threats like this. bad actors. >> kyle rittenhouse trial captured the nation. >> i think my trial was an example of them coming after our second amendment rights, a right to defend ourselves. this one counts and the raiders have won it. ♪ you better watch out ♪ you better not cry ♪ you better not pout i'm telling you why ♪ santa claus is coming to town ♪ santa claus is coming to town. steve: santa claus is coming to town. we are in the big town now live from the crossroads of the world 48th and sixth avenue it's "fox & friends" for this tuesday december 21st. it is the first day of winter. ainsley: it is? steve: yes, it is, it's the 21st. ible. carley: heard it here you taught me something. brian: refer to them 24 hours a day. steve: you don't need to know it's the 21st. brian: like nothing we have ever seen before. carley: you think that's on the app. steve: equinox, too. carley: and there is equinox. brian: first thing looked at the calendar formulated it and talk more about that. a couple of things. this the is time of year when you realize you forgot who you got in the grab bag. process of elimination. steve: they stopped doing grab bags with covid. brian: i think they do. a lot of people do. they don't want to buy for everybody. carley: grab bag would have to come with a glove in some circle. my grab bag grab it. brian: i don't do hygiene theater. steve: there you go. theater, speaking of theaters they are all closed because of covid. carley shimkus is in because anxiously is taking the week off. carley: much deserved break. steve: so spoking of covid, one of the things a lot of people are traveling. and a lot of requirements are you have got have a covid test before you can travel on cruises and stuff like that. the problem is here in new york city, for instance, there are lines to get tested that are out the door and around the block. there are so many people who want to get tested right now. and that is one of the reasons why later today this afternoon the president of the united states, he is going to announce the latest, you know, wave of restrictions and whatnot. he is going to say essentially no more lockdowns but, covid tests. he is going to announce 500 million covid tests, the military is going to help hospitals, that's going to be based on how they did it in the early days with fema. carley: that's right. the military shows support for hospitals millions of free rapid tests. you bring up such a good point how crunched people are in getting. steve: desperate. carley: i was talking to one of my girlfriends. she waited to get a covid test because she is traveling out of the country for five hours on sunday. brian: that's unbelievable. carley: to get a test. 2021. i remember when i went to get a test last year. city the clinic in the new york city had a way to sign up on phone and come back later in the day. i can't believe that isn't implemented in every clinic. brian: right now. steve: a lot of the restrictions are you have to have it within 24 hours it used to be 72. now people are really panicked. carley: that's right. brian: so far everyone is panicked over a variant that nobody ever says we are looking out. we are being cautious. but, even though the 70% of the cases of the new people testing positive are omicron. we have had one death with somebody 50 years old in texas with underlying conditions. overall for this nation of 330 million. deaths are up 3%. even though cases are up 20%. it's easy to get. it spreads quicker but there is no indication that it's even resulting in hospitalizations. so it's good to be warned but i believe we are looking at a nation overreacting and we are going to see a president who is going to do the things that you guys just mentioned those three major things, but he is also going to blister of the unvaccinated again. not the way to do it. i love what the vice president said, the vice president says it's not the blame game. it's not the time. the leadership way he said i'm not going to mandate vaccinations we don't do that i'm not going to mandate masks obviously he changed all that this summer. obviously his poll numbers have shown that they are actually paying the price for that and it's further polarizing this country. stop blaming people. you have put it out there. you cannot tell people what to do. you cannot tell them to overeat. you can't tell them to smoke. can you tell them not to do both things. we will see what happens. vilifying people that aren't vaccinated don't waste your time today. yelling at them has not worked so far. steve: there are going to be a lot of restrictions. in company fox, coming up the beginning of next week to be in this building you have got have had the shot. carley: following the new york city mandate. brian: because we are in the city. steve: it's company policy. so, now, it -- you know there are curious questions about why hasn't the government changed the language about what does fully vaccinated mean? does it mean you have two shots? does it mean you have two shots and the booster. brian: looks like they lied. double vaccinated. the durability. now the booster shot. now all of a sudden watch they start the shame culture when it documents booster. oh, you don't have a booster. please go into the corner. carley: it is beginning to feel like 2020 again essentially because you have jen psaki taking questions almost exclusively yesterday about joe manchin, we are going to talk about that later. of course, omicron is on everybody's mind. steve: it is. carley: she did say that president biden's speech will be a warning to the unvaccinated. listen here. >> this is not a speech about locking the country down for those who choose to remain unvaccinated he will issue a stark warning and make clear unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. that is not trying to scare people or maybe it is trying to make clear to people in the country what the risk was are here of not being vaccinated. steve: and going back to what i was saying about the booster and the government still is, you know, we're in the gray area about what is fully vaccinated. will it include the booster? i read that apparently donald trump admitted at an event in dallas that apparently he got the booster and apparently some people in the crowd did some booing he said no, no, no. don't say that he said if you don't want to take it you shouldn't be forced to take it no mandates. but take credit because we saved tens of millions of lives. he is saying essentially the bowlesers are i sag livening as well. carley: good for him. everybody should have the option to make up their own mind about this. about 74, 57% of americans are at least partially vaccinated. that's a high number. so, you know, the president is going to make this speech later today. he is going to be encouraging vaccinations and that's fine. that's what the president is going to do. if you look at the reality of the situation. if somebody isn't vaccinated right now, and they look at their two friends who between the three of them has had six shots against covid and they still got it because of omicron, realistically that person isn't going to get vaccinated. i think that the white house's response sure, you can encourage vaccinations and boosters. you also have to talk about this is what we were talking about yesterday, tour of look at this realistically. and push therapeutics. if you really truly want to save people's lives. recognizing that there is going to be a portion of the population that isn't going to get vaccinated. talk about cutting through the red tape to get the pfizer pill fda approved. steve: they are working on it. carley: shortage of that. brian: they never make it a priority. he never brings up natural immunity and that breeds distrust. the president's tone blistering people going to be a winter of death is not going to work. especially when we look atom chron and we are seeing zero deaths. one in dallas to a 50-year-old who is by the way 50-year-old with underlying conditions. here is dr. scott atlas who was vilified by dr. fauci and dismissed by many in the media. listen. >> as the pandemic evolves, the viruses mutate. the mutations allow the virus or the ones that keep being contagious are the ones that survive. they are less lethal. the pandemic is not about infections that are not harmful. >> tucker: right. >> the pandemic only matters if the diseases are very serious or cause death. if you don't have that, and you just have a lot of people getting a very mild infection, that shouldn't panic anyone. that's, nnkted, showing that there's either a very, very mild virus, which isn't a big problem or there's enough immunity and protection against the severe consequences. >> tucker: right. >> that we're good. so, that's how the pandemic ends. brian: why do those reasonable statements stand out? because nobody is being reasonable. carley: so true just a rational statement. brian: unbelievable. carley: steve, i think president biden made a big mistake when he campaigned on being able to shut down the virus because nobody can shut it down. no one single person can shut it down there. is reporting that the administration's tone is going to change. they are going to shift from talking to completely shutting down the virus to reducing hospitalizations and deaths. which i think is what the goal should have been all along. brian: so far in new york there is almost no increase in hospitalizations. steve: the worry though is delta because delta is the killer. brian: it's always been there. steve: exactly, it's still there that's the worry. a lot of people unvaccinated. a series of bipartisan lawmakers. brian: how long are you going to worry for? steve: senator roger marshall a republican from kansas. wyoming senator john ba vasodemocrat roe reease in public service announcements urging people to get the booster. 6:11 in new york city. still ahead manchin mania. joe manchin how some in the track party are turning on the senator after he says no to building back better for now. carley: plus i do rescue. how a decks police officer saved the day after this couple's wedding ring was stolen just one day before the ceremony. this story is incredible. you are not going to want to miss. steve: excellent. ♪ look in your eye ♪ baby, i think i want to merry you ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. priceline can help you make the most of your budget, saving up to 40% on your flight. ooh, we have a comment from the airport announcers. 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"fox news sunday," and kind of surprised bret and everyone there to say not only am i not signing on to build back better, i'm done with it i'm done with that legislation it caused shock waves throughout the white house. the president reached out. he did not take the phone call. and then the backlash began. but, before we even talk about the backlash, what led senator joe manchin to this, it seems to be a statement from the white house saying that build back better is not going to get done before christmas and essentially it's joe manchin's' fault. is he a guy about civility. and that's one thing about him. i don't know anybody that says he flies off the handle or is disrespectful. even to the media, that harangues him at every turn. between the kayaks, harassing his grandson and his wife on his boat, between the people jumping on his car in the garage, and then when the president -- when the white house put out the statement saying really joe manchin is to blame, we are going to pick up it up after the new year that's it i'm finished, i'm through. what happened afterwards backed up what brought him to this point. steve: the white house said we're going to put out a statement this was last week put out a statement and single you out by name. he says don't use my name because my family is being completely abused and things like that. white house issued it anyway. he spoke to a white house aide and he said i'm done, i'm finished. the white house thought that means he is done negotiating for right now. no, he meant he bass done, absolutely completely. so now he has accused the white house of poisoning the process. what's interesting about it though, is both politico and "the washington post," are reporting this morning that after he appeared with bret baier on "fox news sunday," apparently