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♪ init >> nicole: good morning. it's 8:01 on this snowy christmas eve. the james hall choir has been with us all morning long. are they not incredible? >> brian: yeah, everyone getting a special thanks to for the snow. it's been a long time since we've seen this. >> todd: i'm a little worried we'll be here for the christmas show and not able to get out.

>> brian: in the same outfits. >> todd: so many --s. >> brian: day before christmas and families gather around the world and we ask you to share your family traditions on christmas eve and the e-mails are pouring in. >> nicole: from crista, we do the feast of seven fishes and wear matching pajamas that our elf bricks every christmas eve. after church we drive through the neighborhood looking at lights. >> todd: we have hot cocoa and pick one present each to open and watch a favorite movie like, this is my favorite, it's a wonderful life or white christmas. >> nicole: which is my favorite. sorry, brian. no fred clause. >> brian: our christmas eve tradition was to read twus

children gather at the tree to pick one present to open on christmas eve. >> nicole: why did your voice get deeper when you read wanted to be invited. >> brian: imagine not buying any food and bring home the men for dinner. like it's 1790. >> nicole: i would go the to lioness and sure she'd be better about getting f food on the crunch. pick long island or connecticut connecticut or new jersey.

>> brian: can't find it and get the fishing pole and going from the kilmeade pyro. >> todd: like that, chris? >> nicole: this k christmas eve, we're reflected on culture and the lives and the fox nation is the saints. even the new york times is taking notice of what feels like a reigns leading lick yous revival in -- religious survival in society. religion in decline and this christmas seems different. >> brian: we had cardinal dolan here yesterday and said the people he's seeing in the new york times editorials about the rise in people asking more questions about religion, maybe attending church, and he recommends grab someone and bring them to church >> they

tell us belief is going and you happen belonging is going down. different clubs and associations, people aren't joining and seems to be temporal integrationers that maybe people are rediscovering faith and chump, religion, belief, virtue. we're hard wired for that and we can't get along too well by denying it all the time. >> todd: i call it hope and noise. for so many years leagued umm to this moment, there wasn't a sense of hope.

a lot of pipet didn't have hope. you've seen over the last month and a half following the events of november 5, so much more americans have that hope. they're looking for -- to give credit to somebody and a lot of people are giving credit to a higher power. trump got credit to a higher power surviving the shooting in july. the second part is noise and so many parts are filled with noise. day in and day out and taking tafanely moment to reflect with the lord whether it's before you go to bed at night or in church and focuses you and gets you to sort of block out all the noise and just be one with the lord. in this kind of world, people yearn for that.

>> brian: imagine having an island that size with 50,000 people. put people in the hot seat. bidenomic denmark didn't love that we wanted to guy green land and it'll cost $1.3 trillion. but we get the huskies. >> todd: are you praying to god that donald trump buys green land and the panama canal? >> brian: by the way, the canal is a real issue, and anyone that wanted to marginalize it, when you see what china's influence in that area and you see the way they cut right through every time, they want control of everything.

>> nicole: right now, american airlines is canceling a nationwide -- just canceled it after a technical issue. can you imagine, christmas eve you have flights being grounded not because of weather, not because of another strike, but because of an it issue. this comes as millions are under winter weather threat alert with freezing rain, sleet, and light snow in the northeast and midwest today. >> todd: the story change the introduction and that's how

crazy it is. it's already snowing in new york city and combine all these, expect a mess. some may wake up to a white christmas. that was a black screen, this is adam klotz outside in the snow with our fox weather forecast. reporter: new york city is gorgeous this time of year and look at the american christmas tree with the flag waving in the background and it is truly beautiful. obviously anybody that's in town enjoying it suicide well. come over here. hasn't snowed in new york for quite some time. you guys are from -- say it again. >> atlanta, georgia. reporter: what are your name s? >> jennifer, claire, bunny. reporter: you guys haven't seen

snow in quite some time. >> a while. reporter: you live here. >> she's visiting. reporter: lumis hasn't snowed here for a long time. see how it's impacking folks and it's going to be here for maybe a little bit. we see more snow a bit further interior and seeing the winter storm, winter weather advisories and hear's what it looks like across the rest of the country. it's the top tier of the country and it's truly beautiful, guys. a white christmas, who'd have thought. pretty pretty. >> todd: pretty pretty. that was my nimonic name in the

fraternity. >> brian: adam out in the elements. that's all we have. that's it. good night, everybody. >> todd: merry christmas. >> brian: new york can handle it. i worry about the suburbs. >> brian: president joe biden facing fierce criticism after commuting the sentences of 37 death row inmates two days before the families of their victims gather for christmas leading them in disbelief.

