as you love me. >> brian: he has somebody with him?ol t >> carley: that sounds like a romantic christmas. >> brian: i take it back, i overreacted, i feel terrible. >> we forgive you. >> brian: guys in for steve. you are in for ainsley. >> carley: yes. >> brian: she is probably watching. >> carley: i hope she is. >> brian: for the record, they get along, i don't know what you heard. >> not what i heard. >> ainsley: she is a walking angel. >> brian: you are a handful. >> really? >> do you agree with that? >> no, total professional. >> brian: no, she is one of the nicest people you have ever met. >> carley: todd is shaking his head. >> brian: how did he get involved? >> he was there and shaking his head. >> brian: chris, you being quiet? >> carley: let's do this, two days to go until christmas and families are getting shocking news, president biden announcing commutation of 40 federal death row inmates, including child killers and mass murderers like jose torres who murdered two girls and a woman between 2005 and 2009, torres stabbed an e

letters ymca and brian just kept doing the y. >> brian: i don't know i had to do all of them.himkus is down. >> ainsley: we have got to find that music before the end of the show that video. >> brian: down amongst the people. >> carley: i sure am. >> brian: start talking. >> carley: you exposed all of us that we all need dance lessons. >> steve: that's my friend. >> carley: don't you say you have never met a dance floor you don't like or doesn't like you? >> brian: brian eldridge has this song my theme i never met a dance floor that did me any good that's how i live my life. >> carley: i have been having so much fun talking to cassie. i was told that you could hear us as we were hooting and hollering down here. calls is i, talking about donald trump dancing and carrying on. he is going to be here tonight, sitting in one of these seats that you are in right now. how do you feel about that? >> i am so excited. second patriot awards and this is going to be the best one because i just love -- i have my maga hat i will wear tonight. >> carley: you were at the florida one where we m

brian is not wearing -- >> brian: you know why. >> janice: i'm wearing yours. >> brian: someone thought: i could have switched, mine is big. we'll do this. do this. >> steve: squeeze in. >> brian: there you go. >> steve: a shawl. >> brian: there you go. >> ainsley: very preppy. >> lawrence: very long island. >> steve: like a super hero with a cape. >> brian: going to harvard after this. >> ainsley: holiday season is flying by and 2024 is coming to an end. >> brian: year full of news and fun. >> steve: let's take a look back in the hop back machine and take a look at our favorite moments from 2024. ♪ ♪ >> this year is going to be wild and crazy. >> steve: chances are you will enjoy the show. >> mornings are better with friends. >> brian: watch this. ♪ >> brian: tag her. >> ainsley: i'm ready. i'm ready. >> steve: check in with janice dean for fox weather forecast. >> janice: i love you. where are you from? >> ohio. >> steve: carley shimkus joins us. >> are you saying inflation is impacting your love life. >> having a rooting tooting good time, steve. ♪ ♪ >> how you doing? >> my gosh, you

i'm brian kilmeade. we start with a poem. >> it was five days before christmas and all through this house, not a lawmaker was resting, not even their spouse. the c.r. was stalled, the debates full of heat. while a shutdown shadow loomed over our streets. >> beautiful. that was until about two hours ago. when the house finally passed a new spending bill to keep the government from shutting down. it took them a few tries. first was 1,500 pages and the bill was filled with pork. trump and elon didn't like it. they both killed it. they slashed the second bill by 1,400 pages. when it went to the house floor, dead again. democrats and a few republicans wiped it out. tonight, a new bill. it passed 366 to 234. surprise. everyone wants to go home for the holidays. that's why it passed perhaps. here's speaker johnson. >> we're really grateful that tonight in bipartisan fashion with overwhelming majority of votes, we passed the american relief act of 2025. this is a very important piece of legislation. it funds the

brian thompson himself from a flurry of comments saying brian thompson deserved to be targeted. andrew witties i'm sure many are disturbed by the commentary produced. the mission of this company is to make the system improve by h helping the experience get better and better, nobody tried to do more to advance that mission than brian thompson. fbi is offering $50,000 reward for information on the suspect's whereabouts. >> brian: he's taunting through central park, leaves a backpack, he knew it would be found, put monopoly money in it, show casings with words on it. directly into the camera. i think he's pretty clever. >> ainsley: lawrence and i were talking, is he crazy or is he, you have to be a little bit in order to kill someone or maybe a lot. does he want to get caught? his face is everywhere. >> lawrence: i think he's a killer that wants his message to get out. talking about monopoly of the system and cites the book with the shell casings and she's very sloppy, so it does not appear like he's a professional hitman because it is personal. i think that will get him caught and

brian, what are you doing?y. >> brian: you know the tradition is happening now. football all day and basketball. so, a lot of people are upset by that professional sports is it taking away from family time? can you sit there and be a good family member and watch five hours of football? and demand silence. >> todd: watch the giants always silence. you don't have to worry about that. they have real teams. >> nicole: families come together. have the game on the background while everyone is cooking or preparing the meal. today should be about family. doesn't mean you can't have a game on in the background. >> brian: interesting. you got to adjust because kids get older. girlfriends and other people split off. you got to keep the numbers going. make sure it's rotated. people rotating through. you are just a stop on their journey to a series of stops. >> nicole: that's why your house needs to be the fun house, the best house. so you have to work 365 days a year how is your house going to be the best house? >> todd: y

