>> ben: as far as i know if they will let me. thanks so much. [laughter] >> ben: good evening and welcome to "fox news primetime," i'm ben domenech. well, so that is that. now we must dismantle the tree, putting the decorations back into their cardboard boxes. some have gotten broken and carrying them up to the attic, the holly and the mistletoe must be taken down and burnt and the children got ready for school there are enough leftovers to do warmed up for the rest of the week not that we have much appetite having drunk such a lot. stayed up so late. attempted quite successfully to love all of our relatives and in general grossly overestimated our powers. i hope you all had a merry christmas and i wish you a happy new year in 2022. but before we turn the page on the year of our lord 2021, it is time in this closing week to take stock what we learned this year. the frauds that were exposed. the evils we learned to hate, and the truths we woke up to who we are and who we hope to be. tonight and in the coming days, i will be talking very wise and k

i am ben. i hope you don't forget to it download lie podcast. -- my podcast.ext. >> ♪ ♪ >> sean: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." tomorrow is the end of an era. an eve of new beginnings. at the ball drops in times square a new day begins. not new year's day but the end of mayor bill de blasio in new york city. the worst mayor in america

i don't know. it's interesting and i'm looking forward to hearing more. ben sounds exciting, half of what you said right over my head but for positive sounding things so i'm excited about that, because you seem excited. i believe we have your tweet you put up yesterday, your christmas list as a doctor on covid, all i want for christmas is this, your version of being mariah carey, give us more number one or two in the few moments we have left together, people can see bullet points, one of the most important in your mind, of those? >> big thing is to start natural immunity as a form of protection, it's widely overlooked and it causes skepticism and it's a form of protection continue to target high-risk when it comes to boosters from a encourage the high-risk not vaccinated to get vaccinated remove cough masks from our children and get away from lengthy quarantines and isolation and people who have been exposed and infected with covid. we have data that shows they transmit shorter times than originally before so when you see cap people back to work because 8% of

power generation from coal on the rise majority discuss carbon by the co host spend swan and christy i. ben, i want to start with you on this. the report comes weeks after the conclusion of the cap, 26 climate talk, which ended in a fierce disagreement over a pledge to actually abandon coal. why are we things such an increase in power generation? call it this time. well, there's a couple of reasons for the biggest one is because there's a huge energy shortage worldwide, right? that we're talking about coal, natural gas, nuclear power, wind power, sustainable like solar, all of it, right? we have a huge shortage in terms of population that needs energy and the amount of energy out there to get to the population. let's talk about cost 26 for a minute because what's interesting about that is you really had 2 countries that kind of hung that up. one was china. the other with india and india softened it by going with, you know, different language in that agreement. finally, to get to be in there, which was a rather than elimination of coal, we're going to try to reduce coal use. but the bottom l

absolutely, i will continue to keep an eye on all of these stories boom, but ben swan and christy, i think you so much break it down. thank you. the and there is a lot of red on the board for global markets this week as investors keep an eye on rising inflation, the effect of the cranberry as a whole host of moves by major central banks. let's start in russia where the mo, x is down. the central bank of russia raised its key lending rates by $100.00 basis points to 8.5 percent on friday in an effort to get a hold of inflation, which had a 6 year high as of monday at 8 point one percent. now the central bank is hoping its policies will push inflation down to around 4 to 4.5 percent by the end of next year, but singled another rate hike could be possible. another thing to keep an eye on here reports indicate the nation central bank may take steps to bad investment, encrypted currency due to risks, to financial stability. let's move to asian markets. the shanghai composite. it's also in the red for the week down nearly one point percent losing more than one percent on friday alone. unit

>> well, i would -- hi, ben. i would say, just to kind of work off of chris' last point about geography. i noticed, as ann and robin have mentioned, that worst case needs decreased in the south, the midwest, and the northeast, but increased by nearly 7% in the west. and then you look at the supply numbers and since the west had the worst availability of affordable rental homes, just 44 per 100 very low income rental households, so i was thinking, okay, so the worst case needs is the result of a lack of supply, is that the primary driver as to why the west coast is in the worst situation? and why we saw worst case needs increase. i think maybe a little, putting those points together in the report to provide some sort of explanation -- i don't know if you did in the report, i didn't see it, but giving sort of answering the why questions periodically, because i was wondering why. what's going on in the west? i have read reports about rents going through the roof in places like phoenix and boise and rent burden going

i. ben, i want to start with you on this. the report comes weeks after the conclusion of the cap $26.00 climate talk which ended.

