because i live in dc and don't have anywhere to store a victory. but there is something really special of being able to go to the farm or there's a farmers market near my house where we go and we. that we ourselves. and it is kind of fun to be able to pick at a different one every year. we were in an apartment last year and a half this year. to artery upgraded and that was fun. if i had bought a fake one, would've been way too small. >> we live on a farm, so my kids get enough of the outdoors, as someone who loves my fig tree, that is because i put it up the day after thanksgiving and it goes to mid-january. you can't do that with the real one grabs a fire hazard. >> apparently 80% of american has a victory. christmas and hanukkah and on that same night for the first time in 19 years. it is just the. it is just the fourth time the two have lined up. the past 100 years. we like to wish you all a merry christmas and very happy hanukkah. thanks to everyone for putting the special edition of "outnumbered." merry christmas. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

>> lingering questions over mysterious drone settings, increasing the demand for answers from the federal government and national security concerns to congress now considering its own course of action a ban on the sale of new drones from some chinese manufacturers. will come, hello to this special christmas edition of "fox news live." i'm griff jenkins. need a. >> wait to be with you. i'm daniel vogelbach the parker jones first appeared in new jersey with hundreds of sightings being recorded per night. the new jersey state police and save settings across the state have dropped but anxiety remains high. about who could be behind the strange occurrences. >> nate foy is live with the latest. hey, made. spec christmas back home. this mystery continues. we're down to one drone settings per night over the past several nights in new jersey but people still demanding answers and until they get them, members of congress are looking to protect americans from richard brown sets including as you mentioned,

imposing a possible ban on two chinese drone manufacturers in the united states, proponents of the ban are you that the drones could be used to spy on americans. a separate bill debated in congress would increase state and local counter drone authority. it has been met with pushback over fourth amendment and privacy concerns. >> they need to do something about it because right now, you have more rights as a drone on her then over fly a person's home and spy on a person in the person who is getting. >> reporter: on has rights to do anything to that drone. whatsoever. >> so some in the 11 states that have seen mysterious drones have called for them to be shutdown which is illegal. right now, that is a federal authority. and because the risk of collateral damage is high, a traditional air defense technologies just don't work over populated areas. >> we need to get the right technology disputed. you not? majors, kinetics, missiles, that is not going to work on a domestic front. this has to be urgent. it has to be a five alarm fire

that we are facing right now. >> drones can be taken down over critical infrastructure sites over 50 of those sites is he indicated with the red dots there. the pentagon maintained has commanders in place to handle any drone threats over military bases. the british military is showing up in weapons technology that teams radio waves at drones and can take them down from up to them our way. the u.s. military is investing in similar systems that have yet to be deployed on the homefront. we will set it back back to you. >> last for us in our newsroom, thank-you. >> anita: now to president-elect trump's inauguration props. as we learn some of the same companies that denounce the january 6th riot on capitol hill are now lining up to support from. according to wall street journal at least 11 companies have donated to trump's second inauguration so far. alexandria hoff his life in washington with all the details. merry christmas. >> merry christmas.

that list of inauguration donors includes companies like goldman sachs, at&t intuit and toyota. reuters reports that ford and gm will contribute monitors each on top of donating a fleet of vehicles. now, ford's ceo had separate murder remarks that he told the detroit free press, but i'm excited about is working with the emaciation to make sure that we are rewarded for commitment to america and michigan. it does appear that corporations and automakers are hoping that these dollars that can help open up a relationship. yelich. and bracing for the proposed tariffs on imports from canada and mexico and his plans to end the electric vehicle rebates. with an injury change, supply chains and sales could be impacted. source on the trail hands and our crew commitment has shared that it is so far received more than $200 million in pledge donations. effect shares the previous record set by the same committee

in 2017. 30 and compare. by inauguration committee based around 62 million in 2021. this year the donors include a heap of big tech names as well. the biggest being amazon's jeff bezos and meta's mark zuckerberg. acls reported contribute in dollars personally. openai cls sam altman has personally pledged the same. his call to on fox news sunday earlier this month. >> and we need to be able to have the best a.i. infrastructure in the world to be able to lead with the technology and the capabilities. i believe present electric will be very good at that. i look forward to working with his demonstration on it. >> they tend to be less reserved when it comes to the nations. the election already happened. it is seen by investors and customers as less political. and eta? >> anita: interesting times ahead. alex hoff, thank you so much for that live report. grace? >> griff: tragic news out of kazakhstan where at least 38