joe biden and joe manchin spoke on the phone after the blow up. the conversation was cordial they signaled they would resume work on a new bill in early 2022. now, keep in mind, we told you yesterday, that manchin a week ago today it made a counter offer to the white house. he said i will take a $1.8 trillion package of build back better which is gigantic. joe manchin said i'm for universal pre-k for 10 years. i'm for expanding obamacare and hundreds of billions of dollars in climate change. but, his proposal did not include the extension of the expanded child tax credit, which the white house regards as part of joe biden's legacy and they said unless it's in there, it's a no from us. carley: yesterday, during the white house press briefing, it was like this weird dance that jen psaki was doing because she had just blasted manchin the day before, calling his character into question and then she is saying well, you know, now we still want to negotiate with him this conversation isn't over. so then one reporter even said you just took manchin to the wood shed and now you want him to work with you guys? and she basically said yeah. that's exactly what's happening. brian: what's not clear is that president biden say it's okay to put out that massive letter basically calling joe manchin duplicitous and a liar. steve: he signed off on it. brian: she said we are not going to go over the conversation that led to it excuse me, we should just know if the president is behind those statements. carley: i don't even think it's just the letter though. joe manchin said they were so far apart on where they were with build back better, especially with the child tax credit like you mentioned that he said it wasn't going anywhere. although that lettering and putting his family in jeopardy no more. brian: i think it also is the fact that they were doing these numbers on one year instead of the 10 years. so they knew it was a joke. it is not close to 1.7. he probably wanted a legitimate, which is a scary number anyway 1.7. not the phony 1.7 as if all these programs are going go away in a year. here is senator joe manchin picked up a phone and called a local radio station. he let them know that the pressure he has gotten since he made that decision is coming from staffers. listen. >> i'm not blaming anybody. i knew where they were. i knew what they could and could not do. they just never realized because they figure surely to god we can move one person. surely we can badger and beat one person up. surely we can get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough they will just say okay i will vote for anything, i will just quit. guess what i'm from west virginia not from where they are from and beat the living crap out of people and think they are submissive, period. steve: real animosity was between joe manchin and the staff. joe manchin has not named names. people have tried to connect the dots. we don't know exactly who it was. we do know one famous person who put out a tweet who obviously was very angry at joe manchin and that woulds bette midler she tweeted this what joe manchin who represents a population smaller than brooklyn. carley: bronx. steve: wants to move forward not backward like his state sold us out. he wants us all to be like his state west virginia. poor, illiterate and strung out. brian: hard to have a more condescending tone and more bitter statements put down an entire state because you disagree with a senator, the 72 years old, self-made success story former governor of a state? he has won three terms in the senate? one thing, what has bette midler done the last 20 years excepted show up for kennedy award. either her or barbra streisand saying something. carley: she apologized for that tweet. i apologize to the good people of west virginia for my last outburst just seeing red. joe manchin and his whole family are a criminal enterprise? is he really the best west virginia has to offer its own citizens. like one of those apology tweets still really angry. brian: brings up a good point not only upset at joe manchin the way he voted. they keep saying he gave in to the special interest groups. and to big business. are you kidding? he didn't -- he had a vote for weigh. what do you mean is he sold out to big tech or whatever? steve: even though, look, they got to demonize him some how. they are trying -- they have been beating up big beef and everybody else. carley: big beef. brian: big beef can answer back this guy has to vote tomorrow. steve: headline is according to politico and "the washington post." sounds like there will be a build back better, joe manchin will negotiate with come early in january. brian: i love what meghan mccain tweeted out responding to bette midler people in west virginia vote for people like him because of people like you. love it. steve: talk a little bit about kyle rittenhouse his story when he was acquitted in kenosha a few weeks ago was the biggest story in the world. last night, yesterday, appeared at america fest. which is being run by turning point u.s.a. carley: charlie kirk. steve: he was on a panel with charlie and several conservative commentators. and here he is talking a little bit about what it felt like once he was acquitted in the trial in kenosha. here is kyle rittenhouse. >> through the trial everything since august 25th. he has helped me get through this. i pray to him every single night. i pray for strength. i never prayed for strength for whatever happened to me. >> beautiful. >> i think my trial was an example of them trying to come after our second amendment rights. our right to defend ourselves and trying to take our weapons. the. >> do you have any plans to sue some media companies soon? [cheers and applause] >> i don't know, charlie. i don't know. but some accountability is coming. i would be on the lookout. accountability may be coming. [cheers and applause] steve: he also said that he had really long days preparing with his lawyer where he would be at his lawyer's house for three or four hours. and then because he was so overwhelmed to decompress he would play video games like call of duty. carley: just think about the image of him collapsing in the courtroom when it was not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. and seeing him now and he wants to go to college and, you know, he has his life back. brian: he does not want to be anonymous, that's pretty clear. done a bunch of interviews. shows up there in front of a live audience. i have not seen it yet. getting great reviews kyle rittenhouse trial that you see on "tucker carlson today." steve: that is it right there. if you would like to watch what he had to say, you can stream turning point u.s.a.'s america fest on fox nation right now. brian: still ahead on this show. potential terrorists apprehended at the u.s. southern border in yuma. are the president's weak policies making our country vulnerable to potential attack? 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is this a rarity do you think? >> brian, first of all, yemen is a very dangerous country right now. it's a breeding ground for radicalization and terror groups from al-qaeda. this guy is crossing the border just like hundreds of thousands every year coming into america. thank god the border patrol was able to stop him, apprehend him and now investigate it. but the leaders of homeland security whether it's tom homan, rodney scott, mark morgan, brandon judd, they have been warning the current administration about this issue for the last you know year now. it's not surprising but it's quite alarming for the american public to understand the gravity of the threat. we have a wide open border and they are coming into this country and god only knows what they are here to do. look at the got-aways, brian. brian: look at afghanistan, things go bad they go mum. border three prong attack. 600,000 illegals spread out through our country burdening our system. then you have the potential terrorists. then you have the drug cartels ferreting drugs through here. take a look at these numbers, compare fentanyl being seized in 2020 to 2021. 4,000 pounds in 2020. 11,201 pounds in 2021. this is fully out of control. the ramifications of this it's enough to kill the entire country and we see more and more average everyday americans getting hooked on this stuff. it's put into prescription drugs in some cases and illegal drugs in others. but it kills on contact. listen to d.e.a. administrator ann milligram on face the nation. >> the cartels will do anything to get drugs n every way you can imagine. yes, we see it coming through the border. fentanyl tiny quantities are deadly. it's not in years past where someone would have to bring kilos upon kilos into the united states. the threat has changed enormously. brian: starts in china and goes to mexico. do you know what she left out of that conversation? the border issue brian last week the president declared this a national emergency. i was glad to hear that off wide open border. it doesn't make any sense. 100,000 deaths over the last 12 month period ending aim of 2021 these families are devastated kids taking fake prescription pills. the d.e.a. seized 20,400,000 fake pills last year alone. 15,000 pounds of fentanyl powder. look at what cbp has seized. look at methamphetamine. right now already they are averaging 29,000 pounds seized for the first two months of fiscal year 2022. methamphetamine is another drug that's being made in industrial sized labs in mexico crossing our border every day. and they are mixing the fentanyl poison in with cocaine, heroin and most importantly these fake pills. they are deceiving our kids. the cartels are the inform the children, anybody with common sense knows this. we have historic levels of death. and we still have a wide open border. makes no sense. the public is starting to get outraged. i deal with the families every day who have lost loved ones. they just cannot understand how this administration is leaving a wide open border for terrorists. sexual predators, human smugglers and drug traffickers to inundate our country with these poison news drugs, brian. brian: it's unbelievable. they found a 4-year-old yesterday just walking around by himself in the middle of the arizona dessert. a 4-year-old. the ones dropped over the wall. doesn't steam resonate with this administration and even with anne milligram she doesn't bring bring up the porous border dere, keep talking about it, we're not going to stop. >> thank you. brian: meanwhile straight ahead. how one north carolina business is keeping their shop afloat despite the devastating impact of staff shortages and supply chain crises. it's almost the new year. why so many americans are ready to say goodbye 2021. especially giant fans. ♪ ♪ hi. 