are taking over today with the beautiful carley shimkus in the center. carley: that's right. i had forgotten both of your names -- not that i forgot your last name but i forgot that today is a jones sandwich. love that lawrence, i was off yesterday. i watched "fox & friends" from home. you did a great job. yesterday weirdly felt like saturday. today feels like monday. it's neither of those days. i believe it's thursday. i feel like the week between christmas and new year's everybody is confused what day it is. joey, i'm not alone on that front. joey: not at all. it's a gray day, i don't know what it's like for you guys up there but it was raining so glad on the way in today. i'm glad i got here safe and ready to have a couple of great hours with you guys. carley: three hours to go. big breaking news last night. we begin with a fox news alert. guilty of five of six counts. a jury convicting jillane maxwell of sex trafficking, recruiting and grooming underaged girls for jeffrey epstein. todd piro is live with the details on this front, todd, good morning. todd: good morning. maxwell's accusers rejoice. those inside the courtroom said maxwell showed no emotion as verdict was read. 60-year-old now facing up to 65 years in prison. her crimes conspiracy to entice and transports minors for sex acts plus the actual transportation of those minors for those sex acts, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of minors. she was acquitted on one charge though enticement of a minor to travel for sex acts. on this charge jurors earlier in the week needed more clarity. the prosecutor says the ruling was still a big win for the brave women who, quote: stepped out of the shadows and into the courtroom. listen. >> road to justice has been far too long but today justice has been done. todd: meantime maxwell's defense attorney says the once popular british socialite will fight these charges, watch. >> we firmly believe in ghislaine's innocence. obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict. we have already start wanted working on the appeal and we are confident that she'll be vindicated. >> that ♪ stopping maxwell's accusers from acknowledging their triumph. they are relieved and grateful at this verdict. back to you. lawrence: thanks so much, todd. let's bring in fox nation host nancy grace. nancy, thank you so much for joining the program. a couple questions for you just to kick this off. we know that the prosecution honed in on four cases focusing on those minors. they decided not to go -- widen the scope to those other victims. the defense tried to make the case about her being a victim but she did not take the stand. so my question for you, nancy and i know this from being a prosecutor investigator for criminal defense. most of the time they do their own investigation and they find out things about their clients that they probably didn't want to know before but they want to know it so they can defend themselves when the prosecution goes after them. was it wrong for her not to take the stand, to show the jury that she was a victim? >> oh, he double l no. my first question i don't understand maxwell, it's what you the sophisticated elegant british socialite is doing trolling playgrounds and spending time with 14-year-old little girls. explain that? you are taking them choir practice. field day. she would have been carved up like a thanksgiving turkey on the stand. that's why she didn't take the stand because they would have torpedoes their case. carley: ghislaine maxwell is in possession of a lot of information that could bring down high profile people. what does she do behind bars? does she name names? >> she is going to practice her singing voice. so i believe that all along she has been playing her cards very, very wisely. she didn't need to implicate other people, and everybody is saying hey, is trump involved? is clinton involved? is leon black involved? famous, political figures, wealthy people? even if she names names, the state still has to create a case. but this would be the time for her to start naming names. i mean, after the life she has lived in complete and lavish luxury. three hots and a cross, that co. that doesn't look too good for her. carley: without a doubt. joey: jeffrey epstein took the it coward's way out. >> modicum? she is going down for 60 years. that feels pretty good to me. tell you something a lot of adult victims of child molestation, ruins their lives. they go on, they look normal and may act normal but they are never the same. i hear what you are saying, there are other people to be held accountable, and it will be over hell or high water that the state doesn't prosecute other men that had underaged sex. do you know what? that's a euphemism. that's putting perfume on the pig under age 6 that's raping a little girl. it. joey: more than 100 supposed victims. only four of them had a chance to have their case heard. what do you do with the other, you know, almost 100? how do they feel right now? you spent time talking to victims of crimes like this. how do the other victims feel? do they feel vindicated and this is only the beginning? that's really where my question was going. >> well, it's a mixed bag. they feel vindicated because ghislaine maxwell is behind bars. thank heaven. they never got to tell their stories. they may have had other perpetrators and other men take advantage. today another big day we are learning that the civil agreement between another victim virginia and epstein a civil agreement she wouldn't prosecute. it's going unveiled today. i want to find out if that civil agreement for her not to sue included prince andrew and others. because that's a bombshell. if it included andrew or royalty, he might as well go ahead and hold up his hands. >> you know, nancy, that's the per segue, she released this tweet i hope today ♪ the end but rather another step in justice being served. maxwell did not act alone. others must be held accountable. i have faith that they will be. do you think they will be, nancy? >> well, i will tell you, up until now, i did not. it seemed as if the government didn't want to go forward because there may be political entities involved in child sex -- that is not what our country is about. our country is about pursuing justice, no matter who you are. and i think at this point, the government, the state's hand has been revealed. they have got continue this investigation. carley: yeah. you know, nancy, ghislaine maxwell's family they released a statement yesterday. they are standing by her. they said we believe firmly in our sister's innocence. they are very disappointed with the will verdict. we have started the appeal and believe she'll be vindicated. maxwell's lawyers believe it will be appealed. where does this go? >> nowhere. they will spend a whole lot of money because this judge alpha mason you may or may not agree with her politics she is one smart cookie. she clerked at the u.s. supreme court not just everybody gets to do it. she is really really smart. my point is, she didn't have any trial errors. so there is really nothing to appeal. ghislaine maxwell better rely on not an appeal but naming names to get a reduced sentence or it's dan bury for her. joey: let's hope she spends the rest of her life in jail either way. i hope she does name names. nancy, thanks for coming on with us. >> thank you for inviting me and thank god for this verdict. >> facing 65 years behind bars. she is 60 years old. nancy, thank you. all right, coming up, americans are dealing with a record surge of code cases and a nationwide shortage of testing. weave will tell you what she just found out about the 500 million kits biden promised to mail home and a disturbing discovery tsa agents at philly international airport find findt.sown into a child's stuffd toy. ♪ ♪ we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age increasing your risk for getting shingles. so, what can protect you? 