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The country illegally. Senator Lindsey Graham hearings on the planned withdraws of u. S. Troops in not only syria but afghanistan. The shadow you had by out imminent resignation of james mattis. Man climbed the National Christmas tree and wouldnt get down. Merry christmas, washington. Cold as ice you know that you are cold as ice. Pete wow, that is fox square formerly known as the plaza transformed into an ice skating rink this morning. Jedediah that looks beautiful. Im so excited. Griff i have goose bumps i dont know if its foreigner or ice. Fondest memory as a child 10 years old my parents brought me to Rockefeller Center you dont know how to ice skate i lacied them up anyway. Pete how did it go . Griff i dont know. I was 10. Conjures up memories of christmas and new york city. I cant wait to go ice skating again. Pete are you an ice skater . Jedediah im all right. I did notice producers say jedediah is going to try some harder stuff. I dont know how thats going to go guys. If i fall i know its very i will do my best. If i can stand up, i will consider it a win. Pete testament if you try things on the show it may not go well for your bodily harm. Griff this is true. Pete jedediah, Griff Jenkins, were excited its christmas in two or three days. [sladays. [sleigh bells] pete no, thats santa in his workshop. [ho, ho, ho. Griff alert, the government shut down now underway. President trump is putting blame on democrats for not coming to bipartisan agreement to fund the border wall. Jedediah Gillian Turner is live in washington where talk also resume this afternoon. Gillian . Gillian that is right. Good morning, guys. The federal government here in washington is partially shut down after President Trump failed to strike a deal with democrats on funding for the border wall. This is the third shut down of the year. President trump took to twitter to explain the situation to americans taking none of the blame. Take a listen. Our great country must have Border Security. We dont want people coming in that arent supposed to be here. We need the democrats to give us their votes. Lets work together. Lets be bipartisan and lets get it done. The shut down hopefully will not last long. Gillian this comes exactly one week after the president told Democratic Leaders schumer and pelosi in the oval office that he would own any shut down over Border Security. Senator schumer indicating last knight the dems are still willing to keep on negotiating. Democrats they have offered three proposals to keep the government open, including a proposal offered by leader mcconnell that passed the Senate Unanimously only a few days ago. We are willing to continue discussions on those proposals. Heres the shut down by the nuns. Numbers. 800,000 federal employees are affected. 420,000 forced to work without pay. And another 380,000 temporarily furloughed. The majority of these employees are working outside of d. C. On the upside, 75 of the government is already funded through 2019, including the departments of defense, labor, education, health and human services. And the congress. But, major agencies like the justice department, homeland security, and the state department are not. And they are going to be hit hard, guys, by this shut down. Pete gillian, thank you very much. I would say happy shut down saturday. How are you feeling . Are you waking um this morning . Government shut down . Your lights are still on, right . Jedediah no armageddon, as far as i can see. Pete it aint happening. For my two cents the more d. C. Is uncomfortable the better. We are going to show information about previous shut downs. I think the one under oklahoma most recent to ours is 2013. I had to google it what do you remember about these shut downs . Everyone got paid . Everything is fine. Everything rumbled forward. Armageddon not really happening, jedediah. Jedediah what you remember is that the democrats try to paint these scare at that time ticks every single time something major comes up whether budgetary issue, the debt, immigration they come in with scare tactics. Sometimes it works as far as how it plays out in the public. Trump took a lot of heat initially because people thought he was walking it back and not digging his heels in. We elected you to be the guy who does something and follows through outsider who gets stuff done. He is digging his heels. In people are hoping he stays with those heels dug in. Its now or never. Griff happened several times buff, we can put that up on the screen. Heres the one i remember most recently january 2018. The National Park service didnt have trash pickup. Some employees had their cell phones cut off. It was not an earth shattering moment for the nation. We all got over it here is senator Lindsey Graham talking about the president saying what this is really about is having to break the democrats. Take a listen. When you make a promise to the American People, you should keep it the one thing i like about President Trump, he is trying his best to keep his promise. He promised to build a wall. And he is going to fight hard to keep that promise. After the caravan, if you dont see the need for more Border Security, youre blind and now heres the problem. I think democrats hate trump so much they want him to lose even though it would be good for the country to work with him on Border Security. And if he doesnt break them now, its going to be a terrible 2019. Griff talks about breaking them. By the way, dont forget that both parties wants beefed up security. They are offering 1. 6 billion before we got here. The president wants 5 billion. Talking about 3 tenths of 1 of deficit. Jedediah do you support a government shut down . Let us know. Really curious how its impacting people out there. Pete Lindsey Graham said dig in. Nows the time. In my mind, own the shut down. This whole nonsense Chuck Schumer goes to the floor and saying its trumps shut down no one gives a about that. You can maim name it what you want is spin it the way you want. The republicans like spent two years wasting their time. This is on republicans just like it is on democrats, so here we are at the last crucible. Nancy is never going to do it when she controls the house. This is the last changes. Dig. In let us know. Jedediah President Trump coming out sign for the wall design of steel flat barrier totally effective while at the same time beautiful and if you look at that a lot of people out there saying this could work, actually. Pete part of the reason while the steel slat versus the wall is because if you get 1. 6 billion as its currently written, it has to be a design that was already approved by congress. Steel slats already approved by congress, so you can get a wall. If you get the 5 billion for wall funding then it can become the prototypes that the president wanted. All washington semantics and differences. Listen, a wall like that works pretty darn well. Griff those washington semantics. Pete they happen to matter. Griff we need to do something on our border. When you hear the head of the Border Patrol and cpp we have a problem spiraling out of control and we have to address it whether its steel slats or concrete wall which is what democrats wanted to make this a negative political football. You either address it or you dont. What you are talking about as chad pergram pointed out our resident capitol hill expert, we are talking about pocket lint in terms of the numbers of dollars that would be spent on trying to achieve this goal which is now really the shut down is becoming a bit of a farce. Pete chuck and nancy said the wall is expensive and ineffective. You know when you text somebody and you rite ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Chuck and nancy is that a joke. Rounding error. Ineffective everywhere walls are used they end up working. Their people know that. Jedediah we have reaction from both sides on this and we have a tweet from rollen trump added the death spike to his fence to appease his bloodthirsty base of idiots. Pete roll land you are an idiot. Cammeron, i dont care if the wall is see through or has spikes on top just build it. This is crucial. Especially where our places where our border has no fencing, barrier and leaves our country wide open. Ill take whatever. Make it happen. Supporters just want a physical barrier that can be overseen by agents that doesnt allow people to just run in. Jedediah his supporters want the humanitarian crisis addressed at the border and they should frame it as such. They always talk about republicans arent compassionate. Republicans no. It is compassionate to care about the fact that some people from other countries are crossing over, being insent advised to cross over illegally and endure horrific conditions. Border security is National Security but also fixing a humanitarian crisis. Republicans should not ignore that point. Griff no one has become more outraged about this in sort of an insensitive way than jimmy kimmel on thursday night who had this to say. Take a listen. There are some very dopey people ready to pay for it themselves. People, this is what people do with their disposable income when they dont have loans from college to pay off. Donating money for a wall that will never exist. Its like starting a college fund for harry potter. [laughter] more useful things to do with your money would be to go outside and feed it to a bird. You do have to admire the sacrifice they are making. A lot of these people are dipping into their meth money for this. Pete actually, i watched this clip on the way. In i dipped into my meth money and i dont nateed 200 to the go fund me page. Griff really . Pete people are done. Washington cant get it done. Watch this go fund me page has 5 or 6 million bucks right now. If washington wont get it done american citizens want to get it done. Jedediah sad that american citizens feel the need to step in and do the job that the American Government should be doing. Pete shocking. Jedediah also horrifically insensitive that he would make fun of people who want Border Security and National Security. Griff are you happy shut down going on. Jedediah and what about kimmel. Pete does jimmy kimmel have a wall around his house. I want to know. Jedediah does he have security. The patrick frazees arrest comes one month after kelsey fares vanished on thanksgiving day. Her body has not been found but no word on what led to his arrest. As you can tell from the arrest, sadly, we do not believe kel sea is still alive. Investigators have recovered a number of items that make us suspicious that the crime did occur at kelseys residence. He was charged with solicitation. Police are not ruling out a second arrest. Flights taking off at londons gatt wick airport. Police making two airports charging a man and woman with criminal use of drones. Suspicious drone sightings grounded all flights. 100,000 passengers for three days. Police say there are no signs this is terrorrelated. A fourlegged santa claus isnt letting anyone on the naughty list off the hook. A canine officer dressed as santa takes down three suspects in one night. Oregon deputy say canine stark now holds the new record with 186 captures. He dresses up in several costumes, especially for halloween and fourth of july. And those are your headlines. Thats adorable. I love a dressed up dog. Pete when you get caught by santa claus dog. Griff should the president keep the government shut down until january . Some say thats not long enough. Well, we will ask ned ryun, he has thoughts on it. Pete plus, he once welcomed refugees with open arms. Now justin from canada is blaming trump for his countrys Immigration Crisis. Really . Jedediah you cant top the christmas classic. New poll is proving it how new americans are choosing Christmas Carols over the billboard hits. Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh jingle jingle jingle all the way honking when your craving strikes, you need your wing nut. no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. This is a commercial sabout insurance. , but lets be honest. Nobody likes dealing with insurance. See, esurance knows its confusing. I literally have no idea what im getting. I dont know either. Im just the spokesperson. But thats why theyre making it simple so that even actors, like us, can understand it. Im not an actor. Id love to tell you more but i only have thirty seconds. So heres a dramatic shot of their tagline so youll remember it. 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Jedediah here to react former president ial speech writer ned ryun. Good to have you here. Good to be with you guys. Jedediah what do you think should this push through january to february . How long should this go on . As long as necessary if it has to go for months. It goes for months. Its mindblowingly stupid that we have even gotten to this point. Thats congress for you. They want to keep kicking the can downtown road and trump has said absolutely not. Were going to keep having this conversation. Back in march when he signed that god awful omnibus bill he was promised by leadership we will get you funding for the wall. Here we are in december and they werent going to give him any funding. I think its rather shameful that Mitch Mcconnell and paul ryan even suggested that you have a continuing resolution that pushes this back until february. You mean when nancy pelosi is speaker and there is a snowballs chance of hell in getting any funding for the wall . No. The time to fight is now. You shut down the government. I wrote an oped for fox earlier this week. Shut counsel down the southern border. We have to fix our immigration system and secure our southern borders. The reason we have to do this, if you look a little bit down the road, couple years down the road with Mass Immigration and bringing in all these Illegal Immigrants and welfare system is broken . We have a lot of problems in our very near future if we dont deal with this. Other thing griff i will say is this 5. 7 billion out of a 4 trilliondollar annual budget and we cant find any money . We can find the money it has nothing to do with that. They dont want to give him a win and they have to kowtow to their far left base. Griff let me put up a quote from roys oped griff you are on the same page . 100 percent. Literally, if trump had not said i will shut everything down, again, congress would have kept pushing, kicking the can down the road. We have to have this conversation now. You know democrats are not going to be serious about this. They would rather they are pleased with our broken immigration system for a whole wide variety of reasons. They have no intention of actually securing our border. Again, it points out really what hypocrites they are on this. When you think back, schumer voting for the huma sector wall. They voted for 46 billiondollar packages before for building 7, 800 miles of border fence. They dont want to do that now for a variety of reasons. They are not going to do any funding if they seize control of the house. If we dont fight now, we are going to regret it. Jedediah if had you to make a prediction how this lands, who caves . Does someone cave . Do they meet in the middle on a final number. Politics is the art of come promize. I think there is going to be some sort of compromise. Perhaps looking at 4, 4. 5 billion as deroy mentioned. There is going to be some figure where both will be able to claim some sort of victory. This is important for trump to win because, again, lets not forget, this is one of the reasons he was actually elected build the southern wall. Pete thats right. Thanks, ned. Merry christmas, guys. Griff what happens here is going to foreshadow 2020. We are almost there. Jedediah for sure. Griff President Trump announcing he plans to pull troops from syria and afghanistan. Some critics outraged. What do those who fight the wars think. Our military panel weighs in. Jedediah los angeles highway just named for former president obama. Another citys push to do the same hitting some major traffic i want to ride it all night long hey yeah . I switched to geico and got more more savings on Car Insurance . They helped with homeowners, too ok plus motorcycle, boat and rv insurance geicos got you covered like a blanket houston . You seeing this . Geico. Expect great savings and a whole lot more. Griff good saturday morning. Quick headlines for you. The Supreme Court rejects the Trump Administration asylum ban. Reject those crossing the border from seeking asylum. The judges order says the ban, quote irreconcilablably conflicts with immigration law. Now to our northern border. Justin trudeau blaming the u. S. For influx of Illegal Immigrants that he invited. People are fleeing the United States right now are chooses to leave the United States right now. I say it is perhaps domestic realities within the political context in the United States. The Trump Administration . Inspiring people to move. In 2017 he sent a tweet welcoming all newcomers to canada. Pete . Pete thank you, griff. Appreciate it the Trump Administration working to pull all troops out from syria and now reportedly half of the 14,000 troops currently stationed in afghanistan. So what do those who fight the wars think of a reduced presence overseas . Lets bring in our military panel to react. Jim hanson president of Security Studies group and served in the u. S. Army special forces and conducted counterterrorism operations. We have got joey jones marine corps technician and vincent hill former u. S. Army sergeant. