♪ last christmas i gave you my heart ♪ but the very next day ♪ you gave it away ♪ this year. >> griff: a live look at fox square the christmas tree is still up the day after christmas. happy the day after christmas. >> griff, carley and kevin which was yesterday. but we have today joey jones and katie pavlich on the couch. >> katie: good morning, everyone. >> griff: christmas. >> katie: a little busy. some work but it was fun. it was good. >> griff: as somebody who has been at this network more than 20 years. spending christmas with our viewers was really special. i believe it. they were great sending us emails and spending the day with us. i was obviously with kevin corke and carley shimkus. and at one point we were doing a demo and it involved toys that you had to put with the right

gear. >> joey: i think i know where this is going. >> katie: i love this game. >> griff: what year was the skateboard invented kid born in the 1970s i knew that right away it. that stall justly took me back to skateboarding days. >> katie: also a surfer. >> joey: are you older than a skateboard? i thought it was before that marty mcfly had one a long time ago. >> griff: i'm pretty sure i am actually older than the skateboard. yesterday carley said oh, griff, you like that skateboard. do you want to ride the skateboard over the couch? >> katie: i said yes. >> griff: i gave that a shot. it didn't work out quite so well. take a look. >> carley: you want to skateboard back. >> kevin: i knew you were going to do that. >> griff: get back on the skateboard and oh, see? >> carley: christmas wipeout. >> kevin: that was a great wipeout. i love it. >> carley: are you okay?

>> griff: go go back to the couch. >> carley: skateboard performance? >> great job a little more practice perhaps. >> been a while. been a while for you. [laughter] >> griff: been a while for me. santa is calling me out on that i feel like i played it off. >> joey: that's nothing to be ashamed about the real skill in stuff like that is not not falling but how you get back up. you took it like a champ. can i tell by watching that you have crashed a lot of times, which meant you spent a lot of times on the skateboard. >> griff: i pulled it off because i learned to fall because i never was good at skateboarding. carley rode it for a bet in heels, she bested me on that. there might be a is that correct where you put the people. >> joey: that's what happens. >> katie: break the floor. >> griff: highlight of my christmas, whenever i'm here as a catholic i get to go over to

saint patricks. i tried to go on christmas eve it was so busy. i couldn't get in. i got n the back and look at that. cardinal timothy dolan walked right past me in saint pats it was really a lot of fun. joey, what were you doing? >> joey: my primary activity this time of year is hunting as much as i can some of our colleagues decided to go help fix the government. so there was more opportunity for me to come up here. i haven't got to hunt much this year. all my hunting trips were postponed because i was coming up to work. i was coming up here for thanksgiving. >> katie: look at that guy. >> joey: new puppy mac. i haven't got him trained yet. got him out with the geese. his daughter goes to college down in atlanta. she had never shot a goose before. i have a nice little flock that comes in on my pond. so we got out and did a goose hunt. we got three geese on. i don't know if they will show the goose picture. probably not. i guess that's not daytime tv worthy. mac doesn't know how to retrieve

yet. went out and ran around the water next to the geese. next to the geese. took mac out to a pond. shot a bunch of device. is he wondering what do i do? >> joey: he is not gun trained yet. i left him in the house until we shot the geese. once the geese were down -- one actually fell over on shore, and the other two the in pond. i brought him out to get him familiar hey, this is what we are doing. great book called water dog. if you want to train your own dog read it. i have read half of it and haven't implemented any of it so i have a long way to go. i don't have enough catfish to take care of him. i have a boat. this is the other funny part. i have a boat that my uncle gave me so i can go out in the pond and get a geese. it doesn't have a plug in it and doesn't have a paddle. stick in the plug and this worked. using a square pointed shovel to paddle out. most redneck thing i have done in a while.

it was good though. we got the geese back. got our christmas goose. mac got some training and great christmas eve morning and rest of the time was family. >> katie: we will have to get updates on mac's training. >> joey: he is a big baby a family pet. my mom, my sister. of course, my family is there my sister's kids. my mom, my sister and i. i made fun of my sister. my brother-in-law is a fire chief. and she brought this big backdrop for christmas party. put it up in her house after the fire department party. we had our little olan mills photographer going on. >> griff: looks good. >> katie: that's great. >> joey: that's my nieces my daughter and my son. had a great time. i miss them already. >> katie: very happy. and traveled up here. >> joey: i got a plane and traveled up here no. traffic in atlanta. the atlanta airport was dead. i could not believe it. that's rare on any day.