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joey? >> yeah, you know, listen, i sat in line for, i think an hour and 45 minutes here in my little town in georgia. i didn't have any symptoms. i wasn't exposed. i will travel. let me get tested. hour, 45 minutes later come back the next morning. came back the next morning and line was too long. that was a small town in georgia. this is a problem all over the country. matter makaryy the tributer for fox news was on yesterday. listen, you can't have your policies and the reality not match up. you can't say you need to get tested and then not even have a way to do it and the administration really just needs to be practical here and makes a lot of common sense that we're not getting out of this administration, that's for sure. ainsley: that's right. dr. jerry home adams surgeon general under president trump fired up about this lack of federal prioritization. he says it comes down to just that. there is no other way to put it it's frustrating when you hear president biden and vice president harris say on record we didn't see this coming. no one could have seen this coming. well, we always knew that in the holiday season you are going to see a surge. we always knew that delta after it hit india and the u.k. was going to come hit us this reflects a failure of the administration to really take this seriously and to prioritize the virus the way they told us they would. lawrence and joe, the only job of the federal government is to make sure americans have enough stuff, the proper tools to combat this virus. and right now we are lacking in a lot of areas. of course, testing being one of them. there is also a nationwide shortage of monoclonal antibodies. the texas department of health just released a statement saying the federal government controls the distribution of monoclonal antibodies. we don't have enough. we won't get more until january. that's because of supply chain issues. all of these crises affecting the nation are sort of now interconnected and the biden administration has also been pretty stlot draw when it comes to that pfizer pill. they purchased 10 million courses. dr. siegel has an op-ed and he says we need extension of operation warp speed to prepurchase at least 50 million dose courses and spur production on that front. lawrence: you know, carley, you are so right on this. they promised. the biden administration, especially on the campaign trail, that they were going to defeat the virus but they also promised that they were going to have a plan. and the more and more recontinue to see from this white house, they really didn't. they are being reactive toward the virus. again, as i continue to say, joe biden won the past election because he promised that he was going to defeat the virus. joey: exactly. joey: marc thiessen a fox news contributor says the cdc is misreporting. watch this. >> honestly, we would have been better off in this pandemic if the cdc didn't exist. it's been a disaster since the beginning. they revised downward the prevalent from the omicron virulent 72 confident last week no it's 24.5. that's not a minor revision that's 57 percentage point. how do you get this that wrong? they can d. this now on the isolation. they also came up with the 6 feet district rule out of whole cloth. no science about it. that's what shut down all these schools. it the cdc were wrong on masking, they screwed up the testing at the beginning of the pandemic. they wouldn't let private labs do testing. the cdc is an absolute disaster. i don't understand how people can trust our public health officials anymore. lawrence: they continue to get things wrong because they sore political. not the first time they get the numbers wrong. i would like to there is political incentive as well. you have the cdc director rochelle walensky yesterday on cnn talking about part of the reason why they changed the guidance from 10 days to five is because the american people wouldn't tolerate it joey. they are being guided when it comes to this policy not by the science but by politics. joey: you know i want to make a statement here and i don't want to be polarizing but this is a polarizing thing in country now. i do not believe this administration is trying to defeat this virus and i don't believe they are trying to prepare us to move forward with a virus. i think what they see is they were really trying to get the country in a better place with this virus they would have focused on mandates, vaccines and masks. those are the three most polarizing things the government can do and it allows them the political collateral to point the finger and say see those conservatives? see those trump conservatives they are evil. they won't get a vaccine or wear masks they don't support mandates they're making us unsafe. if they wanted the country to move forward with the virus, they would focus on tests, and treating and educating and our own doctors what this virus does and forward looking not looking at each other right now pointing fingers. they know they get political collateral. you see how passional people get when someone isn't wearing a mask on a plane. you see how vindictive people get when people say they don't want to take the vaccine. that's what they are playing into because that works for them. it works for them to take the white house. that's the politics of this. not the policy. the policy should be tests, it should be finding a way to learn morph about the virus. and it should be investing in therapeutics that get people well quicker. carley: without a doubt, joey. this is a much larger story than president biden's poll numbers, of course, his poll nowbs on covid were the one bright spot for him. and i expect those numbers to drastically go down as a result of this omicron debacle. there is another crisis that's rocking america throughout the year that is the crime crisis. there is a tragic story to report this morning. out of san francisco there is a 6-year-old boy, his name is jays young. he was playing outside with his friends, this was july 4th of 2020, actually, a group across the street from him where he and his friends were playing started firing and jace was shot and killed. the reason we are talking about that this morning one of the four suspects of the killing of the sweet little boy sean lumpkin he was recently found guilty of murder. is he now facing just 8 years in prison because he was tried as a minor. he was 17 years old at the time. he is 18 now. now jace's father is speaking out about this. he says that he actually voted for san francisco district attorney chesa boudin but he says that chesa boudin is to blame for this rising crime crisis and he has had enough. listen to this. >> guilty verdict only going to do maybe five years. my son didn't live that long because of the politics and policies of the district attorney. there is no accountability. i mean, we are doomed as a city, especially with a district attorney like chesa boudin. jace's sister and mom voted for chesa. i voted sticker because he liked stickers. to be where you are today and to be dismissed the way we have been dismissed by this district attorney it just makes me sick. lawrence: to be dismissed. i mean, that is the reaction. look at the beautiful boy's face. look at him. look at young jace. i mean, do we care about the kids or do we not? this is not just happening in san francisco. but this is happening in every major city in the country is because the way that we are viewing crime is much different than we once viewed it before. we are giving more rights to the criminals. we are putting them back on the street before they have even reformed their lives. i mean, there is no incentive to correct. and i just got to tell you it is so hard for me to see this picture because i have talked with these families all across the country. and they all weep because it just didn't have to happen. when is there going to be victim reform? when is there going to be justin for the victim. the part of our democracy, our constitutional republic, the first job of our government is to keep the citizens safe. and if we cannot protect our kids, then why are they even in office? it's just sad, joey. >> it is sad. i identify with that man so much. i guess i say sympathize with him so much. represents so many americans vote someone they want to be better represented and want to be better acknowledged. they want to have policy changes that enhance their lives and put them in the forefront of any policy being made. and then that same person goes, they turn around and they do this disservice. this man's son was killed. all he wants is justice and for the person that did it to not be on the street to do it again in less than a decade. i don't think that's too much to ask. i don't think it's too much for any family to ask if their child is murdered then the person who did it be held to account. i will tell you if you live in a place like that. i don't know where you turn. i don't know if you get better politicians any time soon. carley: san francisco mayor london breed supported defund the police movement. she come out with this plan to crack down on crime because plan so bad. plan includes refunding police and getting police out on the streets in hard hit areas. when she made this big speech almost everybody in san francisco's local government was there. the one person who wasn't was the district attorney, chesa boudin, now we know why he doesn't support the plan. he released a statement saying we cannot simply arrest and prosecute our way out of a problem that is affecting these areas in many parts of the city. we can't continue to wait for the police to respond and make an arrest before we intervene. he does not support the mayor's plan to crack down on crime, which means that this crime spree in san francisco will likely continue. all right. still to come, more than 1400 children were reportedly evacuated from afghanistan without their parents. a green beret working to rescue stranded allies joins us next. plus, the tweet that's getting the president roasted on social media touting the best economy in half a century. we'll have that coming up. ♪ just hold me closer ♪ why don't you pull me close ♪ why don't you come on over ♪ i just can't let you go ♪ baby, why don't you just meet me in the middle ♪ my nunormal? 