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>> well, i kind of started combing the internet. we have a couple of resources. restaurant supply on the web that we could get to. of course, amazon, one of the big package place. we have kind of gone all over the state trying to look for who had extras. i tried to order ahead. but once they realized they had a -- like a chokehold on everything and everybody was going to be needing these products, it seemed like the prices kept going higher and higher and higher, despite despite my, you know, i'm looking at my budget and what i have to spend on these things, and it was you know, i was pulling my hair out just trying to find it any resource we could. steve: we understand u.s. foods has since said okay, okay, okay. we will take you back as a customer. but now there are stipulations, right? >> that's correct. i have a higher number case count, not a piece count, but a case. i could buy one of, you know, let's say a block of cream cheese that doesn't count as a case unless there is a whole box of it. we have increased -- they have increased that from 15 to about 25 pieces and then there is a pretty hefty $1,500 spend amount on that as well. steve: yeah. i understand. you had to wait 16 weeks for straws. it's been hard for you to get crackers, it's random little things but in a business like yours you need a lot of random little things. as the president. >> right. steve: go ahead. >> go ahead, honey. steve: okay. as the president tries to figure out how to fix things, talk directly to joe biden if you would, michelle. tell him how small businesses are being impacted by supply chain crisis. >> i don't think he understands better than 65% of america is made of nothing but small business. we're also the number one employer for all of the united states. it's not big business. it's not microsoft. it's not amazon. it's the small businesses per capita for how many penal we actually employ. not to mention how many we serve in our area. we need to get the country back working. >> back following their company guidelines. let's get back to work. let's start producing the things we are running short of. let's bring it all back to america. quit depending on foreign countries to do our work for us. steve: right. ultimately, i know you are having a really tough time right now. are you going to make it? is your business going to make it. >> we're struggling. i'm not going to lie. it's not been the easiest. especially the last 10 months or. so we are doing okay in the beginning of the pandemic. we were able to keep our doors open because we do have a drive-thru. we do have limited access. we were bringing stuff to people's cars. and we have a good call-in service. we do have a delivery service. but this past 8 months or so, because we are spending more to get the same product that we were doing before, i just don't feel like i can raise my prices because of our local economy here is made up of young marine and navy personnel. steve: you are a vet yourself. michelle smith, she runs brewed downtown. check it out brewed downtown.com if people would like to order stuff and help her out as well. good luck to you and merry christmas. >> thank you. and merry christmas to you. steve: we're all thinking about you. all right. it's exactly 13 minutes before the top of the hour and adam has the "foxcast" for this first day of winter. >> hey, good morning, steve. feeling like winter out there. at least here early this morning. actually going to be fairly nice by the time we get into the afternoon. some of the cold spots 34 in new york city. 34 in chicago always one of the temperatures dip. hearty folk live up there 11 degrees in fargo as we speak. big weather system is going to be in the south. low pressure system lifting up off the gulf of mexico, that is going to bring at times very heavy rain to northern florida, panhandle, panama city stretching up into southern georgia and eventually south carolina and perhaps the severe weather to the south of that looking from central florida down into southern florida. otherwise, though, take a look across the country, mostly clear skies and temperatures will be climbing back up into the 40's, 50's, even 60 degrees in denver. those your weather headlines. steve, back over to you. steve: a lot of people are going to be traveling. adam, thank you very much. coming up next, texas police officer saving the big day for the bride and groom after their rings got stolen. the happy couple and the officer who said i do to helping you joins us live coming up next. ♪ your love keeps lifting me ♪ lifting me higher and higher higher real cowboys get customized car insurance with liberty mutual, so we only pay for what we need. -hey tex, -wooo. can someone else get a turn? 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>> well, we were actually on our way to the venue and getting ready for the weekend so i actually had a lot more in my purse i normally do my wedding i didn't think so in there, are of our wedding rings, family heirloom ring all the cash we needed for vendors, phone, wallet, everything we needed for honeymoon. basically anything you would ever need. carley: oh my gosh. sam, what was your reaction when your now wife turns to you and says my purse is gone and everything critical to have our wedding is inside of. >> it i was really confused about she bring it in and looking for it at first and then we approached the store and they actually got us camera footage of what was going on we knew at that point it got stolen. we were pretty -- i was pretty perturbed. carley: officer, that's where you hear about this story. you hear about their plight and what did you do to track down the suspect? >> well, to make a long story short, i arrived on scene on friday, and met with them, got their statements, reviewed video at the at home store. saturday came into work. and started reviewing security footage of every business in that plaza and got a pretty good description of the suspect vehicle but couldn't get a tag or anything. the video was too low quality. so actually utilized the system that we have it's called block safety and was able to get 184 different images of black audis that had came through lewisville in the past 24 hours. so i went through that used the identifiers i got from security footages and was able to track down a tag and that led to a registered owner's address. carley: you went completely above and beyond for this couple. the best part of this story, emery, is that officer bonar delivered it this purse at everything inside it at your rehearsal dinner. when you saw him walk through the door i can see your reaction there. you broke down in tears. how did that feel. >> i was completely shocked. i knew he was coming because he gave us a heads up. i actually had my back turned when he first walked in the room and everybody broke out into applause. carley: that must have felt so cool for officer bonar as well. >> the second i saw him i cried my eyes out. carley: i bet. congratulations to you all. officer bonar, you are a fantastic police officer. such a happy story. >> thank you, ma'am. carley: thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. carley: woke real estate web sites are doing away with crime reports in an effort to advance racial bias. is that fair to future homeowners? 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steve: that would be like 1963 maybe. carley: that's me and my mom ohio mentioned celebrates christmas all year around. definitely until three kings day. getting christmas tree my dad and sister i'm the little one on the left. steve: they have both been on "fox & friends" cooking. carley: i got a doll for christmas that year and i was a little suspect. brian: couple things going on right now. do you have any childhood christmas pictures you? travel with your childhood christmas pictures? unbelievable? steve: you don't have the cloud? brian: i don't put anything on the cloud. steve: 50,000 pictures on my phone. carley: i denchessed my mom do you have any christmas pictures and she sent them to me. do you feel left out? you can continue this. [sighs] steve: send your photos to friends@foxnews.com and we will try to highlight some of them tomorrow. brian: i have got put a ring on my string -- string on my finger in order to remember what i needed to remember. carley: like that movie from brian one flew over the coo coo's next? carley: a wonderful life the uncle. steve: we were talking about that yesterday it's one of the 12 days of christmas. brian: middle ages 12 days of partying knock it down to one big day where we are allowed to run outside six feet away from each other with a mask. steve: you should have read wikipedia as a child. brian: would have been so great. carley: 12 days of christmas. president biden will address the nation as omicron becomes the most dominant covid strain in the country. steve: the white house previewing his speech. they are saying it's going to be a dire warning to people who have not yet had a shot. brian: great. peter doocy is live at the white house with a preview. hey, peter. steve: good morning. officials around here have gone from saying if you don't get vaccinated you could lose your job to starting to say if you don't get vaccinated you are going to get hospitalized or you are going to die. >> for those who choose to remain unvaccinated he will issue a stark warning and make clear unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. >> so there is three main pillars to the president's speech today on screen. is he going to call for increased support for hospitals. more access to free testing and to expand vaccine capacity. and there are long lines of concerned citizens and big cities waiting hours honing to get a covid test at these overwhelmed testing facilities. the president claims he is going to send 500 million free at home tests out next month. not long after jen psaki was criticized by experts for dismissing the idea of sending a test to every american since that is exactly what many doctors want. and it's unclear if the president is going to take time today to defend this policy. >> he takes questions multiple times a week depends on what you ask. >> i asked him a question about this all the way back at the end of july. why is it that a few months in the term president biden said why did he say that if you get vaccinated you can basically lose the mask forever? he told me then that was true at the time. well, this announcement today the times are changing again with many new rules. back to you. brian: right. thanks, peter. steve: can i ask peter a question? peter, are you still there. >> i'm here. steve: looking at the white house lawn behind you. you sent out to the company last night along our email chain that apparently there are new pets coming to the white house lawn? >> yeah, there is. they had to send the troubled major biden who had been biting some white house staffers off to live with family friends. they got a new puppy named commander. going to get a cat in january. normally that's very pedestrian news. there is possibly reason to read more into it because jen psaki said a couple months ago that they were going to save the cat announcement for a bad news day. and so. steve: today's the day. brian: peter, i have an additional question. would you say at the end you said that, you know, they said at the time that they thought you didn't wear a mask when you are vaccinated at the time. and that's what kamala harris in an interview said we did not -- we were not -- we did not see delta coming. and anthony fauci came out sunday and was asked about that who is right? you cannot tell them that delta was coming? did you miss it? he goes no, i'm sure she was taken out of context. did anyone bring that up yesterday? >> not like that, surprisingly. but many, many staffers have come tout say what the vice president meant was she didn't know basically the name of this exact strain. but, here at the white house where they tried to follow the science to the letter of the law. just watch the briefing. we were in masks in the beginning, there were 13 of us. then there were more people in masks. then there was nothing for like two weeks. no masks, 60 people in there that did not last very long. steve: yesterday, in d.c., they announced an indoor mask mandate which i would imagine impacts everybody. but speaking of staffers, there was news that apparently a staff member spent 30 minutes with the president on friday and they have got covid? >> yes, that was on air force one going from south carolina where he gave a commencement up to philadelphia. they are saying that the president tested negative yesterday and for whatever reason he is not going to quarantine and is he not going to get another test until tomorrow. brian: they woulding killing trump i'm sorry did you want to ask a question. carley: i was going to point out and i'm sure peter remembers this that it's just dizzying to think back to the fourth of july when the president made that speech declaring victory. steve: independence day. carley: now look at where we are. to bring up what you were talking about about president biden, being in close contact with somebody who tested positive for covid for a half hour air force one a mid level staffer i thought for sure he was going to quarantine lock down. but it's interesting that he is not doing that could it be a sign that the white house is also thinking like the nfl is now, well, if you don't show symptoms, then we are not going to test you. brian: i love that go ahead, peter. >> that could be the case and i know that there are some calls among experts to reduce the 10-day window for vaccinated people who get exposed to this new variant. but, if that's the case, then we would expect that they would make that clear to everybody watching. okay, well, if you are just around