much less christmas day. >> katie: a couple weeks ago i was getting ready for christmas. i went to arlington cemetery and did wreaths across america. go with a it crew of friends. you say the name of the person that you are laying the wreath to remember them always. i did that for the 40 year in a row. try to go near arlington cemetery. i don't have the date at hand but a date later where people have to go and help clean them up. always fun to put them on but always have to clean them up. very mengful thing to do at arlington cemetery. not just there but at cemeteries across the country. if you can't get to d.c., can you check out your local military cemetery and do it there. >> griff: shout-out to volunteers like you to who he up to do it. arlington seam tear there are tens of thousands of tombs to

place those wreaths. good out of you took time out of your busy schedule to go and honor our heroes. >> katie: amazing to go and see all of the wreaths when they are out there on every single head stone. >> joey: i bet it's beautiful. >> katie: a little bit of gadd stolen my english lab is also not duck trained. indoor dog. pretending he is a tsa agent going through all of the presents from santa and looking through maybe one of those was for him. trying to see what was in there, you know, sniffing some of the presents. and he did get one from santa. and there is a debate going on. i think it's a pigeon. but, santa claus, aka my mother. says that it's a duck. i think it's a pigeon. what do you guys think? people in new york say pigeon. >> duck hunting expert. >> joey: doesn't look like a duck i have ever killed. i would say a pigeon. hard to tell. i see a lot of gray in there.

>> griff: gadsden doesn't look excited about it either. >> katie: he was very excited. okay. so here's the toy up close. there are no dug feet. that's why i assume. >> griff: have a bill. >> katie: it does a comparison picture of a duck toy that he has. i think ever further evidence. >> joe: that's pay john. >> katie: that's a duck on the right. the jury is out. so we are going to ask our viewers what they think. is this gadsden's toy from santa claus a pigeon or a duck. email us your christmas day photos and your opinion about that at friends@foxnews.com. >> griff: send us your pictures from christmas so we can see what you did and if you had any massive debates whether things were pigeons or ducks. >> katie: wipe out photos or videos would be good, too. >> griff: a dale of two

christmases as the president and president-elect offered two very different holiday messages. >> katie: today president biden heads to vacation in st. croix president-elect trump isn't letting the holiday slow him down. >> joey: alexandria hoff has details for us. election election good morning. during the president's last trip meanwhile, president-elect trump took a more active global approach to his holiday messaging writing in one: merry christmas to all, including the wonderful soldiers of china who are lovingly but illegally operating the panama canal, always making certain that the united states puts in billions of dollars of repair money but will have absolutely nothing to

say about anything. panama's president has denied beijing holds any control over the canal. china does have two ports and invest in a billion dollars in new bridge. trump has suggested the u.s. should reclaim control. yesterday trump selected miami-dade county commissioner kevin moreno as ambassador to panama which he feels has been ripping off the u.s. with shrink fees. another holiday post extended to our neighbor to the north. that was president justin trudeau but he is called governor there. the president-elect writes in canada was to become our 51st state their taxes would be cut by more than 60%. businesses would immediately double in size and militarily protected like no other country anywhere in the world. and then on the hot topic of icy greenland. trump shared additional holiday message to the people of greenland, which is needed by the united states for national security purposes and who wants the u.s. to be there and we will. in trump's first term he

expressed in interest of green land asserting that the island is not for sale. there is this interesting dynamic. there has been talk that this talk of green land messaging has been strategic that, perhaps, forcing the danish government's hand at increasing defense spending for green land which they have done, that would happen as russia has been mapping out claim of the nearby territory. some think this talk is a bit strategic, guys. >> griff: alex hough kicking things off in washington. thank you. there really couldn't be more of a contrast between president biden who said, you know, is he wishing about the light of liberty and jets off to the caribbean for vacation on the beach and trump who said i'm taking greenland, the panama canal, and maybe canada. >> joey: i love what she said at the end. i had this conversation years ago when he did this the first time because of the persona and celebrity angle and witty and funny like you saw in that tweet