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[sighs] carley: those are your headlines. joey over to you. joey: poor dogs don't get to strut their stuff. carley: not yet. joey: more than four months military chaotic withdraw afghanistan. 1400 afghan children brought to the u.s. without their parents. children still in government custody without family members to claim them. scott mann is a former green beret and leader of task force pineapple a private group rescuing our allies. scott is up now. how is it going? >> hey joey how are you doing? joey: good man. good to see you. i had buddies who went over there. what you did to use technology to find people and get them home is really heroic. we find out that the government brought 1400 kids here. not say those kids don't need to be here. we saw the video of the baby being handed over the wall did. we know anything to know these kids connected to our allies or literally just kids thrown over the wall? do you know anything about this. >> i think it's a combination of chaos in place there. joey. marines were doing the best they could. now we are starting to sort it out with volunteers who know who these people are. where they are and they trust us. and we are just not getting the political will from the state department to sort it out like we need to. joey: one of my friends that came back, the most haunting thing he said to me was he said i have been places where i knew the government wouldn't help me if i was in trouble. he was worked in rescuing sex trafficked people. i have never been somewhere where i felt like the government was working against me. that's how he felt in afghanistan. can you speak to that at all? did you guys feel that way at all. >> one of our volunteers in pawn apple he feels like bureaucracy is a bigger enemy to this process than the taliban is. i think that pretty much sums up what you are saying. joey: where are you guys at with your operation now? are you still bringing people to the u.s.? are you able to work with the government now give us an update on pineapple express and where you guys are? >> sorry. i'm still working through my lip bleeding here as i talk to you. seems like old times. where we are on it right now, joey, we are working with a very similar case where a 2-year-old boy has been separated from his family and we're trying to get them over and we can't get the state document move on it i think it's a matter of political will. we got to get more cooperation between the private-public sector. right now we are just not seeing that i hope in 2022 the administration will work more close whether i volunteer groups. it's a real problem. we have some answers. we have fidelity on these individuals and can help bring them together. right now the political will with the biden administration is just not where it needs to be for resolving these kinds of issues. it is a massive, massive humanitarian crisis. joey: what do you think the end game is on this. we bring tens of thousands of refugees here. hopefully most of them have helped us out. they have become americans. that's it. do you think that they are a part of what, you know, wins afghanistan one day? what do you think their goal is, the tens of thousands of afghans who have come here? >> that's great question. it's a dispirit question. i think for starters, many of them have a promise they are trying to honor to their families because they stood up for freedom. they fought to the last round like our afghan commando partners did, joey. they are just trying to get their families to immediate freedom. they are being hunted right now by taliban force that is relentless. i think for a lot of them you could see a possible return. i think you could see them standing up. i think you will see -- i would not count the afghan people out yet, joey. i wouldn't. they are a resilient people. i would not count them out. i think you will see them back in the game again. i think it's going to surprise us, their level of resilience down the road. right now we need to honor a many pro miss we made to those who stood up for democracy and help them get their families to freedom and the political will of the biden administration is a little short right now. >> scott, thanks for everything you have done in uniform and out of uniform. we appreciate you, brother and thanks for coming on. >> thanks, joey, appreciate you. joey: yes, sir. still ahead a coalition of chicago restaurants are calling on mayor lightfoot to postpone mandate. we will talk to maybe of the group next. ♪ ♪ when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums, tums, tums, tums ♪ tums chewy bites when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org (burke) with farmers auto multi-policy discount, the more policies you have with us, the more you could save on your auto insurance. 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sir? >> well, lawrence, first, we love our city, we are doing all we can to protect it. restaurants, businesses, residents, we are doing all we can. in terms of enforcement, you know, it's up to the city of chicago. they have issued this january 3rd mandate. we think it should be closer to january 15th like boston and washington, d.c. they gave their restaurants 25 days. new york city gave their restaurants 40 days. in terms of enforcement, we don't really know. i was on a web call. i was on a webinar yesterday with the city of chicago. they went through checklist items that restaurants have to be ready for. they didn't spend a whole lot of time on the law enforcement side of things. restaurants have always during the pandemic, they worked so hard to keep people safe. keep their customers safe. so, we will help restaurants be prepared. but they deserve far better partnership with city hall. you know, if other cities have given them 25, 40 days, doing all of this in 13 days is not really fair to restaurants. so, we don't really know what the law enforcement side will look like, but, you know, restaurants are one of the most regulated businesses in america, and we're going to get them ready but we need better partnership with city hall. lawrence: yeah. roger, what are you hearing? you don't have a restaurant yourself, but you represent a lot of these folks. what are you hearing from them? >> so, lawrence, think about it. the mayor has asked these restaurants to check vaccination papers and ids at the door. well, the restaurants are not set up like bars, right? they don't have staff checking i.d.s. they don't have security at the door. they have to train and maybe even hire a staff person where staff shortages are already tight. some of the restaurants don't have the proper staffing right now. so they are going to have to hire and train someone to be at the door, be accountable for these new requirements. we're encouraging all the restaurants to install interior cameras, in case there is an incident. like there was in new york back in september. and, again, restaurants now they have to write up protocols for the city. they have to have those ready for the inspectors and requiring all of this in 13 days goodness gracious during the holiday season, restaurant owners they plan to spend time with their families as well. they are dedicated to our city, but putting this burden on them in 13 days we think is unfair. they deserve more time. and this is obviously a very complicated process. they have to check with their lawyers. they have to make sure their processes are in place. if they don't get it right and there is a problem. they could get fined up to $500 a day. >> the time and the cost but it seems like the city didn't check on all those factors before imposing this mandate. roger, thanks so much for joining the program. >> thank you very much. lawrence: you bet. let's check in with our meteorologist adam klotz for our fox weather forecast. hey, adam. adam: good morning, lawrence. couple weather systems paying attention to. one thing, another weather. big cold front in the middle. take a look off to the east and a lot of spots early this morning and even overnight 50 and 60 degrees back off toward the west a whole lot colder. that's where all the winter weather is hanging out. initially we saw severe weather late yesterday afternoon and then through the overnight hours across the southeast. still very heavy thunderstorms in portions of alabama and georgia. this is all going to shift off to the carolinas today. still could see big severe like thunderstorms. isolated tornadoes are going to be possible with this one. it has just been round after round of winter weather for the west. that is hang once again as you are seeing snow running into portions of the northern rockies. how much snowfall, this is additional and it's been coming down for weeks now, plenty of areas there getting another couple of feet of snow. lawrence, those are your weather headlines for now, tossing it back to you. lawrence: yeah, that's going to hurt travel even more. all right. adam, thanks so much. adam: um-huh. lawrence: you already know, most teenagers are just trying to get through high school, up next, we meet one 15-year-old who has just earned his bachelor's degree with honors. that's next on fox. ♪ i'm feeling good today ♪ can't nobody bring me down ♪ i just got paid ♪ and i think i'm going to hit the town ♪ i probably can wait until tomorrow ♪ because i feel good today ♪ yeah ♪ can't nobody bring me down ♪ ♪ down, down, down, down, down superpowers from a spider bite? 