>> brian: you were an early supporter. >> todd: i met you in 2017. >> brian: and? & friends." i went up have you seen this fred claus? first thing i said to him he is like you and i we are kindred spirits when it comes to convince vaughan and the entire class of the snow globe scene makes you cry. >> and group therapy with famous siblings. bottom line the premise is vince vaughn is the brother of santa claus. how do you get attention if your brother is santa claus or in steven baldwin if your brother is alec baldwin or frank stallone if your zone sly stallone. they are in group therapy together. this is some of the premises that brings families together on christmas. >> todd: kathy bates is in it too. we are going to go through the entire data base. >> brian: thank you so much great producing staffer for collecting some of the feedback. >> carley: thank you sylvia and ann and all the people who wrote in. >> nicole: don't go anywhere. we are tracking santa who looks like he is heading to russia. busy journey this christmas eve. >> brian: good luck with that. >> todd

it, brian. >> brian: donnie snow had radio show before going to the white house. are prerequisite. he said because the president told me george w. bush i could be in the meetings. i didn't want it relayed to me what was happening. i had to be there do you have that type of guarantee? >> absolutely. yes. i have a direct relationship with the president trump. i can call him. he will answer. i have been working for him now a couple of years. so he is a great boss to work for. when you ask him a question he tells you the truth. >> steve: this is going to be such a change of pace for the last four years. when the people in the briefing room ask actually questions they get something read out of binder and it is not sometimes accurate and sometimes it's a flat out lie. >> yeah. absolutely. there has certainly been a lack of transparency over the last four years if you talk to reporters off the record. they will tell you they are excited about president biden will be back in the oval office because they know how much access they had to him and his press secretaries in his

joy meca came over to mar-a-lago. >> brian: who?ot to be kidding. >> lawrence: he could say -- >> ainsley: invited. >> lawrence: he could say, i don't want to meet these people. >> brian: new york is closing 25 migrant shelters including floyd bennett field. bussing stopped a little bit, that is live shot of stock exchange, time man of the year, it is official. >> steve: not the normal place they ring the bell, for security reasons, they'll be in a more controlled environment. you can see, they have the picture of donald trump, man of the year, up behind him. it will be great. you will see it live on fox in one hour and 21 minutes, he'll ring the bell. >> ainsley: donald trump will like that picture of himself. that is pretty. >> brian: person he is talking to regularly is titan on wall street, jamie diamond. they have been consulting and you can taking. there were constrictions after the collapse in 2008 and sense there was overcorrection, you have to do values and ethics, if people are talking to trump, let us go at it again, it i

. >> brian: hi. >> steve: and it's "fox & friends." >> brian: all right. here's this.here is a fox news alert. right now the teamster's union launching historic strike against amazon, the impact with christmas less than a week away. >> ainsley: plus, a wild situation on a cruise ship, a royal caribbean passenger is dead after being detained for a chaotic incident. the fbi is now investigating lawrence lawrence radio silence. new york city's mayor says that the white house cut him off after he spoke out about biden's border crisis. >> it was a clear statement from the white house that they were -- they didn't appear to be happy that i was standing up for the city. >> steve: he was. and so are we. "fox & friends" starts right now and remember, mornings are better when you watch your friends. ♪en here comes santa claus ♪ here comes santa claus right downs down. >> brian: there you go. looking live at steve's chimney. that is a shot inside his house. this is all you have a furnace. you don't have base board heating. a radiator. this is all you need. that's where you keep e

anybody seen brian?nsley: brian was checking out his old dorm room. >> brian: we used to shower together. >> ainsley: what? >> steve: you said we. >> brian: i mean, i remember, when i was i remember one shower. >> lawrence: true. >> steve: communal shower. >> brian: why was i okay with that? >> steve: back then? everybody did it. >> ainsley: you'd have a caddy and keep it under the sink on your hall. >> lawrence: i don't remember any of this in college. i had my own bathroom. >> ainsley: lucky. >> brian: fancy know pants. >> lawrence: shared with the suite mate, could lock the door. >> steve: 150 people and co-ed. >> ainsley: my parents wouldn't let me. >> brian: women's rights movement. women wanted right to shower wherever they wanted, remember that? >> steve: i don't think it was exactly like that. more complicated. >> brian: i got to look through that. >> steve: thank you, we have about 100 people live at tilles center at brian kilmeade's college. they have gotten up early to watch "fox and friends."