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. Im going to put my cards on the table. Im very conflicted about. This tactical and strategic reality. Theres a lot of factors that come into play about why or why we should not withdraw from these place. Jim, im going to start with you. Thoughts overall. Syria, afghanistan. Good idea to leave and what are the impacts . Theres a lot of people acting like President Trump announcing with drawl from syria was a grand surprise. He has been talking about this a long time. And this spring we worked with the nsc on some ways to leave syria that would not cause a major debacle. Those included having our gulf allies in the region helped and both saudi arabia and the uae have now contributed resources and sent troops last month. In addition, we said that we need to pull turkey back into our orbit. They have been drifting toward russia and iran. President trump took an opportunity to work with erdogan to get a deal to sell them patriot missiles and hopefully replace. Pete erdogan is sort of basically an islamist dictator at this point. Is he moving in that direction can we really count on that . Were going to find out. We had to try. They are a nato ally. Pete they were . What we need to do with them is ask them to provide security on the northern border to take it easy on the kurds, our allies who they have a problem with and to go ahead and be useful in limiting irans influence. If they do those things, yes, if they dont, then we know where they stand. Pete joey, your thoughts . Its a good idea to stick to the rhetoric and the policy that you set forth in your election in 2016 its a good idea to deploy Something Different in the middle east. I declared five months after president obama declared that we would pull out of afghanistan. So in iraq and afghanistan i was a part of staying longer than we needed to or staying without a set goal or mission. What i would say is that its the responsibility of general mattis and the generals to want to go after our enemy in infancy and retreat to kill them and eliminate them. Its the responsibility of the president to see past the xs and os sometimes. If we elected this man into office. We should have faith in foreign policy. We should australia be skeptical. What im most bothered by where is all this rhetoric and vehement response when we had men and women there years at a time. People only get heated when they are reminded we are at war and we are pulling people home and policy people dont truly understand. We dont say what the mission is. Pete some of it feels disingenuous. Your take . I think we can all agree we are all conflicted here. To the president s point, one iwhen is enough . When do we bring our troops home . For example, atlanta lost the super bowl by having a 25point lead. The defense in the second half wasnt in the fight there. So, if we take the defense out of this fight, where does that leave us . I think everyone is more concerned. What is the plan with the withdrawal here. We need to make sure that we dont get back to where we were, i think thats what everyone is focused on. Clear cut plan on what the withdraw with entail. Pete you mentioned uae and saudi arabia and turkey that are going to fill the vacuum for us. A lot of people watching this program say whoa, that doesnt sound like much of a solution knee. The bottom line is are we going to leave u. S. Troops there indefinitely . Thats that wasnt the mission. The mission was to kill isis. There is a couple other things we need to worry about. Qatar has been funding al qaeda in syria a long time. They are supposed to be. We need to put serious pressure on them. They are not acting like an ally. If we tak ask the people who live there to help. Both israel and france have agreed to step up. It doesnt always have to be the u. S. Sometimes people who have a dog in this fight can step up and help as well. Pete thats a good point at what point do regional actors take responsibility for whats happening in their backyard instead of outsourcing it to the United States. Thank you. A debate that will continue. Video you have to see to believe. A car goes airborne. You saw it launching right into the top of a tunnel. And whats really shocking is what happened to the driver. Plus, a controversial christmas display. Baby jesus behind bars in a detainment ice detainment cage. Were not kidding. We will bring it to you. And were getting i cant get past that story to read the next one. We are getting festive with ugly christmas sweaters. Jedediahs is ugly. Griffs is kind of nice but also he makes it look ugly. We will bring it to you next. Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas Everywhere you go take a look. Jedediah im never taking this sweater off. Pete its beginning to look a lot like christmas on fox friends weekend. In case you didnt know, its the weekend. And griffs got it going on. We have got our ugly christmas sweaters on. Whats the website, guys . Jedediah ugly christmas sweaters. Com. Pete if you want your own go get them they are awesome. Jedediah mine has a unicorn i have named greg gutfeld. Jedediah not a difficult website to remember but i forgot it. Its yuge. Jedediah there is a tail. Pete velcroed. Jedediah i dont play around. Griff this is really cool. Ugly christmas sweaters. Com. You were playing Johnny Mathis coming. In i started my career as a young person in my 20s. Pete hope you didnt start your career as an old person. Griff be playing the Christmas Songs. Nothing gets you in the mood. We have got a poll here for your favorite Christmas Songs. Take a look. Right . 12 say silent night. 8 say jingle bells. 5 say White Christmas. 5 say baby, its cold outside. 4 say o holy night. 5 say all i want for christmas is you. Jedediah there you go. Silent night. Pete keep playing. Traditional Christmas Songs not like happy little holiday. Santa claus. Rudolph. That stuff people are actually attached to the meaning of what christmas is, most americans. Jedediah i think all i want for christmas is you blends traditional and pop culture world but something about this music just makes you feel good, right . I feel like we should pray year around to get in a good mood. Pete too much of a good thing is a problem. Jedediah it can go a little longer in my opinion. Pete im a big Aaron Neville fan. [chimes] pete bells will be ringing griff let me settle this right here. Email us at friends at friends foxnews. Com, rumor of the pete Aaron Neville or traditional songs . Jedediah let us know what your favorite Christmas Song is. Pete its my favorite. Thank you. Jedediah headlines now. Stunning video a vmw goes airborne after striking a barrier. Sparks shoot out hits the top of the tunnel and flips 360 degrees before coming to a stop. The driver walking away with only minor injuries. The crash in slovakia leaving the bmw crushed and mangled. Police believe the driver fell asleep at the wheel. Firestorm of controversy at a High School Wrestling match. New jersey teen Andrew Johnson forced to cut his dread locks before a match or forfeit. The ref said his hair and head gear violated rules and regulations. Many say this is a clear case of racial bias. Johnson won the match. But the referee is now barred from officiating any more matches until the incident is investigated. This nativity scene has baby jesus locked in ice detainment cage. The couple building the controversial display says its a protest against President Trumps immigration policies. Making a statement because during this Holiday Season no matter what country you live, in no matter what your ethnicity is, you should be with your family at this time. And unfortunately our country in recent history has decided to separate families. Jedediah last years display the austin couple depicted the president as a grinch. British man realizes is he a millionaire right in time for christmas. Lottery ticket worth 86 million in his car six weeks after he hit the jackpot. He tucked it away in his visor only checked the numbers after his girlfriend pressured him to do so. Good job girlfriend. Clark plans on taking early retirement and helping his family and friends. Pete girlfriend will soon become his wife. We will have the grinch on the Program Later on. I have never seen anyone read headlines while holding on to the unicorn. Jedediah i try to be the first of everything here. Griff well done. Im over here taking a photo of ricks ugly christmas sweater because im not quite sure what he has on over there. Jedediah i feel like a jack in the box. Rick you know what i tried . It works good. I like it. Its not the most comfortable sweater i have ever worn i will tell you. Jedediah it suits you. Rick thanks very much. All right, guys. Talk a little bit of weather i feel strange doing. This big storm we had across parts of the east yesterday. That is almost gone. Still moisture across parts of new england. That will be out of here. Cooler air and still breezy conditions. Maybe a few delays in the airports across the northeast because of that wind and we will have left over delays from yesterday. Most of the country looking good. Yesterday was the worse of the travel days. Today good. More moisture coming in today across the Pacific Northwest. Tomorrow, another day, thats looking good. Pacific northwest. Only problems rest of the country. No airport delays. The roads are going to be looking good as well. If you are thinking all right, i want a White Christmas. Maybe if you have snow out there already you have a little bit. This is the precipitation that will fall through tuesday. No going anywhere across the east. Out across the west we have a better chance of a White Christmas in arizona than we will around here, guys. Pete rick, stuff santa back in the box. He is not coming out of chimney quite yet. Thats a cripple any in the front, right . I never even saw that. Pete i was watching very closely the weather and you during your weather. Rick you want my job. [buzzer] pete jedediah is holding the unicorn the entire time jedediah it needs at roof affection. Greg gutfeld demands a lot of attention. Thats what i named him. Pete i will try to read serious headlines in a Yuge Christmas sweater here. Louis farrakhan, yeah, you know him. He is known for his hateful rhetoric. The satanic jews. Because you see white people deserve to die. 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I thought you was supposed to win before you run for president. The president thanking texas senator ted cruz for his work on a criminal Justice Reform bill while highlighting his victory over congressman orourke. Jedediah, pete . Louis farrakhan has long been known for his hateful rhetoric. The synagogue of satan. The satanic jews. Because you see white people deserve to die. Pete oh no. His group, the nation of islam, is using your taxpayer money to preach to inmates. So why would the government think this is a good idea . Jedediah here now to react is founder and president of the American Islamic forum for democracy dr. Judy jasser. I know at love people would be outraged to see taxpayer money. Every alarm should go off possible. Us reformists have been calling for attention to the radicalism that taxpayers have been paying for back from 2004 and 2005 when the investigator project on terrorism imams calling for jihad new york found cells when they left to commit acts of terror that were arrested in new york city and elsewhere. We saw recently attack two weeks ago in strauss bowrg they were rad ridessed in prison. We saw they were radical ridessed in prison. Its not new science or new information. We just have a bigotry of low expectations when it comes to muslims. We will let them, oh, let them just talk to the radical imam. The antisemite. Conspiracy fascist. It doesnt matter its just muslims. We need to hold us muslims accountable to the same standards we hold everybody else, the american taxpayer should not fund their own demise of our society. And we need a whole of government approach to radical islam. We dont. Every Little Corner of government, the prisons, the military, et cetera, all separate out into just Political Correctness rather than dealing with the ideology. Pete you are right. Doctor, the defendant defends them and enables that radicalization. You are entirely right. This is what the nation of islam says in defending the federal funding. They say the nation of islam, which is comprised of tax paying citizens has a right to do business with the American Government. The work of the nation of islam is a great benefit and blessing to the american penal system. So its a black nationalist group led by Louie Farrakhan who said these terrible things. What justification truly, if you are a lawmaker. Funding Something Like this in our prisons . There isnt one. They simply treating muslims with low expectations. They are simply not holding us accountable. Where are the other muslims saying you know what Louis Farrakhan does not speak for us. Where are the other muslims that reject the idea that his kind of hate and antisemitism and antiwesternism. Farrakhan middle east cozying around with kadafi and other radical dictators. This is not somebody we should hold up as the expression of what muslims should be attached to but, yet, we dont hold them accountable so Congress People and others fund it because they say oh this is an identity movement. They ignore its a separatist antiamerican movement, and we dont have a strategy. Where is our Muslim Reform Movement that has imams that we work with. We have been calling for people to pay teadges to what we are saying to say you know what . Why dont we vet vet these folks so we can have a strategy. Jedediah thank you, doctor. The bureau of prisons has declined to comment. Pete chuck olsen has led a lot of christian groups in prison. The reason there is a difference you are not seeing christian groups going out and trying to cause terrorism. Okay. Let us know what you think friends foxnews. Com. Coming up, the government wont spend 5 billion to build a wall, but they had no problem spending 65 million to save sammon. Yes we are talking about fish. Washington wasting your taxpayers while refusing to protect the border. Jedediah one year ago today President Trump signed historic tax cuts into law. The five things you need to do in next 10 days to save money on your tax bill thats what i want your love gave me such a thrill but your love dont pay my bills i need money thats what i want with the united explorer card, i get rewarded wherever i go. Going out for a bite. Rewarded. Going new places. Anytime. Rewarded learn more at the explorer card dot com. My mom washes the dishes. Before she puts them in the dishwasher. So what does the dishwasher do . Cascade platinum does the work for you, prewashing and removing stuckon foods, the first time. Wow, thats clean cascade platinum. Pete welcome back. One year ago President Trump signed his historic tax cuts into law. Jedediah what does that mean for upcoming tax season. Griff lets bring in jean march important moves to make before we ring in the new year. Good morning, Merry Christmas. Whats tip number one. Good morning, guys. Sorry i didnt wear my ugly sweater by the way. Tip number one is take advantage of your standard deduction. It has doubled sings last year because of tax reform. Its now 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married filing jointly. 30 of americans are expected to not itemize this year so you may save yourself a lot of time and effort by just taking the standard deduction. Talk to your rah count tantd or look at your Accounting Tax software hopefully that mr. L. Help you make that decision. Pete second is moving money into your 401 k . Saved money for retirement. Future into your 401 k or ira. Put up to 18,500 into your 401 k if your Company Offers it or about 5,500 into your ira. Pretax stuff it, will save you lots of money. And put money away for retirement. Jedediah tip number three bunch charitable donations. If you do decide to itemize and dont take standard deductions. Charitable deductions are a great way to give back something for christmas and get a tax deduction, too. Just remember it doesnt have to be cash it can a be a car or old clothes or something lying around the house. Get a fair market value for it and get a big tax deduction. Griff number four should come as common sense. Losing investments. Yeah. One of the upsides, if there are any about the stock market declining is some people are having some losing stocks this year if you have gains elsewhere, you decide to sell those, you can offset those gains with some of the losses that you incurred on some other stock. None of us like to seat stock market go down, it may be an opportunity to save some taxes. Pete does that mean can i write off bit coin losses . Im not letting them go yet. Get out of bit coins. Not a safe investment. Pete gene, im in for the long haul. Point number 5. Prepay for defer income . Whats that mean . Yeah, this is an old school piece of advice. Listen, the smart people around they try to push income into the future and bring expenses currently. If you have a mortgage deduction, for example and can you still take that deduction because it is limited, try and bring it in prepaid if you can. If you have income that you think you might be getting this year but can you defer it to 2019, go ahead and do it, pay taxes for it next year and avoid it this year. Jedediah thank you for saving money. You got it guys, Merry Christmas. Griff still ahead, do you want to start a pot selling business . Taxpayers could end up paying for it we will tell you where. Pete great, subi subsidize more bad ideas. 