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(muffled, distorted) ...43... not better. ♪ ♪ let the good times roll carley: good morning. welcome to "fox & friends." you are looking live at times square where the ball will drop at midnight friday going into saturday. unfortunately it will be a paired back ceremony because of omicron. but this is not a paired back show. lawrence, joey, great to be with you this morning. joey: yeah, good morning. listen, we have jimmie allen there singing good times roll. i thought he said roll tide roll sitting here as a bulldog plan. new year's to me is a big college football game day. i'm ready for that. lawrence: yeah, joey, i'm actually going to be in times square for the fox news channel. i was going to be in nashville. we decided to mix it up a little bit. carley: mix it up. lawrence: i will be there doing coverage. weekend team for "fox & friends," will, pete and rachel will be live from nashville tomorrow. carley: that's right. tune in to fox news for that new year's eve special. it will be the most fun show on tv. you don't want to miss it. we got to start here with a fox news alert. guilty of five of six counts a jury convicting jillane maxwell of sex trafficking, recruiting underaged girls for jeffrey epstein. todd piro is live with the details on this front. todd, good morning. >> good morning to all three of you. as maxwell's accusers rejoice, those inside the courtroom say maxwell showed no emotion as the verdicts was read. the 60-year-old now facing up to 65 years in prison. her crimes include conspiracy to entice and transport minors for sex acts. plus the actual transportation of those minors for those sex acts. conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of minors. she was acquitted on one charge though enticement of a minor to travel for sex acts on this charge jurors earlier in the week indicated they needed more clarity but the prosecutors says the ruling was still a big win for the brave women who, quote: stepped out of the shadows and into the courtroom. listen. >> the road to justice has been far too long so today, justice has been done. todd: one of those accusers who celebrated the verdict virginia giuffre. she tweeted i hope today is not the end but another day of justice being served. gil maxwell did not act alone others must be held accountsable. the defense attorney says the once popular british socialite will fight these charges. watch. >> we firmly believe ghislaine's innocence. obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict. we have already started working on the appeal and we are confident that she will be vindicated. todd: that is not stopping maxwell's accusers from acknowledging their triumph. some saying they're, quote: relieved and grateful at the verdict. back to you. joey: todd, thanks for update. and guys, i don't know what you can do for the victims. i'm glad that this person is going to jail. obviously the perpetrator that we have all heard about for so long, jeffrey epstein is dead. he took his own life. he took a coward's way out. so now we have more than 100 victims. and at least somebody is going to go jail. what this guilty verdict does more than anything, it makes them feel believed and heard. i think that's an important thing for any victim in recovering. i can sit here and be mad and say i want all these people to go jail or even worse. really, what this is about is about the victims getting some type of justice. lawrence, that's exactly what yesterday was. victims got justice and somebody is going to go jail. lawrence: yeah. i think that's important. i think it's also important that it's not just one person. i mean, there were other people connected to this scandal. and there are people all over the place that have not been prosecuted. i think that is the big take away. is the prosecution going to go after those other people that were complicit? nancy grace was on the program earlier. and she has some thoughts on that exact thing. watch. >> she is going down for 60 years. >> that feels pretty good to me because, let me tell you something, i have dealt with a lot of adult victims child meteorologist. it ruins their life. they go on, they look normal, they may act normal, but they are never the same. she is going to practice her singing voice. okay. so i believe that all along she has been playing her cards very, very wisely. this would be the time for her to start naming names. i mean, after the life she has lived a complete and lavish luxury. three hots and a cot doesn't look too good for her. carley: that's right. it's clear that the party is over for ghislaine maxwell. she lived in the lap of luxury her entire life since she was a little girl. clearly guilty of egregious crimes. there are really two questions that americans are now wondering when it comes to this trial. the first one was what nancy grace was just talking about is she going to name names? she has all of this information as to the people who were also involved in this child sex trafficking ring. and apparently some of them are very high profile people. will there be a continuation on that front? the other is how much time will she serve because she was -- faces up to 65 years in prison. but jonathan turley said that there are aggravating factors to push the guidelines higher. but most first offenders, which she is, would be looking at less than 20 years, lawrence. joey: yeah, it's going to be interesting to what she they do. naming names is another important point. another important story is right here in new york. i'm actually in dallas today. i will be back in new york tomorrow. if you guys remember, there was this big announcement about covid-19 when it came to the child hospitalizations being up 400 percent in new york city. well, we learned something new yesterday from dr. mary basset. admitting that they may have been misleading but the motivations is the key. watch. >> numbers that we gave on pediatric admissions weren't intended to make it seem that children were having, you know, having an epidemic of infection. these were small numbers that we reported in our health alert. that was based on 50 hospitalizations. and i have now given you some larger numbers. but they are still small numbers. it really is to motivate pediatricians and families to seek the protection of vaccinations. lawrence: that's not what we meant. we didn't mean to scare the parents. we just released that 400 percent. that's exactly what you guys were doing. you were trying to scare parents into getting their kids vaccinated and that just shows you what our public health is doing right now. this is why they are losing so much credibility with parents. because it's not about the science. it's not about educating parents. it's not about educating the public in general. it is about doing what they say. and if they need to use fear as a means to get that done, joey, they will. as is reflected in new york state. lawrence: that's what i said earlier. this is politics, not policy this san opportunity to control people or to at least get people passionate about their side. about supporting them. about keeping them in power. so they can get 7 million people in new york city to, you know, kluber their pearls i guess and say if you are not vaccinated you are trying to kill me, look, there is 400 percent more kids in the hospital and politely overlook the number is 50 out of 7 million people in new york. that's perspective. they are not going to give perspective because giving perspective gives people information to make their own decisions and that's not what they are interested in. carley: joey, you are absolutely right. this is cruel and wrong. because it scared parents. when you hear a statistic like there is 400 percent increase in hospitalizations. parents start to think what does this mean for my child? can my child go to school? can my child even go outside? is omicron more deadly than other variants for kids? and we usually look to our public health experts for guidance. in this case she just admitted sort of on an aside those numbers were reported it was a small sampling of children. and the reason they did that was just increase vaccination rates among children so parents would get their kids vaccinated. but it was a misleading statistic. you cannot do that and expect people to continue to trust you. i think there is such a lack of trust with public health guidance and if president biden