the whole green langsd thing is a joke. there is a strategic part there that we talked about even places like in south antarctica who claims and operates on it. greenland being where it is. you have got one president that is leaving office and everyone is saying how weak are we because of him? what a contrast to be the president coming in saying from greenland to the panama canal. we are expanding our reach because we are doing that well. we are that strong. we have that everywhere opportunity boiling over either our g.d.p. or military. whether it's true or not, there's a big part of international conflict called posturing where you don't go to conflict but present yourself. speak softly and carry a big stick. putting the naval fleet around the world, you know, and so doing stuff like that matters. the greenland thing we are not as americans taking it as strategic as it could be. >> griff: you are on team green land. >> joey: i'm on a team don't spend a much of money we don't

have. >> griff: can you imagine being greenland's prime minister and by the way trump is taking us. >> katie: one of the questions asked when trump won. where are we on the greenland thing. this is the thing he did first term and secretary of state mike pompeo also made a trip there on one of his final trips as a secretary of state. and it is a very strategic location. china is making their way into everything as we know, including the artic. and we also know that the panama canal is about china, which he talked about in his statement yesterday. saying that chinese soldiers are illegally occupying the panama canal. the chinese communist party controlling a number of ports in the canal. they control a number of companies that are watching and surveilling a lot of what is happening in the canal. the fact is that the united states military and united states taxpayer built the panama canal with our dollars. so, he had something to say there. it's definitely a negotiating, starting point if he is not

serious about taking both of those things. >> joey: one more thing on greenland i have to put this out there with those of us who grew up with the mighty ducks the one thing i learned about geography green land is covering the ice and iceland is green. if aoc is correct and ice caps melting we want to be there. >> griff: you sold me. >> katie: paddle board around green land. lots of activities. dog sledding tour of greenland. other lots of things to do. >> griff: other social media post that got the most attention, i think, my favorite pertained not to green land or the panama canal but to canada out of nowhere comes this post. trump writing. this. i just left wayne gretzky, the great one as he is known in ice hockey circles. i said wayne, don't you run for prime minister of canada. soon-to-be known as the governor of canada. you would win easily. you wouldn't even have to campaign. he had no interest, but i think the people of canada should

start a draft wayne gretzky movement it would be so much fun to watch. i'm not sure if the legend and ice hockey is up for that but certainly one of trump's musings that is going to be talked about quite a bit. >> katie: people not in politics look at what trump has gone through in politics and say maybe not. i will just come dabble a little bit. i think pierre would l. probably take issue with him running in canada. he is a conservative candidate running against the current prime minister justin trudeau or as trump would say the next governor of canada. >> griff: unclear why trump and gretzky were hanging out on christmas. >> katie: never know who going to be down in mar-a-lago. >> joey: if you can be bee loved by entire sport and fan base and a country like wayne gretzky pretty much is why ruin that? why take a chance for what will be the 51st state anyway. it's not a big deal. >> griff: we will see where that goes. meanwhile, obviously, i talk a lot about the border. we covered the border.

and when tom homan begins crack down as soon as president-elect trump takes office. it's going to be day one. a lot of things are come. one of the things they will be targeting are hotels like the roosevelt and watson here in new york where migrants have goning an absolutely free ride. you are going to see, i think those hotels probably empty but migrant -- one migrant here yesterday talking and by the way we show you the numbers, right? just so you get perspective on new york. more than 200,000 migrants in the last two and a half years six billion plus spengted on migrant housing in new york city. that's not across the country. here in new york city. >> joey: those are basement numbers, provable numbers not total numbers. at the border. got-aways and estimate out there. probably a lot more people that have come to this city and a lot more money spent. but talking about money spent and what this city is doing specifically to house those migrants and put them up, we have seen, i believe it was

couple years ago. nice hotel completely trashed. this is actually in a moment of honesty and maybe self-reflection. this is a columbian mom staying at the watson hotel in new york city. this is what she had to say. we're getting spoiled. this was never my idea. i didn't leave my country under the conditions we fled for this. in context, i think what she is saying is i had no idea that i was going to be treated this well or have it this nice. >> katie: or be this easy. it's a recycling of tax dollars. the money goes to ngos through federal grants or state grants. then someone writes a check to the hotel who is benefiting. so this illegal immigration industrial complex that has been developed and really just pumped up over the last four years is also going to come to an end. there has been a lot of people cashing a lot of checks somehow laundering of your money to make sure that these people are