people are confirmed that after a plane crash. officials say 62 passengers and five crew members were on board and 29 people survived. the plane went down while in route to from the azerbaijani capital up by, to russia. russia's civil aviation authority says palliss diverted for emergency landing after striking a bird but the person of the alliances weather forced the plane to change its course. anita? ♪ ♪ >> anita: many ukrainians are spreading the christmas holiday cold and in the dark. after russia launches a massive strike targeting its energy infrastructure. ukrainian president fly myslinski condemning the onslaught as inhumane saying russia's decision to terrorize his country on this day was intentional. dan hoffman is a former cia station chief in moscow and a fox news contributor. 10, thanks for coming in for us on christmas day. good to see you. this is a perfect attack to be sure and president zelenskyy

says was deliberate. it certainly seems that way. to be time just on christmas day. what is the message here from vladimir putin? >> yeah, happy christmas, anita to you and all that he respects this is vladimir putin targeting ukraine's energy infrastructure. it is not a military target. it is ukrainian surveillance. but really it is what putin has been doing from the start of the war. it is currently targeting ukrainian hospitals and their neighborhoods and maternity wards. remember the massacre at googer. so this is the challenge that ukraine faces. and frankly when the war is over, it is another change they will face. postwar reconstruction which is going to cost billions of dollars. but just a horrific sight today. just such a try to get ukrainians celebrating christmas shopping in metro stations. that is where they are, without heat, without power. >> yeah, they are and it is a sad picture to even think about that. i want to put out on the screen

a post from four maslansky on x. he says, " today. and deliberately chose christmas for an attack. what could be more inhumane over 70 missiles, including ballistic ones. and more than 100 attack drones. the targets are our energy infrastructure, they continue to fight for a blackout in ukraine. self exactly as you said right there, that is what zelenskyy is saying. let me ask you because you know so much about the region. how more weary or ukrainians? how much more can they withstand? you know, we have president from coming in saying president-elect trump saying he wants to end this war. what you think that ukrainian people are thinking about that statement? >> well, i think that both russians and ukrainians are weary of this war and sure, we were elected to end. but it is russia to launch this unprovoked, barbaric war. and it is russia that could end it right today. but it is worth noting that as

much as the ukrainians have suffered and they have, considerably this war is being fought on their territory. russia has also suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties. strategically, a nato membership for finland and sweden. a brain drain of roughly a million russians who have been able to flee russia. and russia's relying on new allies, china, north korea and iran for closer long-term strategic competitors. and the russians are not exactly getting a great deal when they ship their oil and their natural gas to china. they are relying on was create and out for soldiers, cannon fodder. as well as artillery and he wore for drugs. that is not a good place for russia to be in. russia's economy coverage and bounds. high interest rates and high inflation. look at, i think the russian people would like to see the war in. but they are faced with the vladimir putin kgb potemkin village disinformation that lies about how well that war is going when, in fact, it is not. yeah, they certainly have been

told a story that accurate. and how do you say feel like this is going to change once president-elect trump takes office, as i mention he said that he wants to end this war. he talks about eating it on day one. that seems like a pretty incredible feat. but even if it was week one or month one, we have to believe that the is already doing negotiations behind the scenes with the two leaders. putin and zielinski. what do you think happens in january? >> well, i think we're going to go through a process here in the first step we know that general kellogg, the special envoy for ukraine and russia is going to be headed to the region not to russia but to ukraine in early january. and he will have an opportunity to block the ground and speak with ukrainian officials and he will also be , to wait to get briefings from the u.s. intelligence community and from our diplomats so he can immerse himself in a conflict he has already very, very well aware of and then he will bring his proposals for the white house to

the president but i'm sure then-president trump would like to end this war as fast as possible. got spirit, general kellogg. it is going to be a an incredible challenge. but at haggen in the balance is u.s. national security, the last thing we want is for vladimir putin to cast a shadow over europe and the trillion dollars worth of trade we enjoyed with europe. it is also a legacy for president and his demonstration. >> anita: yeah, there is a lot at stake here, no doubt. dan hoffman, thank you so much for coming in today. merry christmas to you and your family. >> thanks. same to you. >> anita: uh-huh. >> griff: christmas elevations are underway in bethlehem. as thousands of pilgrims come to the city to celebrate where it all began. trey yingst is live from tel aviv, israel, without the celebrations look this year. merry christmas, très. >> merry christmas. >> vice president harris: after christmas day started here in the holy land, air raid sirens were standing across this country setting millions of people to pump shelters. iran back, the rebels in yemen