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Supreme Court Justice required Barrett Ginsburg has surgery to remove two growth from her left lung. She was able to join colleagues on the court in ruling against the president on banning asylum claims from immigrants who internet country illegally. Pete he once welcomed refugees with open arms. Now justin from canada is blaming trump for his countrys Immigration Crisis. Really . We have our ugly christmas sweaters. Jedediah mine has a unicorn that i have named greg gutfeld. [laughter] griff it looks good though. Jedediah oh. Youre unbelievable pete saturday is fox friends on the weekend. Let me share with you, you can shut down the federal government, but you cant shut down fox friends. Griff no, you cant. Pete not possible. Jedediah cant stop us from talking about it either. Pete jedediah, griff, good to have you guys here. Griff i came to host. Im excited this weekend. I didnt shut the government down now in its seventh hour. Now as you wake up go ice skating because 75 of your government is funded through the pretty much end of 2019. We have a government shut down that began at midnight. That is, of course, unable to reach a compromise over whether or not they are going to spend three tenths of 1 of deficit spending to secure our southern border. Pete see that countdown clock right there. 7 hours the government is shutting down. Ticking up. Counting down to the shut down. Now we are seven hours into a shutdown while you were asleep. Turns out the senate couldnt figure out what they wanted to do. The passing the bill that included 6 billion in funding it moves over to the senate. They voted to vote. But they havent figured out what to vote on yet because schumer has said the wall would be expensive and ineffective and you are not going to get your wall. Mitch mcconnell, we will see what he does and how he maneuvers. Doesnt seem like a lot of daylight between those two groups the president doubling down this shut down is on the democrats. Jedediah seven hours in and amazingly nothing has imploded yet. Lets listen to President Trump calling the shut down a democrat shut down. Our great country must have Border Security. We dont want people coming in that arent supposed to be here. We want people to come in through a legal process. Everybody wants to see our border protected. Theres nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes. Call it a democrat shut down, call it whatever you want. But we need to help to get this through. So, democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. Lets get out. Lets work together. Jedediah this is a really important moment poor President Trump in my opinion this is him owning this moment on messaging. Republicans always lose this battle. They allow media and hollywood to paint it as republican shut down. This is the president coming out and saying this is a democrat shut down. Democrats own. This if you want to fix this. The ball is in your court. We are here waiting for you to secure the border. I commend him for that. Griff hold on though. Minority leader Chuck Schumer is pointing the blame at the president because it was the president result 34589ly who drew the line in the sand. He did suggest he would accept a continuing resolution to get us through february 8th. Reversed course and drew a line in the sand. Here is senator schumer on who is to blame. The president will try to do his best to blame democrats but its flatly absurd. No democrat has called for shutting the government down. We are all working to avoid it. The president seems to relish it. He seems to feel it will throw a bone to his base. The problem being his base is less than one quarter of america. Pete of course you know democrats want to keep the government open. This is where the messaging is so open. Bigger. Want more money u of course they dont they forget that 75 of the government is funded. The dod. Jedediah they dont forget. Pete they dont forget. They know full well and lie to you and say that a wall is expensive and ineffective. They are going to push for single payer healthcare cost you trillions. Suddenly 5 billion is too much. I mean, its all disingenuous. Thats why to your point, President Trump is his best messenger. When Mitch Mcconnell gets punched or paul ryan gets punched. They go into back rooms and go what do we do, what do we do with coms people and put out a white paper. President trump goes out and says boom, boom, boom. They are able to see what the bs is. Call it a trump shut down. Spin it however you want. American people are not dumb. They know two years in either im going to get a wall or im not. Nancy aint going to do it. She is about to be speaker. Lets do it now. Griff they are going home. 24 hours in the once they have something point to Mitch Mcconnell owning this to a certain extent. Corey lewandowski says the president knows exactly if we dont get the funding for the wall it willner happen. The weak Republican Leadership for the last two years in congress have failed to deliver it. They asked the president not to shut down the government before the midterm elections. Because they were fearful it was going to hurt them in the midterms. They promised to puts the funding in for the wall after the midterm elections and once again, they failed the American People and the president said we have had enough. The president saw that and said we cant tolerate this. And he knows if we dont get the funding for the wall now, it will never come to fruition. Jedediah its amazing, too. Democrats are always saying oh we cant find the money for the wall. Where with rewe going to find the funding. Medicare for all cost trillions of dollars. Not only that 2018 the congressional big book. 65 million for pacific coastal sammon recovery. 11 million for Aquatic Plant control program. 12,485,000 for International Fisheries commission. 25 million for alternative energy research. I hate to break it to you, democrats. The money is there if you are not going to prioritize Border Security have you people around the country start going to fund me accounts to do the job you are supposed to be doing. The money is there. Pete i got it wrong last hour. I said the go fund me page was at 4 or 5 million. Its at 15 million right now. Pete jedediah great point. What they spent money on. I live in washington. I get accused by all people of being a swamp creature. Pete you are my favorite swamp creature, griff. Griff thank you. When you look at those ridiculous expenditures earmarks. Just last year they spent 14. Congress that is spent 14. 7 billion on earmarks but cant find 3 million, which is the difference between where we are in this negotiation that by the way our hearts should go out to the nearly 800,000 federal employees who will be foreload who may go without a paycheck. They will get that back. History of previous shut downs. At the end of the day, you look at they will spend three times the amount of money we are talking about the security of our southern border but yet they have money. Pete your heart will go out to them. They will get paid. Everything is going to be fine. Shut down will end. They will get their money. The question is do the people get a wall . Do we get security in a real way . So but dont take it from me. You know where im coming from. This is bryan dean wright. He is a democrat. He agrees. He have a thousand to 3,000 people who cross the southern border every single day. Now that should be a starting point to say what were doing now isnt working. Now, the democrats are imposing 1. 3 billion just like they did last year and the years prior u what that tell me is my party is saying look, lets keep doing business as usual. Even though business as usual is getting us 3,000 people across the border every day. Thats just crazy. Everybody watching this program and most reasonable people will say why are we doubling down on stupid . Why are we doubling down on broken . That doesnt make any sense. Jedediah absolutely right. I would ask him why isnt this a priority . Why dont you care about the humanitarian crisis at the border . Why are you not listening to President Trump who getting his advice from Border Patrol agents who are telling him this is how much money we need to do this job properly . Why is this not important to you. Pete you know why. They hate President Trump more than the policies. They hate the president. They will oppose anything, all logic out the window. Of course they benefit from open borders and who they say as new potential voting block. Yesterday yesterday we asked the viewers should there be a government shut down and we got emails. Email from larry the shut down is absolutely necessary. The pressure should be placed on the democrats in the house and senate to fully fund the wall. Griff this from jim. President trump should fight back steadfast dont fold. Thats why we sent him there. Democrats are totally out of control. Pete pee email from brenda, build the wall. The only ones throwing a temper tantrum are the democrats since they lost the election. You are right. So much of this feels like a relitigation of 2016. Wait until 2019 when nancy has the gavel and goes even more insane. If not now, then never. Keep emailing us at friends foxnews. Com. This one of those moments syria, afghanistan, mattis, the shut down, we want to know what you think because there is a lot of people with a lot of different opinions. Griff we do. Jed, your point is one that should get a lot of focus and attention in this whole fiasco and this is that it is Border Patrol agents and i have spent a lot of time with them on that border in tijuana that are saying what are you doing with the political football, making politics out of the small amount of money to do the job you sent me here to do. Jedediah absolutely right. Pete washington, d. C. Is freaking out. If you turn the channel, dont turn the channel but if you did they are freaking out. Trump supporters are not freaking out. Regular americans are like finally somebody is doing something. Jedediah continue to follow this closely as possible and well be duking it out. Turning now to your headlines. Russia tries to compromise our 2018 midterm elections. But failed. Thats according to a u. S. Intelligence report. Just like in 2016 they tried polarizing voters with social media, fake personas and russian controlled media. Under an executive order, President Trump signed this fall, russia could face automatic sanctions. Antigovernment protesters already storming the streets of france today for the sixth weekend in a row. Officials shutting down the pal lals outside of paris as a precaution. Other attractions will remain open. Thousands yellow vest demonstrating against frances high cost of living and tax inequality. Police convince a man to climb down from the National Christmas tree in washington, d. C. They are still trying to figure out why he did it. It happened near the white house. A man was taken to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. No word if he will face charges. Pete excuse me, why did you climb that tree . Jedediah woman going into labor day during the Deadly Wildfires named her baby after the man who saved her. You are looking at micky holding. The mother was interesting contractions trying to escape the fire in november when he pushed to help her. One month later, thanks to his quick actions, the mother was able to give birth to a healthy baby girl. What an amazing story. Pete it is. What all those guys and gals do for us, you know. The firefighters. Jedediah unbelievable. Firefighters, policemen you cant thank them enough. Pete first responders. Cool. Coming up, im supposed to read coming up, senator James Lankford here to weigh in. He took over tom coburns waste book. Maybe we will ask him about that. Going to weigh in on shut down coming up next. Griff he has a lot to say. Plus, lebron james taking a shot at nfl owners in their quote slave mentality. We will tell you all about it. Jedediah we have an ice rink on fox square this morning. Were going to skate coming up Feliz Navidad i want to wish you a Merry Christmas i want to wish you a Merry Christmas i want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom but then, we were like. What are we doing . The nicodermcq patch helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. Nicodermcq. You know why, we know how. Griff this is a fox news alert. A live look, you are seeing there, at the capitol hill where hours from now the senate is set to reconvene amid the partial government shut down. What will it take to get border wall funding done. Here with real insight Senate Appropriation Committee Member senator James Lankford. First, senator, Merry Christmas. We begin the holidays in a difficult time. I think what all americans this morning are thinking is why cant you guys get it done . Take me inside these negotiations. The negotiations have centered around no great surprise around Border Security. Its not just fencing along the border. Its about how we handle our Border Patrol. How we handle our ports of entry. How many ports of entry do we really have and what remodeling do we do . Its the full range of Border Security. Thats really centered on what were trying to i focus in on as we have seven appropriation bills still done. Those, i think are ready to go at this point. We are down to the final negotiations my hope to finish those up today as far as the negotiations and be able to move forward. Griff those seven bills are the basis, really for this funding fight. Do you predict then that this government shut down will be shortlived or longer . I think it should be shortlived. I dont think we are that far apart. Our focus is in on around a billion or 2 billion in Border Security in a larger bill. Our focus all along has been we need to secure the border. We need to do what it takes to be able to put the physical infrastructure there in place as well as the manpower in place. While none of us like a government shut down myself, joni ernst and david perdue worked tenaciously the last several month over a Reform Program where we wouldnt have government shut downs. Congress would be forced to stay in place, not travel, be here, be on the floor debating and they couldnt leave until they got things resolved and it would do funding for the rest of the government so the American People are not affected by this in any way. That didnt past but johnny and david and i will come back at that again next year as well. Griff how would you feel if President Trump wanted to keep you guys in session through christmas to make the point to get it done . Would you support that . I would, actually. Because we have got to get this done. There is an expectation that we can get it finished. Thats the basis of what joni ernst and david perdue and i are working on says Congress Stays in session rather than have government shut downs. If we stay in session, everybody has to stay here. Everybody has to debate. Keep everyone in the room, then you actually finish up the debate. As long as there are these shut downs or continuing resolutions and everyone leaves and dont actually finish the fight, then it doesnt get resolved and lingers on and on and on. Keep everybody here. Keep the debate going. That leaves the pressure where it should be toible able to get this resolved. Griff senator, i raised a point our show did about 15 minutes ago talking about government waste. Something that you care about certainly. Earmarks. We spent nearly 15 million on earmarks. Yet, we cant find the difference of 3 billion to secure our southern border. How fro frustrating is that for you and why is it that we can spend money on pacific sammon but not for a border wall . That has been my question all along. There is a lot of not this but this. For instance, we spent 50 million on remodeling the steps on the library of congress. But we cant seem to do a greater emphasis in other areas. I have a book that i put out each year called federal fumbles that will come out in january this next year tag look back Previous Year these are the areas we feel like the federal government dropped the ball on policy, on waste. Keep the focus on where we think the focus should be. The American People expect an fixture, transparent government. That is a reasonable request. And so we try to push that out manned make sure that actually happens. Griff were just almost out of time, senator, one last quick question. Who is to blame for this . Is it President Trump or the democrats . President trump made it very clear, even during the campaign and certainly during the last year he is not going to sign a bill unless it deals with Border Security. I mean, he said it over and over and over again. I dont put him to blame. Everyone is putting the blame on him at this point. We have got to be able to keep the blame on congress where it belongs. This should have been done a long time ago. We had five Appropriations Bills already done. They were done months ago on time. These last seven were not done. We were bickering about Border Security. We need to get it done so we can get it over to the president s desk. Griff senator lankford, thank you for taking time. Good luck. Get this done and Merry Christmas to you. Merry christmas to yall as well. Griff media in panic mode this week. The world is less safe today after the dramatic resignation of the last human guardrail. Guardrails are down. The chaos has been unleashed. Is this the beginning of the end . Griff dan bongino is fired up about the medias reaction. He is live coming up. And you may have heard of Super Saturday or panic saturday. We are live with lastminute shoppers. That coming up one thing tell me your love is here its all i want just for me underneath the my Christmas Tree ill be waiting here hi dad. No. Dont try to get up. Hi, im julie, a right at home caregiver. And if id been caring for toms dad, i would have noticed some dizziness that could lead to balance issues. Thats because im trained to report any changes in behavior, no matter how small, so tom could have peace of mind. Well be right there. We have to go. Hey, tom. You should try right at home. Theyre great for us. The right care. Right at home. Well, how ari dunno. Ssage chairs woim still a little stressed about buying our new house. Well, its a good thing we dont have to worry about Homeowners Insurance. Geico can help with that. We can get Homeowners Insurance help from geico . Well, sure. And they could save us a bunch too. Mmhmm . Im starting to feel better already. Get to know geico and see how much you could save on homeowners and condo insurance. Pete an estimated 134 million americans are expected to head to the mall this weekend for lastminute shopping. Jedediah get this. 13 million havent even bought a gift yet for christmas. Griff are you one of them. Todd piro live at the mall for panic sunday. Pete saturday. Todd it is saturday. No matter whether you call it saturday or sunday. Panic saturday or Super Saturday. One thing is clear. Malls and Shopping Centers will be absolutely packed today and a lot of them like the one we are here in connecticut going to be open early. Typically dont open 9 or 10 this one opening up at 8 00 today. 