america's crime rates frustrating the biden administration. stay tuned how the white house responded again today when peter doocy to blame the surge nationwide lawlessness. plus andrew cuomo has to return millions of dollars after disgraced former new york governor made from pandemic leadership blog and he hasn't much time to cough up the cash. we began with ongoing pandemic and weight of new restrictions and democrat lead cities and states to complicate struggling economic recovery. matt finn tracking all of this tonight, good evening. >> kathy hochul reintroduced a mask mandates and hospitalizations up 70% since thanksgiving. the new mandate requires business workers and customers to prove vaccination or wear a mask indoors. it is sparking outrage that some workers and customers with fatigue will stay home perhaps even more shipment delays and perhaps some type of impact on the economy. the raising of the question whether the mask mandate will stall new york city economic recovery. the big apple of the louis covid rates and the highest vaccination rate in the country. according to a survey by the business group the partnership for new york city 28% of manhattan office workers returning to the office on an average workday and prior to the omicron variant the survey said 50% of workers expected to be at back in the office by next month. the mask mandate with preemptive move to shut down schools and churches in places of work and she realizes every decisions decision has pros and con. >> i will not engage in a political discussion. this is about getting us through this pandemic so we can finally say to everybody you know longer have to wear a mask. make speak with a mandate comes after new york city mayor de blasio with controversial order with private sector workers to be fully vaccinated by december 27th. that mandate to be challenged in court. nationwide states and cities are reintroducing mask mandates and the statewide indoor mask mandate goes into effect right now wednesday in philadelphia and san francisco will be enforcing vaccine hard requirements in many public places. >> wearing a mask is not fun. it is hard and it's not easy to breathe in. we are all healthy with all the plastic shields up. it is hard when one size does not fit all. >> tuesday amtrak said temporary suspending vaccine mandates for employees. as a result it no longer expects to be forced to cut service in january. amtrak the u.s. court decision holds the enforcement of president biden's executive order mandating vaccines for federal contractors by january. jen psaki said the government has been recommending vaccination testing protocol to private sector companies so they are not worried about the delay in amtrak's mandate despite pushing for universal vaccinations, shannon. >> shannon: matt finn in l.a., thanks, matt. the white house doubling down on secondary effects from continuing coronavirus pandemic and the driving force behind america's crime crisis. white house correspondent kevin corke with a close look at that argument to my good evening, kevin. >> blame shifting to the white house or a series of reasonable explanations. that is the central question tonight after white house press secretary jen psaki, once again tried to suggest among the many reasons for the unprecedented rise in crime nationwide that pandemic is a factor. however the white house remains reluctant to call out what critics have termed soft on crime prosecutors. >> would you consider one of the reasons and the range prosecutors who work cutting people who are accused of many criminal offenses loose to quickly? >> again, as i wasn't yesterday going to give an assessment for every instant, every motivation or reason for crime in communities across the country. what i have noted seen mandate that there has been an increase in crime since the start of the pandemic. i will let others assess what the reason for the increase in crime is peer that is all i was conveying yesterday. >> cleanup on aisle five. so in the midst of smash and grab nationwide the administration claims "monitoring the situation and aggressively using every resource at its disposal." on capitol hill, the lawmakers demanding a national conversation and a nationwide strategic plan. this is a letter from g.o.p. senators grassley and nick durbin with a national crime wave hearing "ineffective bail policies, cumbersome restraints on police officers in the impact of the progressive prosecutor movement are exacerbating this surge. we believe it would be even more useful if we could explore these problems on a national scale with the full committee. some hearings for the public to see and listen to. when asked today the administration helping to deal with the problem, jen psaki said to the reporters to reach out to the fbi and doj to learn how the efforts are being orchestrated, shannon. >> shannon: and we will come at kevin corke we will see you in a minute, think is much. >> see you soon. >> shannon: new information rash of smash and grab robberies throughout the country. reporting from sausalito california on the part of social media is playing and organizing these crimes. >> the brazen robberies marking this holiday shopping season began an end online. long before the stolen goods are fenced on third party platforms, investigators say organized criminals use tax and group message apps to plan smash and grabs and leaves virtually no electronic trail. >> technology is great but it's also difficult sometimes. the