let's bring in doug collins, good morning to you. merry christmas.e hands of the supreme court, how do you think they will rule and when do you think they will make a decision? >> doug: hopefully soon, i hope they rule to keep it in place. the story you mention about border patrol agents, that is what i'm concerned about. they have been overwhelmed by administration that does not care about them. they are processing illegal aliens and sending them out not able to do their job. you put more and more upon them, i worry about emthis, in addition to what is coming in, this being not just people coming in desperately seeking a new life, there is a willing way to do this. flip side, you have drug issues and other cartel issues. this is a sad day and the biden administration, they have a super secret plan for immigration. christmas was the past few days, time to show the world what you are trying to do. >> we've been hearing about this know pla, we haven't seen details for a couple weeks now. do you believe there is a plan they have that will happen or they

he was known for having other relationships with close conservative doug collins -- doug collins.a: there's questions about whether he will even be speaker. the biggest question is what they will be able to achieve. i have been talking to a bunch of people, sources at the white house, and there's a sense that a lot of what is going to happen over the next couple of years is very limited legislation. a lot of what hakeem jeffries is going to be able to do is i think somewhat symbolic in terms of establishing democratic priorities and creating a really clear contrast, a really clear foil for the democrats to take into 2024. they two have not had that the last years -- they have not had that for the last two years. yamiche: i wonder about the potential for this to become even more complicated for him. michael: thanks for having me on here. excited to be here with a talented group for the first time on the show. you know, kevin mccarthy has some problems on his hand. even if he becomes speaker and is able to pull this off, which he is probably still the odds on favorite, although he's

doug collins joining us in georgia. >> take care. maria: have a good day. are just getting started. futures are searching for direction this morning as we look ahead to the november producer price index out on friday, what to expect from those numbers as the dow industrials trades down 23 and nasdaq down 31. later, twitter lawyer james baker is out as elon musk confirms he has been fired. how he had a major hand in censoring the hunter biden story and russia collusion hoax. don't miss that. you're watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. ♪ got no sleigh no reindeer. ♪ to sack on my back. ♪ you'll see coming in a big black cadillac. ♪ merry christmas, baby who's on it with jardiance? ♪ ♪ we're the ones getting it done. we're managing type 2 diabetes and heart risk. we're on it with jardiance. join the growing number of people who are on it with the once-daily pill, jardiance. jardiance not only lowers a1c, it goes beyond to reduce the risk of cardiovascular death for adults with type 2 diabetes and known heart disease. and jardiance may help you

plus, it is election day in georgia, doug collins is here to talk about all of that next. >> griff: house say they will call on former twitter executives to testify before congress on their role in the censuring of the hunter biden laptop story. >> based on the internal documents that elon musk released this weekend, oversight committee will send a letter to the three twitter employees that were implicated in the cover-up of the laptop story, three letters requesting their presence in front of the oversight committee in january. >> ashley: white house says elon musk bombshell twitter files are a distraction. brooke singman has more. good morning. >> brooke: incoming gop will make this a focus when they take over the chamber next month, especially amid developments. fbi agent deposed revealing that the fbi refused to discuss their hunter biden investigation in 2020 after convincing facebook to suppress stories about the president's son's laptop. the agent saying i had a meeting with facebook after regular agenda had been completed and a facebook analyst asked if the fbi had information to

doug collins and david car lucci joining me to talk about it. mayor giving himself and his team a b plus for his first year in office. your thoughts, doug. >> if that's a b plus average i don't know what he thinks an a plus is. he came into the office and to work with others to make sure the police have good law enforcement and safety. that's not happening. it is happening in areas they want to point to but overall the still feeling and perception there is a lot of unsafety. you see what you said earlier. real criminal justice reform don't let dangerous people out or does not continually let people out who show a pattern of reoffending. real criminal justice reform deal with lower level offenders get out of jail to put the bad guys in. if that's idea of b plus i hate to see what he thinks is a plus. >> molly: one of the most horrifying results of letting out, this man went on a spree, two men dead and a 20 second indication a slash in the throat and another killed in the park was a pediatrician. bail reform is a big discussion and how would you g

neil: we'll follow closely, doug collins, great catching up with you my friend. be well. >> good -- take care, neil. neil: i dough want to go right now get the latest from the white house. the president plans a trip to arizona not to go to the border, even though he will be 100 or so miles from the border, to tout a big chip plant expenditure his legislation he says helped make possible. let's geheinrich from the white. >> reporter: neil, the president has not been to the southern border previously in office he previously said he hasn't had time to get there. he will be in a southern border state but evidently a border visit is not important enough for his time. >> why go to border state not visit the border. president biden: more important thing going on. they will invest millions of dollars in a new enterprise. >> reporter: that comment there is more important things going on drew immediate fire from border state law makers. >> no, he hasn't been there. this is pretty important to the people of texas and immigrants getting abused and dying. >> reporter: press s

he also had worked for doug collins in the previous cycle when doug collins was facing off against kelly loeffler. there's history in terms of republicans in the state of georgia feeling frustrated when you have newcomers to politics who end up essentially becoming the nominee, runoffs and all kind of stuff but become their party's nominee and saying today that if you just go with the establishment candidates who have been tested before and aren't going to have as much political baggage as we saw with herschel walker coming out you might not end up with these scenarios. >> interesting point you make. the republican philosophy normally is make decisions as local as you can, right, get them out of washington and get into the state. if you can get them to the county, get them to the county, if you can get them to the people, get them to the people. this is brad raffensperger just re-elected and geoff duncan, the lieutenant governor of georgia saying you should have let georgians pick the candidates, not donald trump. >> as republicans if we want to do soul searching we need to win back the