somebody for 30 minutes on an airplane who tests positive, can you go to work the next day. brian: i don't want to get this too far down the line. i don't fault him at all. he was hugging everybody in kentucky. and i don't blame him. but there was no masks. there was constant hugging. carley: the way it should be. brian: that's the way it should be. that's not what the doctors are telling us over the weekend. we have got to be cautious with penal we don't know and wear masks. and president throws to the wind. i'm not going to get new trouble not make an opinion on this. if donald trump was doing that 24 hour nonstop. he should be quarantined he doesn't care about the protocol. he is setting a bad example. steve: peter thank you very much. carley: you know peter would have handled that perfectly. steve: he has got to go. very thorough covered covid and cats. carley: i love the email he sent out yesterday talking about -- it was so funny. steve: i got to read the whole thing, absolutely. brian: just before we move on from covid. cases are up 20% over the last two weeks. okay. 70% of most of the cases are on chron, i understand in the new york area. deaths are up 3%. hospitalizations have not ticked up. there is really -- they say medical experts will tell you a successful hospital has emergency room capacity about 95%. on any day. with or without a pandemic. so, if it gets up to 98, 99 and people say it's over capacity. it's only ticked up 5%. at a time at which we started with this pandemic and we see the horrific shots of bodies in refrigerator trucks outside of hospitals in queens. terrible, no doubt about it no opinion needed, we got it but, right now, can we please view this omicron as it is, which is spreads easily, not lethal, no deaths. one person died with it, maybe not because of it. with underlying conditions in texas. we have to keep this all relevant. steve: delta, however, is still out there, and that is the killer, and that is why during the holiday season christmas coming at the end end of the week, you just have to be careful. brian: without omicron we would be going and doing everything we are supposed to be doing, i was just traveling with it until omicron came out a week ago in south africa said 1-800-america. we have this strange little variant it's not lethal and spreads easily. everyone overreacted. ainsley: doctor who first discovered omicron said commit believe this global reaction to it interesting we are getting news like breaking news alerts on our phone and lawmakers are posting tweets because they have a cold. you know, because when you are vaccinated this is a case for vaccines and boosters, when you are vaccinated and booster. if you get omicron or booster it's usually mild symptoms. that's where we are it's because of what covid did to the country last year. but we have got to move away from that, i think. brian: we need leadership to put this threat in proportion. that's what i hope we get today. steve: is he going to strike a dire tone and say get the shots and the booster. brian: going to have kettle drums. steve: to her point things will be better. all right, moving on. potential terrorist arrested in arizona last week. wait, what's that about? did you see this? apparently they arrested on thursday a 21-year-old from saudi arabia who has been linked to yemeni subjects of interest. now the images show him in a jacket has a backward american flag and the patch on the sleeve that says the central oneida county volunteer ambulance corps. that's in new york state. it appears to be an older version of what they now wear. the people up there don't know exactly where he got it. but this is -- alarm bell going off. carley: a former d.e.a. special agent said what everybody already knows by what steve just alluded to. the american public should be alarmed by this terror threat at the border. brian: attention joe biden, don't put him in a junior high school in brentwood, long island. this is a possible terrorist. he needs to be handled differently. derek matters former d.e.a. special agent not surprised by this capture breeding ground for terror groups from al qaeda. so this guy is crossing the border. just like hundreds of thousands every year coming into america. thank god the border patrol was able to stop him apprehend him and investigate it it's not surprising but quite alarming for the american public to understand the gravity of the threat. we have a wide open border and they are coming into this country and god only knows what they are here to do. steve: exactly right. there was a bit of good news yesterday. and that is the department of homeland security. you know we show those images of our southern border wall that was started by donald trump and great big gaps in it and like oh, they are coming right through that they announced yesterday, dhs they are going to restart construction ever the border wall and plug the gaps. and fill in things like the gates where they are missing and build out access roads. secretary mayorkas gave the okay and it's going to go -- like that gap right there. they are going to fill that in. mayorkas gave the okay to fill in spots from del rio, texas, all the way to the pacific ocean in san diego. carley: they can't do that soon enough. if you think that this guy with alleged links to terrorism is only -- the only person with links to terrorism that is trying to cross our border, then you are kidding yourselves. the border issue is a national security issue. really concerned about this. it feels like a ticking time bomb. how many people that evade border security pay cartels so they don't go directly to border agents and they can cross portions of the border that are unsecure and they do that because they are dangerous and they want to be in the country to potentially harm americans. that's the game plan. it's not only that fentanyl overdoses, the leading cause of deaths for adults ages 18 to 45. fentanyl made in china and then it comes over from mexico to the united states on "fox & friends first," we were talking to congressman greg murphy and he said that the reason deaths -- fentanyl deaths are so high right now it's a complement of two different things first pandemic lockdowns which cause depression and people started to use drugs and then you had this surge in fentanyl and look at what happened. thousands and thousands of people are dying. and you don't hear anything about this from leadership right now. brian: you don't hear from leadership but hear it in middle class america, all throughout all 50 states it's affected including i. hawaii. a lot of people might be saying he or she is addicted to drugs and that's where it leads. not really. a lot of people are studying and take something take rid lynn, it is laced with fentanyl. 11,000 pounds. i'm watching. steve: illegal. >> everything illegally. drug cartels, buy it online or whatever you do. don't necessarily looking to have a pattern of drug abuse. you are dead on contact. and i will say this. when i watched that drug expert come yesterday, sunday on face the nation and explain the dire situation. and we rolled the soundbite from her. absolutely great. talked about how china makes it sells it to the drug cartels. they remix it and they sell it into us because we are their best customers. they keep on missing. why are the drug cartels have a thoroughfare right through the border? why wouldn't one follow-up question be how much better would this problem be if we actually enforced the border with a wall, with a barrier and with border patrol? how much better would it be if the president actually paid attention to this like he paid attention to afghanistan after we left, which is not at all. he has no interest in things that he doesn't want to address. but it doesn't mean they are not festering problems. that's why his polling numbers are suffering. 55% disapproval. and is he bleeding support from hispanic community. carley: one of the areas that the biden administration polled the lowest is the border issue. it's like. steve: the bottom. carley: 30%. brian: a 4-year-old was found walking by himself in the middle of the dessert by border patrol in arizona. carley: remember when the human smuggler had 6 people in the back of his car. this is i believed this happened in texas well. he crashed into another car with a mother and daughter in it. american citizens and they lost their lives. at this point, fentanyl, the terrorists that was just found at the southern border. brian: preventable. car all preventable. i'm stunned there isn't bipartisan support on this. snrl texas. steve: symbolically plug in those gaps in the border wall. sandy signal to people out of our border. carley: that's true. steve: going to be harder. brian: mark kelly so vulnerable in arizona done nothing. military guy, astronaut, unbelievable. carley: got to get to headlines right now. starting with this. hours from now jurors will begin a second day deliberation in the trial of jeffrey epstein's friend ghislaine maxwell facing up to 70 years in prison. closing arguments from the state saying maxwell helped traffic minors for sex and recruit and groomed underaged girls for epstein. the defense attacking the motion of the women who testified against maxwell. she still faces another trial on charges of perjury. newly released documents reveal cook county state attorney kim talks engaged in a major failure of operation and her handling of the jussie smollett case substantial abuse of discretion when she initially dropped charges against smollett. no criminal charges will be brought against foxx, smollett was convicted of five disorderly conduct charges for staging a hate crime against himself. bread sticks or cookies, olive garden is urging bread sticks for santa. time we acknowledge the truth santa is tired of dukeys. offering a variety of dipping sauces including marinara, alfredo or five cheese marinara for santa. brian: i know people who go to the olive garden for bread sticks. steve: soft. this would be great. santa can have sweet and savory. >> ho ho ho. steve: way to go olive garden. 7:20 in new york city. racial bias in real estate? that is the explanation some major realtors are giving for not disclosing crime data on property on their listings. is that fair to people who want to buy the house? brian: called it one of the highlights of his life. pnc champion john daly and his 18-year-old son taking the gold from tiger woods and his son celebrating the big win with us right here on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ small businesses like yours make gift-giving possible. now, comcast business has an exclusive gift for you. introducing the gift of savings sale. for a limited time, ask how to get a great deal for your business. and get up to a $500 prepaid card with select bundles when you switch to the network that can deliver gig speeds to the most businesses. or get started with internet and voice for $64.99 per month with a 2-year price guarantee. give your business the gift of savings today. comcast business. powering possibilities. carley: americans looking to bay home search for safe area. red finn and realtor.com admitting they omit crime data on property listings because of racial bias. here to react is senior adviser of save america and former hud official under former president donald trump lynne patton. good morning to you, lynn. >> hey, carley. how are you, good morning. great to be here. carley: we are so happy to have you. what do you make of this? if you list crime data, does that have anything to do with racial bias? >> his or her is a news flash for everybody watching last i checked just because you don't talk about crime doesn't mean it magically disappears, right? quote used by realtor.com is ludicrous. home ownership is the single most important piece of generational wealth and for them to say that they want to level the playing field of real estate defies that very common sense investment. by that logic, waterfront property in malibu would be the same price as a split level ranch in fargo, you know. it just doesn't make sense and democrats are putting more value on kowtowing to the radical woke agenda than they are on actual property value. carley: that's such a good point. we have that statement from realtor.com that you alluded to. they say historically our industry has rated neighborhoods using metrics that unfair penalize communities of color. and the weeks and months ahead we plan to examine closely what neighborhood safety means for buyers and renters who use our site so we can reimagine how we integrate safety data on realtor.com. you keep on using that word reimagine safety. reimagine policing. what is motivating this? >> well, look, i have a lot of broker friends. in fact, i was talking to one of them last night. the two most important questions that they get asked are how are the schools and is this neighborhood safe? as donald trump continues to point out. ever since biden took office, do neighborhoods without crime even exist anymore in america? 