were smart, he would also pull dr. fauci off tv. nobody turns people off that don't agree with this quite like dr. fauci. if dr. fauci's goal is to get the american people vaccinated, he would voluntarily stop going on tv because he is doing the exact opposite of what he wants to do. when people see him they turn it off and say i am not doing what this man says because is he so politically partisan and i have had enough of him. joey: i always find it fascinating once these people get caught in trying to fear monger us to get to us do what they wants us to do. no, that's not what we were trying to do. it that's exactly what you guys were trying to do. anyway. we will continue covering that. carley: unbelievable. on to this. in virginia, you guys heard a lot about virginia when it comes to education they have been like the epicenter of the reforms and think rt and all this other crazy nonsense. virginia teachers are firing back after the school district implementing a more equitable grading system. in this system, just to set it up for you guys, there would be no more grading for homework. no late penalties for homework. unlimited redoes and retakes on assignments and no extra credit. so, to be clear, they feel like minorities and people of color and, you know, i'm a black man, i just got say, i find it very offensive that they feel like that we can't cut the mustard, that we need some type of extra standards when it comes to our education system. we need teachers to do their job. if they teach the kids the right way, no matter where they come from and give them the proper information, no matter if they are poor, black, white, hispanic, or whatever, then these kids can be successful. we have seen charter school after charter school be able to take those same kids, get them as and bs as well as full rides to college, so, it's not a race problem. it's a teaching problem. joey. joey: i have a different perspective here. i don't believe in grading homework. homework and assignments are for you the student to practice and learn. if you chose not to do and it you don't learn, they will find out on the test which is an aptitude test to see if you have retained the knowledge they taught you and if you get to move on in school. at the end of the day, this comes back to students doing their job, parents doing their job. i don't know that it's the teacher's job to instill work ethic into a kid. so if that were the reason, i would be all about it but to use this as some guise to further divide people and, like you said, under the auspice of equity like kids of a certain color can't do homework, that doesn't make any sense at all. i definitely have a big boy rules idealism on public education but in this particular instance, i don't understand where they are coming from. carley: teachers affected by this possible policy change think it's an awful idea. letter from wakefield high school teacher says he had quarts decades of experience we are extremely concerned with several changes proposed in the new grading and homework policy, changes if implemented will also result in the decline of high expectations in rigger in the classroom. given the emphasis on equity in today's education system. we believe that some of the proposed changes will actually have a detrimental impact towards achieving this goal. yeah, obviously. if you are not grating homework, you are not letting people fail, then there is no reason for feel try hard no treason got extra mile. i think it's extremely offensive. similar to no i.d. for voting like minders have trouble getting ids. why are we saying that certain races can't get ids and certain races can? i think it's extremely racist. the other issue, lawrence, is that we may be doing this, we may be mulling over these ridiculous equity rules in school, the one country biggest adversary china not doing this. joey: carley, i was just getting ready to pick up on that. how do we compete on the world stage with this nonsense? i mean, we are judging based on the numbers. even before the pandemic. i mean after the pandemic it's even worse. but we were not competing at all when it came to china, india, and other countries out there. so this is only going to push us back. the district spokesperson said this. they are still in the process of evaluating the current grading and homework policy. so they are not really confessing to it they are just saying they are evaluating. hopefully we push back. this won't stand. carley: yeah, i agree. i think that because teachers are speaking out against this and it's getting clearly international attention, maybe the school board will rethink this policy because students need to be held to account. they need to do their work and do well in school because, you know, then they will succeed. it's been working for generations. we don't need to reimagine everything in 2021. we are going to turn to some headlines now. beginning with, this a manhunt underway in texas for a 14-year-old who police say is armed and dangerous. authorities say the teen allegedly shot and killed three teenagers at a convenience store the day before christmas. he was allegedly driven to the convenience store by his father richard acosta. his father turned himself in to police. a $5,000 reward is being offered for information leading to enable across taps arrest. a second former cnn producer is under criminal investigation over allegations involving potential juvenile victims. fairfax county police confirming rick salby former senior producer for jake tapper is being investigated by the child exploitation squad major crimes bureau. this probe comes on the heels of the arrest of former cnn producer john griffin who is facing federal sex crime charges involving minors. wow. now to a fox news exclusive. several active duty marines say they are witnessing a political purge by the biden administration over the president's vaccinate seen mandates. military spokesman saying not a single religious exemption has been approved. a lieutenant colonel saying officials are discharged, service members, quote: as fast as they can. and as brutally as they can. damaging every marine as much as they can on the way out. and the knicks emanuel quinnly suiting up slightly different name under the pistons, take a look. 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right, sir. i want to get your reaction to this because it seems like it's a gift that keeps on giving. washington lawmaker introduced a bill that would reduce penalties for drive-by shootings to promote variable equity. so they want to remove some of those aggregating factors. this is what the representatives said for washington state. her name is tara simmons who is a felon herself. it is clear that the bill to make drive by shootings an aggravating factor was targeted at gangs that were predominantly young and black. this is what the representative is saying, sir. >> these people, they don't care about anything. they just want to stay in their position and just want to make money and that's it. they don't care about citizens. they don't care about business owners. they don't care about people in the street. they don't care about anything. they do laws. they change rules. but they don't care. trust me, because they are not in their shoes. they are in shoes just like okay, let's do that let's change that less police. they don't really care. they just care about how to get money from people. that's it. every year change rules in society with high taxes and more -- just make money from people but they don't care about people. i'm suffering, you know? i leave the family every day go work and make money and i don't know if i come back home. next door that have grocery store, someone came in and steal things from the ladies there, old lady and almost stabbed her and kill her like in the daytime. and standing there, i have pepper spray, electric pen, i'm scared. you know, i don't feel safe. i don't feel, you know, need help from the government or the police. they should make rules to help the people not against people. do you know what i'm saying? standing with the people and they should put more police officers on, you know, on the city to help the city or the city is going to be gone. the city is going to be down to the help more and more. you find -- people don't care. you know? the guy, he came in yesterday in the morning. break in break in the front door, you know, just break in with a big piece of metal, go in like alarm rings, is he like walking around like nothing. he knows even he get caught nothing is going to happen. i don't care who it is, i just take whatever i can and bye-bye. lawrence: i'm telling you, brother, there are a lot of people that are hearing you right now and they support you. hang in there, sir. and we will continue to highlight what's happening in seattle. thank you so much and i hope. >> i'm trying. thank you very much for having me, guys. really god bless you and god bless america. lawrence: god bless you too, man. god bless america. you take care. >> thank you. lawrence: