at this point. they're reckless money making -that have no account canability for what they're putting out there. >> that's absolutely true. we'll have to wait and see how much money we're going to fork over to these ridiculous classes. my parents would have never paid for that. stacey, do you think as a parent people should be paying for that? >> no, i have one graduated from college and two who are still going. i can tell you we won't be paying one penny for this nonsense. you can learn a lot of things on youtube and that's why some people are using their dollars for education in state schools and trade schools and the ivies are starting to lose their lulser. i hope the ivies continue to be a shiny beacon of education for us but this is nonsense, katie, and i think they should stop it. >> looking forward to the next doctor of the family. thank you very much. that's it for us tonight. make sure you can tune in tomorrow morning. th ) >> todd: mike johnson's future

as house speaker at risk ahead of a vote next week. the battle could delay certifying president trump's victory. >> carley: and jay-z's legal t team. >> todd: and what if u.s. and canada combined to one economy? bold idea backed by "shark t tank's" kevin o'leary. >> erasing the border between canada and united states, i like this idea and half of canadians are interested. >> todd: he's fro montreal, you are from missouri. you are watching "fox and friends first," i'm todd piro. i'm ashley strohmier, carley shimkus has the day off. madeleine rivera is live in washington on the potential speaker fight. good morning. >> madeleine: good morning. congress convenes on january 3, to elect a speaker.

without one the house cannot pass legislation or certify results of the election on january 6. house clocks in with 434 members with one vas c -- vacancy left gaetz. a person does not win because they won the most votes, that was the problem kevin mccarthy kept running into in 2023. he won after 15 ballots. and trouble brewing for mike johnson with several republicans unhappy with how he handled the fight to keep the government open. >> before last couple weeks, i was in his corner. we should consider the best path forward. consider if we advance mr. trump's agenda, if current

leadership is what we need. >> madeleine: magic number is 218 if all members vote. >> federal judge appointed by happening president biden could be way to block president trump. strongest barrier against what he does. i want to have major legislative record and get as many judges confirmed as possible, we knew trump loaded with the bench with maga judges and ashes chiefing balance was important. >> todd: russia rejecting president trump's call for ceasefire in ukraine. the foreign minister saying we need conclusive agreements which will create all condition for ensuring security of the russian

federation and security interest of our neighbors. president vladamir putin says he is ready to talk with trump. >> i don't know when we'll meet, he does not say anything about it. i have not spoken to him for four years. i'm ready for it, of course, any time. i'll be ready to meet, if he wants. >> todd: dan hofman joins me now. you are an expert on putin's thinking having been in moscow for so long. what is his play here? >> dan: i think vladamir putin was listening carefully when president-elect trump said during the c campaign he would end the war within 24 hours. putin wants ukraine to be so dismembered it will be vulnerable and raise price for a ceasefire.

russia wants to carry on the fight and launched attacks against ukraine's critical infrastructure, denying ukrainians power and heat during the holiday season. ukraine is fighting back bravely and their future is at stake right now. >> todd: how should donald trump respond if he wants to end the war in 24 hours, once he takes office? >> dan: challenge for the united states is to make it clear to vladamir putin that cost of carrying on this barbaric war of aggression are not worth benefits to russia. vladamir putin is trying to mask the price that russia has paid, hundreds of thousands of brain drain. nato membership for finland and sweden and russia relying on

china and north korea and iran for drones and missiles and china importing russian oil and gas at prices not favorable to russians. putin wants to use kgb disinformation to mask all of that and try to get the best deal possible. i think that is wa we're seeing already. negotiations have started and there is posturing on the sideline and putin, kgb operative is trying to get everything to his advantage. >> todd: israel launching attacks across yemen in retaliation for houthi missile and drone strikes. who you expect a ramp-up in that region in the coming days before donald trump takes office? >> i do. if one thing we have learned,

israel knows how to take the fight there enemies. they decimated hamas and hezbollah and took out nasrallah and tehran. they know how and where to strike their enemies. the houthis, yemenis proxy terrorists in yemen disrupted trade through the red sea. united states has not deterred. israel will take matters into their own hands and target the houthis and are doing us a favor by taking those measures. >> todd: we appreciate it. somebody not working today, president biden arriving in st.