i will hand it over to peggy bailey. >> thanks, ben. on behalf of secretary budge i want to thank the bipartisan policy center for hosting us again today. and i want to thank you for attending. this report shows that, as our presenters highlighted, there is a need to increase rental assistance. the impacts of racism. the outsized representation. and the key component of the build back better agenda. while the crisis is multifaceted, it isn't impossible to -- other programs and federal assistance works if persons are able to receive it. and we need to take a variety of resources today and feature resources. housing is foundational for all of us. i hope today's discussion energizes you all and the work you are doing to not accept the status quo when it comes to housing. thank you again for hearing today's discussion. arizona senator mark kelly says that western states are experiencing the worst drought in more than 1000 years. he and others held a committee where they heard from environmental experts on the drought.

i think that we need to go back and look at what -- did the states obey their own laws, did they obey their own constitution? >> so ben, i play that clip for a few reasons. one is, it is easy to talk about this as if we're talking retrospectively about what happened in the lead up to january 6th and about what happened on january 6th. this is not over. this is still happening. and you wanted to talk about democracy. how dangerous is this from a national security perspective, from a democracy perspective, that you have sitting lawmakers claiming publicly that there were foul play in a presidential election, which as carol said, has been batted away, disproven, time and time again. >> well, it's totally shameful and shameless. i mean, when you consider that that senator was elected in the same election, you didn't have any problems with the election integrity and the election that sent him into washington. this is a cynical game, but they're playing this game, you know, not with some smaller, more trivial ya aspect of politics. with the core value and foundation of american democracy. do elections matter? do the people

i like ben affleck�*s performance, and it felt, in that very george clooney way, it felt solid and reliablerom a good place. i confess that there's an awful lot of goodwill towards george clooney because i think he's a decent, solid film—maker, but i thought this was warm and funny and not earth shattering. you can pretty much plot it out from the beginning. but there are some really lovely intimately—observed details, particularly when uncle charlie is just explaining to the young boy how the world works. you kind of think, if i was in a bar with that guy, i would never leave the bar. i would just stay there listening to him. and your best out this week? and you saw it, lamb. tell me you love it. you are right, it's not a horror film. it's not. i take it all back. i did sit and watch it with a knot in my stomach. thinking, "something bad is going to happen, something bad is going to happen". it is bonkers. it is absolutely bonkers. it's completely bonkers, and i was surprised i enjoyed some bits of it, given that it is nuts. but beautiful. there is a moment and it when you go, "what?!" the

i think a little bit -- bob: explain the pennsylvania example because i think it is intriguing what happened there. ben: the pennsylvania legislature came up with a map that was very successful republican gerrymandering. i can't remember the split of the delegation, but in what essentially is a 50-50 state, republicans had two thirds of the congressional delegations. i cannot remember if there were efforts to take that map to federal court. the democrats did take it to state court. it went up to the pennsylvania supreme court, which not like all state supreme courts, is elected. the justices had all run for office themselves. it was a 5-2 democratic majority on the pennsylvania supreme court. lo and behold, their remedy was a map that was much more favorable to the democrats, and more or less in line with the overall makeup of the state. i think it will serve as an example for this cycle in aggrieved parties going to stay courts where they can, as opposed to federal courts. it is also, to answer your question, a little bit of history is helpful. the most successful comprehensive gerrymander was what de

i. now ben, i want to start with you and with a prediction that you made after the 1st bitcoin link, atf made the view on the new york stock exchange back in october. take a listen. now i'm going to give you guys a quick prediction. and again, this is just my prediction, right? but i'm thinking we're going to see big coin jump up at least $65000.00 right now. i think we're actually going to see dip a little bit and then i think you're going to see everyone get scared for a minute. and then the institutional investors will jump in and start buying and it will go up even higher. so i think that's what we're about to see, you know, it'll rise on this news. and then in the next couple of weeks, it might, it might taper up just a little bit and then shoot back up again. ok, now i have to start the saying that my saying that bend on was right, but we did see exactly as you said, bitcoin hit record highs before dropping back down to around 50000. so how much of a milestone is the rise in bitcoin that we've seen this year? was? it's a huge milestone, but i think there's some sense making that pr