29 cities spike homicide rates. the city of chicago alone has exceeded 800 murders this year and it's not even over yet. in new york city where i live shootings have spiked by over 358%. you know, i think americans watching know that liberal-backed a.g.s are releasing, you know, in droves violent felons from their prisons across this country. we see it as evidenced in the rampant smash and grabs and the lawlessness that continues to plague this country. and quite frankly, you know, a friend of mine lives on the upper east side and, you know, burglaries are running rampant up there via fire escape. and that used to be considered a very desirable neighborhood. you know, as we saw even in picturesque waukesha, wisconsin when a.g.s are letting out violent felons catastrophic results are the consequence. and if i could just say. carley: go for it. >> go ahead, carley if i could just say one thing speaking of a.g.s, you know, yesterday donald trump followed a lawsuit against letitia james the a.g. of new york for weaponizing her office for political gain. if a.g.s across this country can do it to donald trump they can do it to hardworking business owners in every blue state across this country. and the only way it's going to change is by fighting back and holding them accountable in a court of law which donald trump plans to do. carley: attorney generals, district attorneys have never been more in the news than now. it has a lot to do with the crime issue. and not holding criminals accountable, which is their job. lynne thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. carley: divide deepens as some democrats turn to the west virginia senator for saying no to build back better. senator pat toomey says manchin made the right call and he joins us next. ♪ ♪ >> they figure surely to god we can move one person. guess what? i'm from west virginia. i'm not from where they are from. brian: good point. senator joe manchin firing back after the white house accused him of going back on his word. by rejecting biden's social spending spree in a new op-ed steve clemmons a long time friend and ally of senator manchin pulling in the same direction and bang white house released a statement blaming manchin for the delay. i knew he would perceive it as a breach of process and joe working this out. g.o.p. senator pat toomey sits on the senate finance committee and joins us now. senator, the joe manchin you know is those couple of lines blaming him for the delay? did he really take that personal? is that the breaking point? >> well, it might have been the last straw for joe. i mean, i give joe a lot of credit. the amount of abuse and flack he has taken from some of his colleagues from the left wing all over america, really pretty shocking when you think about it here is one democrat in the united states senate. one democrat, who thinks maybe it's not a good idea to turn america into a socialist welfare state. maybe we should just pause here. especially at a time when we have record high amount of debt, inflation at 40-year high. do we really want to spend many trillions more. let's have a pause and they blow him up for that? unbelievable. brian: right. the squad, in particular. how much do you blame president biden? is he the leader or not? if he wants to set the moderate tone, he can set the moderate tone, he seems to have a style that let's everybody else talk. >>well, and it's worse than that, brian, because you know very well he campaigned as the moderate centrist. the guy who going to bring america together. use his decades in washington to strike deals, to find compromise and consensus. it's been the exact opposite. he has governed from the hard left. let's be honest this is bernie sanders bill. that's why bernie sanders is so livid with joe manchin right now there has been no centrist and really across the board all of joe biden's policies have been appeasing the radical left. well, joe manchin never signed up for that program. actually most americans didn't either. brian: that's why the democrats really have to do some soul searching between crime, the border, afghanistan and now this who is actually calling the shots and what is the mission of that party? for you, senator toomey, you are an american, and today we are going to get our marching orders for the winter dealing with this pandemic now the omicron from the president of the united states today. what do you want to hear? we have heard a lot of berating of those who are not vaccinated. we heard about the mandate. now we have mandates and we don't have mandates. what do you hope he says? >> well, look, i think this is a serious outbreak. we do have hospitals in pennsylvania that are at capacity. we have got hospitals with no room in their icu units. so we need to take this carefully. we need to be thoughtful about this. the answer we all know vaccinations getting a booster. i'm vaccinated. i have got my booster. so does my family. what we don't need is more lockdowns and more mandates. we should be encouraging people. making sure they understand that a vaccination and a booster is the almost certain guarantee that you won't get seriously ill. you might still contract the virus. but it won't put you in the hospital and is earnly won't kill you. and so we need to get on with our ordinary lives. learn to deal with, this get vaccinated and really enjoy the holidays. it's time. brian: right. three things he is going to deploy deploy federal vac sin nature. is he going to use the military to support hospitals and millions of free rapid tests. we also should identify the fact and talk about this a little bit later. identify the fact that this is not as serious a strain as delta. it spreads easier but is so far we have not seen the leality. your thought. >> the data is still come in. most important thing to remember if you are properly vaccinated, this virus, this strain is not going to kill you. of course in, it's probably not even going to make you sick. it's a really good argument to just go out and get vaccinated. brian: enjoy your holidays. senator always great to see you. >> absolutely. brian: time is running out. i hope to catch up with you again. >> thanks for having me. brian: very topic somebody that knows it inside and outs. worldwide recognition for expertise. robert redfield tells us the real message he wants to hear from the white house today. first, misdirected rage, jason rantz joins us live progressive parents target him for calling out a teacher who openly admitted to bringing political bias to the classroom. nuts superpowers from a spider bite? i could use some help showing the world how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance. ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ only in theaters december 17th. >> there is no neutral spaces. we always bring in our politics because our history and the systems that we have created mean our identities our histories are attached to politics. so when we walk in the room we carry these biases. steve: well, there you hear a seattle public school teacher openly admitting to bring political bias into the classroom. rather than getting upset about it, progressive parents and activists are taking aim at our next guest for him criticizing her. in an email one parent reportedly slamming jason rantz as harmful, violent and damaging to our community urging fellow progressives to voice these complaints to the school board. seattle radio show host jason rantz joins us right now live from new york. jason, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: this school tea party is at a school that you have been paying attention to for a while, right? >> yeah. so back on september 11th, they decided to cancel a 9/11 tribute at a basketball game -- excuse me a football game because they thought it might offend some students. as soon as that got on my radar i started paying more attention to the school. frankly a lot of students and parents and teachers at eastlake high school in washington are sending me notes about how this school has drifted very, very far to the left and then as you just heard that particular teacher going a podcast saying yeah we are bringing politics into the classroom there are no neutral spaces which is, of course, absurd. a school is supposed to be a neutral space. you are supposed to be teaching kids how to think and develop their own positions rather than telling them the positions that they are supposed to take. steve: so after you called out the teacher for saying that we always bring in our politics, what did the superintendent do? >> well, the superintendent gave in to some of the demands that he stand up for teachers and back these teachers. he sends out a community wide letter backing the school, backing these teachers, essentially saying that they are not doing anything wrong. and that's obviously the wrong way to approach this issue. you can be sensitive to certain conversations and topics that are being taught into the classroom and maintain really good relationships with your teachers. but you do have to set some sort of bar that you are not supposed to cross which should be do not bring politics into the classroom, you are effectively telling anyone who is a conservative, all these teachers who have been speaking out are very far to the left. you are telling the conservatives don't say anything out of fear you might get, you know, dinged on a grade on a test score. because you might take the wrong position. we can have academic freedom. we can have conversations about important topics, we don't have to get into the indoctrination realm. now parents are finally pushing back and this is a school teachers and a superintendent that are on the defensive they are trying to silence anyone who pushes back. steve: you know what? we saw the pushback in virginia. is it now sweeping the nation? is it impacting folks up in your neck of the woods in the pacific northwest? >> 100 percent. i would say it's not just pacific northwest and virginia. this is happening across the country. and during the covid lockdown, when kids were learning remotely, parents were hearing what was being taught, they didn't stop any of that the teacher, they are hearing the push back so now they are in the position of trying to silence anyone, because, look, when you are accuse of being violent because you criticize someone or oftentimes a strategy that a lot of these teachers and schools make controversial about teaching about equity. they are doing that in disengine useless way they want to stop any pushback. it's really really important. that parents are continuously paying attention to what's being taught in the classroom and aren't falling for this tactic to silence them. steve: yeah. all right. well, it's impossible to shut you up. they have found out because. >> i do talk tore a living. steve: exactly right. jason, thank you very much for joining us with your point of view. and happy holidays. >> merry christmas. thanks. steve: you bet. all right. 