watching another ballistic missile toward israel, the fourth one anyway. israeli officials say that missile was shot down by the fragments have landed in public areas. with the rich in a war on going this year's christmas festivities have been submitted. with traditional freight and sermon's were held in bethlehem including imminent mask at the church in the nativity. the five euro people were in attendance than normal. inside gaza, a small group of christians marked christmas eve at the enclave's only catholic church. after nearly 15 months of work at the building is being used as a makeshift shelter and an open a place of worship. >> translator: we are like any other humans. we suffer, not the life we are living before. you know how we used to go out and moved here and there? for we are suffering from the misery we live in. from using marthers, loved ones, and injured people. we also suffer from malnutrition, times, because there's no food.

>> deneric also marks the first night of hanukkah. israelis are celebrating with family members. but they also met today in hostage square in tel aviv. it is still ace amberg celebration because this is a country that is still waiting for more than 100 hostages to come for -- home. they are being held inside gaza. >> griff: our prayers for those hostages today. trey yingst live in tel aviv, très, thank you. anita? ♪ ♪ >> anita: plus, severe winter weather could be a pain for many americans traveling for christmas. we are tracking all of that and the forecast coming up next. ♪ ♪ were you worried the wedding would be too much? nahhhh... (inner monologue) another destination wedding?? we just got back from her sister's in napa. who gets married in napa? my daughter. who gets married someplace more expensive? my other daughter. cancun! jamaica!! why can't they use my backyard!! with empower, we get all of our financial questions answered. so we don't have to worry. can we get out of here?

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>> hey, everyone. i'm from new jersey. station here at camp henry. i want to wish everyone back home a very christmas and happy new year's. >> griff: severe winter weather could make post holiday travel a real pain for many americans. heavy rain, ice conditions and snow expected to promote many parts of the u.s., fox weather j pinar is here with the forecast.

merry christmas, jane. >> we have a pretty active forecast. it has been storm after storm and unfortunately, that is going to continue for us this christmas night. entered into days the day's prescriptions for travel. i want to get to this fun and exciting staff. 15 years we finally have a white christmas here in central park. the official definition is at least 1 inch of snow on the ground. measured at seven, eight a.m. morning. boston saw a white christmas because of this definition. you don't have to have the snow falling. but it is exciting when you see if we have the little magic come through right ahead of santa and the sleigh. white christmas for manes across the northern tier in the northeast across the great lakes and of course, out into the intermountain west. the west koseck and is where we're is where we're going to have those problems for post-christmas travel. here's where we sit right now. we have been watching a couple of storms across mississippi down to the gulf coast, louisiana, things are likely to

quiet down. but that is going to be trouble spots for us once again tomorrow. we we have been i.t. systems. that could cause problems for spots like houston and dallas as we get into the afternoon. tonight, temperatures fall 20s for new york city into northeast. we will see showers begin to fizzle out. temperatures will be involved in space weather. we will keep things active across the b&w. rain, snow, all of which over the mountain passes. particularly into the cascades. here's what it looks like for the northeast and at. 20s for new york bred single digits, teens elsewhere across the interior. burrow on up up. us know that we have on-the-go is likely to not go anywhere tonight. where we are going to keep temperatures warming up each day heading into the new year. across the south, again, things are relatively quiet. and i think the closer you get to the mississippi river, the opportunity for a few showers, germany, clearing conditions. temperatures falling into the 30s and into the 40s but it is the middle tier of the country. and i think dallas, houston, by

the time we get to borrow money, we are going to be prepared for some slowdowns as we see that wrapped up into the afternoon. graph? >> griff: jane, waking jane, waking up working up to the snow yesterday really put everybody in the mood. we could use another one. age this season for snow. jaemyn are in the fox weather center. jane a thank-you. anita? >> anita: clark griffin, concerns are spiking over tens of thousands of migrant children still unaccounted for by ice. those kids now left vulnerable to exploitation as the incoming border czar warns that certain sponsors were not properly vetted. bill taylor is live in dallas with some of the alarming data. brooke, what can you tell us? >> reporter: we get ready for new administration incoming border czar tom homan and trump have made one thing clear that on top of mass deportations and securing the border, they want to make it a priority to find these missing migrant kids who simply which is lost in the system. a vigil last month you may remember went viral.