reason is again if we are commuting through a platform, that is our communication between you and i an outside investigator i cannot see that communication. >> investigators say suspects often don't know who else was involved. they communicate using keywords and hashtags to describe what they stole, where to drop it off and how to get paid. law enforcement sources told "the wall street journal" that recent hits at the bay area nordstrom louis vuitton store in san francisco and best buy in minnesota appeared to have been organized on apps like snapchat where messages can be scrubbed. so a company spokesperson tells fox "it looked into these reports and haven't yet found evidence of it happening on snapchat, adding such activity would violate their guidelines. still along with stepped up prosecution, industry leaders are calling for greater transparency online. >> we have got to marry deterrent with smart policies online to make it harder for folks to operate in the shadows. >> messaging apps and third-party sites like amazon marketplace where sellers can remain anonymous or coming under increasing scrutiny as the police crackdown on braised and organized crime costing retailers an estimated $17 billion a year. in sausalito, california, claudia, fox news. ♪ ♪ >> shannon: and right now the house is voting on raising the debt ceiling by $2.5 trillion. democrats in the senate passed a debt limit hike early tuesday with a party line vote. remembers treasury secretary janet yellen said the u.s. could pay a bill through december 15th. that is today now on the east coast meaning that bo is happening on the date that the treasury deadline to avert a debt crisis. you can see the numbers as they continue to tally in the vote is still underway. time to debate the latest developments with the pandemic america's crime crisis and new reporting about biden administration with recent immigration strategy. let's bring in the panel leslie marshall and congressman chip roy who literally just got done voting on the floor. congressman, thank you for making it. >> my pleasure, good to be on. >> shannon: leslie always great to be having you. congressman who represents texas, a great interest to you as many americans. "the washington post" today talking about this idea of being discussed of the border welcoming centers sort of where people will get processed. the model would allow migrant families to remain together in nonsetting with assess to programming, legal counsel and silent seekers with reception center is technically detained but they have sites to comply with the adjudication process, your thoughts, congressman. >> will, it is completely absur. this is the biden administration solution and kamala harris sent to central america to talk to them once and come back to the united states and have no actual solution for the border. the result is we have 51 dead migrants and a vehicle overturned with two dead american citizens because we have an american citizen cartel tea bowling and killing two american citizens. we have 600,000 getaways. and secretary, the lies of the border secure, texans getting decimated, migrants dying and the border secure but meanwhile the entire estate of vermont's population has come to the united states and much less than $2 million. the biden administration is completely awol. if you want to do worse and actually do worse than what president biden is doing i don't know whether it is crime, order, inflation, whatever the issue is committed as record levels of misery for the united states of america and the american people counting down the days of business administration and democratic majority in the hells. >> shannon: quickly on the border, leslie, and i want to get to other topics as well. we are not welcoming people here and this is not the way it works but when we talk about something like this, it sounds a little bit like a magnitude drawing people on these dangerous journeys. >> this is the problem and the congressman knows this better than i not a democrat or republican or the last administration. this goes back 17-20 plus years now. we have a problem with immigration because we don't have a comprehensive immigration reform package with bipartisan agreement. there are two things that have to be done, one should not have to come to the united states united states for asylum. we have embassies overseas. that is one of the problems, two, we have the law in our system the backlog we don't have the money, the judges, the resources to handle the backlog for the people coming in. those are two problems the top of the iceberg that i see would be much better than walls or centers or the political fighting, which is very successful quite frankly when you have midterm general election coming up, but it doesn't do much for the people that are trying to come here. i will add one-third quickly, we don't have anything stopping the carrot daimler's and those are the employers that say i've got a job for you. a lot of these people need jobs. they want jobs and they want safety and security that the united states need for them to their home country. >> shannon: a lot of them are taken dangerous journeys and exploited along the way if they make it to get here. i want to ask about the economy of the surge, 9.6% in november and a graphic to show you what that looks like. it is the biggest gain on record. what do we do, congressman? >> well, first of all you have to stop spending money. and i know that is heretical to say in the nation's