26 billion is going to be spent today. Thats what experts expect. Thats 2 billion more than on black friday. We make such a big deal about black friday. Super saturday is actually going to be bigger. 44 of people are going to be in Stores Shopping online as well today. Thats up 6 from last year and the average dollar amount going to be spent today is 173. So, you ask yourself, how am i going to spend this money . Its going to be on you three. We start with jedediah, im going to go to selffor are a, get you some nice cosmetics. That wasnt that tough. The boys on the other hand much more difficult im Walking Around the mall looking for a mens store and alas i found one. I found these two shirts. If these two shirts dont scream Griff Jenkins and pete hegseth, i dont know what does. The problem im having is which one is griff and which one is pete . I welcome your thoughts. Jedediah does pete have a little trumpy bear somewhere on it because that would help. Pete that would help. Todd no trumpy bear. Just beautiful little poppies. Lets go with this one for pete because pete loves flowers up the side of his shirt and griff, lets go with that. Griff i like it. Spend some money. Pete todd, here is my question for you, have you done your Christmas Shopping . Youre reporting. Todd done. You know me, im a prepared guy. I was done in july. Jedediah making us all look bad. Thanks so much. Pete roaming the mall in connecticut. Jedediah speaking of panic, the Washington Press corps and lawmakers are doing just that this week as news events broke across washington. The world is less safe today after the dramatic resignation of the last human guardrail. Were in a bizarre situation. The world turned upside down. Its been a week of what they are describing as political malpractice. The level of chaos thats unfolding in washington. The chaos has been unleashed. Is this the beginning of the end of what we have known as the Trump Presidency . President trump roller coaster instincts plunged into washington into chaos. Griff while the media is freaking out, what should the average american take away from all of this . Well, we will find out. Pete thankfully the guardrail is always off this show. Lets ask our own captain chaos dan bongino host of the dan bongino show and author of spy gate. I didnt give you captain chaos name. It was in the teleprompter. What . Finding some truth to that. Pete dan, what do you make of the freakout . Listen, the media is all in on activism. Can would he be candid now. Journal is dead. The trump has highlighted it trump didnt start the slow death of the medias credibility. He made it more obvious to people. Pete this is a perfect example. I know National Defense and military really close to your heart for obvious reasons. Barack obama went through four defense seacketsz. Thersecretary. There is nothing unusual about that by the way. When bob gates left. Bob gates wrote a book. Bob gates former defense secretary under obama his book was pretty damning that joe biden had been wrong about nearly every National Defense situation for the last 40 years. I mean, where was this same apocalyptic tone by the media then in the answer nowhere because this is about donald trump this time. Its a nonsense story. Its made up. Its just trying to gas light america into this chaos narrative and its just obvious. Griff you said journalism is dead. As a reporter i cant let that sit because really what you are talking about, i think though, is the fact that the media in some corners chooses to do what they want. You bring up gates book and fascinating and points to the fact that president s sometimes disagree with their military leaders. And in some cases, for good reason. But, is it your belief then that simply the media is all in now on just doing anything they can, whether its the border wall or whether its listening to military leaders or just going to challenge the president . You know, griff, i get it i mean, i understand you have to push back on it when i say journalism is dead. Obviously, there are good people. Even decent people who you can tell have a left leaning bias in the media but will do their job. Im telling you as a field, griff, based on facts. Journalism is dead. Griff, whats journalisms one job, right . To get the facts right. I cant use that you have one job line enough. Your one job is to get the facts right. Thats it. Your job as a nurse and doctor to save lives. Military defend our country. In the media your job is to put facts out there and let the public form their opinions around your facts. Griff, how many stories in the trump era has the media just blown that one thing . I can go through list of them now back story. Pete they ignore them completely. Donald trump jr. Wikipedia story. Mike flynn story when he called the russians. These arent small stories, griff, these are big stories. And its meant to paint this apocalyptic tone in the Trump Administration and its just not true. Pete it is a fair point, dan. I remember being down in southern mexico and the leader told me i will talk to you, fox news, where are your colleagues . Where is cnn . Where is msnbc and they werent there at that time. Griff, griff, im sorry, im not trying to hijack your segment here. You were down there. You did great work by the way im not necessarily kissing your butt. You did a great job. Had you an interview with a guy who admitted to being a very serious criminal and yet when you brought up the simple fact on interviews, me doing other interviews with other people saying hey, not everybody down there is a criminal. Obviously. Large majority arent. But there are criminals. Heres the interview. People saying it no, no, no. You guys are just making this stuff up. Its not journalism, griff. Im sorry. Its just not. Pete dan bongino, im going to give you promotion. Not captain chaos. You are major chaos. Listen, i love that thanks, guys. Pete Merry Christmas. Merry christmas. Griff lebron james taking shot at nfl owners and their slave mentality. Pete listening to all this shut down talk, who doesnt need a drink . I dont need a shutdown to get a drink. Here is another excuse. One bar in our Nations Capital putting out crazy cocktails. Full look at hilarious menu coming up next. Jedediah we have ice drink on fox square this morning. Thats coming up. Good. And not so good. For the mundane. The aweinspiring. The heart racing. The heart breaking. Thats what life is all about. Showing up. Unless migraine steals your chance to say i am here. Thats why, we created aimovig. A preventive treatment for migraine in adults. One dose, once a month. Aimovig is proven to reduce the number of monthly migraine days. For some, that number can be cut in half or more. The most common side effects are pain, redness, or swelling at the injection site and constipation. These are your days what will each one bring . Doesnt matter, as long as you can say. I am here. Talk to your doctor about preventing migraine with aimovig. And be there more. In all the right ways. Pete welcome back. If you are a federal employee, well, 25 of federal employees because of the shut down, today you are not going to work because you are not going to work any way because its saturday. You are not going to work monday or tuesday because its Christmas Eve and christmas. On wednesday you wont be going to work because the government is shut down. Jedediah maybe. Pete partially maybe kind of shut down. There is a bar in washington, d. C. , your hometown, griff,. Griff the capitol . Pete making drinks for federal elmly. Emily employees. Griff thats what we do when we are shut down go out and drink. They are not bad. Jedediah 5 bucks. Pretty good deal. Griff in your paycheck is in question you need a good deal on drank. Pete here scawp perform the cocktails. Nothing really mattis. Mexico will pay for this. Maybe they will supply the 5 bucks. Jedediah border wall banger and putinas on the rocks. Very clever. Pete nothing really mattis has mad dog 2020 and vodka. You order it, drink it and leave. Thats the description. Border wall banger is a good one. Tequila, orange juice and extra ice. Get it . Jedediah i do get it. Griff the harvey wall banger was a surfer. Pete on the rocks vod of course ginger rail. There is a steven millers hair affair and hot tub crime machine. Jedediah wow. They got clever with the names. Pete whats the name of the capitol hill lounge . Griff great bar. Pete jump on a train, come to fox friends, make those cocktails for us or not show. Cant do a cocktail segment without cocktails. Jedediah i like that raspberry one. Griff if you are back in my hometown in washington go out and have 5 cocktails. Jedediah we are turning to your headlines. New york city mayor bill de blasio wants taxpayers to pay pot dealers. In a new report released by his administration, they need at least 10 million to help fine marijuana businesses. Its unclear whether the city or state would front money. This week de blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo gave their stamp of approval to legalize marijuana next year lebron james takes aim at the nfl. The nba star accusing the leagues owners of holding racist attitudes towards players. The nfl they got a bunch of old white men owning teams and they got that slave mentality. And like this is my team, do you what the [bleep] i tell you ought to do or we get rid of yall. Jedediah james slamming the nfl owners for their response to National Anthem protest. He went on praise the nba for allowing players to express themselves politically. If you are looking for a Christmas Movie to get you in the holiday spirit, you may want to turn to google. The company just releasing its top searched holiday movies by state. They include classics like a christmas story. Rudolph the red nosed reindeer thats my favorite and the santa claus as well as surprising choices. Topics were the night before christmas, bad santa and elf. Thats a good one, elf. We want to know what your favorite Christmas Movie is send us your comments on facebook, twitter or email us on friends at friends foxnews. Com. Those are your headlines. Griff all right, jedediah get out here. Jedediah im coming. Rick these take a while to get on. Lets talk a little bit of weather right now. We have a pretty nice day and travel day today after the big storm we had yesterday. Take a look at the weather map and show you whats going on. Temperaturewise we are okay today. Hey, quickly, this is tuesday. This is what you can expect for tuesday. Precipitation that day. Storm out across parts of the west. Going to bring some rain and Higher Elevation snow. A bit of a White Christmas across places like arizona and around the four corners and out across the west. Overall the east you are going to be mostly dry and a little bit chilly. Current temps as you are waking up. Driving maybe getting ready to do shopping, overall weather cooperating today. The east coast is going to be better, much improved compared to where we were yesterday. By this afternoon, most of this precipitation will be out of here. Breezy conditions and well see i dont know what im saying. Im done. You are sick of me talking. Take away the weather maps. That will shut him up. Pete i thought you did great. [sighs] pete fox friends on ice. If you wants to introduce your kids to skating without breaking your back, we have got you covered. Griff joining us now coowners of fantasy World Entertainment brooks grady. Let me talk to you first. What have wee got going here . We have one of our 600 attractions here that we have brought to you guys. And deliver, set up and operate all over the east coast. As you know we work with your wife in georgetown. Griff absolutely. Full disclosure brooks has done amazing work. What you do. And you know whats fascinating, brooks. The technology of the stuff can you do. You are bringing ice skating telling the story first time i came to new york city as a 10yearold i was ice skating now they can learn essentially anywhere. Any hard surface indoor or out door. Deliver and operate it six of the arenas like this. And we can make them larger. And, of course, we are not just operating at a location, we go to your location all over in the east coast from obstacle courses and climbing mountains, zip lines, bull riding and so forth. Pete fantasy world can make Anything Possible specifically today ice skating. Talk to us about that. We can bring rockefeller to you. Minus the big giant tree, of course. This is a very unique surface. This is one of our newer rinks. A lot of rinks you have to spray lube brie cant on and simulate the ice. This one has everything impregnated into it. You dont need to do. If you fall or whatever, there is no oil on your clothes, that kind of thing. Griff have you fallen over there yet . Jedediah has a total of 10 seconds on the skates so far. Like whoa, whoa. We have profigure skaters she is going to teach us some stuff. Some tips about how to get some beginners like me, like maybe your kids on the ice. What do you do in the beginning . It can be a little intimidating . It is a little intimidating. One thing you want to do is focus on your balance, of course. On ice, slippery. We want put our arms out nice and straight like this. You also want to engage your muscles. You dont want to have like noodle arms. Nice and strong. And bend your knees and ankles. It may feel a little ridiculous. Until you really get your balance. This is the position to get very comfortable with. And what you are going to be doing is kind of putting your feet in a little bit of a v. Taking little marches. And then gliding. Rick kind of like learning to ski. It is like skiing. Very similarly. How young can you get kids skating. Like these guys are really good. They are. They are very good. You could start at around 3 years old. Thats where i recommend. And, of course, Motor Skill Development gets better as they age. 3 is usually the age where they start. Rick when they fallnot so painful for them. When we fall. Or me, too. They take it a little easier than us. Jedediah any tips from the beginning when they do fall help them not to be afraid to get back up there on the ice . What i do is teach them how to get up. I hold their hands and we do little wiggle dance. Really fun. Jedediah wiggle dance. I do need it. We want skating to be fun. Jedediah stuff do you as a kid better to do as a kid. You dont get so scared. You learn. As an adult you get out there. You have it inside of you already. Rick they are all performers. They are performers. You can definitely tell. They skated before together and performed and done shows. Rick thats awesome. Stephanie, thank you very much. We are going to do more. Rick talk to you a little bit later on. Jedediah rant from Louis Gutierrez is going viral. Jesus christ had it to flee foflee for his life. Thank god there wasnt a wall that stopped him from seeking refuge in egypt. Jedediah pastor Robert Jeffress says he is wrong and he has a message for that congressman. Thats coming up next. 