into real hero here at the border alone after who knows what she went through. tens of thousands of kids just like her have vanished, many becoming vulnerable to sex trafficking, a harsh working conditions, or worse. and inspector general report from earlier this year, revealed ice lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors. 32,000 failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from fiscal years 2019 to 2023. >> i also think we should have more stricter policies, or stricter consequences for those families that are allowing this to happen, that are allowing their child to come across the border by themselves in places in danger with these criminals. >> and homan has intimated this massive undertaking is not going to be easy. he brams not only the opening quarter but sponsors not being properly vetted. >> i want to ask the american people to step up and help us

and parents, parents, you know when something, you have the innate responsibility of skill to know when something isn't right. you see a child in a situation. you know something is not read. you see a chop working in a place that he should not be working in, you have the responsibility to pick up the phone and call us. >> and i just checked. data in the fiscal year 2024 border patrol agents encountered more than 99,000 unaccompanied minors at the southern border. just to give some perspective there, that is enough to fill up madison square garden nearly four times. anita. >> anita: such a sad, heartbreaking story on christmas time. but thank you for bringing it to us and merry christmas to you. >> you, too. >> anita: uh-huh. graph? >> griff: for more cold spring and national of vice president ardell quinto. merry christmas. thank you for being here to talk about such an important story and in fact, we can show our viewers picking up where. left off actually over the

course of the four years of the biden/harris demonstration. more than half a million unaccompanied children in -- encountered. you can see in there on the screen. that is the cb has the accompant -- unaccompanied children surge occurred under this administration? >> look, it has been a real big mess. there's a lot of things that don't get reported properly. i'm going to tell you, it is happening right now because the drug cartels, the people that will the border, they are the ones that are in charge of who is causing or not. they know that you, they can utilize these children to come across in order to get in order to get, era, catch and release continue to go and it is also the use it as a distraction so that they can get drugs somewhere else on the part of. you can have these children come across which we have seen that are rented out by the parents themselves that if these groups to come across than they know that once they get across, they say it is their kid, because of certain court rulings, they get to get release within 21 days.

the [laughs] south and once again, it gets recycled. the same time, immersing unaccompanied juveniles that are coming close. now, i will say, some of these unaccompanied juveniles, okay, they are 16 and 17 years old. so they could be lying about their age and at the same time. that is another factor that you have to look into. and then obviously, you know, they played the finger at border patrol and at ice agents made times. but the reality is you have a third party and that is, zero, the ngos that use taxpayers money a and i think about groups like southwest keys that are firstly at times catholic services. they take these children on and they're the ones that are defined relative in the u.s. through them is help those kids get handled over. it is not through official channels and they don't have the proper way to prevent them. so they don't know where these kids are going and have her up and headed off to. they don't know which kids are actually children because they could be wrong about their age. and then you have the perfect factor of the parents that wind out of their children to these groups knowing that catch and

release is still in effect. so there's so many different factors. >> griff: there are. and art, i was just a few weeks to go down the mavrik county will texas dps. we encountered multiple unaccompanied children and i learned from them at least in texas they were saying, that the cartels are trying to capitalize with the clock running down on the end of this emaciation. the cartels are charging even more for unaccompanied children. why? because the mission by dint executive order that made it easier to report migrants who illegally crossed, it excluded children. are you saying that as well? >> no, it is happening across the southern border and they know. the cartels are not dumb it. he got to remember, all of these individuals, they make billions and billions of dollars but they sent their own kids, the guys that are running the cartels now to ivy league schools in the he had states. they have adapted a business model. to know when taping these children across, they bring more cash and it pulls at the

heartstrings of all our people which it should. it is terrific. but they continue to use these kids because they realize they can hand over more of a mess and he makes, in our, the an administration one harder for them to work and, to make them the bad guys. but let's not make many mistakes. we know who the real bad guys are and we know why this chaos is happening. >> griff: i want to squeeze this in, art. on that side ratios, i saw alejandro mayorkas, say we are showing our viewers with their own eyes here is what secretary mayorkas had to say about the unaccompanied children crisis. listen. >> we certainly have received reports of children being trafficked. even those as to whom we know where they are. that is outside the responsibility of the department of homeland security. what we do is we turn children over within 72 hours as the law requires, to the department of health and human services. and then hhas places those children.