sorry, brian. clause. >> brian: our christmas eve tradition was to read twus children gather at the tree to pick one present to open on christmas eve. >> nicole: why did your voice get deeper when you read wanted to be invited. >> brian: imagine not buying any food and bring home the men for dinner. like it's 1790. >> nicole: i would go the to lioness and sure she'd be better about getting f food on the crunch. pick long island or connecticut connecticut or new jersey. >> brian: can't find it and get the fishing pole and going from the kilmeade pyro. >> todd: like that, chris? >> nicole: this k christmas eve, we're reflected on culture and the lives and the fox nation is the saints. even the new york times is taking notice of what feels like a reigns leading lick yous revival in -- religious survival in society. religion in decline and this christmas seems different. >> brian: we had cardinal dolan here yesterday and said the people he's seeing in the new york times editorials about the rise in peo

. >> brian: hope his back is okay. and mayhem, more people arrested linked to the venezuelan gang the governor said was not really there. >> steve: fox news alert, teamster union workers on strike against amazon. you're looking at live pictures in there from new york. impact with christmas less than a week away. will you get your stuff? >> lawrence: final hour of "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ run, run rudolph santa has to make it to town santa can take the freeway down ♪ ♪ >> ainsley: fireplace again where brian says he keeps all of his stuff. >> brian: no furnace. >> lawrence: put our stockings on there and not his family members, you know. >> ainsley: you are family. >> steve: you are my work family, that is right. our actual house, my wife made ne needlepoint stockings for every one of my kids and me. >> brian: are you kidding? she's a knitter? >> steve: a needle pointer. >> brian: is that a disparaging term? >> lawrence: just two different things. >> steve: different. not late in life, she's been doing it

and this, brian kilmeade. welcome back. >> brian: thank you. was gone forever. >> ainsley: one day. >> brian: yes. >> ainsley: we're glad you're back. lawrence is on assignment. he is off today ---he is working but is he in texas meeting with joss anyone nungaray's mom and the d.a. kim ogbueze seeking the death penalty for two illegal migrants accused of killing 1-year-old jocelyn. 12-year-old jocelyn. >> the house doge caucus meeting on the hill for the first time today as president-elect trump get back into the office. >> people don't come back to work and into the office they are going to be dismissed. >> steve: okay. and are you the pranking mood this christmas season? we have some ideas that could actually help. >> what is this? >> happy holidays, dwayne. but do not open it until christmas. >> steve: wait until you find out what we are talking about. second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. remember, mornings are better with your friends ♪ jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪ jingle bell swing and jingle bell rings ♪ bushels of fun ♪ no

brian? >> brian: that's pretty amazing going out without being in a blaze of glory.s before the top of the hour. outgoing west virginia senator joe manchin torching his party on the way the door calling it toxic. >> i am not a democrat in the form of what the democratic party has turned itself into, the national brand, absolutely not. the brand got so bad the d brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it just it's toxic. >> brian: here with reaction is fox news contributor "the washington post" columnist marc thiessen. your reaction to senator joe manchin who i guess technically went independent at the end. >> well, is he right. and that's why he is an independent because the party, you know, ronald reagan famously said i didn't leave the democratic party. the democratic party left me. the same is true for mansion. look, there has been a titanic shift in the parties. the republican party has become the party of the working class. and democrats became a party of coalition of minorities and coastal elites. but, in the last election. trump gained with almost ev

brian: you brought up god.ue. >> yeah, charlamagne tha god and he sat down with ladies of the view and going to see the light so good and going to be about the hunter biden >> i'll tell you when democrats are wrong. i say that on the show. >> that's your idea. die hart democrat or die hard republican, you refuse to be objective about the other party. like it's like we're watching them do something wrong but we're making excuses for it. we watch republicans do things wrong and they make excuses. why can't we all be objective and call it what it is. >> it's not the same. brian: when you have joe biden doing what he did this week and making everyone that voted for him look stupid. point it out. stuart: system of articulation he said a very bad word: octoberive and the ladies of the view don't like that . objective is not a word for them. they're late to the party. brian: where were you after leaving south dakota? >> dallas, las vegas, la and then over here. brian: once again the hollywood reporter on the news. >>

and welcome to brian kilmeade land. >> brian: long island and long island university.an you believe it? >> ainsley: what was it like when you drove in? you knew where to go. you were calling where do we go? what parking lot? >> brian: i remember the year we got here, the roof on this building collapsed in the snow storm. >> steve: oh good because it's snowing. >> brian: it's fixed now. this place is beautiful did. you have a chance to walk around? they have about 20,000 students here about. 4,000 live on campus. it's getting bigger every year. they have consolidated campuses. they won division one. once i left they realize we are in the clear. [laughter] i had a great experience here it's going to be fantastic to see them hosting the patriot awards which is surpassing the oscars as the number one award show in american history. >> lawrence: that's what i'm talking about. >> ainsley: we have all of these beautiful individuals who came early this morning for breakfast with us. i asked them y'all bought the tickets before you knew donald trump was going to be here? they s