high profile trial of ghislaine maxwell is over. the british socialite is found guilty of trafficking young women for jeffrey epstein. big question still remains will she name names. actor schneider thanking a group of officers. that's next. ♪ ♪ 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count that they were struggling with and it took them quite a bit of time. that happens routinely with juries. it's not surprising that it was a conviction. but, keep in mind, she is going to be sentenced not just on the counts she was found guilty on. she will be sentenced on the ones she is acquitted and on counts that weren't charged. and the federal system you have to win all of the counts or you lose all of them. carley: how much time do you think she is going to get? >> she is looking at the rest of her life in federal prison depending on what the prosecutors push and where the judge is on the issue. buff the federal, you know, the federal system doesn't have parole either. you serve 85% of any sentence that you receive. carley: the big question this morning is because ghislaine maxwell has so much information. she was there firsthand. she knows the high profile people that were involved in the sex trafficking ring. could she -- if she talked to prosecutors. if prosecutors want to continue to pursue, this and get down to the people that are also guilty and involved of these egregious offenses, one, will she talk to prosecutors? and, if she does, could that mean less time for her and also, does that mean that this isn't over? will she name names? >> you know, carley, i hope that she is going to cooperate. the reason is that, you know, given everything we know about what happened with epstein and the many men that were, you know, preying on these young women, i hope that it's not over. i hope that she will cooperate. i hope that many of the men will be held responsible and accountable for what happened. if she does, she can reduce her sentence significantly. it's through what is called a rules 35 sentence reduction that she substantially helped in the prosecution of other individuals. so i hope it's not over. carley: she was found not guilty on count 2 you sort of alluded to this before that charge of was entice ago minor to travel to engage in illegal sex acts. not guilty on that one. do you know why she was acquitted on that count? >> you know, a lot of times the -- you saw the expert on the defense side was-that the jury asked about and wanted the transcript of the testimony, it was all in relation to memory and the fallacy of memory. and so my guess is the jury struggled with the accuracy of what was being recalled with respect to that count. but at sentencing, she will be sentenced on that count. they only need a preponderance of the evidence at sentencing to sentence them on relevant conduct. carley: moving forward, a 2009 settlement agreement between jeffrey epstein and virginia giuffre who ha could you seed prince andrew of at abuse. he has didn't that. that settlement between gustav fray and jeffrey epstein will be made public. what exactly does that mean? >> yeah, it's a big deal. you know, what it appears and we will know more once it's out in the open, but it appears that epstein was the proxy to settle a case that may have involved multiple individuals, including, you know, some in the royal family and if that's the case, it's going to be made public. remember, carley, you can't negotiate away -- you can't negotiate away victim's ability to help in a criminal investigation. so that's civil settlement would not stop her from working with federal authorities on a criminal investigation. carley: this certainly isn't over but for now ghislaine maxwell guilty on five of six counts and faces 65 years in prison. brett tolman, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you, carley. carley: you bet. president biden is being widely panned for a tweet touting the best economy in half a century. really? utah congressman burgess owens will join us next to set the record straight. then, five abandoned puppies finding their forever home on christmas. we are going to be talking to the tulsa police officers who saved the day and took these little guys home. ♪ liz, you nerd, cough if you're in here! shh! i took 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inflation, leaving americans struggling with the surging cost of everyday goods, but apparently joe biden doesn't see it that way. the president is celebrating his economic record tweeting: we're ending 2021 with what one analyst described as the strongest first year economic track record of any president in the last 50 years. let's keep the progress going. here to react is utah congressman -- utah g.o.p. congressman burgess owens. congressman, welcome to the show. tell me, i don't know what it's like in utah but i know in georgia it doesn't feel like any type of positive track record for the president right now when it comes to the economy. >> joey, first off, first off thank you for the opportunity. this is what you get when you have politicians in this little bubble for 40 years, 50 years and have no clue you just cannot tell people not to believe your lyin' eyes. they are feeling inflation and fear in these cities. they are seeing our country going crazy. chaos everywhere. and for him to say this is just continues to let americans know we need to make a change. a big sea change. we cannot continue to put people in office and allow our leads to lie to us in this way and thing we are going to believe them because they say. so those days are done. it used to work out in the early cities. that's why they believed him. that's why so many hispanic americans and african-americans voted for democrats they are changing. you tell us one thing and we feel the misery going on right now. joey: you are probably going to be in the majority in just a little over a year. what can republicans do at least in the house to help us out, maybe to slow thinflation or to help our economy? >> getting back to basics. at the end of the day, what makes our country work is faith, family, the free market and education. and we're putting together a task force right now, the leadership is. so we can come out in this spring and give america exactly what we stand for. not just we stand against the democrats, that's enough, but we are going to show exactly the policies put in place to give people the freedom to go out there and grow their dreams, build their businesses, educate our kids and get our country back on track to where we proud of who we are and great vision of what we can accomplish. joey: we look forward to seeing what happens. i want to switch topics and remember someone you had a good relationship with. legendary football coach and broadcaster john madden. i know he went to the super bowl and won it with the raiders. i know you played with the raiders years later. what does it mean for football to have this loss? >> well, john was a legend in his time. i played a couple years with the raiders after he left. but whenever he showed up on the field, it was obvious he was there. i will say one thing, joey, raiders with al davis and john madden, they were game changers. they came in during the days of jim crow legacy, blacks were not looked at as intelligent enough to start in certain positions. changed the game. the first hispanic quarterback. the first hispanic coach to go to the super bowl. the first african-american coach. the first indian they call x and o a meritocracy. joey: proud to have people like you and him lead and be examples for our kids. keep fighting the good fight. we will remember john madden as more than a coach and commentator. >> it was a pleasure knowing him. thank you, joey, appreciate it. joey: all right, carley, i think we have got some headlines. carley: we sure do. turning to those headlines, a long history of anti-cop remarks. the congressional campaign committee hiring ray ann hemsworth email strategist keep control of the congress. far left progressive once said of police she has always supported an abolition and i will make it my life's mission to abolish ice. she my not sit well with voters as polls show increasing concern over surging crime and the crisis at the southern border. a new york ethics committee is urging the attorney general to force an order for exgovernor andrew cuomo to repay more than $5 million in book profits earlier this month the ag's office said they could not enforce the order without full blown investigation. ag says there is plenty of evidence to support the enforcement, the disgraced governor used state resources to write his miley profitable book about leadership during the pandemic. a 5-year-old boy and his mom removed from a new york city restaurant by police not shows evenings. mayor de blasio's vaccine mandate. that mother joined "fox & friends first" earlier to speak out if this is happening in new york city people need to wake up. it can happen in your city too. can't hand over our cities. new york is like the capital of america in many