charlie: canadian officials visiting trump after tough tariff talk as shark tank star kevin o'leary backed the president elect's vision for the future of canada. >> i think this is a great idea. at the end of the day, canadians and americans, their dna is the same in terms of what they believe in, freedom. will: plus, a new report reveals officials stopped the fbi from telling the white house that came from a lab leak.

third hour of "fox & friends" starts now. charlie: good morning. the sun coming up a bit here in santa monica and a little in new york city. will: i'm a firm believer that christmas doesn't begin till after thanksgiving. you don't put your tree up till you've properly honored thanksgiving but then the question is how long do you leave christmas up? rachel: easy for the catholics because it's advent leading up

to christmas and then christmas till the epiphany. charlie: we're off the rails if we're doing this. rachel: people are off the rails when halloween is over then it's christmas. will: the guy in your seat was aligned with me. we must protect thanksgiving. charlie: oh, no, i'm with you on that. if we're talking about that, it shouldn't be till like three weeks into december we talk about that. will: i was nervous about you for a moment but you're more extreme. rachel: i can't stand people that get rid of their tree already. there's people throwing their tree out. what? will: i say give it through nor year. my christmas present and family's christmas present last hour of the show.

will: we have a new christmas gift, it's a doberman. that's violet and she doesn't have her ears done and more natural. he is a doberman on the left, black, he's had his ears done and somebody did a beautiful job. he's about a year old. he's awesome. violet and saint. charlie: i thought their ears were naturally like that. will: people think it's controversial, i do not. they trim them and post them to stand up. when you see a dog's ears like that, any dog breed. rachel: they stay up like that all the time? will: no i that, bring them down. when he's listening or attentive or scary when someone is at the door, boom. rachel: what does he do when he's attacking v violet?

will: i'm not worried about his ear when is he's attacking violet. it's a different anatomy part. she's a woman hard to resist for saint. i are i think bill would have been a better name. we'll go with saint. will: meanwhile, canadian cabinet minister are finding it hard to resist going down to mar-a-lago and traveling for the second or third time after of course trump said there'll be huge tariffs on canada but trump welcomes them in saying why don't you become the 51st state and kevin o'leary endorses the idea of the 51st state of canada. >> i love this idea and the opportunity is mass and i have growth is huge. canadians and americans, their dna is the same in terms of what they believe, freedom. this idea and yes, maybe it was

a joke to start but something great to be done. if you figured out a way to put the two countries together, it would be the most powerful rachel: during covid i became aware of how tyrannical their government is versus our own. ours is great but under joe

biden, there was a lot of government intervention and spying and all kinds of stuff. will: they i lect these and biden said maybe you take the interior provinces and leave out vancouver and toronto. rachel: you have to get them all. can't pick and choose. will: i believe in this and we've talked about it this morning and we'll continue. i believe the american culture has to be preserved and assimilate when you come to america and therefore when we expand, rachel: i've been to the

rodeo up there, there's a lot of stuff that's similar. will: they're good ole boys. charlie: imagine if suddenly canadians woke up and had first amendment free speech rights. guaranteed. rachel: would they like it? would they want it? some want it but a lot of them -- charlie: that's a great question. i think a lot would be very uncomfortable and wouldn't like it orono how to deal with it. will: to your point about the culture, that's a nonnegotiable. if that's the way it'll be, you'll appreciate your god-given free speech rights and god given rights to defend yourself.

will: we were not subjugated and that's a huge part of who we are. we'll fight to the end for that first amendment. rachel: bringing back but when prince harry came over and he was criticizing our -- the first and second amendment. some of the cultures will have a hard time assimilating and i think if you take any culture and try to assimilate it, probably canada is the most likely parts of it. will: there's a story in the wall street journal and saying of course we know it's most likely that covid virus came from a lab leak in wuhan. wall street journal reporting that everyone knew and the

intelligence agencies knew and they suppressed that and kept it even from the highest level of government and even joe biden and what they write, will: covid-19 was manipulated in a lab and wassed a odds of assessment and wasn't incorporated into the papers presented to bind. intelligence kept it from coming out. charlie: to what degree were americans bystanders and -- will: we were spying on the chinese and protecting the assets and was there another reason helping the chinese meaning we're intelligence agencies helping the chinese

create covid. here's what head field had to say. is it possible that we should consider the fact the intelligence apparatus was helping create these types of viruses where it's illegal in the united states but actually helping to facilitate it for their own use but using on a foreign land in china to do it? >> yeah, i think it's possible. clearly tony fauci was in charge of the defense strategy and $40 billion and clearly involved in the defense department and state department and nih doing this research in partnership with china and consider that as a possibility.