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Thank god there wasnt a wall that stopped him from seeking refuge. Pete that was congressman Luis Gutierrez lashing out as kirstjen nielsen. His rant went on for six minutes. Jedediah democratic lawmaker slamming nielsen in Border Security in a rant that turned religion. Pete here with his reaction Fox News Contributor pastor Robert Jeffress. Help us out here. [laughter] pete we laugh and we do, but, he was trying to make what he thought was a serious point that jesus would have never been born had there been a wall. Look, his comments were ludicrous for so many reasons but let me just mention two. First of all, the bible says it was god through an angel who told joseph and the family to flee to egypt. And i will guarantee you had there been a wall in egypt god would have obliterated it or he would have sent the family some place else. God wasnt about to let his son be murdered prematurely before his appointed time on the cross. Also jesus when he was adult said render unto sever see caese things that are caesars. Chief responsibility is to protect citizens from evildoers. I hut privilege of preaching the sermon before President Trumps inauguration. And i chose the Old Testament story of god telling nehemiah to build a wall around jerusalem. And i said, mr. President , god is not against walls. Walls are not unchristian. The bible says even heaven is going to have a wall around it you, not everyone is going to be allowed in. Jedediah pastor, what do you think of the larger issue of plifingses using politicians invoking jesus to score points at times like this. How does that feel for you as someone in a leadership position in the religious community. Look, im not one that believes that the bible doesnt inform political decisions. It does. But i think people like this congressman and others may be sincere but they are sincerely wrong because they confuse the role of government with the role of the church. Look, we have a Church Tomorrow morning. We are going to open our doors to everyone. We dont check peoples green cards at our doors. But government has a different responsibility. Romans 13 says government is to maintain order and to protect its citizens. Look, when President Trump is insisting on a wall, he is fulfilling not only his constitutional but his god given responsibility and he should not be demonized for doing that. Pete good stuff you mentioned wall in heaven. Revelation 21 17 said the angel measured the wall 144 cubics thick. I dont know what that is in inches but probably pretty thick. Pastor, thank you for your time this morning and Merry Christmas to you. Merry christmas to you all. Pete a war hero now facing the Death Penalty for killing a taliban bombmaker. Is he just one of the servicemen under fire from the very government that sent them to serve. Their family members here to make the case for leniency. Its going to be a powerful segment coming up next hour. Drive griff welcome back. Tis the season for giving easier to do than ever. Kurt knutsson is here with top alps to support that charity. This is cool that you can give just from your phone, right. Griff, there are five 6 these amazing. I call them the apps of kindness. Take a look at this. Donating a dollar a day. Google is behind this one one today app. Both platforms android or iphone. What this lets you do is you pick the charity. You follow what that dollar is doing. Its a brilliant concept. And they vetted everything behind that. Griff next one here have you got lets see share the meal. Share the meal. The fact that the sun behind this. A brilliant thing. 50 cents will feed a child for a day, which they have managed to work out around the world. Incredible. You can tap one tap on your phone. Say you are in a restaurant and sit down to a meal. Time you pull out share the meal app. You spent your 50 cents while you are sitting down to be grateful for your meal and now you have fed a kid. Its crazy. Griff this one Charity Miles i, of course, like that as a runner. Ty matches color. Charity miles lets you walk, run, or bike to earn the miles. You take those miles. You pick the charity. The miles are sponsored by various corporations and then you donate that with dollars. Griff thats going on my phone as soon as we get off the air here. This one donate a photo . Donate a photo. You take a photo. Johnson and johnson is behind. This you can do up to 365 worth of photos a year. 1 per photo. What happens is you pick the charity again in this case. You share that photo online and they are paying the dollar on your behalf. You dont spend anything. Griff finally this one is your favorite. Food rescue u. S. This downloadable app. Both for android and iphone connects people who are hungry with restaurants at the end of the day that have food leftover. If you have any sort of organization that feeds people during the day for money, you then can, instead of throwing this food out, you can sign up for this, and then you could volunteer as a driver to pick up the food from the restaurant and drop it off at a relief organization. It is a genius idea. Griff i love it and for all of our moms who say dont waste that food you can say mom, wasted food now donating to charity. All of these at cyberguy. Com. Pick at least one. Griff tis the season. Washington on shut down mode. How long will it last . Details top of the hour. Plus, jimmy kimmel. You know him. Ridiculing people who are donating to build the border wall. A Border Patrol agent is here to respond. Thats coming up. Donating money for a wall that will never exist. Its like starting a college fund for harry potter. 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The shut down hopefully will not last long. I think it should be shortlived. I dont think we are that far apart. We need to secure the border. President trump is throwing a temper tantrum and creation the trump shutdown. The only person standing between really getting a deal and not getting a deal is Chuck Schumer. President trump actually coming outs with a design for the wall that a lot of people out there saying this could work. The world is less safe today. The chaos has been unleashed. Is this the beginning of the end . Can we just be candid now. Journalism is dead it died a long time ago. He once welcomed refugees with open arms now justin of canada is blaming trump for his countrys Immigration Crisis. Really . We have our ugly christmas sweaters. Jedediah mine has a unicorn that i have named greg gutfeld. [laughter] it looks good though. Oh ice, ice, baby ice, ice, baby pete you might be ice skating today. When you were kids probably shopping. We are trying to do it on fox square formerly known as the plaza. We have ice rink out there. Griff jedediah going to do a triple will you tell us fo triple lutz for us. Its hs though. I was on the hour its tricky. Not easy. Pete you know how to ice skate. Jedediah its true but this dress complicates matter. Griff i can get on the skates and stand up. Jedediah im with him. Griff so kind to set that up for us. Setting up literally our own ice rink. Pete we had ice rink flood the middle of a field in the middle of winter not surprisingly. The warming house was sort of creepy and not all that warm. You would go in there and go out and skate. I learned to skate but i never learned to stop. So i would always sort of run into the snow bank. Jedediah thats why you need the rail. Griff boot hockey player. Thats all i got. Jedediah same with roller skates got to be able to stop. Pete got to do the heel thing. Griff folks in washington they stopped the government about 8 hours ago, a little more now. Of course you know now a partial government shut down, this is 25 of the government. 75 is funded. Pete griff, stop for a second. A Movement Silence for that second clock. [laughter] jedediah you are enjoying this a little bit too much. Pete its beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. I hope everyone in washington is freaking out. Everyone will wake up just fine and everyone else around america says for Goodness Sake finally someone is fighting for me and what i care about. If you went to sleep wondering what the u. S. Senate was going to do of course the u. S. Senate does what the u. S. Senate does best which is nothing. They didnt fund it. And they didnt do what the president asked. Chuck schumer is going to, you know, obfuscate and resist. But the shut down is happening right here. Its going to be on the corner of our screen all morning long. Everything is fine. Jedediah not only is everything fine but President Trump is owning the language on this. He is calling the shut down a democrat shut down. Take a listen. Our great country must have Border Security. We dont want people coming in that arent supposed to be here. We want people to come in through a legal process. Everybody wants to see our border protected. There is nothing we could do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes. Call it a democrat shut down. Call it whatever you want. But we need to help to get this approved. So, democrats, we have a wonderful list of things that we need to keep our country safe. Lets get out. Lets work together. Pete yeah. He says lets work together. Im waiting for that. Griff lets first step back and say both democrats and republicans agree there should be some border spending because democrats are on board with 1. 6 billion. Pete hold on. They dont agree on squat. Griff what they agree on is they should make a political football out of securing our southern border. Jed expwred thats true. However, senator Chuck Schumer minority leader is blaming the president and the Administration Even though he knew this was coming, pretty much since the election. We are talking about an argument over three tenths of 1 of deficit spending. And that is why as you wake up today you should go ice skating. You should go do your Christmas Shopping. The government is not yet reopened. It could be days. It could be even weeks. The senators have been sent home. Given 24 hours notice. Members of congress as well to come back. What they will try to do is get this 25 of the Government Back open. Jedediah i think, you know, i really do think they are worlds apart. Im with you i see Chuck Schumer over here. Pete dug. In. Jedediah 1. 6 billion. Lets face it that might be a number the thats not the number the Border Patrol agents are asking for. Thats not going to cut it we need better resources and wall and help out here doing the job we are set out to do to enforce this border. Pete i will say this and roll the tape if it happens this way. If its 1. 6 billion of existing which isnt the border wall. Security structures. That is a loss for President Trump. Jed i would agree. Pete dig in until you get real border wall funding or force nancy to open it back up when they take control of the house. But, you know, its christmas, right . Like we love but senator James Lankford, we had on the program earlier, said dont feel bad for those of us in washington. Maybe we should get something done during christmas. Watch. Congress stays in session rather than have government shut downs. If we stay in session, everybody has to stay here. Everyone has to debate. Keep everyone in the room. Then you actually finish up the debate. As long as there are these shutdowns or continuing resolutions and everyone leaves and dont actually finish the fight, then it doesnt get resolved and it lingers on and on and on. Keep everybody here. Keep the debate going. That leaves the pressure where it should be to be able to get this resolved. Griff i also talked to senator lankford about government waste. Spending. The citizens against government waste put out pig book. Some of the worst earmarks. 332 last year. Pete because 5 billion is too much, right, griff . Griff lets look. 65 million for pacific coastal salmon recovery. 11 million for Aquatic Plant control program. 12 million for International Fisheries commission whatever they do. And 25 million for energy research. They spent 15 billion or earmark projects but they cant come up with the little over 3 billion of which is a difference they are arguing about today. Jedediah viewers, in fact, had a very strong reaction to that as to what these people in washington are prioritizing. Pete they are coming. In. Jedediah study of shrimp on a tread meal we actually paid for that but we cant build a wall . Unbelievable. Pete i didnt ask for money to be spent on salmon. I want the wall think of the cost of human trafficking, of crime. Kate steinles loss. Sanctuary cities. The things when President Trump says this wall will pay for a itself month by month, he is absolutely right. Go to israel and places where walls have existed, they work. And so when Chuck Schumer says they have been expensive and ineffective he is lying about it for political expediency to lead the resistance. Is he a lown on this topic. And they are clowns on this topic, which is why running on it, owning it, sticking your finger in their chest and saying this is your shut down until we get a wall is the winner. Dont listen to your squish advisors who say oh, no, a shutdown so bad. No one gives a crap about the shut down. Nobody outside of washington cares. Griff oh, really . What about the media . Jedediah they care for sure. Griff lines from your favorite the New York Times Editorial Board shut down more like a breakdown. New York Magazine donald trump ruins the holidays with shutdown mattis chaos. Abc news chaos president isolates himself with plays to base. Analysis. Pete some of those headlines made their way on to television. Here is what some of your favorite people had to say. We begin with that chaos in the capitol. The government heading towards a shutdown. Hours away from a Government Shutdown. President trumps roller coaster instincts plunged washington into chaos. I would say its a level of chaos. I would say what this is shows that the containment of donald trump has failed. Chaos in the white house, at the pentagon, and, yes, on capitol hill. Thanks to one person, the president. Its been a week of what they are describing as political malpractice. The level of chaos thats unfolding in washington right now. Jedediah chaos, armageddon. Hit the panic button. Its amazing. Some of these things they act like they have never had happen before. We have had shutdowns media on other peoples watches. President ford one shut down. Carter five. Reagan 8. H. W. Bush 1. Clinton 2. George w. Bush zero. Obama one. Trump three. Its amazing to me because you dont like the guy who is in charge you have to overreact to everything whether its a change in the administration that was once referred to as a transition with president obama now suddenly its massive chaos. I mean, honestly its so transparent i hate to break it to them people at home watching. They see this. They see the fact that you overreact simply because you dont like the guy in charge. And they turn against you. Thats why he won. Wake up. Pete thats right. Dan bongino had a similar take earlier on the show. Listen. The media is all in on activism. Can we just be candid now . Journalism is dead. Its dead. It died a long time ago. The trump year has highlighted it. Trump didnt start the slow death of the medias credibility. He just made it more obvious to people. These are big stories. And its meant to paint this apocalyptic tone in the Trump Administration and its just not true. Pete as far as im concerned this morning the only journalist alive is Griff Jenkins and a few others at our channel for sure. Jedediah dont forget ed henry. That waffle maker already got him angry. Pete we will talk about that later. I support the media doing more of that i want them to keep doing it the more they propagate like propagandists to the left the more people realize how slanted it all is. And they dig in even more with the president fighting against it keep going, guys. Chuck todd, the beginning of the end. He said that how many times . Like does anyone watch that sunday show that he has that no one watches anymore . No one cares, only reinforces the view that its us against the elites. Jedediah let us know, people, do you agree with pete . Is it us against the elites . Let us know friends foxnews. Com. We want to hear what you have to say. Im doing my best. I do this for a living. Pete you do . Jedediah we are turning now to your headlines. Today the second chicago officer killed by a train while chasing a shooting suspect will be laid to rest. Mourners standing in line friday to say goodbye to officer Eduardo Marmolejo husband and father of three. A sea of blue burying his partner conrad gray. Draped in an American Flag honoring his air force service. Both officers were on the force less than three years. Flights are taking off this morning at Londons Gatwick airport. Delays could still be expected. Overnight police making two arrests charging a man and woman with criminal use of drones. The suspicious drone sightings grounded all planes this week stranding more than 100,000 passengers for three days. Police say there are no signs this is terrorrelated. The fbi is pushing back against the house judiciary committees request to publish sensitive closed door interviews by Christmas Eve in a letter. Chairman Bob Goodlatte told the agency they wanted a 3400 pages released to the public by then. Republicans are preparing to close investigations into Hillary Clintons email and bias at the fbi. Those are your headlines. And that Hillary Clinton story still gets me teed. It gets me so angry, still. I just cant take it some of us out here just hillary, did you wrong. You didnt own up. Pete im with you. All right. Jimmy kimmel ridiculing people who are donating to build the border wall. Donating money for a wall that will never exist its like starting a college fund for harry potter. Pete he also said they are going to use their meth money to give to the wall. 