: mission possible. >> steve: mission accomplished. >> brian: true. >> ainsley: what a maverick. >> brianoing. >> lawrence: i'm out. >> steve: risky business. >> ainsley: i need a cocktail. >> brian: good one. i would not have said it. >> lawrence: right. [laughter] >> ainsley: carley says far and away. >> brian: he was in the military in the young academy his first breakout with kevin bacon. tapps. >> steve: you can't handle the truth. >> brian: few good men. the firm. >> carley: the firm. days of thunder. >> steve: wrapingly up right now. >> ainsley: thank you for explaining what the firm means, law firm. >> brian: okay. outrage on the hill as ncaa president makes a jaw-dropping suggestion to female athletes. >> everybody should have opportunity to use other facilities if they wish to. >> okay, so the burden is on the women? when you live with diabetes, progress is... having your coffee like you like it without an audience. ♪ [silence] the freestyle libre 3 plus sensor tracks your glucose in real time so everyone else doesn't have to, and over time it can help lower your a1c confident c

to buy greenland. >> brian: yes.uy trump writing on truth social yesterday quote for purposes of national security and freedom throughout the world the united states of america feels that the ownership and control of greenland is an absolute necessity. this comes after trump also said he wants to reclaim the panama canal. >> brian: i do, too. >> if that country keeps charging fees. the president says it will continue to belong to his country. trump says we will see about that. the faa investigating after a drone powered holiday light show this weekend in orlando went terribly wrong. look at this. oh, boy, that sent at least one child to the hospital. >> oh no. >> big malfunction there the drones plummeting to the ground and into a crowd of 25,000 people. the drone company there says it is working with both the aff and the city officials to find out what went wrong. and those are your headlines. >> brian: that's why donald trump's speech, you had to have watched it. some of the lines you remember. other things like i

>> brian: i apologize. look out for your seams. >> ainsley: second hour of "fox & friends" begins right now and remember mornings are better with friends. ♪ jingle bell, jingle bell rock ♪ jingle swing and and jingle bells ring ♪ snowing and blowing are bushels of fun ♪ now the jingle bellhop has begun. >> lawrence: you are looking at the all-american christmas tree i can't believe two weeks. >> steve: less than. >> ainsley: our windows are tinted i can't. really see. >> lawrence: we can see them they are all bundled up. >> brian: can you appreciate this more than anybody, steve, this has become a tourist attraction. used to be place you sit on the bench and read the zipper. >> steve: unrelated to his pants issue. >> ainsley: headlines go around. >> brian: last night they told me someone got a proposal the other night tuesday night. >> ainsley: in front of our free. >> brian: gates open up and people are coming from everywhere outside new york to come. >> steve: i walked over that way a couple of blocks and

brian deserves justice. >> anabel herrera became brian's stepmother when he was four years old, but she misses him today as only a mother can. and she will never forget the day she got the worst news of her life. >> this is something completely devastating. it's life changing, and it's something you never get over. >> brian's father, william herrera, was at work when he got a visit from police. >> they told me they found him laying on the street. and i was, like, crazy. i didn't know what to do, to say. and that's when i realized brian was not with us anymore. >> christmas for the herrera's would never be the same. >> on christmas eve, my husband had to go identify his son's body. then christmas day, we were planning his funeral. >> while the police remain tight lipped about the details of brian herrera's murder, his parents have now taken on the role of playing detective, and they say that they found out some information. they believe that brian ran into someone right here. >> he was intercepted right here, right in front of this house. most likely, people tried to rob him. he tried to

brian? >> brian: all right, maddy, mystery continues. 30 minutes after the top of the hour.ing about these drones since last week but what are they actually capable of? guess what? we are asking an expert on fox square and getting a look at some of the different ones from american made to china made. we will discuss that in just a moment. now to this, secretary of state antony blinken meeting today with middle east leaders as part of one of the final pushes for stability in syria by the outcome going biden administration. it's hard to overstate how much opportunity we have to make a positive impact there. meanwhile, new israeli military video shows the idf pushing beyond the buffer zone at the syrian border in the golan heights. prime minister netanyahu saying his troops will remain in the region until the area is secure. our next guest says all this is an opportunity. an opportunity for the u.s. to put iran on notice. here to expand on that, retired four star general jack keane, institute of the study of war chairman. first off, general, in what way is iran vulnerable throu

you can't have it both ways. >> brian: right.emember this whole thing when the president, harold daggett who is an interesting character in his own right of long shoreman union showed up to talk about his position -- this was october 1st. >> never gave a [bleep] about us until now when they finally realized that the chain is being broke now. cars won't come in. food won't come in. clothing won't come in. you know how many people depend on our jobs? half the world. >> it's time for them and time for washington to put so much pressure on them to take care of us. because we took care of them and we are here 135 years and brought them where they are today and they don't want to share! >> brian: remember marlon brando was a long shoreman. >> steve: that was a movie on the waterfront. >> brian: on efficiency, if it's not significant, keep the jobs. but never industry you have to move it forward with progress because it does create other jobs, too, with a different skill set. it doesn't have to be tomorrow. but you would like to know th