doug collins and kevin walling. thanks to you both for joining me today. u know, the balance of power is determined, this is the last senate race sort of hold-out straggler here. yet it is still pretty important. >> it is very important. i think from two perspectives. one, if walker wins tomorrow, which we're hoping he will do, it maintains the power sharing agreement in the senate. that means schumer has to go more procedure to get things out of committee if it's deadlocked in committee and appointments and other things like that. it is important especially now with the house being in republican hands. the second thing it also does is prepare sort of a gateway to 2024 when the map will be more in the republican's favor in the senate with the once the democrats having to defend most of the seats. it just sets up a precursor to that race where you will have to win other republicans race and you already have the advantage in georgia. >> how do the democrats view the status right now? is this race really still open? >> critically important. i think you are see

former georgia congressman doug collins explaining the impact of all this on border agents at the front lines. >> they have been overwhelmed by an administration who doesn't care about them. they are down there processing illegal aliens who come across our border and sending them across the country not able to do their job. this is just -- you put more and more upon them. this is just a sad day. the biden administration if they have a plan it is a super secret back door plan for immigration. >> julie: full coverage on fox here. former el paso deputy police chief and texas congressman lance gooden will join us in a moment. you are live in st. croix. she is in a nice, balmy temperature where president biden is also arriving later today. you two enjoy your holiday together, okay? >> you know, i'll try my best. we're doing serious work out here but the weather could be worse. i could be in buffalo. we might get a court order today on the future of title 42 and when it could be lifted. until that comes, it does remain in place indefinitely. in the interim it does not appear the biden adminis

we will unpack this with georgia congressman doug collins later on in the show. ♪ ♪ testimony revealingouse chief medical advisor dr. anthony fauci deputy institute of health was very impressed with draconian lockdown spear g.o.p. attorneys general eric schmidt and jeff landry proposing the doctor as part of the lawsuit against the bidens administration collusion with censoring criticism with white house pandemic. according to the newly released transcript, dr. fells g pressed from clipper clients that reads, china has demonstrated that it . dr. lane was impressed about how to make clinical public health standpoint the trainees with isolation. that is what i believe he meant when he said they were managing this in a very structured and organized way. the transcript also shows dr. fauci dragging his feet on questions pertaining to its relationship with social media companies. he was asked five times, dr. fauci admitted his daughter worked for twitter as a software engineer. >> ashley: congress reported close to stricking a deal to end covid vaccine for service members. democrats and the

nicole saphier, mollie hemingway, and we have kara frederick and former georgia congressman doug collinshe border crisis. new border apprehension numbers highlighting the growing catastrophe we've got,

for those continuing to serve in those positions despite all the pressure and former congressman doug collinsw jersey state police, those are men and leaders among us in faith and on the field that are persevering right at the top. >> dagen: this is fixable once you identify the problem went in the polls might do, mike gallagher said post-vietnam era, the military went through something similar. and i think about where i grew up surrounded by the norfolk, virginia, air station. the seymour air force and fort bragg, surrounded by people who dedicated their time in their lives to serving and protecting this nation. with all of these people moving to those parts of the united states does the mind-set change with families and begin to build new legacies in our military. >> pete: real leadership. the only difference between the '60s, dissatisfied with their service. but now you have all volunteer force. people stop raising their hand or not capable of it. we have a real problem. a top-down institution that can change. >> dagen: i regret that i didn't in times square. >> pete: you are still fine. b

doug collins, thank you so much for joining us, we have to leave it there we appreciate you. merry christmas. >> good morning. >> ashley: have a good day. >> carley: and, with that "fox & friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ why don't you just meet me in the middle ♪ i'm losing my mind just a little ♪ so why don't you just meet me in the middle. >> rachel: good morning, everybody. it's 6:00 a.m. in new york. meet me in the middle. that's exactly what i'm doing i'm in the middle seat with will griff and joey. still in the christmas season so we're going to talk about that a little later on. we should keep these christmas songs going today. [jingle bells] >> excellent op-ed. we will get to that first of all good morning to you. >> griff: good morning, no debate whether or not christmas season ends or continues in the superdome. we were showing the will superdome because it's a cool shot. >> joe: that song is one of my guilty pleasures songs. that's on my gym play list right there. i'm not going to lie. >> rachel: i thought are a lot more manly songs. >> joe: there are hate songs go

nicole saphier, mollie hemingway, and we have kara frederick and former georgia congressman doug collinsl begin with the border crisis. new border apprehension numbers highlighting the growing catastrophe we've got, but objections sources telling fox news migrant encounters have top half a million just since october 1st, folks while nearly 180,000 were expelled under title 42. the vast majority of them are still in the country. in the meantime we are also learning more about president biden's frustration behind the scenes. according to the new upcoming book coming out, biden fumed and dropped f-bombs as the crisis intensified with no clear solution in sight. the president has not been of the border still and not in his life and he didn't want to answer questions when pressed about by our own peter doocy, watch. >> mr. president do you want to stop at the border? >> julie: a fed up senator lindsey graham says the president needs to get down there asap in so many words. >> it is so unconscionable for him not to go to the border and listen to the agents and people trying to control the bord