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Before starting, tell your doctor about all planned medical or dental procedures and any kidney or liver problems. Learn all you can to help protect yourself from a stroke. Talk to your doctor about xarelto®. Griff welcome back as lawmakers race to reopen the government, President Trump unveiling an image ever the proposed design for the border wall. The president tweeting a design of our steel slat barrier totally effective while at the same time beautiful. So could this design be useful to the Border Patrol agents combating illegal immigration . Here to weigh in the president of the local 2544 national Border Patrol council in arizona art decueto. Are you prepared for this shutdown . We have been preparing, obviously, budgeting correctly what is i mean, its a good question. But the funny thing is that the people that are causing this shut down like chuck and nancy they are still getting paid yet you would have men and women very dedicated to defend our borders out there now that they dont know when they will receive another paycheck. Griff the president s you just saw there the steel slats. What do you make of that . Is that something that you think you need . Its definitely something we need. We have had meetings with the president. We have gone back and forth on at love issues. He has been extremely helpful. Its refreshing to see a president who actually cares about the American People, cares about securing our borders and i can assure you that the areas where we have put better barriers, walls being one of them, the numbers have gone down dramatically. Griff i want to get, art, your take on jimmy kimmel. You know him, late night host on one of the networks. Talking about the go fund me page, border wall more than 10 million to willed that wall through donations. Here is what jimmy kimmel said. There are some very dopey people ready to pay for it themselves. People here is what people do with their disposable income when they dont have loans from college to pay off. [laughter] donating money for a wall that will never exist, its like starting a college fund for harry potter. A lot of these people are dipping into their meth money for this. Griff why is it and what is it that jimmy kimmel doesnt understand as to why it matters to americans to build this wall . He has never been down here. He has never seen the reality of what happens. Listen, jimmy kimmel, he has a show based on ratings. Maybe he is upset because more people are donating to the wall than what is actually watching his show . Griff art, let me ask you, someone who has dedicated his life to securing the border. What do you think about President Trump holding the line here on this effort . I think its fantastic to be honest. I know its difficult for tom people to realize and understand. The reality is we are seeing a surge. We are seeing more individuals come into our country illegally. We dont know their intentions, just recently we had an agent attacked down here in Southern Arizona when he was trying to make an arrest. The individual that attacked him bit his hand several times. At some point he picked up a rock and hit the agent over the head and gave him a pretty good size gash. He took off. More agents had to go out there until they were finally able to find him and apprehend him. These are the individuals that are entering. Griff speaking of entering. Are you seeing an increase . I had someone tell me specificfully tijuana he was going to try to cross illegally on Christmas Eve. Are you seeing a surge right now at this moment . We definitely are we are seeing a surge. We are seeing more people coming. In the reality is agents are out there working 24 7. It doesnt matter whether its christmas or not we are out there working. We are not santa claus. We work all year long. Griff art del cueto thank you for you and every other Border Patrol agent. Merry christmas to you. Merry christmas and thank you. Griff from war hero to accused criminal, green beret facing a penalty for killing a taliban fighter. Their family members are here to make the case for leniency. Thats coming up. As more and more cities are pressured to remove nativity scenes. One mayor is asking his city to display more. That maritals us why its increasing the Christmas Spirit. Thats next. Stay tuned the lord is come let earth receive her king let every heart prepare him room you once i started looking for it was a nobrainer. I switched to geico and saved hundreds. Thats a win. But its not the only reason i switched. The geico app makes it easy to manage my policy. I can pay my bill, add a new driver, or even file a claim. Woo, hey now thats a winwin. Thank you switch to geico®. Its a winwin. Jedediah time for quick headlines. A neighborhood is practically under water after a nearly 100yearold pipe burst. The broken water main flooded streets and submerged cars in los angeles. The muddy mess driving vehicles into a sinkhole. Unclear what caused the break. Pete i dont know, 96 years. Jedediah 40 story high rise needed to be flooded with water as it is engulfed in a massive fire. Flames and thick black smoke have seen shooting from the new york skyscraper. No word how it started. Check out how a train reaction crash leaves a semi dangling over the edge of a bridge. Troopers say the driver tried avoided three other wrecked vehicles in jacksonville, florida. The trailer eventually fell into the water and one person is hospitalized. Griff thats a tough place to be. Thats a long bridge. As more and more cities are pressured to remove nativity scenes one mayor is asking to display more this after concerned noticed there werent as many up as in years past. Pete back in 2015 the town threatened by atheist growpsz to remove. Saying it is a violation of the separation of church and state. Jedediah next guest is fighting back calling for more Christmas Spirit and fighting author his residents faith. The mayor joins us now. Mayor, great to have you here. Thank you. Merry christmas from central minnesota. Jedediah Merry Christmas to you. What was your motivation for encouraging residents to put up more nativity scenes . Do you want them to get back in the spirit of christmas . What was your goal . Pete you could hear us we had a tough connection the mayor of wadena, minnesota. Griff mr. Mayor, are you with us . Can you hear . Pete i think we have got you. What made you do this . Pete second time not a charm in this case. What are we doing . 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He is accused of the 2010 killing of a taliban bombmaker responsible for the deaths of two minors . Hesitation unit. Up next we have a decorated Navy Seal Leader Edward Gallagher he killed injured. Remains in jail in navy bringing in california. Finally, finally Army Lieutenant sentenced to 19 years for a deadly shooting in afghanistan after thwarting an attempted ambush against his unit. Joining us now this morning in an exclusive to share their stories and frustrations, are the family members of these three soldiers. Brave americans and war fighters. First, we have got Julie Golsteyn the wife of major matthew golsteyn, Andrea Gallagher is the wife of navy seal Eddy Gallagher and andrea lore rents is the mother of Army First Lieutenant clinton lore rents. I have the honor of being on this show but rarely do i have the honor of being in the company of amazing women like the three of you. Thank you for your service to this country. You serve alongside the heroes. We shared a little bit about matts story and we had you on the program last week. Give us an update or update our viewers on whats happening right now in your situation and what happened overall. Sure, we have seen the investigation that the army claims they have new evidence. Im happy to share there is nothing new that has not been considered by the army at the board of inquiry where matt was cleared they have ar signed a career prosecutor to do the article 32 hearing and trying to rush it into the 32 hearing the first week of january this unbiased investigating officer is going to go through seven to 8 years of investigations and all of those things in the next two weeks over the holidays, i guess. We can see here that the army is not actin acting with ay integrity. They are rushing this process that we are supposed to trust. I will say that the process that were supposed to trust, the end result is clint. Pete the end result is clint. We will get to anna, his mother as well. Clint serving 19 years in prison for a split second decision he made on the battlefield. Andrea, i want to go to you, wife of navy seal Eddy Gallagher, talk to you about his situation and what you you are facing . Well, currently what we are facing is my husband is facing life without parole. My husband has been in the brig at mere march for 15 weeks now. We just within the last two weeks finally received charges our situation has been very, very dire. My husband was actually accused by mall contents in his platoon that he had done an alleged act on a dying isis fighter that opportunity was picked up by ncis and jumped upon to dry to bag a navy seal. What we saw was in april of 2018 they started the case in june ncis proceeded to escalate their terrorist acts an our family. They raided our home. They took our children out at gunpoint into the streets, while my husband was in custody and then after that seven hour raid, we just were reeling. Pete this is not the ncis people think of on tv your husband was killed as a result of an isis dirt bag which i said before. And yet he is the one under prosecution now. Right. I want to clarify. This was an insurgent that they had shelled. He was the last one. And not our men. This was e. R. D. That did this. He was the last one. He was brought out. He had a severed artery in my leg. My army is a navyman he did medical procedures on him. We have this never happened. This person took their last breath due tout injuries they sustained. What happened in our case was after ncis terrorized our family, they then took my husband out of a t. B. I. Clinic on september 11th. Patriots day nonetheless and proceeded to torture him. 72 hours in solitary confinement. And then 15 weeks in jail at the brig at miramar this is unfathomable that they would do this to our troops. Pete anna used the word unfathomable. What they are saying unfathomable their husbands being imprisoned by own military for killing the enemy. Thats exactly what your son is serving right now 19 years is he serving. Clinton roa lore rentsrents your son made a decision guys killed turned out to be part of the insurgency. The army didnt seem to care. Tell us about clinton and your situation. Yes, this has been a long battle for six years, going on six years that my son is sitting in prison for making that call on the battlefield when he chose to defend chose to defend and protect. After he was warned of the threat. And he was still sentenced to prison because the prosecutors called it innocent civilian. When they had in their database at the time of the Court Martial the proof that these were not innocent civilians. They were enemy combatants that were linked by d. N. A. And their fingerprints and so, you know, its just heart breaking to think that they would not have our soldiers back and at this time we have been talking, trying to get the message to trump. And, you know, i know trump as a good president and what i would like for him to do is correct what obama would not do and make this right for my son. Show the American People and the military that he has our back. Pete we bring someone like Bowe Bergdahl home and celebrate them and we hear these three cases and bring justice. The army got evidence that the men that were killed, the enemy that was killed were guilty, even if the decision, the split second was right or wrong, he was doing it to protect his men. Why then and im not here to trash the army. But why do our institutions work against our war fighters as opposed to giving them the benefit of the doubt . I think that theres a big difference between the actual war fighter and the people who are back here judging them with, you know, in hindsight. Pete amen. Its easy to be Armchair General and monday morning quarterback and judge people in positions which you have never been and never had to make decisions to save the lives of the men and women around you. Pete andrea, your message to navy leadership, to the president , to those that have the power to review this case . Well, something needs to be done. This has to stop. We have to, you know, really look and wake up here as to what is going on in our country. These are atrocities being committed against our military service members. My children. My family, my husband. I would love to see the president take a good, hard look at the systemic failure in all four branches of the military these absolutely corrupt decisions being made from the top down. We see cowardice careerism. We see corruption thats rampant and people are covering their own you know what. And its unacceptable. This is not okay. And we have to have changes. We have to correct the corruption in the ucmj and we need to do it now. Its obviously anna has suffered for years with this. And i refuse to let this happen to julie and i. Pete how is clint doing and what are the prospects there. Clint is doing fine. We actually filed a lawsuit last week with the civilian judge in kansas. And we are were hoping for good results out of that but, anybody that would like to look at that, you can go to uap. Org. And look at that filing. And it will make your blood boil of the wrong that has been done to clint. Pete absolutely. We must not forget the names, matthew golsteyn, Eddy Gallagher and clint lorance. We reached out to the pentagon for comments on these case its. What i say is we ask men like this to take the gloves off and defeat other enemies. When they do we secondguess them from the comfortable airconditioned studios or offices and then wonder why people are so angry when promises made to them are not indeed kept. Julie, andrea, and an marks i will tell you this on behalf of fox friends weekend. We are covering all three of these cases and those like them. Any updates, let us know and we will stay on it we appreciate your time. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you. Pete you got it well, still ahead. Who needs private business when the government can do it . Senator Elizabeth Warren, the president calls pocahontas, wants the government to manufacture its own generic drugs. Is this really a good idea . Expert here to break it down coming up next. That helped keep people alive and out of the hospital. Dont take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. Dont take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if youve had angioedema with an ace or arb. 