality of what it is that they want. russia will be seen as the loser

here. enormous harm to their economy and military. and they are a primary effort which was to gain political control of the slant that president putin says is his. this will have proven to be a folly for president putin. and president trump will come in and make sure that the deal that gets delivered as one where europe is once again secure and our adversaries are deterred. i am convinced this is achievable. the timeline may prove a little longer than he thinks, but i do believe this can be brought to resolution with relative speed. >> john: then there is the china issue. $571 million in various military aid to taiwan. $295 million in direct military sales which really ticked off china. this report saying china says u.s. is playing with fire after latest military aid for taiwan. chinese foreign minister urges the u.s. to stop arming taiwan,

what are called dangerous moves that undermine peace and stability. china loves any opportunity it can to yell from the rooftops, but how do you think trump is going to approach china? how will it be different than president biden? >> it will be fundamentally different on the last four years. the way president trump approach china, to make sure that they understand that they can no longer conduct economic warfare against american workers, no longer deliver substances into mexico, transit them to the united states. fentanyl in particular. making sure our allies are supported. taiwan, south korea. the japanese. these are our allies. we will build out those alliances much better than has been done in these last three and a half, now almost four years. i think xi jinping is

unsurprising. he does that with great frequency. when america is strong, deterrence remains, and we cannot avoid the conflicts that the american people voted against in november. they don't want the united states and wars, but they don't want an america that is weak either, allowing china to steal our jobs and work and make life miserable for the people of the united states of america either. >> john: real quick before we go, conventional wisdom is that president xi is going to move on taiwan by 2027. that would be right in the middle of the second term. do you think president xi would take that risk? >> i think it's very unlikely, but he already has begun moving. he's conducted missions that he never would have done where president trump in office, flying planes into their economic zone. this is a broad effort that xi jinping has been involved in, so this conflict is in some ways already underway, and president trump's goal is to

restore economic power without putting our soldiers and sailors and airmen at risk, the very things that we voted him into office to achieve. >> john: invited xi jinping to the inauguration which he declined, china will be a very high on his radar as of january 20th. good to catch up with you. we wish you and your family a merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you all as well. >> anita: good stuff there. the amazon strike is now in the fifth day as efforts to force the retail giant to the bargaining table grow. how could this impact delivery on those last minute christmas gifts? i hope not at all. >> john: plus controversy over the firing of the chicago public schools. the challenges facing the school system including a significant budget shortfall. that's coming up next.

>> the manchurian candidate has handpicked to you not as a board member by as pets for his overseers. when you're in the military you're really close with your brothers and your sisters that are in the military with you. and when you get out of the military, you kind of lose that until you find a new family. we can talk about our struggles and the things that we did overseas and not everybody can do that. adam! how's it going, brother? we live pretty close to each other. so he's always coming over.

when i go to jack's house, we watch a lot of football, hang out. we go outside the friendship has kind of grown into a family i was overseas on a deployment. i got separated from my marines and i got hit in the neck, and it broke my neck and paralyzed me. 14 years ago, i was on a training mission. did a military freefall, and i had some faulty equipment. i hit the ground. going, 30 to 40 knots and was instantly paralyzed. i met jack fanning when he invited us to park city, utah, through his foundation. i was able to actually get on the mountain and ski with my family, i can't put into words what that meant. i got paid in the military to do crazy fun stuff. and after my accident, i'm still that same guy. and when i was able to jump out of a perfectly good,

helicopter, at 10,000 feet, i did it. i was talking to some vets last week amazing how we have these houses where they can come over because they■re in chairs too. carpet and wheelchairs don't mix very well. tunnel to towers, they got rid of all that. they redid my whole bathroom. that's probably the favorite part of my house. i thought they were just going to do the upgrades. but the surprise to me was they paid off the entire mortgage. when they told me they're going to pay off my mortgage, i cried. please contribute $11 a month by visiting t2t.org now

>> john: brandon johnson facing new controversy and growing calls for him to step

down after the chief executive of the city's public school system is fired. the school board voting unanimously to oust pedro martinez following months of tension with the mayor. live in chicago. why does he want them ahead of public school is out so badly? >> the biggest reason is he is not giving in to the demands of the teachers union who he worked for and that propelled him into office. the man being billions of dollars for its next contract at a time when the nation's fourth largest school district is facing a nearly $400 million deficit. the mayor johnson wants cps to take out a $300 million loan so that the district can pay for this new contract, but pedro martinez is refusing to do that sense it would settle the district with more long-term debt and potentially cause even bigger problems down the road.