cro cr croiix. this is third year in a row the biden family has traveled to virgin islands. 570 days on vacation abraham according to rnc research. that is you 40% of his time. >> that's the job to have. >> todd: where can i sign up, everything i need is taken care of and i get 40% of my time off. one candidate running for dnc ch chairs his party needs to listen to trump's message. >> he won because he ran as democratic of bill clinton and trump era. we have to return to fighting for common sense policies that work. >> todd: david webb will react.

gl and florida will ban social media accounts for children under 14. we'll break that down next. ♪

>> todd: gjennifer crumbley asking a judge to release her from prison. her attorney she should not serve time until her case reaches the supreme court. this matter proceeds likely four years before the appellate court. the parents became first parents to be convicted for a school

shooting committed by their child. they were found guilty of four counts of involuntary manslaughter. the woman accusing jay-z and diddy of can remain anonymous. >> chanley: not only did lawyers for jay-z, shawn carter, fail to convince the judge the person should be named, calls out jay-z's lawyers, writing relentless filing of inflammatory language is inappropriate and waste of judicial resources and tactic unlikely to benefit his client. earlier this month, the rap mogul was sued by a woman who

claims he and sean mcdonald did /* -- diddy -- filed by texas attorney tony buzby against combs. buzby said repeated attempt to discredit and smear advocate for alleged victims is a failing strategy. the judge agrees and refused to dismiss jay-z from the lawsuit and granted motion to remain anonymous for now. the judge made clear she may revisit that ruling in the future. and no comment on this most recent ruling. >> ashley: thank you. starting wednesday, no one under

14 will be allowed to have social media account in state of florida. this will allow parents to decide if 14 and 15 year olds can have social media and requires age confirmation. leadership institute and ceo of optime joins me. how do you enforce something like this? >> that is the problem. thanks for having me. that is problem of the patchwork of legislation, in 10 different states including florida, we are not going to see enforcement of the law until it moves through the court. we have to be careful of running amuck of parent rights and constitutional protection, that is what we are seeing in form of these lawsuits. federal action is important to

stop this patchwork and allow for better enforcement. >> ashley: 87% of children use tiktok, youtube and instagram, that is a huge chunk of kids. i'm sure a lot of parents don't mind it, but you run into the issue of do you think kids think upon it is a good idea? what issues will that cause? what do you think? >> in florida, parents were polled and vast majority prefer to have it in their own hands and in control to educate parents how to monitor and make sure their children are not overusing social media. i have three teenage boys myself, i know social media can be a blessing and curse am

almost 80% said they would rather have control themselves not a ban. >> ashley: social sciences media can be dangerous, especially if your mind is too young to absorb everything you are being thrown. does this set the stage for the national stage? is that a precedence we'll see in the 2350ur9? is that a good idea? >> as you said, it is difficult to enforce. we have a million apps, how do they keep track of a million more applications and be able to enforce this law? senator lee, and others will restrict activities at the apple and google app store to limit

amount of time your upons private information would be shared with tech companies and give parents better control over applications, not app by app. that can be difficult to monitor. we have to consider as we add regulation it will inhibit innovation for things that are beneficial to students. social interaction, education, and learning about things and entre entrepreneurship. we have to be careful about l limiting too much where they can't enjoy the benefits. >> ashley: is too much going to hurt them or put them at risk andlet not enough hamper their mind to grow. thank you for your time, we appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> ashley: oregon's attorney