rachel: anthony fauci said he knew he couldn't do that because our laws said no and it was dangerous and then he ended up through the wuhan lab, and he knew what he did. when this leaked, he knew it leaked from a lab, but he didn't want to say it because he was ultimately responsible for the funds for that research. charlie: he cared more about his own tail than a virus that was stocking the country and killing millions. if anyone asked questions or wrote stories about it in realtime when it all started

unfolding, the entire -- if you asked questions or wondered about it out loud, you were silsilsilenced and the worse sco turns out that's what happened. will: to make this not just a conversation in the rear-view mirror, if what we're learn asking true and ecohealth alliance was an asset of might be mum of health intelligence community and fauci played his role with the intelligence community is part of this, and

we're spying on countries with these diseases and we weren't just funding it but helping them. rachel: shame on the media for coming at this way too late. this is way too late for them to come out. we knew this was happening and nobody seemed interested in getting to the bottom of it. now there's this stuff coming up and one, antoninmy fauci and he shall else -- anthony fauci and everybody else involved and what weapons labs are out there and other part of the puzzle talking about this is the collusion between what was happening in these bio-labs and our government funding but then the pharma companies that were making money from the maxine and

fauci's banning and shaming of the treatment of treatments that worked like ivermectin and other things and they wanted to funnel everybody into this and i tell you this, i'm getting covid tests in the mail. rachel: everybody is still getting covid -- i've gotten covid tests in the mail. who's paying for that? our government and through our money is purchasing it and people are making money off this scam. charlie: and taxpayers paying for the psa on tv to get tested. rachel: that's right. will: new overnight the winning ticket for $1.22 billion megamillion jackpot sold in california. charlie: snapping the lottery's three month dry spell. rachel: we have details about where the ticket was sold and how much the incredibly lucky winner is going to walk away with. chanly. >> that's right. the lucky winner set to take home the fifth largest prize in megamillions history after matching all six numbers and defeating the 1 in 300+ million

odds of winning the grand prize. a look at winning numberses. 37, 35, 47, 55, and megaball 6. jackpot ballooned to over $1 million and no one won in the previous 30 draws last time and megamillions hitting the jackpot on september 10th. last night's winner has two choices. receive the $1.22 billion by annual payments for 29 years or take it in one cash payout after $549.7 million. the winning ticket purchased in california around 150 miles of sacramento and 37th time on new york with 44 for the state's most wins and five additional ticketholders walked away with about $1 million each after they match all five for the win and the idea of the megamillions were not going to be confirmed.

sadly would not be here. will: would you be here this morning, chanly? >> maybe for you. will: ghost the job the next day? give them two week s? >> it's like winning the lottery working with you guys every weekend. will: i want the real chanly, not that one. rachel: so good. will: thank you, chanly. we talked early about spending the money. rachel: how would you? buy a ranch? will: as much of texas as i can get. how much texas can i get? we asked you guy what is you would do and spend the money? vicki, i would buy a house on the beach, my hubby buying the largest ranch if he could find one. rachel: that's what i would co. charlie? charlie: i don't know. i wouldn't do a whole lot different. i would probably buy more land. i charlie comes in with grills and gold and next thing he has

rims that are spinning. charlie: i'd get the best boom box you can get. victoria said if i won the lottery, a huge chunk going to two of my favorite chartties after give ago -- charities and giving a portion to my church and family, i'd help st. jude and tunnel to towers. that's awesome and that's the spirit. rachel: i love that. this viewer, paul, said i'd buy grgreenland. will: paul, i wish i thought of that. beat me to the punch. rachel: how much does greenland cost? will: i don't know. can we get a price tag on greenland? charlie: would pay for itself. 10 year mortgage and paid for. will: randy said you have one year to claim the prize, keep your mouth shut for several months. why, invite friends and family over to help you with projects and find out who your real friends and family are. don't tell them. call your friends and team ask say i need you to help me clean

out the gutters. if they don't come, that cost you a couple million. rachel: i like that. i like that. will: i'd buy green land. all right, now to headlines, biden administration expected to announce another weapons package for ukraine over the next week. megamillions for ukraine. rachel: janet yellen said we're running out of money and now we're bidenflation giving it to ukraine. will: the money pulled from presidential draw down authority and president biden is pushing to get as much aid to kyiv as possible before leaving office and $64 billion in military aid has been sent to ukraine since february of 2022. rachel: disgusting. will: keep hitting the megamillion. president elect trump says the fate of tiktok in the u.s. should be in his hands and asking the u.s. supreme court to