capital. we voted on another $2.5 trillion. i voted no and everybody watching to see that, but we've got to stop spending money we don't have. it is absolutely absurd. there should be a bipartisan agreement. you can't keep printing money and not expected to have significant negative consequence on the economy. we are struggling the greatest economy in the world. and both parties have been absolutely garbage when it comes to spending restraint. but right now the democrats are in charge of all three house, senate, white house. they are sending a massive spending bill all the way back to the spring. they want to build back better nonsense to jam more spending. that is an absolute consequent and you cannot deny this administration being in power ae inflation because you don't trillions of dollars in the economy irresponsibly. it's hard to get away from the packets on the ground. >> shannon: 179 yes, 183 no, but a lot of folks haven't voted and don't ask me to do the math 135 members. it is expected because you guys are outnumbered congressman and will pass. and the votes coming in one by one pretty quickly now but "the wall street journal" has an opinion piece the mounting regulatory biden executive order is is regulators open hostility towards american and antitrust enforcement to stifle growth. all with the current inflation into stagflation. leslie, people across the political spectrum so you can't use transitory when it comes to inflation. >> i don't think it is about the word but about facts. the congressman said, you know, this administration and that is no surprise but my miniature husky dog apollo i will put in the white house and after pandemic that we are still in you would have inflation. and that is not me talking. that is nobel prize-winning economist that are talking. they may not use that word and some of them may have. that is a fact. we will have inflation. it will be temporary just like anything. if you look at politics or the economy in our country or world wide it is cyclical, historical and all we have to do is go back and look at the demographic to look at the up and down. we don't like obviously when inflation is going up at the pandemic behind us and when it to build back better i wrote a great piece to fox news that i hope the congressman reads that highlights how the people that really you're hurting the country would benefit by it. that is why they are in favor of it. >> shannon: someone not convinced this joe manchin. he is worried about inflation and the price tag of this whole thing. he has to be convinced before this goes anywhere in washington. so we will continue to watch the debt ceiling again. congressman thank you for making it off the floor to join me and leslie, thank you both. >> god bless, merry christmas. >> shannon: you also so pure it may fill gathering to remember those lost as hopes fading of finding more people alive among a dozen who are still missing in the aftermath of this past weekend a deadly tornado outbreak. the official death toll for nell currently stands 88, 74 of them in kentucky. senior correspondent mike tobin has the latest as the search continues through the devastation. >> as chainsaws roar across kentucky to clean up the catastrophic damage, communities are pitching in to help their neighbors. >> people will give their clothes that they have. the resources. >> with thousands left homeless and without power residents need everything from food and water to toiletries to toys for christmas. >> so many folks have sent in so much that as long as we know where people are and as long as they know where to come, plenty for them to eat. we can get everybody some clothing. >> in the heart of construction. >> emergency crews throughout the heartland are not giving up that some of those missing may be found alive. nearly 600 national guard members mobilized in kentucky still calling this a search and rescue mission. >> we have quite a few people missing. you can say they could be anywhere. >> anywhere under these piles of rubble. search and rescue teams go door to door or what is left of them damage estimates range from $3 billion to $18 billion. >> pictures and video to not do it justice. being on the ground will take your breath away. >> a ray of hope despite pierce dozens killed ma feels decimated factory and rescuers do not believe anyone was left buried inside. >> we have a high level of confidence. >> president biden included illinois and tennessee and the federal disaster declaration making available federal resources and funds just like tennessee. that undoubtably will be included in his remarks with the hardest hit areas he will visit tomorrow here in china back you. >> shannon: mike tobin, thank you very much. breaking tonight the house of representatives has voted to hold former member mark meadows in contempt of congress after january 6th commission said the former white house chief of staff stopped cooperating with them. a vote on that measure 222-208 and two republicans liz cheney and adam kissinger photo but the democrats. chad pergram reporting from capitol hill, good evening, chad. >> shannon at first mark meadows provided emails, text messages to the committee probing the riots but then he said he would shield himself using executive privilege. meadow said the executive privilege he invoked isn't for him but for former president trump to waive if he chooses. >> this is not about me holding in contempt. this is about donald trump and actually going after him