>> griff: art, your reaction there? >> it is, you know what, that is just slipping everything under the rug. he is not assuming the responsibility. it comes down to everything there is heaven has happen under his watch. he allowed it to happen. he could've put a stop to it. you can play the finger and say, we headed off to somebody else. pets at the end of the day, you have to hold some responsibility as the leader within the organization. >> griff: art del cueto, thank you for taking the time today and have a merry christmas. >> thank you. merry christmas. >> griff: anita? >> anita: well, graphcast a swing and the republican party's parking concerns for house speaker mike johnson. the latest on the battle for the gavel coming up next. ♪ ♪ >> my name is corporal colin. and i'm stationed here at camp casey career. i'm from virginia. and i would like to just say merry christmas and happy new year to my friends and family back home in virginia and the philippines.

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>> anita: well, look at its heart pounding video card by earthcams. look at that. it shows a huge explosion and a fire at a quarter boat dock one person was killed and five others had. please say it happened in fort lauderdale just before 6:00 p.m. monday. the cause of the blast under investigation. >> griff: well, house speaker mike johnson praying for a mess fight over his speakership. allies of the louisiana republican urging president-elect trump to publicly back johnson. jack parker is live with the very latest. merry christmas, chad. >> he. there are enough republicans who have reservations about matt johnson to stall the election of the house speaker. here is the mad max johnson can only lose one vote on january 3rd and retain the gavel. johnson is reading support after the spreading debacle last week.

>> i'm losing confidence each day. and i think that we have all of our colleagues were losing confidence. were not sticking to the principles and the fellas in which we say that we fight for. i think that johnson has to do his best to start financial that he's going to do what he says and matches continue to make deals with hakeem jeffries. >> the problem is that with his new majority, johnson had to rely on democrats to avoid multiple government shutdowns. there are four to 10 republicans who might oppose johnson. but ohio's michael billig is not one of them. >> we're different members. we're getting a little uppity against this play. you know, is the speaker perfect? no. a see a guy? yes. he was trying his heart to keep united. i do support speaker johnson for being the speaker right now. >> temperatures of tennessee was one of it republicans who voted to oust former house speaker kevin mccarthy in 2023. >> does that mean speaker johnson has got to be read about his job come early january? >> we have a majority of about

30 people. we get a bad case of the flu and whatnot and the majority, i would say he was worried about everything. part of the -- i don't think he is really worried. i think he prays about it. he does what he thinks is right. >> nacua here's the wes kitts niro for johnson and the gop. the house must vote to repeal it for a speaker until it elects someone. in january 2023, that process consumed five days. the house was shattered for three weeks after mccarthy's after 14 months ago. the house's paralyzed until it chooses a speaker. no, here's they couple -- apocalyptic scenario. any delay electing the speaker could postpone the certification of the electoral college on january 6. >> griff: wow, that is a great point, chad, because they come back to jen richards just three days later with a recess in math as always, great insight, chad pergram live for us in washington. chad, thank you.

anita? >> anita: all right, it sounds like a possible doomsday scenario there. so let's bring in national politics reporter for the healthcare julia manchester. julia, a merry christmas to you. thanks for coming in on this. have to say this is already a bit confusing because the congress comes back. a goal have this speaker but on the third and then as chad said on the sick, you're going to want to certify the presidential election. are the republicans putting themselves in a very precarious position here? this sounds like a big gamble right now. >> yeah, vera amezcua -- merry christmas to you, too. and there is reason i would say for speaker johnson to be concerned at this point. we know that republicans speakers over the past few years, going back to the former speaker kevin mccarthy. have been on very shaky ground due to the positions will be in the carcass or the conference and she'd say. so we can go back to this field that the burden the government shutdown and see where some of those cracks were really emerging. for speaker johnson him and his

confidence and of course, you know, in terms of how president shr was getting involved. but i would say that this actually goes back even farther than that. my colleagues at the hill are reporting that there were some house republicans who have been voicing concerns or have been voicing concerns before the government shutdown debacle happened. about speaker johnson to president-elect trump saying that the speaker was not doing enough to you know push back on democrats and to, you know, essentially to republican demands going forward. so, you know, there's certainly there will be a doomsday snore, beholding to glue together for republicans now the fact that priority number one is certifying the selection. but it is interesting, in either, because we have not seen president-elect trump really come out and give a resounding endorsement of speaker johnson following that, you know, government shutdown a version that we have seen him say that republicans need to stick together and get through this. but he has been pretty quiet. and we have heard some house