i. now ben, i want to start with you and with a prediction that you made after the 1st bit coin linked e t f made in the view on the new york stock exchange back in october. take a listen. now i'm going to give you guys a quick prediction. and again, this is just my prediction, right? but i'm thinking we're going to see big coin jump up at least $65000.00 right now. i think we're actually going to see dip a little bit. and then i think you're going to see everyone get scared for a minute, and then the institutional investors will jump in and start buying, and it will go up even higher. so i think that's what we're about to see. you know, it'll rise on this news, and then in the next couple of weeks, it might, it might taper up just a little bit and then shoot back up again. ok, now i have to start the saying that my saying that bend on was right, but we did see exactly as you said, bitcoin hit record highs before dropping back down to around 50000. so how much of a milestone is the rise in bitcoin that we've seen this year was, is a huge milestone. but i think there's some sins making th

the group that i -- ben and me and the gang, we couldn't get our arms around crocs is still this high. we're going to hold off on it. part is we don't wear them so maybe we are kind of prejudice but we think the stock is too high versus the cohort let g let's go to arthur in texas. >> caller: hello, jim. >> caller: i'm going to cut right to the chase here. >> okay. good thing >> caller: i have been looking at art fificial intelligence and robotics and i had my eye on c-3. wow, in the last 30 days it's gone down like 70% so i'm trying to find out if c-3 ai is -- >> you're not alone. there are lots of people who thought that this was the in part because tom is such a great guy. and he is the ceo and chairman but if you went ai, i am p not going to tell -- by the way, people say buy apple for ai. buy nvidia for ai. kathleen in new york >> caller: happy new year to you and all your loved ones. thank you for 20 years of a great learning experience for me >> thank you thank you. yeah, someone called me a fixture today. that's like why don't you turn the light on thing i don't want to be a f

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. >> well, i want to congratulate you, first, ben for that incredible monologue. pe every american goes back and listens to it again and again and shares it with their children every word of it is true. cultural icons like lebron james and the nba who have been willing to beat up on the problems they see with iniquities in the united states but then not willing to say anything about the crimes going on, the violations of natural rice, the persecution of christians, the muslims of jing jiang and oppression of people silencing and disappearing doctors and reporters going on inside of china all eager for that chinese market. we have also seen coke, one of the sponsors of the winter limp olympics, senator tom cotton grilled him this past summer trying to get him to admit of the atrocities going on in china and he wouldn't do it. so we have all of these corporate leaders, these sports icons looking the other way, academics, leaders of labs in the united states, all wanting the students from china to be here and all that money to be here and they are not willing to admit

well, i don't think there is any doubt, ben, i rebellion last night?on will feel battered and bruised by what happened in parliament last night. that rebellion was really significant. yes, because of the vast numbers of his own mps who didn't agree with him on covid certification, also because of the breadth of the opposition within his party. this wasn'tjust opposition within his party. this wasn't just the opposition within his party. this wasn'tjust the normal people who are often sceptical about covid restrictions, there is talk in different wings of the party, including many who are normally loyal to the prime minister. but that does mean that it's not necessarily the case that they would all vote against further restrictions. there are many who voted against restrictions. there are many who younger, in the 19705, they used to call it 5tagflation. a5 younger, in the 19705, they used to call it 5tagflation. as the economy slows almost to a stop, the cost of 5low5 almost to a stop, the cost of living is rising faster than a decade. goods price5, eve

i like ben affleck�*s performance, and it felt, in that very george clooney way, it felt solid and reliablelace. i confess that there's an awful lot of goodwill towards george clooney because i think he's a decent, solid film—maker, but i thought this was warm and funny and not earth shattering. you can pretty much plot it out from the beginning. but there are some really lovely intimately—observed particularly when uncle charlie is just explaining to the young boy how the world works. you kind of thing, if i was in a bar with that guy, i would never leave the bar. i would just stay there listening to him. and your best out this week? and you saw it, lamb. tell me you love it. you are right, it's not a horror film. it's not. i take it all back. i did sit and watch it with a knot in my stomach. thinking, "something bad is going to happen, something bad is going to happen". it is bonkers. it is absolutely bonkers. it's completely bonkers, and i was surprised i enjoyed some bits of it given that it is not. but beautiful. there is a moment and it when you go, "what?!" there's a moment in which