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Griff estimated 134 million americans are expected to hid to the mall this weekend for lastminute stopping shopping and get this 13 million havent even bought a gift yet for christmas. Are you one of them . Todtodd piro is live at the westfield mall in connecticut tore panic saturday. Todd . Todd griff, good morning to you. The mall is already open. 8 00 is when that happened. We found two shoppers ready to rock patty and her daughter sage. Patty, why did you wait. Recycling the money, paychecks and things like that. Gifts you cant get online. Todd you told me earlier you got a bonus today you are spending that bonus. Absolutely. Todd without divulging secrets, can you just tell me what you are buying . Well, what they dont have here i dont think is cigars. So maybe a couple of those. Some cologne for my husband. Todd we just ruined your husbands christmas gift. Im sorry, sir but you are getting cologne whether you like it or not. Let me ask your daughter sage. You waited until the last minute as well, why . Because i cant drive. So i kind of cant go anywhere because i have money but i cant really drive. So i mean i cant really do any online shopping. There is nothing there that my friends like. So, yeah. Thats why we waited. Todd how much more of your shopping percentage wise do you have to do . Probably about 30 . Todd thats not too bad. How about you . Ole of it. Todd all of it. So today is a big day. You are one of those individuals thats going to spend 26 billion today. It seems because you have so much to do most of that is actually going to come from you. Sage, thank you very much. Patty as always, Merry Christmas to awfu to all of you. Jedediah, back to you. Jedediah senator Elizabeth Warren policy proposal ahead of 2020 run. The idea . She wants the government to manufacture its own generic drug in an attempt to drive down drug prices. Is this really the cure to fixes high drug prices or is this just a Big Government takeover that will cost taxpayers . Here to weigh in a doctor who is emergency and family medicine. Thank you so much for being here. Good morning. Jedediah good morning to you. Merry christmas. Thank you. And happy holidays. Jedediah when you hear a proposal like this as a doctor what is your reaction . Jedediah, the last thing we need is government stepping in and interfering with the production of medications that we have to actually consume. Now, the nih tried this. The fda shut that down because of quality concerns. I think its a wasteful consumption of resources. Instead, we need to be focusing on fixing the current problems at hand. Fixing the issues with foreign free loading and the pbn managers. They are ponking a lot of the rebates instead of passing it down to patients. Lots of problems, even our president has touted the idea of allowing medicare and medicaid to negotiate with pbms. We are not allowed to do that thats why prices are on the higher end versus in other countries. Jedediah obviously two schools of thought on this. Folks think the government should step in and regulate prices and free market folks. When you hear a proposal like this and, of course, this is coupled with warren talking about medicare for all and heavy, heavy government involvement in these programs, how does that affect patients though on a very practical . Is it cost . Is it qualities of care . What do you worry about in terms of your patients . As it is right now, we are concerned patients cant afford their premiums, their deductibles, their copays. There are some factors and variables involved. For example, you can actually pay cash at the pharmacy and sometimes thats a lot cheaper than using your insurance. For example, you can pay 6 for an anti biotic instead of using your insurance and its only 20. I think the focus should be tackling the problems at hand versus going and creating a new company if you will, a new drug shop just to produce more medication. Now, in the bill, she did suggest either producing medications or contracting it out to other companies. That might work. But, if you get a flat tire, do you go out and buy a new car or do you fix the flat tire . Thats essentially what were looking at. Like putting a band aid on a deep stab wound. We need to fix the root source and core problems as opposed to take parallel actions. Jedediah if warren were to get her way here and this is not going to pass a Republican Senate no way. Does give insight what the left wing of the Democrat Party is looking to do. What do you see innovation to cost . It may deter and put an economic burden on the healthcare system. And ultimately, jedediah, this is going to fall on the taxpayers. Who is going to fund this . This is not selfsustainable. Basically increase taxes to produce something that has already been shown to fail . And as it is right now, almost 50 of generics are already made by one manufacturing company. So does the government want to compete with that company . You know, in the meantime though, there are ways that patients can save money. Shop around, different pharmacies have different prices. Use coupons. Look for rebates. Ask your doctor for samples and generics. And then another thing, you know, our president and his administration are working on transparency, making prices of drugs transparence versus hidden fees, hidden prices and also tackling the patent system that can really have a big impact on price the prices of medications in addition to tackling price gouging by the pharmaceutical companies. Jedediah thank you so much for being here. I dont think so this is the last we will hear from warren on this. You might be back to talk about this. Thank you, jedediah. Jedediah the president promised his supporters he would be unpredictable. Two years later why are so many surprised . We will debate that next hour. We have an ice skating rink on fox square this morning. Now that we have learned the baste basics im going to try realize dancing. Im doing what . Yes. Apparently im doing that next. Its the most wonderful time of the year Maria Ramirez . Hi. Maria ramirez mom maria Maria Ramirez. Mcdonalds is committing 150 Million Dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs. Prof Maria Ramirez mom and dad Maria Ramirez to help more employees achieve their dreams. Jedediah im so scared. Pete those are things we cant do. Well done. Pete i cant read while im watching that back on the ice rink ready to take our skating to the next level or some level. Hopefully be able to skate like two of those by the end of the show. Probably not. Rick Somebody Just wrote that. Pete writing doesnt match reality. Jedediah ice theater of new york. Griff jessica and conner join us now. Come on in. Hi. Rick i just turned around and you were up above. Jedediah you were in the air. This is a great artificial surface but its not ice. How do you its got to be even more difficult on, this right . Yes, it is. Pete when did you start skating. I started when i was 10. Pete you dont have to start when you are 4. You can start when you are 10. Very cool. Jedediah tips for us. Im pretty bad at this. I need help. Rick any chance we can lift up jedediah opt ice . It may take some years. Just start by marching up and down nice and easy. Jedediah i can do that. Rick im happy to be an observer. A. A little difficult on this ice you cant glide. Do a swizzel. Do a spin. Pete the ladies do a lot of the spinning. What are the tips on that. Get a good wind up. Rick conservation of regular momentum. Pete conservation of what . You have to wind up first and pull in tight. Wow. [cheers] [applause] wind up the wrong way extend to the left and pull. In. Thats my version of it. [cheers and applause] its hard on this ice. Rick everybody gets a trophy. Pete thats right. Congratulations for the terrible spin but good effort. Jedediah i tried. Listen, i dont see your skates. Pete you are right. Thats true. Whats the hardest thing to do in skating . Make it look easy and effortless. Pete thats a good answer. Rick you make it look beautiful but it has to be dangerous. It can be. Pete you were just up here. You can drop her, you fall, its ice. If you had real bad injuries along the way . No. Not yet. Pete show us a couple more on your performance. Let the pros do it. Jedediah if i have your hand. Put me back up in the lift . Go. Its hard on this. The partial Government Shutdown no underway, donald trump putting blame on democrats for not coming to bipartisan agreement. Call it the democrat shutdown, lets be bipartisan and get it done. The shutdown hopefully will not last long. The president is throwing a temper tantrum and creating the trump shutdown. The only person standing between getting a deal and not getting a deal is Chuck Schumer. Donald from coming out with a design for the wall that a lot of people say this could work. Very dopey people ready to pay for it themselves, money for a wall that will never exist. More people donating to the wall. He once welcomed refugees with open arms but now justin from canada blaming trump for his countrys Immigration Crisis. We have ugly christmas sweaters. Mine has a unicorn that i paid for. It looks good. Jingle bell jingle bell jungle bell rock jingle bell swing jingle bell ring snowing and blowing now the jingle hop has begun jingle bell jingle bell jingle bell rock wu fresh off the ice in my defense it is not real life and it is hard to skate on it. Just skating that. Pete no one would have done great. That is why later in the show we will do worse. Carley i will point and laugh but only at you. Griff said nice things and me. Journalists like to keep it snow friendly. I cant stop. We may slip. Do we have a clip from backroom mighty ducks who couldnt stop as well . Lewis mendoza from the miami club. Incredible story, 1. 9 seconds. One minor problem. A little trouble stopping. That is going to be you. There is no board to run into. We have an nhl goalie, so dont take that but we all try to take a shot. But my favorite segment of the morning, before we go to hogan lets go downstairs, and someone will talk to him. And what does he take in my presence . Wow. He is a mean one. I love the grinch. About time you come to the curb. Havent gotten a treat. Only up to his sweater. We will talk with him and it is important to remember but right here on the couch. Griff we have that. We have to talk about this. Lets set it up. And 25 of your government is closed down, 75 remains open, donald trump talking about the shutdown yesterday. Our country must have Border Security. We dont want people coming in that arent supposed to be here. We want people to come into a legal process. Everybody wants to see our border protected. Theres nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes, colletta democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want but we need help to get this approved. For democrats we have a wonderful list of things we need to keep our country safe. Lets get out and work together. Griff i dont know if youre being paid this morning and dont really care. I hope you get paid eventually but most americans not concerned about the armageddon rhetoric from the left. What is the shutdown all about . Reporter i was looking at the segment before me, you saw the grinch slinking around the studio, im pretty sure that was Chuck Schumer, not entirely sure. Lets be clear what is happening. The president said heres what i want in immigration and Border Protection for the American People, American Families and American Communities was nancy pelosi said you dont have the votes, he said fine, take it to the floor. It went to the floor, came out of the house, squarely in front of Senate Democrats and for whatever reason they have decided not to support the American People were this president in their protection from people from the southern border. That watershed moment the world saw in the oval office in which one party, the democrats decided to stand firm with people who are here illegally and unlawfully as opposed to hundreds of millions of american citizens, that should be terrifying for anyone as we find the christmas season. Griff we are talking about 3 10 of 1 , is the president willing to go somewhere between the original 1. 6 billion, and the 5 billion he mentioned . We accept something less than 5 billion . I wont negotiate with you guys from this chair or get ahead of what the president will or wont do but what he said repeatedly, he demand some type of security for this nation, that includes a wall. Democrats voted for a wall in 2006, voted again in 2013 all in support of Border Security and protection for this nation. A couple things have changed, the problem is much worse. The political calculus changed, democrats think they will get these votes if they let people in without checks or balance and donald trump is in the white house. They used to be for Border Security and what we have now is a government being shot down by hand full of democrats that refuse to stand up and protect the American People. Jedediah we have 800,000 federal employees who will eventually get paid so the armageddon scare tactics the left keeps throwing out not true. Where does this land . Who wins . This is a political football being thrown back and forth. Who wins the political argument or policy argument. Im less concerned about the political argument and more the American People. It should be noted so many people didnt cover this. The United States under Donald Trumps leadership and with help from secretary nielsen entered into a deal with mexico, and people coming from assignment to this country through mexico are now held in mexico until their case is adjudicated in the United States. That saves this country, it shows a couple things, that the Mexican Government is doing more to help our immigration system and doing more to protect the American People than the democrats are. Griff bob muellers special counsel is still funded so that is important. But how far, how long and how far are you willing to go . The president will go as far as it takes to protect the American People, negotiations are ongoing. He sent his top negotiators including the Vice President of the hill all day long yesterday. Chuck schumer is negotiating with the white house last week, the week before, until nancy pelosi stepped in and said no. There will be no negotiation, im controlling you, Chuck Schumer, and im controlling the senate. Talks were very difficult with Chuck Schumer because nancy pelosi was pulling puppet strings and wouldnt let him negotiate with the white house but because of yesterday and the president s tough stance in defense of the American People and American Families they are coming back to the table, having these conversations. They know now the president is in a position of power because he took up for the American People. Pete what is the president s mood now . We are talking iceskating and trying to stay in the Christmas Spirit, what is the president s move . That is the question we get and we hate it. Every day we hear he is feeling, he is upset. I was in the oval Office Yesterday before he cut that video for a couple hours, he was absolutely serious and concerned what was going on with the government and the American People and the pending shutdown heading into christmas but he was in a fine mood. He wasnt angry. This is where we are, democrats have to come to the table, he wants a solution, doesnt want to shut down, democrats do and you see that because all you need is a few of them to vote to keep the government open. Instead they want closed government and open borders. Griff we will grill the grinch on your behalf. You just heard from the white house but all morning long we have been asking you what you think of the shutdown. Turns out peoples Voice Matters more than anything else, this is mike emailing fox and friends, dems block everything donald trump promised, we the people voted him in for secure borders, we want the wall. Jedediah a wall provides order. Even at disney there are barriers, dems, your trump hatred aside for the American People. Pete placing blame is. Was. Both parties in congress are to blame. You nailed it right there. You will hear both sides say it is the trump shutdown, the democrats shutdown, that is part of the parlor game in washington. Jedediah it will leave both sides unhappy. Pete in this case no one can to get their name. What happened in 2013 shutdown, i follow the news, i cant remember what it was about, probably spending and frustration and all the stuff the Obama Administration was doing. It is whether you are willing to fight for what is right. This has been litigated, republicans failed, democrats failed, time to build a wall and fund it. No one is happy but especially the base of the president who made this his signature. Jedediah interesting few days to see where it lands and who digs in and who doesnt dig in. Griff some folks on the border are working today who wont a paycheck for a while but they will probably do it. Jedediah we will get some headlines for you. A colorado mom appears in court charged with her murder. Patrick crazys arrest after kelsey verizon thinks giving day. Her body has not been found but no word what led to his arrest. We do not believe kelsey is alive. Investigators have recovered a number of items that make us suspicious that the crime occurred at kelseys residence. Jedediah the phone was tracked in idaho, 800 miles away. Fraz frazeywas charged with solicitation. Police convinced a man to climb down from the National Christmas tree in washington dc, they are trying to figure out why he did it. It happened near the white house. He was taken to hospital for psychiatric evaluation. No word if he will face charges. Reverie sparking a firestorm of controversy at High School Wrestling match. Andrew johnson forced to cut his dreadlocks before a match. Johnsons hair and had your violated rules and regulations but many say it was a case of racial bias, johnson won the match but the reverie barred from officiating anymore matches until the incident is investigated. This tv drama for 90s could be making a come back, yes i am so excited. Beverly hills 90210 working on a reboot, some of the original cast will be part of it but wont play the same characters. Cbs is developing the show. The news comes after the original cast was spotted having coffee in hollywood after a series of pitched meetings. Theyve got to play the same characters. Pete more 90210 news. Griff people donating to build the border wall. A wall that will never exist. It is like starting a college fund for harry potter. Pete at the border every day next. Griff donald trump has a message for possible 2020 challenger. What is his name . Robert francis . Beto orourke. I thought you were supposed to win. Hey yeah . 