todd: ron de santis taking on the white house and private companies working with it after over 70 flights carrying illegal immigrants landed in florida in the dead of the night. carley: one nashville pastor tackles a man to the ground after he whipped out a gun in the middle of service. we're talking to the man who said he had god on his side. todd: you're watching "fox & friends first" on this tuesday morning. i'm todd piro. carley: i'm carley shimkus. the biden administration admits it's considering pulling the plug on another pipeline as gas prices soar. todd: alex hogan joins us with more, as democrats urge biden to take immediate action to ease the prices at the pump. >> reporter: good morning, todd and carley. the biden administration has said that it's going to wait on a full environmental review before it makes any decisions on this line 5 pipeline. back in june, the army corps of engineers announced it was beginning its own survey and impact statement of of the pipeline running from canada to michigan. environmentalists and indigenous groups continue to call for its closure to pr

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okay, governor ron de santis is fed up with secret flights bringing illegal immigrants to florida.hey don't tell us when these flights are coming in. you want to vet the lawlessness, then you're not going to be able to have privileges in the state of florida. carley: he says it's got to stop and now he had has a plan to show president biden he means business. and there's bipartisan opposition here in the buckeye state to the shutdown of line 5 which would impact ohio in a big way. we're talking to a state lawmaker coming up next. ♪ dog barks you're right bunker, the medicare enrollment deadline is almost here. if you're on medicare and you want to explore your options, the deadline to enroll is december 7th. so, you should act now. were do i find the right medicare plan? at healthmarkets, they search many of the nation's most recognized carriers so they can help you find the right plan, at the right price that's the right fit for you. how long does it take? just minutes. my current plan only covers 80% of my costs. healthmarkets may find plans with zero dollar copays, deductibles a

carley: today, ron de santis is set to convene a special session to fight covid vaccine mandates. during the session the state will consider four bills to increase signs for businesses, local governments, schools and other companies that require the vaccine. this as oklahoma's national guard has vowed not to enforce biden's federal vaccine mandate. the governor asked the u.s. defense secretary to suspend the requirement for military members. todd: eight minutes after the hour now. today, president biden and chinese president xi xi will --i jinping will hold a virtual meeting. carley: this as gop lawmakers are pushing biden to mess china on the or -- press china on the origins of covid-19. we have more on this important meeting. >> reporter: there are a host of hot button issues from terrorists to taiwan but there is one that resonates with every single american and that's because it has touched all of us and that of course is covid, how it really started, and the need americans feel, you know, the need we have to be confident that this will never happen again. so the pressure is r

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administration is flying illegal immigrants to various places across the country florida governor ron de santis' office said 70 late night flights landed in jacksonville since the summer and these flights, are they paid for by the american taxpayer? what's going on here? >> yeah. so we ended the year in record territory, 1.7 million encounters and apprehensions and many of those people not from mexico, from all over the world, 150 countries as reported by the chief -- the former chief of the border patrol, rodney scott. many of those are children who come to the border unaccompanied and they're flown all over the country, including florida, because that's the way the law -- they're exploiting the loopholes in the immigration law. the they come to the country illegally, without their parents, and then they're placed in cities all over the country including jacksonville. carley: it's a big issue and it's only going to get worse under these policies. ron, thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. carley: ashley. ashley: time right now is 4:23 on the east coast. if you can't

florida is reporting the lowest amount of covid cases per capita in the nation after a governor ron de santiss slammed by critics for his handling of the pandemic. coming up, south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on the new variant and her bipartisan thanksgiving trip to taiwan that angered china. then, xi jinping and vladimir putin are moving ahead on closer military ties between china and russia. to counter what they say is u.s. aggression in the asia pacific region, retired lieutenant general keith kellogg is here on how the u.s. should counter china's global ambitions. plus, the humanitarian crisis continues at the southern border as the biden administration is poised to restart the trump era remain in mexico policy as soon as this week. this comes as the cartels are producing a record amount of fentanyl that is flooding the u.s. with deadly results. new york congressman john katko, the ranking member on the house homeland security committee, joins us on the impact biden's border policy is having on communities across the nation. with an upset victory in virginia, republicans are lookin