once again continuing to go after donald trump. >> democrats found it ironic meadows demented witnesses with congress when he served in the house, but now claims privilege. >> there may be former chief of staff metals can talk up to congressman meadows. when he was serving here, he complained about subpoenas being ignored and information being hidden and congress being snowballed. speak with the 16 committee by donald trump jr. in the middle of the right import meadows to convince to intervene with a speech from the oval office. meadow said democrats hope to weaponize the text. >> they want to talk about the part that fits their narrative on the way some of the democrats are spending this trying to spin nefarious purpose. i think at the end of the day, they are going to find that not only did the president act but he acted quickly. >> the house to hold steve bannon in contempt and his trial starts next summer. metals can face prosecution. in the middle of his text messages from fox host laura ingraham, sean hannity and brian kilmeade. during the riot, he told meadows meets the people at the catapult old to go home. on they are that night laura ingraham said you can't tell at the time who was in the crowd, she also said the attack did the opposite of showing support for the press. and she also said there was no license for violence or chaos. >> laura ingraham, sean hannity and brian kilmeade all say they stand by what they text to meadows privately and what they talked about on the year publicly, shannon. >> chad pergram, thank you. coming up a little hinting under the tree. yikes. take a deep breath, everyone, a high profile arrest, the videos are next. ♪ ♪ without worrying if it's too late, or where i am. one dose can quickly stop my migraine in its tracks within two hours. unlike older medicines, ubrelvy is a pill that directly blocks cgrp protein, believed to be a cause of migraine. do not take with strong cyp3a4 inhibitors. most common side effects were nausea and tiredness. ask about ubrelvy. the anytime, anywhere migraine medicine. it's the season of smiling. ask about ubrelvy. and at aspen dental, we make 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lines but there may have been one to cross over and vote for the limit. we will check the numbers and let you know. first up now, new jersey police on the same to apprehend a suspect. attempting to seal holiday cheer appear the large green alleged thief has been identified as the grinch. not known if charges pressed at the time but we will make sure they are. now this, a voting dad with love and appreciation for his son, niece, nephew so james got a tattoo with original artwork drawn by the little one. he chose a drawing of ariel from the little mermaid with 7-year-old niece evelyn and the incredible hulk done by 5-year-old nephew oliver and son ashland. he drew lord of old amort from harry potter. draped over the artwork and the kids absolutely love the new inc. it is their artwork. up next, excitement about what lies beneath the christmas tree but one came in africa a surprise when they sold this guy a highly venomous snake slithering around and look laid the deadly creator came down 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owners. the wild videos that you want to share with us, hit us up on social media. former new york, new york, governor andrew cool moping order by the state ethics committee to return $5 million made in connection with his book about a response to the pandemic. senior correspondent laura ingle has the story, good evening, laura. >> shannon the former governor has been ordered to fork over millions of dollars he earned off of a book he wrote during the covid-19 pandemic after public ethics committee ruled he unlawfully collected the cash. the deal was andrew cuomo could write a book if he did on his own time while as a governor and without state resources. in a 12/1 vote public ethics or concluded the governor violated the pledges releasing resolution to state that states he lacks legal activity and receive compensation in regard to the book. ordering cuomo to hand over $5.1 million he received from the proceeds of american crisis lessons learned from the covid-19 pandemic within 30 days. it is another hit to andrew cuomo's resume after the former governor resigned earlier this year following findings he allegedly harassed up to 11 women. the watchdog ethics panel found that his book proceeds should be turned over to the state attorney general elise the james to determine how it will be distributed. the former governor and his team accused of downplaying the number of the coronavirus death especially in state nursing home while negotiating the book deal, new york one kim says as cuomo chase down publishers, life and death information from lawmakers. >> thousands of unnecessary deaths. he took away families ability to make decisions for themselves to take their loved ones out of nursing homes. and for that, he needs to be held accountable. >> andrew cuomo's attorney ready to fight back releasing a statement tuesday, his actions today are unconstitutional and exceeded its own authority and appear to be driven by political interest rather than the fact and the law. should they seek to enforce this section, we will see them in court. it is not just the new york attorney general's office looking into cuomo's book deal. the fbi and the attorney also investigating, shannon. >> shannon: laura, thank you very much. kevin corke is back officially