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Jimmy kimmel known as leftwing hack, dopey people which is what the left think of every trump supporter and people who put their money where their mouth is and say if the government wont do it we will do it, that is american ingenuity, go find me page is up to 15 million right now and the guy who started it, in context with the government how to give it to the proper place and that math comment, you are all folks on mess and dont know any better. I must be on meth because i gave 200 this morning. I hope you give too because maybe we will get the wall. Jedediah they dont realize a bunch of americans out there are supporting this because they feel the government isnt doing the job it is supposed to do. All they want is to have a secure border, to be a nation of laws, not worry about trafficking of drugs and potential crime and do it for the people being incentivized to come over and the humanitarian crisis at the border that is heartbreaking for everybody. It is not funny to me. Pete it is not funny to the men and women of Border Patrol who go out every day to defend the border. In his entire life, heres what in arizona, heres what he said about Jimmy Kimmels comments. Hes never been down here or seen the reality of what happens. Jimmy kimmel has a show based on ratings. Maybe he is upset because more people are donating to the wall than watching the show. Pete jimmy kimmel taking shots at the wall, donald trump is trying to get the wall built, people made a lot about his at the prototype he looked at . Is it steel slats . The president tweeted this, the design of the steel slat barrier, at the same time beautiful. We have a split screen also, trumps prototype and a shot of migrants, i dont think you could sit on top of trumps wall. Maybe you are not going over it. Jedediah i was looking at the comments. A lot of people are really impressed with that design and thought it could be effective. There were a lot of surprising people who were not on the right that are supporting him on this and are quiet in the same way silent group of people voted for him the first time quietly observing and saying why are democrats obstructing something that benefits everyone that is in frugal to National Security and you will find when it comes voting time, a lot of those people are back. It is all of congress that needs to get past the shutdown and realize Border Patrol, if you put a blockade, to your point, last month, fox news paul had trump Approval Rating at 46 . Lets look what comes next. I dont make predictions usually but here we go. The president made this promise to his supporters two years in office. Why are so many people surprised he is unpredictable. We will debate that next. We have to be unpredictable. I say that all the time. Somebody said the other day trump is unpredictable. That is a great complement. Looks great, honey. Right . Sometimes you need an expert. I got it. And sometimes those experts need experts. On it. [ crash ] and sometimes the expert the expert needed Needs Insurance expertise. Its all good. Steve, youre covered for general liability. And, paul, we got your back with workers comp. Wow, its like a party in here. Where are the hors doeuvres, right . [ clanking ] tartlets . We cover commercial vehicles, too. I think theres something wrong with your sink. Some quick headlines, china taking a new approach to keep kids from playing hooky. Several schools tracking students with smart uniforms, the hightech clothing meant to boost attendance records when students enter and exit schools lose teachers can send them homework through and apps connected to the uniform chips. This nativity scene has baby jesus locked in an ice determined cage, the couple building the controversial displaces it is a protest against Donald Trumps immigration policies. Donald trump spent years promising his supporters in the world how this presidency would be. We have to be unpredictable. I say that all the time. Somebody said the other day trump is unpredictable. That is a great complement. We must, as a nation, be more unpredictable. We are totally predictable. We have to be unpredictable starting now. Jedediah why are so many in the political world so surprise . Republican strategist kimberly, thank you for joining us. What do you say to that . I often say that, if you listened to him on the campaign trail particularly when he talked about National Security and fears libertarian streak, you would not be surprised by him putting forth in America First agenda. Why are people shocked . Dont know why people are shocked. Like president obama donald trump doesnt signal to the rest of the world what he is about to do. He just does it. Even nikki haley before announcing her departure disclosed in a cnn interview how him being so an predictable helped with you and ambassadors and diplomacy. She even disclosed how it helped her. Him being unpredictable, ratcheting up the rhetoric on twitter helped her. She was able to go back to the ambassador and say before pushing him over the edge this is how you compromise and it worked. Jedediah what is your response . Sometimes being unpredictable keeps people on their toes and that is what you wanted a leadership position . Being unpredictable is okay but at certain times your advisors need to know what you are going to do and Donald Trumps unpredictability has pushed out important people like the brilliant warrior general mattis with what he has done in syria, and put the kurds at risk. Or how unpredictable behavior affected the market. People seeing their Retirement Funds go down because of unpredictable behavior with trade. You have to be measured and listen to advice, this is what the president failed on. When the Obama Administration transitioned and the team transitioned out and you had some people even some people resign, no one was rushing to blame obamas lack of predictability, they said they have differing views and the college day goal and are moving onto another goal. Why does obama get a pass and trump doesnt . This is how liberal media spins everything for president obama and former Lady Michelle obama. They always seem to have their back. I dont think donald trump is that unpredictable. He is doing exactly what he said hes going to do, hes keeping his promises and doing it by any means necessary. He is using reverse psychology. His actions and message dont add up. He said no gun control, he did. Before he said no gun control he meets with the nra and we have legislation on bump stocks. Before he said all legal elements immigrants must go, now must stay. He doesnt always match his message but hes always doing what he promised he would do. Jedediah an predictable politician, best way to go, thank you for weighing in. He wants to welcome refugees with open arms but now Justin Trudeau is blaming donald trump for his countrys Immigration Crisis and americans are choosing Christmas Carols over billboard hits to get them in the holiday spirit but not the grinch. He hates them all. Easier to tell us why he hates everything and why he is so mean. Is coming up now. As charming as A Neil Mister grinch mister grinch you really are a heel you are as cuddly as a cactus us timing as A Neil Mister grinch you are a bad banana with a greasy black beard griff there is santa but then there is the grinch. Pete nobody else were green. Jedediah you are a little scary. Before when you came up, you were scary. It is a little intimidating. By scare factor went up a couple notches. I have been waiting to ask why do you hate christmas so much . It is so easy to. Everybody just gets hopped up on sugar and buying presence and it drives me nuts. Jedediah if youre in a mall and you hear a Christmas Carol is there one that makes you queasy . One that has musical notes in it. Jedediah everyone. I hate them. You hate rudolph . Of course. I like the song they are thinking about me but i dont want to hear it. Pete it is about children and they are happy and smiled, you dont like that . Know. That is terrible. Come see the show, it is all explained. The kids are just going crazy and have their presence, it is a nightmare. Pete i kind of agree with you. Thank using a jedediah it is joy. Pete is temporary. So empty but not everything is empty. A poll came out recently, silent night is americas favorite, the reason for the season of christmas is the birth of jesus. The nicer ones like silent night and White Christmas, nothing . Know. My favorite Christmas Song is behind the times. Jedediah what is your favorite presence to take from people if you had to pick one gift you could steal . Their hopes and dreams. Pete there is max. Max get off the camera man. Max is down there is on the corner over there. Pete house life in the cave . It is great. Everything is where i want it. Pete ultimate man cave. Jedediah you are in a musical. What is your favorite part of the show. And and putting the jacket in and get the hat on. Pete your heart is famously small. It grows. Wheres your heart right now . At the beginning of every show it shrinks back to its normal grinch sides. Jedediah you like it when it is small . It is more comfortable, less feelings to deal with. Pete people dont fill you with joy. Jedediah lets have an honest moment. A few million people, are there moments, just too mean . Got to be nicer . Know. Pete anyone ever give you a Christmas Present . Jedediah look at that. Thats so nice of you. I dont want it. Griff what is your message for kids . My message christmas, i will steal it. It will be all mine max is going to pool my flag once he gets appear. Jedediah he wants to go. He is like a one of the grinch. Griff a horn on your head, you can pool it with max. Like an intern, you wont get paid. Pete join the grinch and it is a deal. Pete i heard i wasnt getting paid. You got me there. Griff i get paid in evilness. Tell us what is going on outside. Reporter use of the just like pete. Lets talk about the weather. A lot of people traveling today and we got a good day for travel. We had all the troubles yesterday with a massive storm across the east coast. A few residual delays primarily from a little bit of wind that overall the weather is gone. Tonight more precipitation in the Pacific Northwest but aside from that everything is looking good. Here is precipitation on christmas day. We will see a storm in the four corners, Higher Elevation of snow and rain but overall everything looking good. Heres your temperatures, drive or do some shopping, things look good today. Back to you. Pete recover to my broken candycane. You can have half of it. The grinch is fantastic. Jedediah he is pretty mean, im not going to lie. We are going to turn now and turn to some headlines. 5 suspects are in custody after leading police on a jar bazaar chase, a car slammed into the windshield, 40 drama to them to a screeching halt. Officers, two random women unseen, threatening them with a shoe at the crash she seen, no word what started the chase. Justin trudeau slamming donald trump blaming the us for an influx of Illegal Immigrants that he invited. Fleeing the United States, choosing to leave the United States right now. Perhaps domestic realities in the political context of the United States. Jedediah in 2017 the canadian promise to send a tweet welcoming all newcomers to canada. Donald trump takes a jab at beto orourke. Congratulations on your race, you won easily. Now hes running for president. I thought you were supposed to win before you run. Jedediah highlighting ted cruzs victory over orourke and thinking ted cruz for his work on the committal Justice Reform bill. If you are looking for a Christmas Movie to get you in the holiday spirit you may turn to google. The company releasing the top searched holiday movie by state, the top 3 pics were was the night before christmas, dad santa and elf. Responses have been pouring in. Jeff writes its a wonderful life, such a great story and listen. Monica, our family watches diehard one and 2 for christmas in self order. Kelsey says the nightmare before christmas. Best morning news show ever. You know which one i like that no one ever mentions . Grumpy old men. The fact that bad santa is number 2 on the list a lot of americans. Griff let us know if you are okay with pete joining the grinch but i digress. Capitol hill, in just hours, partial Government Shutdown is underway. Can a deal get done . We will ask the chairman live. 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Reporter im not 100 on this, but Renowned International philosopher robin sparkle said lets go to the mall today and one of the individuals, your name, mary. You are at the mall today. Why did you wait until the last minute . Couldnt decide what to get my mom. Reporter did you know that 26 billion will be spent in malls and online today with lastminute people like yourself . To billion more than black friday. I did not know that. Reporter you said wham when you found that out. Enjoy your time, Merry Christmas. 26 versus 24, 44 of you out there in america will be shopping today, 6 more than were here on Super Saturday compared to last year and 173 is the average you will spend. What are we going to buy . I will go to this store, charlotte bruce, gets a nice Womens Clothing and for the boys this is what i got. We are going to sketchers for the boys. You need a good pair of boots so that is what we are doing. If i learned one thing about pete, he not only loves apple bottom jeans but boots with the for, that is what we are getting. I want you to repeat that. Griff you and i are hosting on christmas day. Do not fail me. Reporter we are supposed to buy gifts . Pete you better bring something for me reporter chrissy, you are my gift, you are the gift i am receiving. Pete thank you very much, todd at the mall. Taking a turn here, the partial Government Shutdown underway as the house and senate prepare negotiations on border wall funding. Will democrats and republicans come together to end this fight . Here to weigh in, chairman of the house budget committee, arkansas congressman steve womack. Merry christmas to you. We are now at this standoff, this impasse, whatever you want to call it it is affecting 25 of the government. Take us if you will, you are key part of this. Where are we headed. The house of representatives on a 24 hour call with kevin mccarthy. We sent the package over to the senate, the senate is in the process of negotiating whether to accept what we had negotiate. The centerpieces 5 billion in Border Security. It is up to the senate to decide how to send it back to us to take it up there. We are entering negotiation. We havent received anything back from the senate. Along with disaster aid. Who do you blame for the shutdown . Democrats already agreed to Border Security funding in the first couple years of the Trump Presidency, over 2 billion of Border Security, now all of a sudden, right in the middle of negotiations on funding the government for the remainder of the year they want to do nothing so it is a national imperative that we provide Border Security, it is something the majority of the American People want and all of a sudden Senate Democrats are saying we dont want to do anything. They are making political maneuvers here, 25 of the federal government held hostage. Jedediah you may end up working over the holidays. Merry christmas to all of you. Getting back on the ice rink, kevin shows us some hockey skills live. Hi. Maria ramirez mom maria Maria Ramirez. Mcdonalds is committing 150 Million Dollars in tuition assistance, education, and career advising programs. Prof Maria Ramirez mom and dad Maria Ramirez to help more employees achieve their dreams. We are back on the ice for one last lesson this morning. Jedediah this time putting hockey skills to the test. Pete we have former nhl goalie and Network Analyst kevin weeks to give us some tips. I know you have been to the stanley cup finals blues not bad. Kind of that. This is probably more dangerous. I got it, it is fine. A lot of nhl fans too. Griff give us some tips. What impresses me, you are look very comfortable on ice. A lot of people are jittery. A lot of men and women, parents as well. Try to be as calm as possible and you are look calm. Jedediah that is like cheating. You want to be as comfortable as possible. We approach you to try to score. What are you watching . We have a lot of great shooters. And they are ready to shoot or ready to pass. Whether it is sidney crosby, in washington, in minnesota. And so many stars, your job is shooters, to deceive or trigger goalie. Weve got it is covered already. I dont mind that at all. Nhl goalie about to take off. Everybody ready . Half player. I scored on you in the break. We got to find out on tape. Griff do an approach, interception. Time to go through the middle. Couldnt do it. Nothing frozen in arizona. Nice shot. I am from washington. Washington . The stanley cup nice lookout [shouting] jedediah you are out, man. Griff a lot of effort on that one. Jedediah this is not pete shocked great shot great shot i will follow up. Those who go. Doing hockey, everybody together. Nhl network. Ladies in the house. I will be you can count on me you can count on me no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. Jingle building a building about iraq griff griff cant stop and wont stop. Only one of us won. Jedediah. There it is. Jedediah. Like everything. We were all there. Jedediah look at that. All i got to say is a new york city girl needed to take it home. Jedediah thanks to all of you for being so gracious. Griff thanks to our great fans out there. Thanks to all the nhl fans and sports fans who watch us across the nhl network and the service men and women as well, thank you for your sacrifice. Happy holidays. Jedediah thanks, everyone jedediah pete you want to come for the solar plunge . A shutdown in washington, meltdown on wall street, what is ahead for your green . Live from Fox News Channel headquarters in new york city, here is neil cavuto. Sound so onerous ominous. Keep in mind 75 of the government is open, 2 hours and we find out what lawmakers potentially could pool out of their have to deal with that and keep a 1day shutdown. Weve