ways. we can't hand it over to people want to create a separate society. carley: says de blasio's vaccine mandates have regulated the unvaccinated to second class citizens. and check this out: these are pictures of the game of thrones inspired fab brie shae dragon egg that sold for over, listen to this, $2.2 million. the pictures revealing the complete egg as well as during its construction process. it took nine months to make after being sold at auction in april. it will go on tour next year when the new game of thrown prequel series house of dragons if you are paying 2.2 for faberge egg there better be a real dragon in it. lawrence: exactly i'm a big fan of game of thrones but i want the real dragon. let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz for weather forecast. adam: looking at different weather on different sides of the country early this morning to the east. feeling spring like and i will show you spring like storms in a minute. off to the west wintry type weather. negative 5 degrees in the fargo area. beginning with the storms i mentioned in the southeast. right now very heavy thunderstorms stretching i-20 alabama towards birmingham. shifting to the southeast today. at times maybe bumping up to severe level and back off towards the west it has been round after round of winter-like weather. that is more snow moving into the rockies it has been nonstop here for the last couple of weeks. this is going to be additional snow falling. you started to see some of these pinks, some of these purples, getting up to another two feet of total snow. some of these mountain ranges at or above seasonal average of snow fall. that's only going to continue to fall as we move in closer and closer to the weekend. those are your weather headlines, for now back out to you. >> thank you for that weather report. appreciate it dan crenshaw joins us at the top of the hour unveiling his brand new effort to keep texas red. ♪ tums vs. mozzarella stick when heartburn hits, fight back fast with tums chewy bites. fast heartburn relief in every bite. crunchy outside, chewy inside. ♪ tums, tums, tums, tums ♪ tums chewy bites ... ng on, i'm about to break my own record. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ lawrence: back with quick headlines. if you're looking to ring in the new year get ready to spend big. a cheap hotel study finds miami beach is the most expensive new years eve destination. a three-night stay over new year s will cost you over $1,000. not including taxes and the fees and for everyone looking to pop bottles to mark the start of 2022 your favorite booze may not be flowing as heavily as you like. the alcohol industry is suffer ing under the supply chain crisis. many companies reporting difficulty keeping up with drinker's demands so be sure to secure your bubbly ahead of time and also make sure you tune into fox news new years eve special live from nashville tomorrow night. i will be in new york city, will , pete, and rachel will be in nashville, guys, and i'm kind of disappointed when it comes to the booze. i can't find casa migos anywhere and that's my favorite. >> lawrence, you're like one of those hard seltzer guys don't get too far into it is that where we're going with it? lawrence: the shame, carlie. >> that was not nice. that was not nice, joey. >> some of my best friends drink truly, i'm not being mean about it. >> wait, lawrence, real quick i did the new years eve show one year with griff, in times square , so you know, where you're going to be as well, and -- lawrence: cold. >> i know, freezing and it was raining and right before the show because of the rain the teleprompter broke, so we did like several hours just like all right, what's coming up, next? but one of the funny things was because griff did like a crowd s urfing thing on new years eve years before so he was like you should crowd surf, so i did and it was so funny because it's largely a group of young guys picked me up, carted me away and i was like all right, i've gotta go read the tease and then they carted me back, so i challenge you to go crowd surfing on new years eve. lawrence: if they can pick me up , you have my word. [laughter] so that was my new years resolution a couple years ago was to lose some weight. my new years resolution this year is balance. i want balance in my life. balance in my life, carlie. what is your new years resolution? >> i think that's a really good one. i just, i got a new job hosting fox & friends first with todd piro and honestly, my new years resolution is when to sleep, it's really early, obviously gotta wake up in the middle of the night but also i want to watch bret baier's show so trying to figure out that balance as well, joey. >> joey: i love the idea of sleep, i love the idea of balance, real quick, on the crowd surfing i might send a leg out there but i'm not going. i'm staying put. they can take a leg, take it out , bring it back but i'll keep my fake foot on the ground here. i don't really have a resolution i think something needs to be changed in your life today is the day to do it but for new years it's a big football day, i'll watch college football tomorrow night and hopefully get a win to start my year off with because here in the south we love our college football. >> oh, wait joey, georgia is playing michigan right? and you're a big georgia guy? >> i am a big guy and a georgia fan. >> my husband is a massive michigan fan, so it's going to happen! >> good luck and leave it at that. >> sounds good. lawrence: leave it at that. >> all right we've got a whole hour of fox & friends ahead, congressman dan crenshaw joins us in just a few minutes. he's got an exclusive announcement and it's texas-size , stick around. lawrence: oh, baby. ♪ this holiday season, give your family the gift that keeps on... going? our very own energizer bunny! energizer ultimate lithium. 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lawrence: that's right. >> with that we've gotta bring in texas congressman dan crenshaw to help us out with news of the day. good morning to you, congressman there's so much going on right now with covid, shortage of testing, shortage of monoclonal antibodies that i don't think is getting enough attention, and for the very first time ever, president biden is sort of washing his hands of this saying that there is no such thing as a federal solution to all of this. what do you make of the current state of things when it comes to covid and president biden's recent remarks? >> yeah, it's like he gets it backwards. there is a federal response to covid. it's just not what he's doing so what he's doing is imposing unconstitutional mandates, the osha mandates that would require businesses to fire workers who aren't vaccinated. that's the opposite of what he should be doing. what he should be doing is aiding our supply systems and aiding our healthcare systems so how do you do that? well president trump did it by engaging in operation warp speed , by creating a testing regime that was really second to none by the time it was up and going, all biden had to do was continue to do those things, continue improving upon those things, and he sort of washed his hands of it and instead tried to take this hammer to the situation instead of the scalpal that's been needed by the federal government to actually get things going. in texas we are one of the states that doesn't have these monoclonal antibodies any more, we've run out and complaining to the administration about how these formulas are distributed not just before monoclonal antibodies but also for vaccine distribution as well so this administration just hasn't had the organizational where with all to really deal with this and they're learning the hard way that they probably owe the trump adminitration an apology because as i recall everybody called trump a murderer just because there was a global pandemic coming through and the first time we dealt with it. >> yeah it's amazing just how things can change so quickly. you know, you're in congress, you're sitting there, you're a texan but you're in d.c. it's probably hard, a little bit , to see this happening to the people you care about and represent, to not be able to go get a test or to just have an administration seem lazy on-the-job. what can congress do, what can you do as their congressman now and i don't mean to point it directly at you but what can congress do to help your constitutents to maybe get tests or feel better about this? >> well, we'd love to be able to give you better news but the reality is congress has already appropriated tens of billions of dollars to this specific problem, right now it's a management problem. the executive branch is not executing these dollars in an efficient manner. that's what's going on, and again, look. i'm a conservative. i always make sure people know, there is only so much government can do, and the moment that it starts doing more than it should be doing, you start to see un intended second and third order consequences that everybody is worse than you wanted