ten days until christmas, how is that possible? what are do ohmic people doing shopping online every day? we have been showing a lot of porch pirates out there. >> i want to encourage everybody about thinking about ways to protect themselves but there are a number of ways to protect yourself and protect your packages. i think if you are common sense. listen, get one of the cameras and you have heard of ring. it does make a difference because then you can see if movement around your door and tell with a package dropped off worth somebody's trying to steal your stuff. signature required delivery and i know it is old school but the truth is if you make it that you have to sign for it, that takes away having it stolen. and much excess, some people once they close the door, it should be safe. lockbox and po boxes, listen po boxes come in a variety of sizes. something to consider as well as tracking notifications and insurance. now there is also the poll out there conducted by neighbor. it is talking about the top five hiding places for gas in and around the house. most of these are common sense so please don't hide a gift if in the bedroom closet. you know it will fall off of the shelf here don't hide it in a spare room. and someone really poking around, they will check the spare room. coat closet same deal you can't hide it under the winter coat. it will be found. under the bed, come on, what are b12? this one is a popular one and apparently a lot of people know to look in the car trunk in case you hide a gift for your kids or loved ones, how about you? >> shannon: we can't put them under the bed because there are monsters there and could be a problem with packaging. i usually use rap or gift bag so no time to hide them but what about you? >> when i had a big house i had an attic. you can pull down the ladder and throw them up there on most part no one will go up in the creaky though my creepy attic. but the basement but i don't have that space now. so now i have an old trick. >> shannon: what is it? >> at the office. >> shannon: i'm going by kevins office. i'm going to see what is in there. >> who is to say, they can't get to my office? >> shannon: i would never do that, kevin. go looking around where i'm not supposed to. >> wink-wink. >> shannon: we will see you in a minute for good news. if you've got an emergency in seattle, you could have to depend for yourself. just how low police officers in new reporting from jason rantz. who is always with the west coast stories right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ to see my ancestors' photos was just breathtaking. wow, look at all those! what'd you find? lorraine banks, look, county of macomb, michigan? 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>> it is catastrophic and right now the officer is known as the hr and available list and the officers who aren't able to be deployed into get on this list to begin with you have to have been out 14 days. many of the officers end up on this list and it's not reported all that widely. they accrue vacation time and generally have separating the force. you have every single precinct in every single watch every day this month needing to augment patrol ship and either taking overtime or patrol units. they are not formally out on the streets responding to 911 calls but the crisis is so dire that they have to do it. 888 deployable police officers and a city of this size that is going through a crime surge. what that ends up meaning, god forbid a public safety emergency. well, if it is big enough you will get all new officers across the city basically to respond, which of course leaves the community and no longer responding to vulnerable to more crime. so, we are really close to a night mare scenario. at this point, the only thing preventing that is sure luck that we haven't had some kind of major public safety issue. >> shannon: it is not good, bad guys. so i want to ask you about this, "new york post" saying trying to cancel christmas classic. they shouldn't be watching them anymore. it's a wonderful life come a classic has been targeted becaue some people think character was misogynistic, and described as a dangerous sociopaths but ie the appearance of the santa clause, jingle all the way, and love actually says he's a creepy blank with one of the characters come i know for me. one person tweeted. does any of your favorites on the list? >> let's be clear. the only thing offensive here woke or not is i think you hold this position and you know i love it but diehard is not the best christmas movie. and actually in reality not the best christmas movie. this is a exercise of victimhood. no one is offended by christmas whereby christmas movies, tv shows, songs or anything. they are pretending to be offended because it allows them to play both victim and hero. victim of pretending against them and a hero for speaking up against it. this is narcissism and action so basically to just buy overwrought social media post. they end up writing about their fight for tolerance. it is all contrast. >> shannon: all right we will put you down for not buying it and watch all the movies. we also watch this a headline out of california several large school districts will say teachers cannot give d or f grades anymore. from the daily mail it will help black latino and lower income students disproportionately affected by the pandemic of people to school routines. a quick word on no ds nofs. >> as soon as black and latino kids cannot