13 minutes before the top of the hour and some quick headlines. the state of connecticut their homicide detectives now conducting a new search this week in the case of missing mom jennifer dulos. remember her case? investigators again searching a park where her car was found after she vanished two years ago. they say they are following up on previous information. jennifer's estranged husband ottis dulos killed himself after being charged with her murder in january of 2020. her remains have never been found. she is survived by her five children. meanwhile, the daily wire is now taking its lawsuit against president biden's vaccine mandate for private companies to the u.s.s. supreme court. the conservative outlet announcing on monday it has taken an appealing to the higher court after a lower court reinstated the mandate for companies with more than 100 employees. supreme court justice brett kavanaugh giving the administration until december 30th to respond to multiple lawsuits challenging that mandate. and, a tiktok user is spreading the joy of delicious home cooked meal to night shift workers at 7-eleven. >> [laughter] i told you i was coming back. you are welcome. steve: you are welcome. a woman named demi lee bringing a full meal, including ribs, beans and mac and cheese to 7-eleven gas station employee; people inspired viewing her video millions of times. that looks delicious. the gift of some good barbecue. all right. it is 12 minutes now before the the top of the hour cdc director robert redfield is live with his expectations for the president's speech on covid this afternoon. but, first, on the ninth day of "fox & friends" 12 days of giving, we spotlight the efforts of samaritan's purse in bringing relief to tornado victims across america's heartland, in particular, kentucky. franklin graham joins us live on how you can join the cause straight ahead on "fox & friends." ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. >> this is a great segment. day 9. today we are highlights samaritan's purse. >> the organization has been helping tornado victims in kentucky and arkansas recover after the devastating storm swept across america's heartland. samaritans purse president billy graham evangelist associate president. >> good morning, merry christmas. >> samaritan's purse on the ground helping victims within 24 hours of this storm. give us an update on the work that you're doing and how people are coping with this tragedy? >> of course, mayfield is the hardest hit area. they had so much death in mayfield. that's been a tough one. we will be there on christmas eve and serve christmas lunch for about 5,000 people and we have ricky scaggs. ricky will be singing several times. 11:00 to 3:00 o'clock on christmas 'providing a hot christmas meal, turkey, ham, mash potatoes, rolls, iced tea and why don't you come help serve it, that would be a lot of fun? >> that would be gate. steve: the key there is hot food. so many people still don't have electricity, they vice president had hot meal in a while and you look at the images of mayfield and nothing fixable there and so you're trying to do what you can but at the same time you're also doing the program you've done for decades and you talk about on this program called operation christmas child. you've got something -- you put together 9 million shoe boxes full of stuff for people. >> that's right. well, this is something god has done. we've got -- actually closer to 10 million and we will distribute in 110 countries and that's just something that we have been doing for the last 20-some years, 200 million boxes have been given. we give god the credit and give him the glory, but mayfield is on my heart because the people there have suffered so much. we need volunteers. we are going to work right through christmas. we are in the taking christmas off. we need volunteers to come down to mayfield and be a part of this and we are in dawson, in other areas there in kentucky as well. not just mayfield, but they can go to our website and find out how they can be serving, being a volunteer. >> and the website is samaritanspurse.org. >> yes, sir. >> merry christmas to you and your family. >> merry christmas. >> god bless you guys, thank you so much. steve: you bet. carley, what's coming up? carley: like father like son, tnc championship duo golf pro john and his son are waking up early to celebrate their big win was. they are live in the final hour of "fox & friends". don't miss it. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> this is not a speech about locking the country down. >> 500 million free at home tests next month. >> joe manchin not backing down to the far left. >> we can move from one perp. i'm from west virginia and not from where they're from. >> one democrat who thinks it's not a good idea to turn into the country into a socialist state. >> i don't know, but accountability is coming, i'd be on the lookout. [laughter] >> accountability may be coming. >> major realtors are not disclosing crime data. >> just because you don't talk about crime doesn't mean it's magically disappeared. >> and the raiders has won it. ♪ ♪ ♪ carley: good tuesday morning. is that pennsylvania? >> i think so. carley: blue mountain resort. tuesday morning, december 21st which means that there are 4 more days till christmas. we are looking live at fox square in all american christmas tree. brian mentioned the 12 days of christmas last hour. >> middle ages. i looked at tmz annual price index and if you want to buy all of the things, all of the -- carley: costs about $180,000 this year a 5 and a half percent increase over 2019 which means that inflation is even affecting the 12 days of christmas. >> i heard this is a supply chain crisis with ladies dances. carley: all i need is the golden rings. brian: the prices are through the roofs. carley: did you see the video of the camel running down the highway. they were doing a trial run for their christmas event and camel escaped and running down the highway. [laughter] steve: slow down. brian: were the animals used, the breath use today heat jesus. it was so cold in bethlehem. thank you. i get them confused. the animals breathed on them to keep them warm. steve: you get confused with bethlehem and bethlehem, pennsylvania. hold on a second, so you're talking about the animals kept them warm. >> by breathing on him. steve: the story i'm sure you remember them, the reason they were in the essentially the stable was because there was no room at the inn. carley: that's right. steve: they weren't there because animals were going to breathe on them. carley: i didn't read the passage in the bible. brian: i give them full credit for overcoming capacity and finding a major to have the baby. steve: it wasn't a holiday yet. brian: a lot of people shopping. steve: for a hotel. brian: future holiday. carley: persecution. brian: holiday coming soon. steve: there was an event around that time. brian: if you're worried about the baby, the last thing you want a drummer. who brought the drummer boy? we finally got the baby settled down and playing drum all day. carley: i don't know why. brian: what are turtled doves? carley: christmas is the best time of year especially when you were a child. that's my mom holding me when we were looking for a christmas tree. my mom still looks like that by the way. she's beautiful. that's my dad and my sister. always so much fun when you're a child and when you have kids of your own, right? steve: baby doll. carley: i still have the doll in my room somewhere. at my parents' house. steve: russell, kansas, that's me, in kindergarten, the biggest song in the world back then was the twist and santa and mrs. clause was doing the twist. somebody e-mailed me something, the four stages of life are you believe in santa claus or you don't believe in santa claus or you are santa claus and you look like santa claus. steve: fantastic. this as close i'm getting the christmas pictures my bending over to prove i can. that's my brother standing in perfect detention. i cried every christmas. steve: you're wearing shorts at christmas. brian: i was ahead of my time. [laughter] steve: maybe the reason you're wearing shorts because they were breathing into you. brian: and german shepherds. steve: with supply chain issues, they are having problems hiring people, they are down to 25%. those are santa's helpers. we did show our pictures earlier. we asked you for your photos and we did receive it. >> we got a photo from libby and big brother and sister back in 1972. >> very nice. and this classic photo of marilyn back in 1951 visiting santa at macy's in new york city, at 34th street. brian: santa had a fluffy fear and this one from janet in north carolina of her kids jason and carley, picture with new toys on christmas. 1981, ronald reagan was in office. there you go. carley: so cute. i love those pictures. we are so divided but celebrate christmas with family and friends. god, jesus. brien: thank you. did you notice back then when you see the christmas trees, fake tree, real free. fake trees are so real you don't even know the difference. congratulations whoever is making the trees real, you got me. steve: e-mail us at friends@foxnews.com. in the meantime president biden this afternoon is going to address the nation as omicron becomes the most dominant strain in the country. carley: peter doocy live at the white house with more. good morning, peter. peter: look at the arc, at the beginning of this year president biden was warning about a dark winter and things got better until they're not as the president today is set to warn that unvaccinated americans will be hospitalized or killed by covid. >> for those who choose to remain unvaccinated he'll issue a stark warning and make clear unvaccinated individuals will continue to drive hospitalizations and deaths. peter: three min pillars of the president's speech, increase support for hospitals including military to overwhelmed facilities, access to free testing, up to 500 million free at home tests apparently and expanding vaccine capacity, testing facilities have been overwhelmed by massive lines in metro area as amicron spreads as officials tell us president biden was close contact with a sick person friday for 30 minutes. the president is luckily negative but it's unclear if he's going to want to talk about that today. >> he picks questions multiple times a week, depending on what you ask. peter: there are a lot of questions of 500 million free at home test that the government is going to try to send out next month because, for example, two blocks away from here right outside the closest metro stop to the white house, people were lined up in the cold yesterday for hours trying to get covid tests. it's something that president biden probably seen himself but hard to miss for staffers that had to come that way or people that cover this place. so if the president choses to defend his policy, i would expect questions about that. back to you. steve: peter when say people who cover the place like yourself, you were tested every single day before allowed on the property a couple of blocks away and sometimes there's quite a wait? >> sometimes. luckily we get tested on campus here at the white house but really just two blocks away, the closest mass transit hub to here. the west metro. the whole square, people were lined up all day yesterday, they are trying to get tests and there's a shortage of tests, there's a shortage of people to administer the tests and so the capacity right now is problematic but they insist they are going to be able to scale it way, way up in like two weeks. steve: and you would hope that the administration would answer the questions why haven't they stockpiled tests, why haven't they stopped the antibodies and all sorts of stuff because here we are back in the winter, first day of winter and we need stuff. peter: something that the president and officials hearsay all of the time, go get the booster shot today in areas like washington, d.c., northern virginia, that's easier said than done. appointments take several weeks to get. carley: yeah, absolutely. i'm wondering the white house already released bullet points on what the president is going to cover, like you said, peter, there are still going to be so many questions when he wraps up his speech and we heard jen psaki say he answers questions all of the time and depends on what you ask, how did you interpret that? do you think he will take questions at the end of the speech? >> if he hears one he likes. carley: that's not how it works. brian: he has his list if he does. carley: we know that you will be prepared regardless. brian: meanwhile i have to give credit. the president will come and blister the unvaccinated for the million time it doesn't win people over and i have to give credit to vice president harris when asked about the unvaccinated. i don't think we should be blaming anybody. but we are in this together. says vice president harris