benefiting. joe. >> joey: that was business decision by hotels. it's not like they are being put out. shear guaranteed check every week, every month as much as we are making or more. let's go ahead and do it. auto. >> griff: there is a dangerous part to that statement. big picture, every border official i have ever talked to explains there are pull factors and push factors. push factor where life isn't good pushing them to think about getting to the u.s. illegally. the pull factor the success they have in that dangerous journey paying smugglers to get across the border. when you have a woman saying i have never had it so good. that's a pull factor. and that is part of the problem. and, of course, the hotel plays a role in that giving them accommodations. more on that. all right. turning now to your headlines. functioning on christmas day football. baltimore ravens quarterback lamar jackson passes michael vic as the nfl's all-time leader in quarterback rushing yards. look at him go. jackson now has an incredible

610 rushing yards. the ravens blowing out the houston texans 31-2. and speaking of making history. the kansas city tight end travis kelce sets the chief's touch down record in a dominant record over the pittsburgh steelers and fans getting riled up after chiefs xavier holiday themed celebration. >> excellent sem mess tri. the throw caught worthy. looking for the pile on. he has got it. touchdown, chiefs. xavier worthy gets the christmas story started. >> griff: i don't know what that celebration was but there it is. he got a penalty for it after the 29-10 win andy reid shows up in the locker room sporting a santa suit. look at that and what everybody is talking about on netflix we saw the queen of christmas mariah carey getting backlash pregame performance was pretaped

and lip synched ♪ make my wish come true ♪ all i want for christmas is you >> fans on social media not happy with many saying the performance felt more like a netflix commercial. beyonce did actually sing live during her christmas day halftime show at the texans-ravens game. some calling it the beyonce bowl. the pop star performing with several other special guests album and the grammy winter daughter blue ivy joining the mom during her show as a dancer. there she is. she is as tall as her mom. just before the kick-off. the group pentatonix wowing fans with their rendition of the star-spangled banner. ♪ gave proof through the night ♪ that our flag was still there.

>> griff: just amazing. nfl fans blown away by the ache pella performance. those are your headlines. >> most impressive thing to see a cappella performance like that. group listen. >> katie: what a name pentatonix. >> no instruments all voice. my son is in a quartet. i have a new found i guess appreciation of someone who can't sick or dance or anything like that. >> griff: did you tune in to netflix to watch beyonce. >> katie: i do not tune in to watch beyonce often but i do see some things on social media. >> griff: i'm not particularly a beyonce fan. i was watching the game because i wanted to watch football and lamar jackson fantasy quarterback. the screen froze when beyonce was on. i was like oh my goodness. could have been my connection but maybe a lot of people trying

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♪ >> joey: welcome back, there is growing frustration is in israel trump warns as trump's warning inches closer. >> i'll be very available on january 20th. and we'll see. as you know, i gave warning these hostages aren't back home by that date all hell is going to break out. >> joey: jim hanson ran counter-terrorism operations in the army special forces and joins us now. good morning, thank you for your service. merry christmas, happy holidays. when we hear all hell is going to break out over what is happening in israel and gaza is that a threat that could actually cause change or are we going to have to find out what that threat means. >> i think hamas is going to find out that the biden

administration has been really slow-rolling everything israel has tried to do in their response to the horrific acts of october 7th by hamas. and the ongoing you, know, keeping hostages as a negotiating tool. so, while gaza has been fairly well devastated, the israelis have done considerably less than they are capable of, because they needed our assistance. so i think when president trump says something like that, as you pointed out earlier in the show. posturing matters. you know, when the leaders of hamas hear that that's a possibility, they are more likely to make terms that have actually acceptable to the israeli people. >> joey: when we talk about the main, i guess, linchpin right now. the hanging point is this idea that they can get a list of hostages to be set free, i look at this and say it kind of looks like hamas has the upper hand because israel netanyahu their own people they are so desperate to get names to find out who may