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louisiana, as well. risk of severe weather follows that system moving across the gulf coast. lowest on a scale of one to five. you could see spin-up storms, severe thunderstorms, bigger risk of it becoming something by time you get into tomorrow. they are three on a scale of five and you are starting to look further to the east. louisiana and mississippi and a little bit into alabama, as well. across the country, that system ex expands and spreads out and activity on eastern side of the country. a lot of travel happening next couple days. citizened that is along the coast and up and down the east coast and another round of weather on the west coast. active weather across the gulf

states and travel is huge and there will be slow downs that are weather related. >> ashley: thank you. missouri congressman and squad democrat cori bush floating idea of running for office again? it is not off the table, i did not expect to only be in congress four years. i will run again, i will always be squad. bush has been in office since 2021, she lost the democratic primary. >> todd: republican lawmakers at odds when it comes to johnson's speakership and it is threatening to delaymp's certification. >> i was in his corner, now we should consider what is best path forward. >> i fully support mike johnson and if president trump does endorse him, he will be next speaker and he deserves to be.

he has done as good job as anyone with what has been dealt to him. >> todd: janelle king joins me. repub republicans need a speaker before they can begin transformative change that the american people voted on november 5. are they playing withir foo, janelle? >> i think they are playing with fire. good morning, merry christmas and happy new year and all the things. there is an important question, whether we are electing a speaker so he can be the representative to create consensus in the party or if the position may offer different decisions but the role is to be owned by the majority. we are up against a challenging

position when we start putting ourselves in a place where you feel you have to do what i say or you will be ousted. some point, you have to let it play out and allow the person to do the job. >> todd: next year he'll have senate and white house instead of being forced to go up against the two in democratic control. a question for you, i will ask you one now. who else? who else if not mike johnson and don't get me wrong, i don't love the fact of the 1500 page bill right before christmas. who else? >> i have not considered anyone else because i don't believe this is the time to do something like this. we have president trump coming in. this white house run is all about legacy. wooy don't want to have all

power and can't the get anything done because we have a few people that feel things should be done a certain type of way. i am noteicing, when you have people on front line, they see things, when you have generals, they see things from a different vantage find. we have to allow speaker johnson to make moves and strategies to benefit the party and get things done. >> todd: should trump come out and endorse johnson in the coming days? >> i don't think so, he should consider to do what he's doing. when he was involved in the kevin mccarthy situation, it created some tension, he has to allow the house to battle it out and not be the dad to step in and say i will do this for you.

he can't run the country and be parent to the house. we need to allow him to continue to lead in the position he's in while also not having to put him in a position to parent. >> todd: op ed in "new york post" says republicans could be in political drivers seat for a generation or more. harris had to whu republicans and pathetic use of liz cheney to do so shows she and her high command had no clue. trump has opportunity if he can expand gop lead, he will have initiated first realignment since ronald reagan in the early 1980s. can trump do it? >> i think he can. i think what it is, he ushered in a new campaign strategy that has always been around, wasn't necessarily dominating and that

is pop limp, and it is here. we are seeing people select people and candidates based on whether or not they can take care of the issues concerning people and they are also selecting people based on whether or not i can relate to you. as voters we have to pay attention to this strategy. we can get into a coasting position if we do not hold elected officials accountable. i absolutely think populism has evened the playing field and we have to maintain with good policy and good leadership. >> todd: if democrats donald trump figure out why they lost, this realignment could happen almost by default until democrats figure out they lost middle class their voting block

for decades. merry christmas and happy new year, that good stuff to you. thank you for joining us on a friday. seattle seahawks keeping playoff hopes alive. it was ugly against bears. the two teams combine for total of 13 punts and 10 sacks. >> his career, allen for a short game. under pressure and going to get swarmed. pressure. look out and he's going down again. >> todd: al michaels is like, i the left l.a. to fly to chicago for this? seahawks best chance to make post-season are for rams to lose tomorrow against cardinals tlchl is your picture, ashley strohmier. good news, your team is on other conference they are 15-1.