refuses to blame the unvaccinated for the ongoing pandemic, notably different stand with president biden, that's what happened when you're speaking out. i'm not saying it's bad. you give interview with la times, san francisco chronical, face the nation, you will have differences with the president and with the -- the sacred -- the anthony fauci. steve: two predictses. one he's going to say no lockdowns which we kind of heard but the other thing is i bet you a dollar he mentions donald trump. that donald trump revealed when he had been touring giving the speeches apparently in dallas he admitted that he has had the booster. i bet the president says, you know, he will mention fox news, always mention fox news, they have a vaccine -- stuff like that, and donald trump told the crowd that he got the booster, i bet you a dollar. brian: i'm going to bet you he doesn't because he hates giving president credit for everything and he was always wrong about fox. we don't have a mandated vaccination, we have testing protocol for people who aren't unvaccinated because people with underlying conditions or they had it already. they mislabeled us. steve: we have a protocol. the reason we are able to sit so close to each other is because we are personally tested twice a week. carley: that's right. steve: we have to get the test and we've all been vaccinated and many boosted. carley: the omicron variant is one major new story and the other has to do with bbb and the news that joe manchin is a hard no and yesterday we learned a lot of interesting things about why he went on with bret baier and said that he's a no and has everything to do with the fact that during negotiations apparently he presented a plan to the white house and president biden and it was $1.8 trillion plan and the white house was mulling it over considering how to respond for that, $1.1 trillion that joe manchin was reportedly interested in and didn't have the child tax credit in it and as that was going on the white house said to joe manchin, we will release the statement that we are going to miss christmas deadline to build back better pass, joe manchin said don't mention me by name because my family has been harassed and we can't have that anymore. the white house released the statement and mentioned him by name and angered joe manchin so much that he completely pulled out of negotiations which is where we are today. steve: right. and the white house, he snapped at a white house aide and he said, okay, fine, i'm done negotiating. so the aide goes back and talk to the bosses, he says that, obviously he means for now. they figured that are they were going to negotiate come 2022 in the next month or two. no, joe manchin went on with bret baier the other day, absolutely not. and he has pretty much and the headline to have new york post is the bullies haunted manchin, prerogatives insult, harass me and i'm not budging on the bad bill and what's interesting now is it sounds like according to politico and the washington post after the blowup where he said, i'm done, apparently joe biden and joe manchin talked on the phone and it was cordial and signaled that they would resume work on a new bill in early 2022. so there will be a build back better, it's just not that going to be what that was because joe biden said this is the deal and joe manchin said i can't go for that so come up with something new so they are going to come up with something new. carley: so maybe little bits and pieces but seems like the story continues into the new year. brian: here is joe manchin. >> i'm not blaming anybody. i knew where they were and i knew what they could and could not do. they just never realized it, surely, we can move one person, surely we can badger and beat one person up, surely we can get enough protestors to make that person enough and saily vote for anything and quit. guess what, i'm from west virginia and i'm not from where they're from and beat people and be submissive. brian: jay powell spent a lot of quality time with president biden and got a call from senator manchin at which time said there was a testy phone call and i didn't say anything bad about him for a couple of months because i believed he was negotiating in good faith. i certainly wish i didn't have to say that now but we need to tell the truth on where we are and why and evidently they exchanged words, bernie sanders basically called joe manchin a liar and sellout and doesn't care about children and seniors and doesn't want everyone to have glasses and he also says people in west virginia better and nobody listens to -- we have to remember. american people didn't vote for bernie sanders, the democrats got panicky that he was going to get the nomination during primaries and he is acting like he has popular support behind him and he doesn't. mitch mcconnell weighed in yesterday and said, i'd welcome joe manchin in the gop if he was so inclined. word if he was going to go anywhere was s to the middle as independent. carley: i know that we have to move on. he did this radio interview, you heard a portion of it. he said something interesting about why he is so adamantly opposed to the child tax credit. he says there's no work requirement, there's no means testing, there could be somebody that takes 2, $400,000, they are getting the child tax credit just as somebody making $50,000 and that's something that a lot of people don't talk about where, you know, democrats say that this build back better plan is necessary because it's helping people that are poor and we already have a welfare system in this country. you need help, the froth and taxpayers will help you but the welfare system, it needs to be a safety net and not a trap and when you give people so much money, that's what ends up happening which is something what pat toomey was talking about. brian: we are only going to fund it one year, 4 trillion-dollar bill. we will not extrapolate it out. who puts a program that will last a year, you want to transform america, remember, is it donald trump put out his tax plan four years ago and said i only want it for one year, you know he's not telling the truth. they changed the tax program. this would change the social structure of the country and -- >> steve: there's a possibility it can come back in the new year. speaking of comeback, kyle rittenhouse addressed the america fest out in phoenix, arizona yesterday, he essentially got what i read online was a rock star welcome. he sat down panel discussion charlie kirk from turning point usa and conservative commentators, testifies a wide-ranging conversation talking about how he was testing with his faith and because he was up against everything he did a lot of praying. listen. >> i believe god spent with me every day through the trial and every day since august 25th and helped me get through this. i prayed to him every single night. i pray for strength and i never prayed for acquittal and get through whatever happens to me. >> beautiful. >> i think my trial was at hem coming after second amendment right, right to defend ourselves and trying to take our weapons. >> the only plans to sue media companies soon? [laughter] >> i don't know, charlie. i don't know, but some accountability is coming. i'd be on the lookout. accountability may be coming. [cheers and applause] steve: absolutely. if you saw it yesterday on fox nation, great, if you did not you can stream turning point usa america fest to fox nation. carley: kayleigh mcenany closes out today. cancels parade because of increased in shootings, mayor joins us live to discuss how america's crime crisis is impacting christmas. steve: over the weekend you saw tiger woods and son charlie back in the course. first time since new york career ending crash but it was the daily duo john and john who took on the trophy. john daily and his son john after victory exclusively on "fox & friends". ♪ ♪ ♪ steve: it has been an annual tradition for more than 20 years, now a mississippi is forced to cancel parade due to alarming rise in shootings. crawford, mississippi mayor willy parson joins us right now from mississippi, willy, good morning to you. >> good morning. steve: you know, i'm sure that people are heartbroken because you have to cancel your parade but it was last week you canceled it there was a shooting that day, you said sometimes they are shooting like 30 or 40 rounds at a time, that's what i call a war you said. >> yes, i did. that's what it sounded like. steve: tell us what's going in your little town of 500. >> well, it just recently started. the week before our parade started we had gun violence and that's the same week coming up to the parade and that's why we decided to cancel it because every other day there was a shooting. steve: and you would be devastating if something happened at the parade and you don't know if somebody has a gun if they showed up. >> that's so true. we tried to be safety of our town and the people who live in the small town and the surrounding area. steve: yeah. did you have any worry about what happened, you know, a few weeks ago with the person in the parade that plowed through in wakeshaw. >> i stopped the parade and i don't want anybody get hurt and we have been having for years. steve: what is happening across america? you're in a small town of mississippi, 500 people. this is happening in small towns and big towns, what's going on? >> you know what, it's just -- you think that in your small town nothing would happened like because we have a small quiet town, you are thinking big cities but now it's all over. the world -- violence of guns don't make any sense. steve: when you talk about what's going on in chicago, well, it's a gang problem, do you have a gang problem in your town? >> no, not that i could think of. they haven't said anything about gangs. it's rival -- it's not a gang, something that they want to do. last sunday. steve: sounds like people are driving around and shooting at cars and one person has been hurt, right? >> yes. he was shot with a pellet gun. when the shooting occurred, the ricochet of the gun hit the house but nobody was hurt. thank god for that. steve: you have canceled the parade for crawford, mississippi. >> yeah. steve: let's hope that we are able to get back to normal next year, mayor, thank you very much for joining us live. >> thank you, thank you so much for having me. steve: merry christmas. coming up next on tuesday telecast, the dynamic daily duo joins us live because they're victorious. ♪ ♪ ♪ brian: tiger woods back on the links after devastating car crash. the golf legend teaming up with 12-year-old son charlie for championship but he finished in second place. steve: first place was team daily, john daily and his son who took home victory belts which we are about to see. carley: that's right. fresh off their big win, john daily and son john jr., we do see the two victory belts in front of you. coppingulations do you both. john, what was it like winning the pnc championship with your son as your teammate? >> it's the greatest. you just don't have too many sports that you can do this in and little johnny played so good. it was so much fun to play with him but to watch him. i was the saddle and he was the horse, i mean, he was awesome through the whole thing. we just had a blast together. brian: not only did you have a blast together, tournament record, 127 under, 3 strokes better than the woods team. how much pressure did you feel out there? >> i didn't feel any pressure until the 17th hole. i saw the woods up there. we better finish strong because they are chasing us that's for sure. steve: absolutely. it's tiger woods, even though he has been through so much he's still tiger woods. john, did you know the whole world was watching that tournament on sunday afternoon and a lot of were pulling for tiger but a lot of them saw that your son is an excellent golfer. >> yeah, i mean, it's -- that's what you give, they make the tournament. it's tiger woods. probably the greatest golfer in the world but kind of cool with me and my son beat him, though. it was -- we just like i said, we went out there and played and have a good time. it's a family thing. it's just the greatest tournament of the year. probably the most recognizable and the most watched tournament all year long and for us to come out and win it was just -- the way he