that's important because florida governor ron de santis has been routinely criticized for keeping the why are we seeing such a disparity there between florida having the lowest number and some states like michigan who shut down having higher case counts? >> well, part of it carl hey is seasonal -- carl hey is seasonal variation. it's showing us that despite very strict measures and despite measures that are far more selective and specific to those who are at risk, you tend to have similar outcomes in the end. so florida right now has vaccination rates of over 82% of all adults in this state. that's pretty remarkable. what you're seeing right now is basically an endemic phase and a normal life here resuming in florida. todd: i know you're a doctor, not a lawyer. if you were a lawyer, would this be exhibit a for natural immunity? >> certainly natural immunity is a huge contribution. one of the greatest failures of our public health officials has been ignoring natural immunity. more data is coming out showing it's effective and durable. they've been afraid to acknowledge it because they'

months after signing what he called the strongest election security bill in the nation, governor ron de santisthe state's voting laws. the announcement comes as de santis faces mounting pressure of supporters of former president donald trump to conduct an audit of the 2020 election. trump won florida by a landslide by the state's standards. groups have been knocking on doors collecting what they claim is evidence of fraud. they put it on a billboard in tallahassee calling on de santis to conduct an audit. on sunday, former president trump confidant roger stone threatened unless florida conducted an audit. i bring this up, senator, because they are not going to stop this nonsense. >> nope. >> what then, are the stakes if democrats go into next year without having passed voting rights legislation. >> the stakes are that the republicans are going to rig the elections going forward. that's what's at stake. that is it. very simply put, alicia. they are rigging the election so that -- they are making it harder and harder for people to vote. and these will not be fair elections. that's what they want

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thank goodness there are patriots out there like attorney general ken paxton in texas, ron de santisare standing up for americans who feel voiceless and helpless right now. todd: here is the refrom the doj. the stay would cost hundreds of lives per day. asserted injuries are speculative and remote. they don't protect employees from a dangerous virus while the case proceeds. this in response to the fifth district decision there. is any of that doj statement based in fact? >> listen, they told us the same thing about football games. we've had americans packed into football stadiums for over two months now and we haven't had the death rate they told us we were going to have. this is all covid fear monday mongering. the american people are over it. if you want to get the vaccine because that's your personal health decision i say go ahead and get it. if you're one of those americans that doesn't or doesn't want to be mandated by the government to get it, i know it's easier said than done but you holding the line, you making your voice heard, it does a lot. i want to thank those celebritie

florida governor ron de santis says if joe biden won't secure the border, he will send illegal immigrantse of delaware. watch. >> if they're going to come here, we'll provide busses and provide them. i will send them to delaware and do that. i mean, if he's not going to support the border being secured, then he should be able to have everyone there. todd: de santis' fiery remarks come in response to reports that immigrants have been flown into florida from the southern border. the republican governor says he is working with texas governor greg abbott to enforce the law at the border but the president's policies are making it impossible to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. the biden administration will have to depend on whistleblowers to report on private companies who violate the vaccine mandate. osha's acting chief says there are not enough inspectors for this massive operation, companies that fail to comply will face fines starting at $13,000 per violation. more than 80 of million americans will be impacted by the vaccine rule in the new year, as a group of 10 unions along with a sma

ron de santis talking about he's not informed that the flights are coming, they're coming in the middleknow. pete: there's the macro issues. there's the micro issues, just imagine if a terrorist got through and a terror attack was executed on this country, we would say how did he or she get there. imagine if a serial killer got through and we had a serial killer we were tracking. and imagine if a murderer got through. we had representative kat cammack on and she talked about many people coming across are criminals, are murderers, we talked about it on the program, committed murders on american soil after coming over illegally. so just think about this. importing people who will kill other people, will kill americans, of course that's not to impugn every person who seeks humanitarian aid or revenue gee -- refugee status. when you look at the number of got-aways, we're talking about trillions today, a number like that looks small, when you look at it in human terms, who are the 262. why didn't they want to be detected? >> that's right. they're dangerous. they don't want to turn themselves