ben ferguson. so if everything is actually already solved with supply chain, let's just start there. i mean we could jump in anywhere. why is the supply chain working out the crisis with the supply chain today? >> ben: i guess so maybe they can give each other virtual hugs with their covert protocols and that was fix everything in this country. you have a real problem, jimmy carter had better ratings of the worst part of his presidency when it dealt with the economy then joe biden does right now. and for them to put out -- and this is not anything but propaganda for the holidays, to imply that you are better off now than you were before he became president a year ago is absolute absurdity. look at inflation. if you had made 50,000 last year, which are buying power this year, about 45,000. if you're trying to book a plane ticket to go home for the holidays you're paying more now than you were a year ago but it's not just that. you look at what's done with just the shutdowns, the lockdowns, the taking away of people's rights, now saying you have to have pet vaccine passports and ask your

i want ben to get a question in here. >> given the tight job market, are you having trouble hiring cpasly given some of your workforce is seasonal. >> labor is our biggest asset and our biggest expense. we have a very, very high retention rate among our frontline professionals, our tax experts. on average, they've been with us for 10 years. this year as we brought back our tax experts, we saw record high retention really driven by the strength of our business. and so the macroeconomic and labor conditions have not seemed to touch as quite yet. jack: jeff jones, thank you so much. i don't normally give ceos advice but i've got to share this tip with you. if you want to drive that stock price up, just call it h & r block chain. [laughter] >> thanks for the tip. i really appreciate that. jack: any time. come back soon. thanks, jeff jones. up next, the stocks this panel thinks you should avoid next year, it's our 2022 grinch list. stay right there. ♪ you're a mean one, mr. grinch. ♪ you're a mean one, mr. grinch. ♪ you really ♪♪ care. it has the power to change the way we see things. ♪♪ it

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ben. that's the concern. i _ year ago. that's right, ben. that's the concern, i think. _ year ago. ncern, i think. certainly - year ago. that's right, ben. that'sl the concern, i think. certainly what borisjohnson is saying at the press conference has effectively whether he is trusted or not for me he was putting his trust in the british people to do the right thing. the chief scientific adviser sir patrick ballin said much the same. while that press conference is taking place, a debate was taking place simultaneously in the house of commons on the new measures. sajid javid the health secretary was giving a pretty hard time from some of his own backbenchers. so the question you played was also pledged effectively by the former cheap wit who is saying, you know coming for rules when followed up our christmas parties, why should anyone be following the new rules, the new restrictions now? some people were more outspoken on new restrictions that the conservative mp philip davis described as arbitrary socialist measures. so, you can see just the distance between boris johnson and some o

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what happens tomorrow when this phone call happens, but i guess we'll have to wait and see how that call plays out and where things go from here. ben rhodes, thank you so much for joining us tonight, i greatly appreciate it. >>> still to come tonight, the january 6th investigation is planning to present its findings to the public in the new year. we're going to be joined live by a member of the january 6th committee, coming up next. >>> here's the striking visual out today. this is the forthcoming january cover of "the economist." it's hardly a lefty rag, but their new cover pulls no punches. look at it. "walking away: the republican party and the democracy." and it's really hard to argue with the premise of that. the new poll out this week finds that over 70% of republicans believe the big lie that joe biden's victory was illegitimate and the election was stolen from donald trump. it would be one thing if this poll were some outlier. but over the past year, polls have consistently shown that a majority of republicans in this country do not believe joe biden is the legitimate president of the united states. let that sink in for a m