played just made daddy so proud. carley: that's awesome. john, jr., you're a freshman at the university of arkansas and you're in the golf team, that's where your father went as well. you have such a bright future ahead. what are your aspirations in future in golf and what is it like to play golf with your dad? >> well, jim, has always been the go pro. this year we didn't care about winning and have fun and enjoy ourselves. i guess that's what happens when you, i don't know. steve: your dad is john daly, of course, you're going to have fun when you play golf. >> exactly. [laughter] steve: after you were awarded -- have you been wearing the belts around the house? >> well, little john's belt fits him, mine unfortunately won't fit me. i need extensions. [laughter] brian: john, jr., there's signs of your dad's swing? steve: john, jr. brian: do you have some of the length of your dad, do you have some of the drive? >> i mean, i wouldn't say i'm as far as he is when he was in college but short. carley: being humble. we understand that you are big supporters of our troops. we love to hear that on "fox & friends", tell us about your -- why do you support the troops and the way that you do. >> me and major, you know, to the john daly.org, we do a lot for the troops and veterans and a lot for kids and it's great to give back. the logo that we have a purple and may major's is a purple heart. a lot of people need help and we are just happy to do it. brian: one last question to you john, everyone think what they think is left after he tries to rehab. how much of tiger is left, i know he couldn't walk the course? >> it's cigar. kind of like the ben hogan accident, i think he won a few majors after that. luckily i don't think tiger's was as severe as ben hogan's ant didn't have the technology to fix ben hogan's body like tiger's, i think tiger is going to be fine, he looked good. he looked a little tired but he looked great and he will be back and i can see it in his eyes, he's probably going to be jack nicklaus' records and be the greatest of all time. steve: how many kids come up at the mall telling you that they want a cabbage patch doll? [laughter] >> they just say hi, santa. so cool. carley: look at the picture. >> hey, santa, it's santa daddy, it's santa mommy. steve: congratulations to you and your family. merry christmas. >> merry christmas to y'all and we love "fox & friends". carley: merry christmas. in just a few hours president biden will update the nation on omicron surge, former cdc director redfield joins us next from what he wants to hear from the white house. my daughter has type 2 diabetes and lately i've seen this change in her. once-weekly trulicity is proven to help lower a1c. it lowers blood sugar from the first dose. and you could lose up to ten pounds. trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. it isn't for people with type 1 diabetes. it's not approved for use in children. don't take trulicity if you're allergic to it, you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. stop trulicity and call your doctor right away if you have an allergic reaction, a lump or swelling in your neck, severe stomach pain, changes in vision, or diabetic retinopathy. serious side effects may include pancreatitis. taking trulicity with sulfonylurea or insulin raises low blood sugar risk. side effects include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and may worsen kidney problems. ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. brien: president biden will deliver stark warning to unvaccinated. what else is new, new actions to battle the covid surge and this new variant. former cdc director, current senior adviser at mlac. dr. redfield, great to see you. if you were writing the script of the president today, what are some of the bullet points that you would like to get across the american people. >> thanks, brian, thanks for having me. first and foremost to remind the american people that vaccines do work. the challenge with the vaccine is you have to maintain them. so obviously maintaining your vaccination state with additional injections is fundamental. second thing, i think, we really have to finally embrace the tool of what i call knowledge of infection and what that means is we need to have expanded testing. we need to be able to let people understand if they are the silent epidemic and pull themselves out of the transmission and pull everybody as if they are infected, why don't we focus on people that are infected with expanded testing. the president is going to talk about but i think really our nation probably needs over a billion tests a month just from a public health point of view. we still have a listening way to go. finally, i hope that they'll be a real aggressive push on public-private partnership to advance antiviral development to retool the antibody that is we lost with the omicron variant but to get the private sector to build upon what we have seen with merck and pfizer bringing antivirals to bear. let's bring more antivirals into the system. brian: right. doctor: lastly, let's move to culture of personal responsibility. i'm not a big advocate for mandates. i don't think mandates help. brian: terrible. doctor: when you tell people they have to do something that they may be reluctant, they'll be more reluctant. culture of personal responsibility for us to understand what mitigation steps we need to use for ourselves and the different environments we are in. those are four major points and i hope the president hits all of them. brian: you also want to expedite the pfizer antiviral which could be something that you take up. let me take this. for some reason there's no urgency to get this to market. doctor: yeah, brian, i think this is really important. i don't know where the pressure points are. i know i had an opportunity to be the cdc director during the beginning of this pandemic. i will tell you there was a great sense of urgency. i was part of the operation warp speed board to bring vaccines to the american public. there was a great sense of urgency. i don't see the same urgency in bringing the diagnostic tests to the american public that we need. we probably need over a billion tests a month. i don't see the urgency and i don't see the urgency in bringing antivirals to the marketplace and we need to really accelerate that sense of urgency. brian: dr. redfield, we should not be pretending, am i correct, that omicron is as lethal as the original pandemic or the delta variant, should we be looking at what we know right now and act accordingly, low-grade fever, runny noses, no deaths? doctor: brian, i think you're right. when the viruses evolve and i think -- i predicted it on fox news probably 4, 5 months ago, i said we will have another variant and more transmissible than delta and i anticipate it'll become less pathogenic. at that time what the virus is going to do. we will have another virus than omicron and this virus is different from the original strains in that it replicates more in the upper respiratory tract as opposed to lower lungs. it's causing much less disease. that said in vulnerable individuals, you know, it still has the capability of putting people in the hospital and has the capability of death but the real issue with this pathogen is that it's just so much more infection, so much more infectious. brian: right. we should treat it accordingly and not overreact to it and you would like to see more tests and you would like to see more therapeutics or antiviral. let's get some urgency there and you're a pro. dr. robert redfield, thank you so much. >> doctor: thanks, brian, have a great christmas. brian: thank you. tis the season to watch fox nation. abbey who i know will take us behind the scenes. somebody else i know bill hammer, i saw him typing away getting ready for his show because he tells me he does most of the work. [laughter] bill: are you going to stand for that dana? >> kilmeade. >> today is the day, you mentioned the good doctor will set us straight. very interesting interview with robert redfield and a lot of questions to dr. marc siegel here. karl rove on how that works out. we are on verdict watch for several key trials today. come join us today, dana and i will see you shortly at the top of the hour. where's mom? she said she would be home in time for the show. don't worry, sweetie. she promised she'd be here for it. ooh! nice shot! thanks! glad we have xfinity, with wifi speed faster than a gig! me too! woah, look! mom is on tv! she's amazing! (cheers) xfinity brought us together, after all! power your whole home this holiday with wifi speeds faster than a gig. click, call, or visit a store today. sing 2 it's another day. and anything could happen. it could be the day you welcome 1,200 guests and all their devices. or it could be the day there's a cyberthreat. only comcast business' secure network solutions give you the power of sd-wan and advanced security integrated on our activecore platform so you can control your network from anywhere, anytime. it's network management redefined. every day in business is a big day. we'll keep you ready for what's next. comcast business powering possibilities. steve: merry christmas. you can find two brand new specials. abbey takes you inside one of the most famous christmas destinations in america in asheville, north carolina. here is a little sneak peek. >> welcome to the banquet hall. >> wow. >> this is the largest room in bellmoore house. >> those are the highest ceilings i've ever seen in my life. >> it's very special because we opened up christmas eve of 1885. imagine having roasted turkey in 1885 among your family and friends. carley: abbey joins us now. wow is right. that looks so beautiful. tell us about christmas and what people can expect when they watch it on fox nation? >> yeah, carley, so back in late 1800's vanderbilt visited north carolina and fell in love with blue ridge mountain. they opened up the home to the family on christmas eve, all those years ago, the team over at bellmoore have been deck nateing. there are 62 hand-decorated trees. 175 poinsettias and we want wanted tobring christmas spirite who are watching. brian: let's listen. >> what inspired you for the few toy soldiers to this? >> my husband was crazy for christmas, more crazy than me and didn't let anybody know and my mother was crazy fanatic for christmas. started being a memory of my mother. steve: that place is on every list -- when you google things to do in new york after christmas. >> that's right, steve. that's dykier heights brooklyn, you're exactly right. people come from all over the world actually to see the christmas light displays. i have knocking down the door on fox nation, please let me do the christmas content. every single house just goes above and beyond what their decorations. that was lucy, largely credited for starting the tradition. you heard her in the clip. he does it for her mom, husband and when we were there there were people talking all different languages about how these lights just bring so much christmas joy to every single person who is there. >> bright christmas, they are both streaming on fox nation, abby, thank you so much. bringing the christmas here. >> merry christmas. brian: all right. more "fox & friends" in just a moment. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ experience the power of sanctuary at the lincoln wish list event. >> wonder where i'll be at 7:00 tonight. look here in the studio fox news prime time. an crenshaw and mick mulvaney. does he feel the nba season could be postponed or canceled like the nhl. >> as we look at minnesota. what a beautiful shot. you are working a double shift. >> i have a lot of shopping to do. >> you will stay here until 7:00? >> new couch. >> bill: good morning, everybody. fox news alert. what's next in om omicron. we're about to find out. president biden laying out his strategy. the dominant strain now in the u.s. four days before the big day, good morning. santa coming down the chimney. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. somewhere up there is a children's album i do believe. >> dana: you never know. that's exciting for next christmas. i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." it is a pretty big day. >> bill: did you know that the week ending last week that 73% of all new