. >> brian: wow. the migrant crisis by the numbers as president-elect trump gets ready for his day one border action. days have started already it seems. where 182 billion taxpayer dollars have gone. that's the big question. >> lawrence: "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> ainsley: we start with a fox news alert. president biden pardoning his son hunter last night, excusing any offenses. the first son might have committed over the past decade. >> steve: that's a long time. madeleine rivera joins us right now from washington, d.c. madeleine, even though joe biden said he is not going to do it, not going to do it. we all knew he was going to do it. >> really a major reversal for this president, steve. the white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said as recently as last month he bunt commute his sentence or pardon him. he did anyway he said his charges were meant to break him politically. the president saying in part here's the truth i believe in the justice system as i wrestled with this i bel

>> definitely do not be worried. >> brian: are you worried?be worried, wave of the future. we have to be better than our adversaries. >> brian: thank you, freezing with a scarf, you dressed appropriately. we will have a performance from king and country, don't move, you are watching "fox and friends." ♪ ♪ s no drill mud flaps... impact liner with shock absorbing rings... and top it off with the alloy cover. find these american made gifts or get a gift card instantly at wt.com. (♪) (high five) >> steve: fox news alert, san francisco police reportedly identified ceo shooting suspect luigi mangione through photos days before his arrest at a pennsylvania mcdonald's. >> lawrence: details on that. >> yeah, that new reporting coming as we knew his mom reported him missing, did that tip in san francisco ever make it from the fbi to the nypd? i'm working on that. police tell me luigi mangione was never a client of unitedhealthcare, he specifically said he was targeting the company's ceo, what was motive still remains. this x-ray was posted online telli

>> brian: gift certificate, gift card. >> ainsley: no. although you want her to pick out the jewelry, good idea. >> brian: the girls help me. >> ainsley: trump touched on everything from ukraine to tiktok as tech ceos rush to get in his good graces. >> first term, everybody was fighting me, this term, everybody wants to be my friend. >> brian: seems crazy. an illinois town outraged after president biden gave clemency to a judge who performed largest municipal fraud in u.s. history. >> steve: and a little girl telling us what happened after her viral moment at a kid's christmas show. >> what did the kids say to you after the show? >> good job for telling the truth. >> brian: what did she say? you'll find out later. >> steve: final hour for "fox and friends" on tuesday starts right now. >> brian: today on capitol hill, the house doge caucus is hold ing first ever meeting. >> steve: president trump spoke with tiktok ceo ahead of the ban on the chinese-owned app if it fails to find a new parent company. >> ainsley: peter doocy joins us with d

so rude. >> i'm sorry, i did not mean to. >> brian: i'm kidding. >> you got to say bless you. >> brian: without missing a beat. >> lawrence: it is texas way. you are a yankee. >> brian: don't stop. i'm continuing. >> lawrence: you would have continued. >> i'm on the couch. >> brian: you're fine. >> steve: she's fine, folks. moving on. pete hegseth at the center of intent media scrutiny after donald trump picked him for next defense secretary. pete's mother, penny, will join us next to set the record straight, stick around. i try to put my arm around any vet that i can. absolutely. at newday usa, that's what we're doing. we put our arm around the veterans. when i think of the veteran out there that needs to refi his home, he may want to purchase and we can help them and provide that financial solution for them and their families. it's a great, rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference and that respect and that love for the veteran that makes this company so unique. what if your mobile network wasn't just built to work out here... ...but was designed different

lawrence, ainsley and brian. >> brian: all right. >> ainsley: thank you so much, made. >> brian: as i president zelenskyy has got for a guy in theater. he has unbelievable political instincts. number one to unite a country to be war time leader. >> ainsley: sound familiar, donald trump. not in theater but television shows. >> brian: vladimir putin was performing there. understood the russian cultures. also jewish. so, understand he rose to the occasion. >> i agree. but then he realizes okay, donald trump, is saying end this war in syria and ukraine. when he knows relates of the war. i'm going to deal with it. when he wins, he goes over and talks to him. he understood not to get involved with the impeachment, the first time around. he said don't worry about it. keep me out of this. and didn't witherer and shows up in france and make sure he gets some quality time there. >> lawrence: i do think he had one miscalculation. >> brian: big mistake. >> lawrence: it'ed a like he was on the campaign trail. evidence has since altered that donald trump great relationship in office now. and it loo