>> ashley: only team i pay attention to. >> todd: want to are had something funny? they are like one of four teams in football to not score 30 or more points, yet they are 15-1. giants are not 15-1, that shows how crazy, it is a team game. patrick mahomes is not putting up crazy numbers, but he's winning. >> ashley: that is all that matters is a win. >> todd: trump team meeting with canadian official, but ashley strohmier, what if u.s. and canada formed a united economy. >> ashley: well, cheryl casone is here to explore that next. ♪ ♪

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the u.s. has been accusing china of posing national security risk without reliable evidence and reiterate claims denying the drones pose a national security threat. canadian diplomats will meet with donald trump's team at mar-a-lago for talks. >> todd: the new finance -- and cheryl casone from our fox business is here with more. >> cheryl: you are butting my high school french to shame. >> ashley: same. >> todd: let's not go crazy. >> cheryl: kevin o'leary was on fox business yesterday talking about this post from donald trump again aiming at canada,

51st state saying trudea would make a great governor of the state of canada. donald trump is pushing -- against justin trudea. kevin o'leary addressed trump's plan yesterday. listen to this. >> think about the power of combining two economies, erasing the border and putting resource to the northern border, secure that, give common currency, figure out taxes and create new p passport, i like this idea and half of canadians are interested. >> cheryl: himself a connian. there are 41 million canadians and they have 6 94 million plan

they will discuss today with officials at mar-a-lago. we're not getting reporting they will meet with trump himself, the trump team. and the finance minister said he will meet with tom homan, we shall see. we import 60% of oil from canada, 85% of electricity from canada. we have domestic prediction, but what we import from other countries, 85% from canada, 60% on crude. it is interesting. justin trudea, he is in trouble in canada, i'm sure you have seen this. he is polling horribly, conservatives are coming out strong in the polls against trudea. one of his top leaders resigned

and many are saying he should resign, he does not have support anymore. trudea is politically weak, we'll see how the discussions go today. >> ashley: i can't imagine too many americans would support him either. correct me if i'm wrong, that does not seem like a good idea. >> cheryl: trudea has hads better days to say the least. what is interesting, if you look at the borders, whether fentanyl coming in or illegal migrants crossing the border, bigger issue is southern border not the northern border. real trick is not what canadians are going to do, it is what the mexican government is going to do. canadians are taking this

ser seriously. >> todd: trump is takings it seriously, proposing wayne gretzky as new leader of canada. we'll see. don't miss cheryl on mornings with maria, she is hosting today, going to be a great show. she'll i'll turn the lights on at some point. >> todd: oregon rolling out a new toolkit to crack down on illegal immigration. every person has right to live, work and play in oregon, i'll have conversations to know your rights and understand what protection sanctuary laws provide and make a plan for what to do if immigration officials come to your home or place of business. joining us is owner of bison

coffee house. is a sanctuary policy like that going to make oregon a better, safer place to live? >> i don't think so. i mean, they are going to do what they want to do as they continue to do the things they want, those who are running our state. we know the federal does trump state laws. >> todd: what was your reaction when you heard about this? >> i don't know, i was like, i feel like they would be putting people in dafsnger if they refu to cooperate with federal. the federal trumps the state at the end of the day. our governor is waiting to see what is mandating, but our ag

says rosenblum is getting ready to go out. >> todd: when you talk to your neighbors, family and friends is this what they want in your state? >> there is a lot of people that do. there are people who don't. so it is kind of split. i'm a businessowner, i hear from both sides of the table. i do talk to a lot of people. they are -- a lot of people are not happy because of all the drugs and crime and death and filth, everything, it is like decaying bad here right now. we're paying more taxes on everything and it is like, a lot of things we don't get a choice,

we don't vote it in, they the just pass stuff and appoint different people. what about us? we're paying for everything and we don't get a choice. i say, i feel like we are being guerilla pimped. >> todd: trump promised to change that. here is border czar tom homan on montana, listen. >> historic number of illegal aliens walking the street, because of sanctuary jurisdiction. ice has their hands tietied. president trump will fix this issue, we will have the largest deportation this country has ever seen. >> todd: what are you expecting? >> i think our local will try to sue the trump administration and it will keep things in limbo,

for people who live here. we'll see what happens b, they might have no choice but to let federal do their job going forward. i listen to what tom homan said and i believe what he says they are going to do, he has a job and he's taking it serious. i think he will continue to take it serious moving forward. >> todd: we'll be watching, oregon is going to be ground zero for a lot of this battle between fed and local authorities to see who wins out in the end with sanctuary cities. happy new year. new york is putting oil and gas companies on the hook for $75 billion because of their impact on climate change. who is going to pick up that tab? >> ashley: david webb joins us next.