some of the mayors handpicked school board fired martinez, despite more than 400 principals who were urging the board to keep him in place. now even some of the former allies are calling him out. >> the mayor is a walking conflict of interest when it comes to cps and ctu. the manchurian candidate of a mayor has handpicked you, not as a board member, but as pets for his ctu overseers. >> this latest move is adding more calls for the mayor to resign. chicago business editorial board. mr. mayor, if you truly care about chicago, you should step aside. state lawmakers are criticizing the firing as well. >> i am still in shock and at what happened. i did not expect for this to go down the way that it did. parents, teachers, students,

school communities deserve much better than the mayhem. >> a big reason he wanted them to fire martinez is in just a few weeks, a new larger school board appointed by voters will be in place, making it a whole lot harder for johnson and the union to get their way. john. >> john: boy, that place is coming unglued. >> anita: nothing like chicago politics, john. for more on this, let's bring in a chicago resident and director of the community roundtable appeared great to see you today. i have seen you on fox many times, speaking out about the mayor's support of the illegal immigrant community there in chicago, but now you have the mayor involved in this controversy. he has fired this individual and now people are calling for him to resign. what do you make of all this? >> i happen to agree with the

editorial board who want mayor johnson to resign. a couple of weeks ago, you would have saw my picture on the front asking that the mayor be fired, asking that we get rid of him. this was not the first fire we have heard about the mayor wanting to fire pedro martinez, and as you heard earlier, the firing made basically because of the mayor wanting ceo martinez to float a $300 million loan that would not be beneficial for the chicago board of education nor the city of chicago, so we also have to keep in mind that there was a board that resigned prior to this new board taking place. the mayor wanted them to also fire pedro martinez. pedro martinez has done nothing more then tried to do what was best for the chicago public schools and for the citizens of chicago.

basically we have heard mayor johnson talk about how president trump will be a threat to democracy. and i'm sure that rendon knows a lot about that because he is certainly a threat to the democracy in the city of chicago because he refuses to listen to the citizens or even the constituents who voted for him. his allegiance seems to only be to the chicago teachers union, the people who primarily put him in office and helped him to get this agenda that he is pushing. one of the things i want people to keep in mind also is that there are several millions of line items in this budget that is also going to go to benefit migrant families. so i think we would be remiss if we were not all standing up saying mayor johnson, we would like for you to resign. we are not happy with the job you are doing. you know, i keep saying this. he has been dubbed the worst mayor in america.

>> we heard in the reporting and you just outlined a couple things that the school official pedro martinez is being accused of. not wanting to take a high interest loan. also accused of being anti-somatic, misogynistic according to old tweets. but they say this is really all about finances and the budget deficit. they are pointing the finger at the mayor. i also want to bring up this op-ed from "the wall street journal" if we can pull that up. it says 80 chicago -- a chicago machine meltdown. "mr. johnson has been desperate to oust mr. martin is because the schools chief has blocked the mayor's desire to pay off his benefactors at the ctu. they want big raises and more benefits, but the district with a budget gap of more than $500 million for the current fiscal year cannot afford it. i just want to put one more statistic here up on the screen.

these are the third to eighth grade proficiency rates in chicago. look at this. reading. 30.5%. math, just 18.3%. so, somewhere in this whole debate, this whole controversy is the most important thing right here those numbers? >> absolutely. we hear so much talk about pedro martinez, so much talk about migrants, the things that are happening here in chicago. when are we going to have some conversations about the children? when are we going to have some conversations about the fact that our kids are reading below the national norms of most of the people in this country? those are the kinds of conversations we need to be having. we need to be finding out who do we need to put in place to ensure that our kids are getting what they need? that our kids are learning, that they are growing. we have yet to find a way to deal with the fact that during

covid, most of our innocent kids lost two years of instruction. not only were they behind then, but they are even more behind now. those conversations are not happening, but they need to be. >> anita: they sure do. you are right about that. thank you so much for joining us and sharing your thoughts. happy holidays to you. >> thank you. you too. >> john: listen to this. a freak drone accident leaves a little boy in florida fighting for his life. what the faa is now investigating. >> anita: last minute shoppers are going all out to make this holiday season special, but just how much will it cost americans? we have brian and taylor on deck to break it all down. that's ahead. stay with us. ♪ ♪ because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the benefits that we as a country give you as a veteran

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>> john: woody fraser are known for creating the "mike douglas show" and other iconic programs including "good morning america" has died at the age of 90. jonathan with this. >> woody fraser was indeed a legend of television, having launched the "mike douglas

show," and having let "good morning america" as well as contributing too to the success of fox news. his friend and colleague, mike huckabee paid tribute to the iconic producers, reading on social media "woody frazier was vp of my fox news tv show and a tv pioneer. he was creator of many tv shows and gave roger ailes his first tv job. i love to the guy. he was my mentor in tv. he died at the age of 90. he was a legend. talk shows were a special where his genius was most obvious. he oversaw more than 30 hours of tv programming every week with "on mike douglas show," "the bill russell show pure" and "kid talk." ran for some 4,000 episodes from

1961 to 1982. >> it's evolved from mike douglas to phil donahue to "oprah" sally jessy raphael, to "jerry springer." that aspect of it. has happened. >> fraser was active in hollywood for more than 50 years and remains one of the most successful producers in television history. he was regularly nominated for daytime emmys awards and won in 1982 for the richard simmons show. he shared that with his wife, noreen putin, who died in 2017 from breast cancer. he is survived by his eight children and three grandchildren. he was 90 years old. john. >> john: life well lived. jonathan hunt for us. now this. >> we are being ripped off at the panama canal like we are being ripped off everywhere e else. a secure -- take it back --

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