. >> brian: look at this, the finest christmas tree ever made from scratch. >> steve: grown. >> briangrown i should say right in front of our building and, of course, the song by fred eldridge who gave me that phrase, i never met a damn fool that did me any good but this time singing a christmas song to get us more in the mood and guess what, look who is here as we gradually in maybe using a dissolve, the incoming first lady and former first lady of the united states and the author of melania, melania trump. great to see you >> melania: thank you, good morning. >> steve: the first thing is congratulations how has your life changed over the last three weeks? it's so new but we've never had this happen, a president leave and come back in, what, 80 years >> melania: yeah, it's incredible and we are very, very busy. the life is -- the pace of it, the transition team i'm establishing, my transition team and also working on my office, putting my office together, and also, you know, organizing the residence and packing. it's incredible what you need to do in that situation. >> ainsley: melan

>> brian: right. michelle obama is not really tight with the bidens. >> lawrence: because of this. >> brian: they were tight with beau's family and his wildfire. they saw the way kicked it to the curb. she is probably out there with london's daughter -- what's the daughter's name? >> navy. comes as trump's pick kash patel bill melugin is outside trump's hq. he is in west palm beach on this beautiful monday more. >> hey, guys, good morning to you. president-elect donald trump has said repeatedly he really wants to shake up the department of justice. and some of his recent picks show that it's certainly the direction he is going and that includes his pick for attorney general pam bondi she is going to be on capitol hill today where she is expected to meet with key republicans. now, bondi has been serving as the state of florida's attorney general she was picked by trump after matt gaetz essentially withdrew his own nomination poland repeatedly sued the administration over border policy. she a trump loya

brian $100. >> brian: i might have it. i never carry cash. >> ainsley: coffee more than anybody else. i will turn the heater off. >> brian: make sure it's off when i get back. here is the other 50. >> steve: it's off. >> ainsley: looks like his desk. >> brian: can we start the show? >> ainsley: not my read now. [laughter] >> steve: welcome to the second hour of "fox & friends" on brian kilmeade's anniversary. >> ainsley: actually take the money. >> lawrence: oh yeah i will take it. >> steve: it's new york. come on. speaking of new york. who would you want on the train with you in the defense's closing argument in the daniel penny trial. >> ainsley: can we answer? >> steve: as jury deliberations begin as soon as today. >> lawrence: charlamagne tha god after president biden his son. >> i want democrats to stop acting like political high ground politically when they show us they are not. start acting like you are the pure party and republicans aren't. >> brian: that's a good part clcharlamagne. identify with the italian stall

>> good morning, brian. >> brian: nice to see you.ow what the supreme court is going to do is there any reason to believe they are not going to follow through on legs that passed lawfully. >> no, no. this -- bytedance legal's track is about to come to an end. there are going to be two options here, brian. one is they are going to shut it down and the other is sell it. we think we have a solution for china, which is buying it without the algorithm and the solution for americans. and -- there is a verksz of tiktok that is safe for americans either a ban on or about purchase and we are in front of the line to buy it should they decide to sell. >> brian: frank, is there any doubt in your minded that the chinese able to get any of our material news feed without a security risk. >> no doubt. what is in my mind doesn't much matter. you saw the strong bipartisan support for the legislation. you saw the judges on the appeals court rule 3-0 that this thing needs to be shut down. have you seen the supreme court take this case in record time. i t

what is your problem, brian? >> brian: too close. i'm not afraid. >> steve: we're all close. >> ainsley: move over. all right, we are one week away from christmas and this is "fox & friends." we're calling it border disorder. nearly 8 million illegal migrants are living in sanctuary cities around our country. >> lawrence: plus a "fox & friends" exclusive, i met with the family of 12-year-old jocelyn nungaray and the texas district attorney who is seeking a death penalty for the venezuelan migrants in her case. >> missing and i was not going to believe what was possibly the truth, a little girl being found and it wasn't going to be my little girl. >> no one is above the law, regardless of where they come from. >> brian: paris hilton joining "fox & friends" calling on house lawmakers to take up her bill after suffering her own abuse as a teen. >> i heard that it was still happening today and now there's thousands of these schools and hundreds of children have died in these places. i knew that i had to use my voice. >> steve: and you wi

it's really frightening. >> brian: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. in the u.k. -- you have an important prom owe. >> we can days at 4:00 p.m. eastern on the spanish fox station. >> brian: see you on the radio. >> bill: good morning. we watched a courthouse coll amity play out in realtime as th

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brian lost his apartment. >> brian: i was in the bottom of the house. burned. they didn't have it on the manifest. they go we didn't know there was a house there. >> steve: terrible out there. meanwhile 20 minutes after the top of the hour. carley joins us with news from philadelphia. >> carley: an arrest warrant issued for a suspect identified in a home invasion outside philadelphia that left a mother hurt and her son dead on sunday. he is wanted for multiple charges including murder and robbery. police say a group of thieves stole the family's car, which was later found abandoned. officials are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. the "wall street journal" reporting that president-elect trump spoke to florida governor ron desantis about choosing lara trump to fill in the florida senate seat being vacated by marco rubio. trump selected rubio to be his secretary of state. of course, lara trump stepped down as co-chair of the republican national committee last week. and mentioned she would quote seriously consider replacing rubio in the