be alive. who may be -- that have an opportunity to come back home. almost like you are so hanging on to hope as far as the israeli people go that hamas has more of a ban beganning chip there. on the other side that's the only bargaining chip they have. they have no capabilities left. what they have that belief and israel has shown over the years they goal to extraordinary lengths to secure the release of prisoners or hostages or sadly to get their bodies back if they have bore been killed. and they don't know specifically and definitively who is alive and who is dead. so this war has been dragging on for a long time because of that desire by the israelis to get their people back and i think netanyahu is under tremendous pressure domestically to do whatever he can to get any remaining living hostages home, i think they will make some sort of deal and at the point where they find out who is alive and who is dead. president trump's words may come

into play and there is hell to pay for whoever is left in hamas leadership. >> joe: one topic that's touching conflict around the world to touch the middle east is drone warfare not the just the war of the future the current arms race we are in. explain how much we don't understand and stalk about what's happened in new jersey. being told that president biden called the pentagon on four separate occasions told by the military nothing unusual. concerning. what do you make of the president having to call the pentagon and do it four times and to really get a nonanswer from them? this is driving the entire country crazy. at some level there are drones flying around new jersey. whose they are, are they domestic u.s. government, state, local law enforcement maybe federal law enforcement, surveillance, intelligence, or

is it some sort of external state power? i think that's less likely because of the provocation level and what it takes to do that. it will be a very edging towards a war-like act. but, what the problem in my mind is even worse than that we have a legitimate fear of drone warfare. nobody now can trust our government can tell us the truth. i don't think anybody believes that we're getting straight answers and even biden or whoever is operating the biden puppet at this point, believes the answer they are getting. so no one can give a definitive answer to the american people about what's happening inside our own country. that's kind of horrifying at a level above even the drone, you know, technology. >> joey: great point. sam man so sat there and told us the border is closed. told us the spy balloon couldn't transmit telling us these drones are no big deal. kind of makes you believe the opposite. jim hanson thank you for your service and joining this morning.

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across the southeast. and then suddenly these are large area airports. you see some of those yellows from atlanta, getting up to new york. expecting some delays as the system continues to widen and cause more of a problem, more widespread. otherwise, your forecast going forward is actually a little best wintry. changes over the course of the weekend from average, so you are seeing a lot of piece spots in that orange 7 to 10 to 15 and some cases 20 degrees warmer than it typically would be so it's still. still winter travel trouble but warmer weather is around the corner. those are the weather headlines for now. griff, i will toss it over to you. >> griff: all right, adam. thanks. toyota joining ford and general motors in making one million dollars donation to president-elect trump's inaugural fund. it all comes in the wake of trump's proposed 25% tariffs on mexico and canada that would leave a big impact on auto industry. here with reaction. host of the david webb show and fox news contributor david webb.

david, i hope you had a great christmas. let's dive? >> david: i did, thank you. you too, griff. >> griff: the "wall street journal" framed this as saying all the big business people from silicon valley to wall street and beyond our shores are coming to kiss the ring, bend the knee and cut the check. toyota being the latest, look at the list of companies though. you can see from toyota, ford, general motors but it's also amazon, meta, open ai, uber goldman sachs, bank of america, the list goes on and on. many making million dollars more donations. why do you think some business folks are coming to try and curry favor, really, is what it looks like with president-elect trump? >> well, maybe their memory goes back a little bit. if you look at the first trump administration, businesses did better. the economy did better. and, to be fair, a seat at the table. the trump administration is taken in, what, some estimated

possible about $225 million in total donations. they want to a seat at the table there will be discussions about regulatory policy across the board and that's important. the trump administration, just being at the table doesn't guarantee you the outcome because it's tough to buy trump, as i like to say. and on top of that, when you look at it, griff, he has got doge. anyone who thinks they are going to get back into heavy crony capitalism, buying their way in, we have seen that in the biden administration. we saw that with the solyndras and the obama biden administration. more with the democrats. that's not going to happen here. and there is a watchdog in doge that we need an efficient government and we also don't need outside influence when as the president has talked about, it needs to be the government working for the people, not the other way around. >> griff: what do you make of already we are seeing democrats like democrat congresswoman

jazmine crocket that's saying about the inaugural money fund that the doge boys should immediately start cutting that? let me show our viewers by the way just how it stacks up. trump's inaugural committee already exceeding $150 million, you go back only 107 million for trump's first term, in 2021 only 62 million for biden. democrats are saying ah ha, this is where the doge boys should start cutting right away. >> here is my words for everyone ignore jazmine crocket. she basically has nothing of value to say. i have watched her all her time in congress focus on what's happening. they need a new evil empire first trump was a white supremacist. hitler. went after him that way. went after president trump. they are seconding the same memos around. now they need to attack doge. the fact is there is an actual plan in place to help clean up government. and if that happens, they lose some of their influence.