delay the possible january 2 and that's one day before trump takes off. even when national security bans are at stake, speech bans must be congress' last resort. high circuit court takes up the argument january 10th. number one rated pro golfer in the world will not be in the tee box for the first signature event of 2025 golf season. scottie scheffler going to miss next week's century tournament p.m. had to undergo hand surgery and t half herrera's manager said -- scheffler's manager said he cut his hand with broken glass opening something on christmas. it's been a record year for scheffler. he upon seven pga tournaments.

the down part you're saying because he was arrested. charlie: even i knew that. will: everybody has bumps in the road. he didn't deserve to be arrested outside of pga championships in louisville in may. rachel: if i'm scotty's wife and know how much he makes, i'm saying you're not opening any jars. no jars. i got this. will: scotty is a normal guy. rachel: he loves saying he knows scotty. will: no, i've met scotty. rachel: we'll talk about president elect trump next. stay with us.

will: fike johnson speakership up in the air as new year looms and could delay certifying donald trump's election win. one gop vote when the new congress starts next friday. joining us with capitol hill insight is gop congressman from my home district by the way back in texas, pat fallon joining us now. congressman, great to see you this morning. what do you think here will

happen in the next week or so with speaker johnson? >> i think he'll remain speaker. in november, we had an election and there was no other candidates and all the votes were for mike johnson and i believe we're people of our word and we'll follow through. mike has a great relationship with president trump and went to a ufc fight together and can you imagine paul ryan doing that and he's got a very tough job with a narrow margin and i think we might have to go through a little bit and iron out the wrinkles and i do eventually think we'll get there and not delaying the certification and don't want to see joe biden constitutionally any longer than necessary. will: i did see him at a ufc fight with donald trump and saw

himself himself at army navy with president trump and at new york city madison square garden rally with donald trump. that relationship was strong it appears and there's been a bit of concern recently with the cr. here's the question for you, you said there weren't any candidates in the past to challenge him. do you expect any in the future? we haven't had much luck here today coming up with names and anybody that would challenge johnson. do you know of anybody that would challenge johnson? >> that's just it, there's no names whatsoever a week away. it's difficult to get to 218 when you only have 219 republicans. what may happen is you might see people making noise and maybe white light it and voting present that lowers the threshold and could happen, but i think come january 3 at some point in that day, hope fly right away, michael will be elected speaker. will: quickly, president trump called out panama for the

relationship with china, ripping off in president trump's words, america at panama canal and greenland and it's necessary for u.s. national security. what do you make of these two statements? i think president trump needs to be taken seriously. it's often said don't take him literally but seriously. how literally do we take president trump here on panama and greenland? >> panama has to remember they're a country because of the united states. they were a province of columbia and we paid for that canal, and jimmy carter gave it away. i remember being a kid and thinking what the heck did he do that for? i mean, it is what it is now. panama maybe give us a bit of discount and maybe charge china a bit more. we're the ones that are historically tied to them, not china. i think that's probably "there's a method to the madness". the left wants to focus on the madness and i want to foe cuss on the me method. he gets things done and there

were troops there during world war ii and it's in the north atlantic and hope we can work with our friends, the danes, they're a nato ally of that. th. will: i see the painting of the field goal over texas and beating the longhorns and the 60s and i need to warn you, you need to represent texas in the long horn district. careful with that over your shoulder on national television, kongman. >> i'm underwater on the cotton

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rachel: photos surface of president biden posing with hunter's business affiliates after denying to have any repeated knowledge of hunter's business dealings. >> i did not know he was on the board of that company. i've never discussed my business or their business, my sons or

daughters. never discussed a single thing with i had my son about ukraine. never spoken to my son about overseas dealings. never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else with anything dea dealing with their businesses, period. rachel: we're joined by someone that's been covering this story since the beginning. new york post columnist and i call her the great miranda devine. >> hey, rachel. this just proved he lied all the time and the montage of clips and most of them during the 2020 campaign when this issue was raised occasionally with him and