>> nicole: the widow of columbus police officer brian hurst shot and killed saying this is distress news on a personal level for my family, but feels like a complete dismissal and undermining of the federal justice system. four years later, he strag naval officer amanda snell. snell's brother saying i'd rather it go back to him being sentenced to death. what justification does biden have and i want him to explain to us, to our faces, while he chose to give them mercy and they didn't give others mercy.

>> brian: we thought they were staring at the death penalty and now they're not. >> nicole: this is very emblematic of the differences of president biden and president trump on the campaign of the cop

killers and drug dealers and these are exactly the people that president biden just commuted their sentences, not to mention i think it's like seven of the prisoners that just had their sentences commuted, they have actually murdered since being in jail. they're not live ago reformed live or found god or educating themselves. this is not a reward for good behave. they've committed more murders. >> todd: these are the individuals that the left wants to treat as the victim. that's why it's so important to remember there are actual victims and the individuals that sadly lost their lives often times in horrendous and heinous circumstances and the family that's left to pick up the pieces. a couple of hours ago, i interviewed two daughters and a father >> we have leaned into

jesus. he has provided us strength and a peace that is beyond all of our understands. my mom had six grandchildren, only three in which she met. her job was to make kris has as special and magical as we (&.k >> probably the worst thing through this as we can is watching my three children suffer through this. if it was just me, i'd be okay with that . i know donna is with her savior right now. >> we didn't commit that crime. she made that choice, that day. a crime that is punishable by the death penalty. we -- 12 jurors unanimously voted for the death penalty. that is what was fair and biden took that away from us. >> brian: it's a great point. a jury return that had verdict for the death penalty and joe biden decided -- his line was --

i am more convinced than every we must stop the use of the death penalty and i cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that i halted. >> todd: remember, he nor his administration met with the families prior to doing this on monday. what the dad said was most telling out of the entire interview and underscores this, the decision to execute those two women, one of whom was their relative in that bank, doesn't just impact those two women, doesn't just impact the people you see on the screen right there, it has a ripple effect to the grand kids who are missing their grandma this christmas. to the three that never met her. this family will be affected day

in and day out for the rest of their lives. joe biden treats 37 other criminals that did similarly heinous things the same way so those individuals get a sense of mercy whereas these families will live the rest of their lives and generations going on without seeing that same mercy. it's wrong. >> nicole: turning to headlines, starting with a fox news alert, former president bill clinton has been hospitalized in washington after developing a fever yesterday afternoon. clinton's deputy chief of staff posted on x last night saying he's undergoing testing and observation. "he remains in good spirit and deeply appreciates the excellent care he's receiving". three construction workers fell into the ocean when part of

california's santa cruz pier collapsed yesterday. this coming after a major storm pounded california's central coast. none of the workers were seriously injured. the pier was immediately evacuated after an estimated 15e water below. it's now closed indefinitely. >> nicole: that's right,

little girls. actions have consequences. the three are now facing grand theft, conspiracy to commit a crime and resisting arrest charges. people complaining about santa's favorite helper and elf on the shelf. several say the elf magically moves and drives them crazy. you know what, we at "fox & friends," we disagree. we love our johnny -- jolly don elf on the shelf and magically moves around studio m. l >> brian: jolly don. it's the donald trump elf on a shelf. >> nicole: he doesn't look very jolly. >> brian: the elf is a challenge for parents in the household.

>> todd: all i can say is you guys give jolly don a lot of credit for moving around and fidgeting and yet when i do it on the couch, i get letters from management. i'm sitting like an elf and have elf-like tendencies. >> nicole: maybe if you wore the whole suit, we'd be more forgiving. >> todd: is there a surprise for the remaining 40 minutes of the show. brian, you run the show. come on, tell us. will i be in a red suit by the end of the day? >> brian: i don't think so because there's one santa and we saw him in the sky in moscow before. >> todd: that's magic. dvr that for your resume reel, america. >> todd: it may be christmas

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targeting the entries on this list. >> i have a problem with big spenders in both parties and everywhere you look, there's more of this stuff. a trillion dollars and there's a lot of waste but it's everywhere. in all the big departments, in the department of state, it's in nih, national science foundation and people wonder why it exists every year and department of doge. can they get rid of it? the only way to get rid of it is spending less money. if you gastroenterologist them 4 billion one year and increase to 8 billion, doesn't take a rocket scientist to understand you're going to get more waste, not less.