. >> brian: i wonder how that's going to go.uddy the elf spotted in times square looking fitter than ever. one oklahoma man takes the big apple by storm or hop after hilarious. hilarious deal from his wife. >> brian: just a guy in great outfit. >> steve: he was in front of our building. >> lawrence: i know. the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> ainsley: small bipartisan group of senators reportedly having talks of their own to put together a new border deal for early next year. >> steve: that's happening as we await a border security announcement today from texas governor greg abbott. >> brian: yeah, that's encouraging, lucas tomlinson is at the white house. is he going to blow up this story. hey, lucas. >> good morning, guys. that's right. the small group of bipartisan senators wanted to do something about the border and planning to introduce some legislation early next year to fix the border. of course, that's one of the reasons president-elect trump won the election last month was because of the border. an

all right, brian kilmeade, over to you. >> brian: great job, janice. now. before the top of the hour. donald trump tapped abraham accords adam boehler to serve as his special envoy for hostage affairs. this comes as 101 hostage remain in hamas captivity, including three americans as trump warns the middle east there will be hell to pay. put this on truth social if they are not released by january 20th when he takes over. in his first interview, since accepting this key role, adam boehler joins us now. adam, congratulations, so deserved. you are so qualified, tough job. did that truth social post help or hurt your chances of getting them out alive? >> thanks for having me on, brian. first of all, the president posting that now makes my job a thousand times easier. he has indicated that we are a presidency of action. we're going to do things. and now it empowers me to get our people out. >> brian: what has happened since that came out? have you heard from israel? have you heard from qatar, have you heard from representatives in gaza? i got a calm yesterday mo

. >> brian: and turning her past into good.ilton pushing a bill to protect troubled teens child abuse at fingerprints after dealing with it herself growing up. >> almost a way to -- like a protective shield and then i think the whole world just thought that that's who i really was. >> ainsley: plus, speaker of the house mike johnson will join us live. we will ask him about paris' bill and the spending deal that needs to be finished on friday. >> lawrence: the second hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ >> steve: okay. happening today, as you can see right there, border priorities. the house border caucus is going to be holding a press conference to discuss with the public their priorities for stopping the flow of illegal migrants into the united states and monitoring the migrants already here and in many cases need to be deported. >> brian: president-elect trump's transition team already eyeing several key policy changes. >> lawrence: peter doocy joins us live from washington with the latest. >> peter: good morning, offi

and that's what elizabeth warren. >> steve: they are in the huddle, brian. >> brian: thank you.t, ainsley, will you accept my sports analogy? >> i got that one. i understand what that one means. kept it simple for me. didn't go into too much detail. you are welcome, thank you for speaking to everybody out there. >> steve: brian, continuing with the sports thing. let's talk about. every once in a while in soccer, your beloved soccer, a player is disqualified, right? well, yesterday, down in georgia. fani willis, the d.a. >> ainsley: they get a red card. >> steve: there you go. fani willis was disqualified, because there was a conflict of interest. remember, it all played out here on fox news. >> brian: i don't remember that at all. >> ainsley: she is fired. she is out. disqualified. >> steve: as it turns out. yesterday she was removed from the prosecution because of a conflict of interest. she was -- had a personal relationship with somebody she had hired, nathan wade, who was an investigator. and the legal system down in georgia said, this. >> lawrence: court of appeals. >> stev

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brian be brian perfect segue to what is happening this weekend at 9:00.:00 one nation. mike waltz will be joining us. he is the national security adviser to donald trump. mike gallagher, former congressman, is he at the reagan defense forum right now. he is now volunteer. anthony row dea. starring meanwhile coming up next hour, melania trump will be on our couch talking about what it is like to be the incoming first lady. first, the doge duo heads to the hill. the areas where they can still slash spending. and will they get any cooperation when they try? my mental health was better. but uncontrollable movements called td,tardive dyskinesia, ♪ td felt embarrassing. i felt like disconnecting. i asked my doctor about treating my td, and learned about ingrezza. ♪ ingrezza ♪ ingrezza is clinically proven to treat td, quickly reducing td by greater than five times at two weeks. number-one prescribed ingrezza has dosing that's always one pill, once daily. and you can keep taking most mental health meds. ingrezza can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or action