republicans a sort of suggest that may be present from craig, you know, i guess call for more of a larger sand of unity for approval for johnson going forward. >> anita: especially if he thinks the certification is hanging in the bounds. he might come out and say something pretty positive about him. i'm you imagine. it is nenshi. i heard in a report saint there is no perfect person for this job. nobody is perfect. and matt johnson's sermon that everyone seems to like. he is thought of as very intelligent. he is a lawyer. he is applicable but he is liked by both sides. so, you know, it is hard to imagine that they are going to come up with someone who checks all those boxes. want to take a listen to speaker hakeem jeffries. hakeem jeffries, and let's listen to what he had to say. >> i think that is a real risk, and there will be no democrats available to save him for the

x-prix of republicans from themselves based on the reaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities that were good for the american people. >> anita: okay, i said speaker, meant to say house minority leader hakeem jeffries. so there's no guarantee that he could rally democrats to support and help matt johnson this time around. just real quick, before i let you go here, are there other names out there of possible replacements for johnson if he cannot secure the votes? >> you know, i don't think they have gotten that far yet. remember, matt johnson was thrown into this after kevin mccarthy was ousted as a speaker. and for all intents and purposes, objectively, he's done a pretty good job at keeping the conference together going into, you know, up to this point. so it is going to be a difficult for someone to find another name with enough experience, especially when there is so much

pressure for republicans in the house in the house and the senate to implement what president-elect trump calls his mandate going into his new administration. >> anita: yeah, it will be hi drama on capitol hill. as the counter chance to generate, no doubt. julia manchester, thank you so much for coming in today. merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas. >> anita: uh-huh. >> griff: anidjar, tiktok is headed to the supreme court to challenge the law that could ban the platform here in the u.s. the legal arguments on both sides. it is coming up next.

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>> anita: the supreme court is set to consider the new law that could ban tiktok in the u.s. unless they sell the platform, doug luzader has more on this. >> the ongoing -- we aren't going anywhere. >> a big promise from the ceo of tiktok.

it is one of the most popular social media apps in the country. >> the third by foreign adversary control applications such as tiktok. espanda congress with bipartisan support voted to ban tiktok starting in less than a month, january 19th unless it sold off. critics say there national security concerns that the app gives the chinese government too much influence in the u.s. now the supreme court says it will hear tiktok's appeal on january 10th, just days before the ban goes into effect and this could be a first amendment issue. >> it is about banning as. it is solids the american people. >> and then there is the timing of all of this. if this ban holds, it starts just one day before presi president roberts is sworn into office and will trump once -- was supposed tiktok that he now appears to have changed his mind. >> we will ta take a look at tik mech. >> trump address questions about tiktok and he recently met with the app parler ceo at

mar-a-lago. >> he know, i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. have won youth by 34 points. and there are those who say that tiktok has something to do with that. is back but even after taking office, the president can only do so much. and many in congress remain concerned. >> tiktok want to do business in america, they should be able to comply with that very easily. if tiktok does not want to do business in america, then they don't have to. >> with the five groups interested in buying it. there may be buyers here for tiktok for the parent company has made a clear ownership should not change. >> a confident that will keep fighting for your rights in the courts. the facts and the constitution or on our side and we expect to prevail again. >> so far, tiktok has prevailed and prospered. but its popularity here could ultimately be its downfall. in washington, doug luzader, fox news. >> griff: and joining us for

more on this criminal defense attorney lexi. thank you for being here. let's put up right where doug left off. i was actually at mar-a-lago at the press conference when the president-elect stand everyone with his comments about a warm spot for tiktok. we learned later that evening to tiktok ceo had come to at mar-a-lago and had met with from. so all of a sudden, we really don't know exactly where he stands. we know that several of the members of his incoming team to include michael waltz, former congressman now the nsa this and it was very much against tiktok. he now says that, well, member of congress under the person's use right now and i stand by the president's views. and worked in the calendar. on january 10th, scotus hears this. nine days later, on the 19th, if the justices don't act quickly enough, and tiktok is still owned by chinese parent company, it is effectively