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david webb is a fox news

contributor and joins me now. you know, david, before we get. >> good morning. wish hold criminals accountable in this state and new york city but that's neither here nor there right now. but, looks i have lived here for five years. can i tell you there is going to be some way, shape, or form in my opinion that she is going -- that this administration is going to find a way for the taxpayers and for the business owners to pay and foot this bill. what are your thoughts? >> well, i mean this is precrime if you are an energy company and we would laugh at that but we probably shouldn't. new york now has the energy per canada. getting their energy brought n a project being developed from canada coming down the hudson valley. it's going to increase the cost through this climate superfund idea. so, in other words, if you are an energy company, you are already guilty.

they are going to decide over the next decade how much they are going to charge you for your guilt. look, she has got this -- all these pricing structures they are putting in whether downstate in manhattan in the five boroughs of lower manhattan. you have to pay more money to come in all of these energy policies are going to cost new yorkers. they have to. because, with the long-term unfunded liability number that is astro no, ma'am nickel new york is not going anywhere soon unfunded licketds are huge. problem with pension contributions. when you add it all together, it's a failed state economically. >> dozens of energy firms and businesses in their advocates have urged hochul to veto the bill. bad public policy that raises significant questions and constitutional concerns. moreover it's $57 billion price tag will result in unintended to

consequences and increased costs for households and business its. david, what do you think? do you think if she gets enough pressure she will veto it or is it going to stick? >> no. i'm sorry, new yorkers but there is a very slim chance. ceaghts is not a working family's party. far left governor and like letitia james far left a.g. they are bound to this ideology. i feel bad for new yorkers. i have family in new york. your bills are going to go up. >> ashley: our bills are already high. anything she does is not going to help our bills in new york. now candidate for the dnc chair is being called a trumpian but is he embracing the label. take a listen. >> he won because he really ran as a democrat of the bill clinton and obama era. bill clinton and barack obama were actually very moderate. and they understood the voter. that's why trump got 80 million votes.

we have to return to fighting for policies, common sense that work. universal school choice. trump is right on that as well. our kids must be taught, reading, writing, math, trump has embraced that not, gender, sex and race. >> ashley: are you seeing a shift in the democratic party especially since trump won with so many votes, do you think there is going to be a shift in the democratic party and it's going to actually stick and stay? because, i mean, i'm sure it pains them toe say they agree with this policy. but they are coming out and saying it. >> actually, there is no real shift yet. the shift only happens if the leadership -- has little or no chance in this race. he is up against a couple of bidebiden ites. he is trying to appeal to both sides and it's not going to work. martin o'malley is the guy who just made the deal to let social security workers over 40,000 of

them stay home until 2029. he is up against the head of the dfl in minnesota which is about as left as the working family's party. look at the membership and all the people running and people actually in charge, the democrat party is not going anywhere soon. the fact that aoc was not allowed to be oversight chair because nancy pelosi backed her opponent. just means they want some control in the elite quarters. i expect not much change in the near future. >> ashley: i think calling bill clinton a moderate might have been better than calling barack obama a moderate. that was a stretch. david webb. thank you. >> thank you. >> ashley: if you have seen the ultimate christmas movie home along like we did a thousand times this week. you know mcalisters coverings trip to paris 15 family members. we get into mcalister's bag

stashed with $100 bills. >> not now, kevin. >> what's the gate number? >> gate 17, sir. thank you. >> hey, you better hurry up, it's the last gate all the way down. >> what gate is it? >> 717 buzz. >> how the family got their wealth telling the hollywood reporter they decided mrs. mcalister designer suggested by the in the basement. didn't choose job for mr. mcalister ruled out organized crime even though there was a lot of organized crime in chicago and he could have worked in advertising. and that is all we have for "fox & friends first" right now. i will be back here next week hosting with todd. i hope you had a very merry christmas and a safe weekend. for now, "fox & friends" starts right now. have a good day. ♪