back to you. >> brian: wow.y because the other seats had to be filled with special elections, right? what do we have? waltz, we have elise stefanik. >> peter: gaetz. >> brian: those three seats it will expand a little bit. >> peter: sounds like there is ways that trump is manipulate the math. he could pull something like gerald moskowitz to run one of the federal agencies here. >> steve: that would be smart. going back to your other topic today on tiktok. over the last couple of years we have heard about the security concerns and stuff like that. so many lawmakers and a lot of republicans and donald trump himself used tiktok -- and he was talking about it yesterday at mar-a-lago, about how tiktok helped him, he presumed, with young people. is there a possibility they could actually say we know we have been against it for a long time but now, you know what? maybe it's not so bad. >> peter: just depends on who they are listening to. the senator that he wants to be his secretary of state, marco rubio was one of the

brian, how cold? >> brian: 27. >> ainsley: it is cold outside.. >> steve: 27-32, welcome to "fox & friends." >> lawrence: ewa fox news alert president biden pardons his son, hunter. despite the people, watch. >> have you rolled out a pardon for your son? >> yes. >> brian: theory ago plus democrats panicking that trey gowdy defending his former colleague. >> he has quite candid allayed the most unfairly maligned person that i worked with the entire eight years i was in washington. >> ainsley: kash patel knows where the corruption is and that's what they don't like it. bible sales, y'all are booming thanks to first-time buyers and newer versions. how great is that? "the chosen" star will join us later this morning. >> steve: the final hour of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> brian: starting the final hour with fox news alert, the man slid under dominic's manslaughter trial will begin in new york city. >> ainsley: chanley painter a lawyer in private practice for four years and prosecutor in arkansas. good morning. >> good morning, guys. and a co

. >> brian: from ontario, california.ach the judge in hunter biden's case is slamming the party as new reports say hunter failed to pay rent out in venice beach, california. >> emily: and, get your shopping done early. we have holiday gifts for the whole family, including this barbie phone and adorable spiderman bike straight out of your 90's dreams, y'all. >> brian: skip holding a barbie. what is happening in this world the steve. >> lawrence: cats and dogs living together. whole world is going crazy. hour two of "fox & friends" starts right now. >> steve: welcome to hour two. 7:01 in new york city. more fallout over joe biden's controversial pardoning of his son hunter as the federal judge in california accuses the president of trying to rewrite history. >> lawrence: in light of the pardon, more accusations have surfacing about the first son's very troubled past. >> brian: lucas tomlinson has the assignment. he is at the white house this morning. fill us in. >> the federal judge overseeing hunter biden's tax case took u

the suspect in the murder of the united healthcare ceo brian thompson has now been charged. >> brian:oke singman breaks it down for all we know and we know a lot. brooke? >> we did. suspected killer remains behind bars in pennsylvania this morning luigi mangione on your left here is now charged in the killing of united healthcare ceo brian thompson six in midtown, manhattan. the suspect now faces several in new york he has been charged with second degree murder along with three our other gun related. in pennsylvania 5 more charges, forgery, carrying a gun without a license and lying about his identity to officers his arrest came after a tip from a mcdonald's more than 230 miles from manhattan in altoona, pennsylvania. the authorities say the 26-year-old was carrying a gun believed to be the one used to shoot thompson local officials hailed as a hero. >> in some dark corners this killer is being hailed as a hero. hear me on this. he is no hero. the real hero in this story is the person who called 911 at mcdonald's this morning. >> mangione had clothing and a mask shooter when police ar

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>> brian: sure. is this guy carrying a knife? he said he wants to kill me and everybody and himself. i let him go and he whips out a knife, i find a lot of analysis over the top and not practical. >> steve: things kickoff in two hours. the department of justice special counsel, that guy there, i thought it was david weis, he says motion to dismiss hunter biden indictment should be denied. >> brian: madeleine rivera is in washington. >> madeleine: hunter biden legal team want automatic dismissal of gun and taxis cas, that is what david weis is taking issue with. he does not deny he has been pardoned. it does not mean probable cause should be wiped away. there was none and every has been evident of selective prosecution contradicting the president's characterization of hunter's indictments. >> no, read the president's statement, read the president's statement, he said he believes in department of justice and believes it was a miscarriage of justice. he believes his son was unfairly targeted. and enough is enough. s >> hunter's lawy

you so much for having me. >> brian: pretty amazing. was surprised. first we heard one day caught, didn't say a reasonable doubt would. no lawyer. didn't say a reasonable doubt would. to see him getting out of the car screaming like that and defiant. i don't know if he is acting. didn't look like a guy with a back injury. see him jumping up and down and they are grabbing him. that didn't seem like a guy to be handled gently. >> lawrence: i worry about this case if it's in the theme of what he did the way he committed this murder crumbs he left for everybody to see not just the cops. is he trying to litigate this case for the public and not for a court of law a lot of people throughout that are supporting him a lot of people outraged with the system a lot of americans sympathize with the brokenness of the system and ignore the system they will have a hard time convicting him. >> rachel: curing those months he was missing where was he and what was he doing? i want to know about the drugs in his system? what was he on? >> brian: absolutely