they had a whole bunch of kids look at ads on facebook about food and that was trillions. sounds like animal cruelty than experiment but the list goes on and on. >> todd: it's not to mention, i mean, you have stolen covid relief funds, $8 million. one guy from florida did it to buy an island. mentioning the cat. the list goes on and on. you eluded to this, senator, do you think your tradition ends this year? in other words >> ultimately it takes congress.

doge can point it out but takes congress to get rid of it. i'm helpful that doge will draw attention the same way i have been. about a year ago, there was a chips bill, a bill to subsidize most of the wasteful projects and crazy stuff and experiments going on is national science foundation. in the chips bill, all the democrats and half the republicans voted to double the size of the national science foundation so why is there more waste?

>> todd: will this waste go away? will you be needed on christmas eve next year? we'll see. senator rand pal, enjoy the day and week with your family. we thank you. more "fox & friends" coming up on this white christmas eve. take a look, it's a snowy fox square. we need the plow, how you do too. ♪ ♪ even more... sweet. lowe's knows how to help you holiday.

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watched her burn on the subway. the brooklyn da and they'll be met with the most serious sense of consequences. ice crossing the border in 2018 illegally and deported under the trump administration and it's unclear when or where he reentered the country. the suspect reportedly could face a judge as soon as today. brian, over to you. >> brian: thanks so much. unbelievable. this happening as bystanders stood by and did absolutely nothing adding to the outrage felt across the city and some officers jumped in, we should say. guardian angels founder, who is a mayoral candidate and lost to eric adams said there's no doubt people don't want to get involved. it's the danny penny factor. it's frozen people. they're saying to themselves, i don't to want get jammed up like penny. people should have been running

over to the woman on fire and did nothing and said nothing. tammy bruce is joining us now. do you agree with curtis? >> absolutely. i saw that video with people standing there and it's hard to believe. i thought it was fake. we have to question that all the time. when we see something that appears unbelievable, often it is. in this case, it wasn't. there's videos of people walking bay and boggles the mind. it tells people including people that have come here illegally that even we don't have respect for ourselves.

even we don't care about law and order. new york has problems and nobody decides to do that to another human being and this is the kind of person who's wandering around this country and got the majority and what have we done in opening the doors and who have we encouraged to come here? it paralyzes people that say you don't pay me enough to do all this. meanwhile something else i know you think about deeply because you're somewhat into politics is that's where do we go now in this election cycle. even temporal integrations are admitting they're rudderless and

have no identity. this was an interesting quote from the story in the new york times saying the democratic brand is in the toilets, says liz smith. many of the democrats that succeeded this cycle are best overperformers and house racers since our people that ran against democratic party. trump tore down the blue wall in the industrial midwest andex- up and downed his vote in most in our bluest and most urban areas, even areas he didn't win, he made games. tom swaze in my area and sounded like a republican and that's how he flipped george santos' seat. your thoughts, tammy? >> this conversation in the new york times and political piece, the problem for the democrats is there's a lot of jar began what she's saying and insider politic stuff and they barely -- they don't really want to touch upon the fact they believe in things, the party believes in things that no one else believes in. that this wasn't some mistaken

strategy and a party rejected by americans and we can't even talk about not being able to recognize what's going on in the country. the democratic party in not just pandering to the far left, clearly biden hasn't been in charge and someone on the far left was in charge who would have never been elected and americans do not want. what did we do? we fired all of them and gave the government in its entirety to trump and the republicans. we hope they deliver, but they couldn't -- at least some of the people they spoke to, the voters in the panel they had, touched on this idea of values and it's not what we believe in. but even then there's a fear of being canceled if you say the transgender ideology separate from identity, to the are separate things and political ideology has got to go. this cannot be forced on people, censorship, forced speech, men in women's sports, all those

things, nobody wants including democrats, and the democrats on the left have, and this is their mistake, made it a danger yous thing to speak up so what do they get? they got fired and still can't figure it out and think it's all trump. they'll have a prop for the next four years and this is a chance for the republicans to deliver. >> brian: yeah, very interesting. if you go up to a democrat now and say about the trans issue, you think women should be playing with men's sports or trans issue, they'll say it rarely happens. i go, you guys still don't get it. what do you mean it rarely happens. you don't get it. >> exactly. exactly. they've got to face it. >> brian: thanks for answering the call this morning. great per spect and i have have a fantastic christmas. >> merry christmas to you and everyone. >> brian: jeff flock taking us live to the turnpike and santa has no traffic in his way. he's hard at work delivering right over australia.

