the mess. todd: quite the sight in the big apple. you heard of boston tea party this is new york pizza party. give us pizza or give us death. todd: if you can t take the heat, don t touch their oven. you are watching fox and friends first on tuesday morning. carley: i m carley shimkus. president biden shutting down claims he knew about his son s oversea business dealings tying him to millions of dollars of chinese cash. [indiscernible] no. todd: brooke singman here with exclusive reporting. brooke: president biden denial as white house goes on defense about hunter biden attending the state dinner with his father amid political interference and investigation into tax affairs which led to hunter pleading guilty to two tax charges and one gun charge. listen. hunter biden wasn t the president s son, would he have invited someone who just reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors? couple of things. that is his son, it is not uncommon for family member
this christmas eve congresses checking its lengthy to do list key decisions on the border, aid to ukraine in israel, trying to avoid a looming government shutdown. there are a number of significant issues our colleagues are still working to resolve. and finding the middle ground is exceptionally hard. shannon: the border bursting at the seams. a deal to toughen policy, elusive. an emergency funding for israel and ukraine caught in the crosshairs. while the supreme court is thrust into the center of the 2024 election. mr. president your response to the colorado? will discuss about senator bill hag hagerty republican memr of the senate foreign relations committee. . shannon: stories to help us all keep the faith this holiday season. zach williams come to jesus moment that led him to his true calling. it was an emptiness i was searching for, that filled for that time but it did not last progressive olympic skating legend scott hamilton on the flipside of early suc
i m jake tapper in d.c. kevin mccarthy is living on a prayer today is a day a deal will come together. we ll shock you, mccarthy promised reporters last night. so far shockingly no deal. only assurances of some progress. we were told that yesterday, of course, and the day before and the day before. the math today looks nearly identical to the math on tuesday, ballot one, ballot two, 19 rebels, ballot 3, add another rebel to the resistance, four, five, six, a present vote on top of the 20 hard-liners, seven, eight, nine, the math remains the same, more evidence the opposition is dug in. ballots 10 and 11, no show of momentum towards mccarthy. something his allies said he needed to demonstrate then and still needs to demonstrate soon. this farce in the house is also clashing with a deadly and sobering anniversary. lawmakers crowded the capitol steps earlier today to mark two years since the mob emboldened and incited by donald trump s many lies about the election tried to preve
bad, you would respond with force. why don t we do that at the southern border? if cartels are trying to run product to this country, they will end up stone cold dead. carley: in a nut shell, he wants to use military force against drug cartel, what do you think about that? that is amazing, if he can follow through in border policy plan, i think that would be a great thing. fentanyl is just as you know, coming through the border and just killing americans at alarming rates and it needs to stop. we need help and from our federal government, and if he promises to do what he s saying, we can save so many lives and that is our mission. governor desantis yesterday says it is humiliating our country
government functioning. these are huge concessions. he s also promised members votes on a couple of pieces of legislation a specific border policy plan as well as legislation that would limit how many terms in congress members can serve. that is a huge concession, jake, and certainly something that could weaken the future speaker if he can finally clinch the votes. all right, lauren, thanks so much. let s talk about this all with my august panel continuing strong on day four of speak for yourself. you look strong anyway. so he just promised progress. that could be one vote. yeah. he needs 17. yeah, i m sorry, before we do that can i just speak for all people who have roamed those hallways to say how masterful that choreography was on the fly. manu walking backward, all he needed was heels without the feed and ted listening to the rest. that was amazing.