we don't know how much. but we already have a plan in place. and you have a seat at the table. the real seat at the table is the ev mandate with elon and vivek. that we need to make sure government is firkt, make sure it's not just for the trump years but going forward. there is a lot of work to be done. the jazmine crockets of the world don't like that. the power players, the elitist frankly in both parties don't like that. trump is coming in with a mandate from the people that we need a change in direction. >> griff: there is case to be made, david, the center of the economic universe. one that runs through silicon valley or wall street and mar-a-lago and see an opportunity and better days ahead. david webb, thank you for taking time and getting up with us the day after christmas. >> any time. >> griff: all right. meanwhile, home for the holidays, a single mom of three reunites with her family after five years of deployment. we are going to tell you how one organization made it happen for thousands this christmas season

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ymca operation ride open military across the country. after being deployed for nearly five years. one single mother of three was one of 13,000 reunited with her family this christmas season. sergeant jessica -- november yes, sir, i hope i said your name correctly and jack daniel's destill. tell us about your experience being able to be able to go home and where you live now and where your family is great experience a lot of laughter reminded me of times growing up. right now i'm stationed in el paso, texas and my family is in brooklyn, new york. >> katie: we have these photos of your beautiful children.

what was it like for them to go home. >> they were excited they haven't been with their cousin in a couple yea years so it wasa ball. >> katie: tell us about your role and how you are able to help so many families. >> we part in other words with the armed services ymca at jack daniels # years. sent 13,000 servicemen and women home for the holidays. it's such a special time of year. to be able to help our heros that military families obviously sacrifice all year long for everyone. it's such a special thing to be able to help then at this time. >> you have been deployed all over the place. what was it like to go back home after being all over the world. where are some of the places you have been serving the united states overseas? >> i went to germany as well as poland. i think it gives a boost morale

for soldiers. and i have been in for three years now. it was such a good experience by finding out this program exists within the armed services ymca. the process was pretty simple. in order to come back home and i'm honestly forever grateful. i'm going to spreaded word now that i know about this program because i just feel like it's so beneficial for us service members stationed so far away from home only in this economy we can't afford to fly with our children back to our home, so i am honestly forever grateful for this program. >> katie: jess siena, what was your family's reaction so happy. some of my family from long island. my grandma was so happy she was dry crying you are headed back.

you were home for christmas but you got to get back on duty. >> yes, i do. north carolina in just a couple days. >> katie: all right. going to texas to south carolina. >> yes. >> katie: chris, if there is family that wants to get their soldier home or maybe someone who is watching who is like jessina hasn't seen their family for years. how can they take advantage of their program. >> first through the armed services ymca. they are the organization that executes all of this. jack daniel's involved winner-take-all fund raising. kick off with $100,000 operation. total over $3 million. if anyone would like to donate. operation ride home.com. fully tax deductible and the armed service ymca best partner we could ever ask for. they are the ones that are finding our heroes, our servicemen and women from all branches of the military to bring them home for the holidays. >> katie: jessina, you explained not just about you but your children and family who got to

see you. any last words on this program and how you want people to take advantage of it. advice about how to sign up? >> yes. you can just go to your local armed services ymca in el paso we have one. there is a couple of them across the united states. and i would just say take advantage of this program. there are so many programs that as service members don't know about. that we should know about. so i'm glad i got the opportunity to use this program. and i definitely will be spreading the word. >> katie: thank you so much for your service. and best of luck in south carolina and, chris, thank you so much for your partnership to this amazing for these families. >> thank you. thank you both. have a great one. all right. joey. great program for our service members across the country being able to get home to their families would are going to turn now to your headlines.

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