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what happens tomorrow when this phone call happens, but i guess we'll have to wait and see how that call plays out and where things go from here. ben you so much for joining us tonight, i greatly appreciate it. >>> still to come tonight, the january 6th investigation is planning to present its findings to the public in the new year. we're going to be joined live by a member of the january 6th committee, coming up next. aleve-x. it's fast, powerful long-lasting relief with a revolutionary, rollerball design. because with the right pain reliever... life opens up. aleve it... and see what's possible. narrator: on a faraway beach, the generation called "our greatest" saved the world from tyranny. in an office we know as "oval," a new-generation president faced down an imminent threat of nuclear war. on a bridge in selma, alabama, the preacher of his time marched us straight to passing voting rights for every american. at a gate in west berlin, a late-generation american president demanded an enemy superpower tear down a wall and liberate a continent. american generations answering the call of their time with american ideals. freedom. l

jack: thanks for that, ben what caught your eye? >> i utilities i think that price appreciation the utility sector is one of the worst performing sectors in 2020 when they will do a lot better in 2022. >> carlton bennett like those pics, inject cheers viewers check out this week that parents are, the rest of and or stock picks and for the new year, new times for the shewbread were headed to the weekend starting next week. no more friday evening. you can catch parent roundtables a saturday and sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. eastern right here on foxbusiness. that is all for us, happy new year we will see you next week on barron's roundtable. charles manson showed his family values and the beatles showed us why they crossed the road. these are the magical, ludicrous, griz grisly, astronomical. he

are saying in the polls this is an issue they care the most about compared to other issues and i think ben mike: let's get your thoughts before we move on. >> i think the key point for people is that the law is allowed to remain in place in texas but the suits are now allowed to proceed to. that's a partial victory if you will for the majority of americans who think that abortion rights should remain in place. the reality is everybody should be paying attention to that mississippi case. >> mike: time for winners and losers, bend, lead us off. >> my winter for the week is joe manchin who as i said, it was vindicated by the cbo's ruling when it came to build back better and the questions he had raised. my loser of the week is anyone who was naive enough within the media or the celebrity class to go out and defend jussie smollett whose case obviously resulted in the kind of conclusion i think we can all say, this is actually what happened. anyone who was out there defending them has to be questioning things today. >> mike: morgan, you're up. >> my winner of the week is vladimir putin, he is a

i mean, ben, that's the question. 't have the testing necessary 10 months later and now fast forward to today, he said nobody saw omicron coming even though the cdc director said they were prepared. >> you know, i realize that the bureaucrats are going to spin this and maintain that they were prepared but i think a lot of questions should be asked as was even being asked today in this impromptu press conference the president said he wasn't supposed to be doing by testing wasn't ramped up earlier there has been a clamor for inexpensive, wildly available at home testing that people can do in order to know whether they have the possibility of infecting others around them. that is something that absolutely should have been ramped up from the beginning. i think it's a failure now of both administrations that did didn't happen earlier. look, i actually like some of what the president had to say today. particularly when he said that he would shouldn't panic about this. i hear a lot of panic on cable news. but i didn't hear it

." >> i am ben tracie in washington. thanks for staying with us. if you are planning to ship any of your holiday gifts, well you are running out of time. fedex, ups, and the u.s. postal service say today is the last day to order online presents for ground shipping to make sure they arrive before christmas. meg oliver is at a fedex facility outside new york city getting a firsthand look at the holiday rush. >> reporter: the continued supply chain shortages and popularity of online shopping are adding to the delivery chaos. fedex expects to ship more than 100 million more packages this-holiday season. when did business really start to pick up? >> oh, i would say at least a week before thanksgiving. >> and you have been going nonstop ever since? >> nonstop. >> reporter: fedex courier raymond delivering up to 250 packages six days a week during the holidays. >> do you feel like you can keep up -- keep up this pace? >> i don't think anybody can. >> reporter: fedex says they are delivering twice as many packages this-holiday season as before the pandemic

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ben, it's been fun hanging out with you these two days, i appreciate your time, sir. >> ben: you too,ur friends on "fox & friends." that will start right now. thanks, todd, have a wonderful day, everyone. thank you. ♪ ♪ you ain't seen nothing yet ♪ baby, baby ♪ you just ain't seen nothing yet ♪ here's something that you are never going to forget ♪ baby, baby, you just ain't seen nothing yet. will: good morning, welcome to "fox & friends," december 29th, wednesday, 2021. will cain, kayleigh mcenany, and lawrence jones, back with you again this morning on "fox & friends" on her second trip around the "fox & friends" three hour tour. kayleigh mcenany, we are glad to have you back this

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