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reporter: welcome back to o snow jim jordan new york city and a lot of americans are going to get a white christmas. i love the look and it's like you shook up the snow globe and all the pieces hanging in the air and haven't seen snow in quite some time and see if i hurt myself and there's going to be people in central park trying to sled a bit because we've got a decent amount of know out here. it's not just snowing in new york city and take a look at maps and where all the snow is coming down, up and down the east coast. that's more of a freezing rain and dangerous for road w ways ad a good amount of snow coming down and not going to be talking about 6 inches of know on the coast and a lot of februaries

are happy to see this and could be difficult for driving and fox business' jeff flock out there in the car on the roads. hi arkansas how is it looking out there? reporter: yeah, you guys in the weather call this a wintry mix and that's the windshield going other the bridge from pennsylvania turnpike into jersey and it's like a bit of a whiteout here if you can see it. it's not a ton of snow. snow, sleet, rain. there's 107 million people on the roads this holiday season. another 7, almost 8 million in the area and another 4.5 million apparently take ago train or bus or cruise ship. good things about the guys that are doing what i'm doing, which is driving stable prices and

people didn't care about money when it came to travel, paying for gas or air fair. listen. >> i think people have made a conscious decision that they're going to do those bucket list trips and they're going to go see their families. reporter: so we're on the road with other people heading to see their families out here. yeah, that's nasty. i leave you with a picture of this saying knoll, what a lovely day. >> nicole: eyes on the road. we need to get you there safely, jeff. don't move, billy graham's grandson will graham share as christmas message. but first, here's the james hall choir performing joy to the world.

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♪ >> all right, christmas is a great time to reflect on the past year. >> it sure is. for some americans and others around the world, 2024 has been a tough one. >> brian: here with how we can heal if it fits you and your life and move forward in the new

year, billy graham's grandson, will graham. welcome. great to see you. how do you get ready? >> merry christmas >> what is your traditions in your family? >> we get together as a family. of all days today is my mom's birthday. we start with her birthday today. wish her a happy birthday. won't say how old she is. then we get together as a family. usually we do it together christmas eve because it's my mom's birthday. then we go our separate ways. i have two brothers and sisters and we go different ways from there and have christmas with their own families or other in-laws. we want to start with god's word. most important of all traditions we read the christmas story. >> will, what is a great christmas message? >> one thing i love -- thank you, one of the best things is

isaiah 9:6. one of my favorite verses regarding the christmas story. unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given and the government will be upon his shoulder, his name will be called wonderful counselor, mighty god, everlasting father and prince of peace. that is the part i want to talk about right now. you alluded to it. our world has been in a lot of chaos lately and a lot of us are missing peace. world peace. but yet there is an inner peace we're missing, too. the most important thing that a lot of people are missing is peace with god. and that's the greatest gift that we can ever receive at christmastime is having peace with god, our heavenly father. it says in romans5:1. since we've been made right in god's sight through faith we have peace with god through what jesus christ has done for us. when we put our faith in jesus

christ and what jesus christ came to do. he came down from heaven, he was given to us by god. that's why it says unto us a son is given, god gave us his son for god so loved the world that he what? gave his only begot en son. if my friends he came for one purpose. to die on the cross for your sin and my sin so we could have peace with god. there are so many people today are struggling trying to find peace in their life, trying to find happiness and personal relationship with god looking for purpose and meaning in life. my friends, it is found in jesus christ and him alone. and if you just simply ask jesus to come into your life and forgive your sin, he will. for those who are watching right now if you want to give your life to christ you can do it, just ask god and pray to god say lord i'm sorry for my sins, i'm sorry for all the bad things i've done. would you come into my life and forgive me of my sin? my friends, he will do that. he will forgive you of your sin

and you can experience peace during this time of year. >> amen. a beautiful message. will graham, we appreciate your time this morning. happy birthday to mom and we thank you again for joining us, merry christmas. all right. so if you watched the show earlier you know kilmeade and i need to get our waders appeared shotguns. we have to hunt dinner for our family. we have to leave now. >> brian: get a chain saw to make a hole in the ice. >> it is on. >> we'll be spending the night here. it is continuing to snow outside. >> only an inch. i believe in new york's plows. >> so much faith this holiday season. thanks so much for watching. an important show is coming up next with two fantastic people. ♪ >> griff: christmas eve travel troubles. millions of americans flying home for the holidayco