learn the material but kids don't have to worry about consequences for failure which makes kids rather soft. it gets this expectation they will get endless chances which weirdly is the democratic mayor of prosecutor position when it comes to crime. i think we need to start rejecting this. it is okay to fail so long as you are learning from it. so getting rid of the ds and fs and get to the kids that aren't learning the material the way that you would like them too. but in the effort and stop accepting mediocrity. they are not best served in the world. >> shannon: your boss will not clear you if something fails. listen, my mom was a teacher and if i would have shown up with a d or f i would not see my birthday. that is how outlawed. great to see you, jason rantz, thank you so much. >> merry christmas. >> shannon: q wealth muscle. pulling resources to give a waitress and coworker $4,400 tip, but she says the restaurant later fired her. there is a dispute about why. is this legal? 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the u.s. attorney and talking feds podcast host, center for life in the present attorney, welcome back, gentlemen. >> thank you, shannon, glad to be with you. >> shannon: okay come i want to play a sound bite. this is a waitress on fox & friends. >> i was told by a shift manager right after the filming and the table was done and exiting the restaurant that anything over 20% would be taken by the restaurant to be divvied out. >> shannon: now, the people who arrange the dinner wanted specifically the tip to go to her part of $100 dinner challenge where you invite a bunch of people and they agree to pay what their bill is an $100 each for the servers. so they want this to go specifically to the people that waited on them. david, this is not x with the story, they did not fire her for not giving up the tip. >> shannon, obviously the optics on this are terrible. these patrons wanted to be generous towards the ladies but from a legal standpoint, arkansas is a state that allows employment at will. so when left she can assert there was some illegal motivation and that they were discriminating against her because of may be race, religion, disability, gender or any other protected category, she would have a hard time asserting a case. i do think them taking the money when it wasn't an established arrangement ahead of time would be totally inappropriate, but the restaurant is saying that she got all the funds but they chose to terminate her. >> shannon: okay, harry, the guys who set this whole thing up, the guy who arrange for the group said he actually called ahead of time because he wanted to make sure. this is how it works $100 dinner challenge. ahead of time he said the money would go directly to the server. apparently, they were someone contesting that and said that we never made that deal. does it matter? >> no, david is right down the line. by the way, a group of 44 and apparently they busted their chops serving them. but you know, there is too much law and too many lawyers most people agree. this is one that was settled without a because that same guardian angel, she was fired and probably nothing to do about it but set up a gofundme that is up to $9,000 and may be growing. so maybe everybody comes out okay and a lot doesn't have to be trying to push anybody around here. >> shannon: "the washington post" i think today reporting on this and said friday, the restaurant the owners threatened to sue the waitress and a letter in which permanently damaged the restaurant's reputation. the people have never been to the restaurant leaving countless one star reviews and outpouring of negative reviews, which undoubtedly will impact the restaurant's business. and wrote in the letter and now casted a restaurant that treats its employees poorly. a word from you on that, david. >> they put themselves in that position. the lady has free speech. she is sharing widely and loudly how she was treated in her opinion. there is not a lot they can do. they have to live with the consequences of their actions. >> shannon: harry, do you think it goes away? >> it goes away, loopholes and stuff of that you should not be knowing it will go away. >> shannon: merry christmas and thank you both very much. >> good to see you. >> merry christmas shannon and harry. >> shannon: the frigid waters of the maryland lake caught on tape. the corporal sanchez sr. deputy tatum and corporate frederick being called heroes after pulling a woman from a frigid creek after her car rolled in and originally showed up the car was partially submerged and wound up fully under water. the woman jumped out of the car into the freezing waters and the sheriff's department quickly weighed in and got her to those great and brave efforts and they are tonight's midnight heroes. >> impressive. just saying i love you and just not enough. and certainly not enough when it came to lisa james' oldest child trying to go back to college. he couldn't leave without letting his little brother know how much he adores him and how much he would miss him. this cute little baby. totally focused on his next but the moment he were those three words: nothing else matters. bye-bye and i love you. they went back and forth, they would say bye-bye i love you and the baby would say i love you. very adorable. and that is what we should all hope for in our lives, somebody to say "i love you and i miss you too." >> shannon: you have brothers? 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