banned nationwide. where is this had it? >> oh, my gosh, grief, this is for all the marbles in there. so many moving pieces here. so tiktok had wanted the supreme court to actually hear this after the dc circuit court upheld the ban on january 6th to give it just a few more days before the january 19th deadline. they are now hearing it on january 10th and the question is fairly limited for the supreme court. the order that it issues et cetera that there were two hours for oral argument. there are thousands and thousands of more limits for the brisket which are obviously very long and some of them were even to on december 27. some of these lawyers and law. are holidays are run by having to do this. about the threshold question is, whether the app to protect americans from the adversary control applications because china owns tiktok, is a violation of the first amendment. and that is what the supreme court is going to have to try to work out. now, the lower court said it was not a violation of the first amendment because he did not

actually relate or target specific speech. what it was trying to do is say, we don't want a foreign adversary that might be the allegations of harvesting data and being in national security concern to have for americans to be able to use this app. but as long as somebody else buys the applicant and tiktok can't go forward and prosper. but it is certainly not that simple. there are too charming, even if that were the case, bytedance does not want to let go of its interest in tiktok. and so this is kind of -- this could be coming becoming him to bleed the 11th hour with the supreme court's with this. and whether it also gives some type of reprieve by granting some theft of a state, into a life preserver for tiktok to keep operating after january 19th. >> griff: it is coming down to the wire and to your point on harvesting data, by the chinese communist party, here is what a colleague larry kudlow says about that. listen. >> my view is they should ban it. you can't sell bytedance just

telling it what you have to change the software infrastructure, the so-called algorithms that will keep the chinese communist party from absorbing all of the personal information that is built up in tiktok. >> griff: that is essentially what you're getting at, is it not? >> , and that is the national security concern. also the fact that they are concerned that this chinese algorithm which i think it's a pretty heavily guarded secret in that the chinese, that they want to keep this within their ownership could actually be influencing our elections, influencing the young people. i mean, there are 170 million people on this app. it was interesting with the report said, that its popularity may be its downfall. if there were sort -- there will not be peter bright spot hotline trying to ban it. but this is, it is going to be a unconsequential few weeks for tiktok coming up. >> griff: and a lot of pressure on two supreme court justices because of that tight timeline there in gargantuan maybe they

have a appropriate word and deed for that app because a lot of young people are on it. i don't think there will be happy if it was banned. lexie rigden get great insight is always. thank you, and have a merry christmas. >> merry christmas, grace. thank-you. >> griff: anita? >> anita: so it may look like they are paying a virtual reality game in the courtroom, but the stakes are very real. to speak the future of america's legal system. we will see, coming up. ♪ ♪

>> hello, everyone. i am especially slow pace from henry seven, north carolina. i'm station in there, software and i would like to wish everybody back home a merry christmas, happy holidays, and happy new year. >> anita: oh, merry christmas to her as well. well, listen to this listen to this. virtual-reality taking center stage in a florida court room. the church allowing to fans to present an immersive 3d animation in a case where the defendant could face years in prison. danamarie mcnicholl has more on this. they number you, tell us more. >> hi kathrine nero. it was a unique sight and the courtroom. the defense, the church, the prosecution can't spend a lot of time during a stand your ground

hearing to bring that a virtual-reality headset. the defense used it is technology to prove why a man needed to use the self-defense. >> for the church to see exactly to the eyes of what my clients are, i think it has to have an impact. >> the defense attorney believes this to be the first time virtual-reality has been admitted as evidence in a criminal case. not only in a florida courtroom but across the united states. take a look at what take a look at what the judges are inside that headset. the defense had a forensic animator to design an immersive experience that highlights the moments before and after a south florida wedding venue owner pulled out a gun during a reception. ma yr brasseux attorney says he was originally quoted against a bar and through the weapon to protect himself to his family and staff. he now faces life in prison for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. his attorney says. attorney compared with it the first computer animation in 1992 of the state of florida. he says the most effective way to make it with injuries is with this type of technology. he doesn't plan to put his

client on the stand to testify that the virtual-reality clearly and accurately depicts exactly what he experienced on that day. >> it is not just words that are persuasive. they should use every tool available to every piece of evidence and forensic animation and specifically virtual-reality is very important tool in persuading a jury or a judge. that is exactly what the evidence is in this case. >> and this strategy did not come without pushback. the estate attorney they object to this evidence being admitted. but as we just suck at the judge overruled that. and the records. >> anita: yeah, that is really something. interesting. danamarie mcnicholl, merry christmas to you. thank you for bringing that to us. >> griff: anita, the mega millions jackpot topping a billion dollars. that is what -- with a b. no waiting tickets were sold for the top prize last night but four players in california, missouri, pennsylvania, and missouri managed the five white

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