on the screen was gee joe biden meeting with president xi of china and introducing his son hunter in december of 2013 when joe flew hunter, his son, into beijing, on air force 2 and less than two weeks after the photo was taken, hunter biden was given a 10% stake in a chinese business deal. he -- this was a company backed by the bank of china and a whole lot of other chinese-state owned enterprises. information a very lucrative trip and as soon as the chinese saw joe and hunter biden arrive on air force two, they knew exactly what they meant. that was american power come to do private business and that's exactly what happened. rachel: they got rich and we

don't need to know what else. we had a spy balloon flag over the country and this government did nothing about it. we had the coverup in wuhan lab. who knows how much these deal wills to do with that coverup as well. i think, you know, aside from the money they made, all of the stuff was hidden from american people before important elections. this is election interference, isn't it? >> absolutely. that's the point. the lies that were told and preventing donald trump who was uncontrollable to the deep state, winning office again and

to install basically a puppet of the deep state, which was joe biden and got their controlled president. rachel: we know that joe biden pardoned hunter biden is these crimes i believe joe biden is implicated in them as well. is it too late for accountability because hunter did so much of the dirty work and he's now pardoned or more that can come out or liable or held accountable for selling out their country? >> i think the incominged a menstruation are going to tell people the truth -- incoming administration are going to tell the american people the truth and how compromised joe biden was with china and after that we'll find out if there's a legal line. rachel: yeah, and everyone

involved in the coverup and the lie that wrote that letter and all need to be held accountable. no one has done more on this story than you and we're grateful for it. thank you. >> thanks so much. rachel: you've got the scoop and the story, the laptop from hell. thank you, miranda. >> thank you, rachel. rachel: you got it. next guest ripping chicago's mayor after he vowed to defy trump? >> i promise you that we will not bend or break. we will not be stopped, and we certainly will not go back.

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i'm kind of covering him up with this and it's not too bad. raining a little and covering up folks with my umbrella and dedicated crowd i don't meaning in and withstand ago bit of drizzle this morning and saying happy new year; right? >> happy new year to my son, daughter, and grand kids back in orlando, florida. reporter: i love that you brought a sign. the real star of the show here is here with the cuteness. where are yo from? >> georgia. reporter: what's your name? >> anna gray. reporter: who do you want to say hi too, anna gray? >> anne donovan that and papa -- nana and papa. reporter: are you handling the weather? >> yes, sir. reporter: we're talking about storms across the south and up across the northeast just a little drizzly and 41 in new york city and colder recently and that's the system we're going to be paying attention to. a bit of bullseye across mississippi and louisiana. maybe some tornadoes and big thunderstorms and you guys are flying into new orleanss and

paying attention to this forecast. i'm hoping you're able to get on through with all the folks down there as well. we'll be watching and tossing back into you, charlie. charlie: thank you, adam. we could all learn man manners m anna gray. reporter: yes, we could. >> i promise you that we will not bend or break our values will remain strong and firm. we will face likely hurdles in our work over the next four years. we'll not be stopped or go back. charlie: projects bankman-fried

hood director and founder joining us now. pastor brooks, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. charlie: explain to us and i read your piece on foxnews.com and it's the moralizing and he wants to take the moral high ground and only thing to do in the situation? >> absolutely. it's moral grand standing, charlie. i year youout having me to talk about it. out of colorado, it's a $45 million community center and fighting the crime issues and we've not heard a peep from the mayor nor administration trying to help us, yet we're spending millions and millions of dollars to help illegal immigrants and then now he's going to take this moral grand standing and political posturing over problem solving, and that's the problem that i have because what we're dealing with in chicago can that we need a mayor addressing the crime, education, and economics facing day-to-day.

not moral grand standing against the president of the united states. charlie: looking at chips act as rizz -- chicago as resume of those that are running it. you get the sense from brandon johnson that -- we see this in other places as well, i think. you get the sense that he's almost rooting more for trump's failure and more for america's failure than he is for doing something that would be good for the constituents he claims to represent. >> absolutely. john mcarthur writes a great book and said everything rises and falls on leadership and that's what we're experiencing in the city of chicago. we're experiencing the mayor that's neglecting local challenges and trying to look at president and challenge the president. he's neglecting the local talent and talking about caring for the black and brown community and

shop spotter contract has been -- is now gone. that shot spotter contract was used to help identify shootings in areas like the neighborhood that we have and very much needed and the mayor's attempt of being spotted by the local chicagoans. charlie: you've dedicated your life to solving real problems and we're grateful to you for that. >> thank you so much. charlie: rachel. rachel: thank you, charlie. turning to headlines and police investigating what caused a fire that burned a man last night inside ofny city's penn state. 356-year-old was hospitalized

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