allegedly threatening guards from his jail cell. you better believe he has been read his rights anything he says can and will be used against him. the price tag for covid school closures could tropic $28 trillion. a new study by stanford economists project students will miss out on $70,000 each over their lifetime. mitchell for 3. unbelievable. oh my goodness. [cheers] i don t know what to say. that s not necessary. just a dynamite performance. brian: they are celebrating in basketball but not in football. we begin this morning with a fox news alert. damar hamlin is in critical condition after one of the most shocking moments that we have seen ever in any sport. steve: the bills safety leaving the field in an ambulance with his mother after a hit during a monday night football matchup with the bengals. the nfl has postponed the game out of grave concern about mr. hamlin s health. and todd piro joins us live with the latest. todd? steve, ainsley and bri
ainsley: the origins of covid. first they have to elect a speaker and they don t have the votes. if he doesn t get the number of votes he needs on first time. steve: 218. ainsley: second vote. first time that s ever happened in the last 100 years. brian: the question is what did kevin mccarthy do or what did he pledge to do or not do ticked them off. they talk about swamp. leadership. if you want a leader that actually produced over the last four years no one has turned over more seats and biggest surprise in 2020 than kevin mccarthy and slight margin this time is he only lose five votes or four votes and he has already lost five. so he sat down with gaetz, lauren boebert and scott perry. none of them left the meeting converted. but interesting, congressman done bacon of nebraska said monday that a band of moderate democrats would work with republicans would work with democrats to elect mccarthy. they are frustrated. as are a lot of people. think about this. you re not sayi
brian: to me that is the craziest thing to give into. how are you supposed to do your job. you have 200 people you are going to be religion. if five don t like what you do, then you are out and some conservatives who backed mccarthy said wait a second. why did you agree to that if you agree to that, then how effective are you going to be as speaker. you can t kiss everyone s butt in order to do that job. you have got to do what s better for the whole or dare i say better for the country. ainsley: probably says i will do anything once you become speaker once i m speaker i will do just a phenomenal job they will love me. steve: that rule used to be on the house. it was nancy pelosi who said no, we re going to get rid of that. so the new york post has got an editorial, their lead editorial is to these renegade republicans. and it s the headline stop sabotaging mccarthy s bid to be speaker. here what happens they say. they say okay, this is their plan. of the republicans, those r
sports beautiful again. todd: normal prayer circle after games 15 to 20. there were a lot more players joining in to pray for their friend. tomi lahren, thank you very much. thank you, guys. well, it was nice joining you this morning. a lot of news. fox & friends starts right now. thanks for being with us. one of the most shocking moments ever seen in sports. defensive player damar hamlin in critical condition following a hit on the field. it really is such a jarring moment. really a freak injury. up for speaker tomorrow? time is running out for kevin mccarthy to get the votes he needs for speaker. more than a dozen republicans are saying they are not supporting him. he is part of the swamp cartel. man police believe is responsible for the murders of four college students in idaho will make his first court appearance in pennsylvania. suspect brian kohberger
today and house republicans are promising to launch investigations into hunter biden s overseas dealingsing 65,000 mourners lining up outside of if aville can a to pay respects. brought the retired pontiff s body to the main altar where he lies in state. predicted about 30,000 people attend the viewing. by the end of the day that number doubled. the catholic faithful is preparing to say its final farewell to benedict at thursday s funeral led by pope francis and those are your headlines, guys. the numbers, can you expect that though with being the holiday season then you factor in barbara walters, there is a greater legend in news i don t know who it is. what a few days. steve: terrible. thank you very much, ashley.