to so what the federal government should be doing again , using their fema resources to bolster a lot of these testing sites open up new testing sites this is what we saw happen during the trump adminitration. they should be using our resources to increase those supply chains to get those monoclonal antibodies out to people faster, and president biden announced this , we just haven't seen results from it, helping us get more healthcare workers from the military or from fema, to aid in some of these hospitals that are feeling a little bit overwhelmed. still worth noting that at our height of hospitalizations right now, it really doesn't even compare to the height that we had before in 2020, so i don't want people to panic about this , but look, take the same precautions you've been taking for two years. lawrence: i think you're right, congressman, we've gotta live with this and learn how to protect the vulnerable, and if we do that, i think we're going to be just fine. i want to shift to some foreign policy news. president biden is expected to speak with russian leader vladimir putin ahead of the geneva talks, so what should the president project today? it seems like after that last chat that he had, putin really didn't get the message. he sent more troops so what does he need to do today to project strength? >> so president biden has to make clear that there will be costs and consequences to whatever putin does with the ukraine. now i think everybody knows that we're not really willing to send troops to the ukraine and fight the russians and eastern europe for this , and there's a lot of people on our side, a lot of people saying that these war mon gers had are just trying to get us into war. well just holdup a little bit. there's a lot of options in between doing nothing and in between war. lots of options out there. mostly economic sanctions, but that's what president biden has been talking about. it seems he needs to be a bit more specific and maybe hit putin a little bit more personal ly with his own finances , if there's going to actually successfully deter the ukraine. i think taking a page out of the trump play book would actually work quite well here. what trump did which was different than the obama administration was actually give the ukrainians defense weapons as oppose to say logistical supplies and that kind of aid. that sends a pretty clear message to the russians that this fight will not be as easy as you want it to be. doesn't mean america is going to come in gun slinging going to war. that's not what this means at all. what it does mean is there will be some minimal amount of support that makes the costs too high for you to do this. >> one of the more concerning headlines affects your home state of texas. in harris county, 113 people charged with capitol murder, so the most serious crime there is, they were granted bond, released back into the community, and some of them re-offended. when you're talking about 113 people, this isn't just a one- off. this seems to be the system that's in place. what needs to change here, congressman? >> this is some great local reporting done in my hometown, which showed us what we already knew, that a lot of the crime being committed is being committed by the same exact people over and over and over again. they just keep getting released out on bail. now, for violent offenders you really gotta scratch your head and wonder how that's possible. these are people who are being charged with capitol murder and then released on bond, no problem, left out into the streets, and big surprise they actually committed another murder and killed again. there are people who should be alive right now, were it not for these liberal judges who they operate off of this false sense of compassion. they think they are doing the world a kindness of some sorts by letting these criminals get out but in the end they are doing the opposite. they go out and they hurt people , they harm people, these are violent people and a reason we have a system the way we have it. this is happening not just in houston, of course. this is the story across all major american cities where you're seeing murders spike. the bail reform, the false compassion of da's and prosecutors funded by george sor os to be in those positions that is the story of crime across america right now. the good news is for america we can vote them out. da's, judges, in texas we vote for judges we can vote them out, and get our streets back. >> you talk about voting them out. i know that texas, i live in texas for a little while for a couple years and i think i'm 18 years from being able to call myself a texan, i was told it had to be 20 years to claim the title but i was around a lot of people moving in from southern california, the tech industry was there, and i know texas, like where i'm at in georgia, the balance of power is kind of evening out and 50/50, is this a part of that? is that why we're seeing stuff like this happen in texas or is this a one off thing happening here and i think it's harris county. >> well, some what correct. i wouldn't compare it to georgia just yet. i think it's still a lot redder than georgia has become, but it is the story of the urban-rural divide, where in urban areas it gets bluer and bluer and bluer, and the rural areas just get red der and redder and so it's tougher and tougher in these blue areas. houston, until recently, was run by a republican county judge. harris county was a republican county judge, but that changed recently and look at the outcome s that we get because of that so i think people are able to see past their sort of jersey -wearing here, the red and the blue and just voting for your team, and see the consequences of policy actions, and i hope that remains the case. lawrence: yeah, you're right, congressman, because it's something similar in dallas as well. you know, dallas is run by a lot of the progressives but the suburbs outside of dallas, within the county, they're more red, so part of your effort is to keep texas red and that's a big issue in our state, so you got exclusive for fox & friends. you're going to in vail texas reloaded in an effort to keep texas red. we've got a little clip of it and then we'll have you react, congressman, watch. >> all right >> yeah, i'm gonna need another team. >> [laughter] lawrence: so congressman, you've got yourself in there, obviously wesley hunt, a veteran as well as morgan lutrell, also another veteran. >> that's right and just a little teaser for you. we're still working on the rest of the movie it's going to be really cool and you can support our efforts to do that, by the way at texas reloaded.com. that's where people can go and make sure that we get this really cool ad up on tv and get these two guys elected so they're both running right in the houston area, for texas 38 and texas 8, great guys, veterans, wesley hunt is a former apache pilot and morgan lutrell is a seal for 14 years hand picked by rick perry to work under the trump adminitration for the department of energy, very smart guy, small business owner, and you can't imagine better candidates for congress right now, and our elections are coming up that's why we're doing this video because our primary elections are coming up in early march and so want to get these two over the finish line and you can support them at texasreloaded .com. >> well, congressman i still remember the first one that you did in 2020 and it had an airplane, explosions, the whole thing so it really is a good idea because it sticks in people's memories. what is it like filming an ad like this and whose idea was this? >> it's my idea. >> [laughter] >> these are generally my ideas lawrence: always. >> i'll admit, my idea. i like doing this sort of creative direction kind of thing , if you follow me you probably get a sense for that of course already and what's it like? we bring in a really professional crew to do this so it does feel like you're on a movie set, because these guys use the same crew over and over again, we've become friends, they're really all about the cause, they're awesome people, and they're usually working on much higher level productions, tv shows, movies that kind of thing so they really know what they are doing and it's a fun thing. you'd be surprised we get it all done within a day, so it takes them a long time but for us it's actually not that much time out of our day. >> and go ahead, joey. yeah, you know, congressman real quick i just want to say i love your edgey advertising campaign ing i think you do a great job reaching people and wesley and morgan are great guys i've known them forever but i just need to remind you it's not just socialists that skip leg day i need to throw that out there i've seen the t-shirt and i appreciate it, but it's not just those that skip leg day, all right? >> who else is it? >> [laughter] >> oh, yeah. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us this morning we appreciate it. covering a range of topics. >> sorry, i can't see you guys. >> [laughter] >> we hear you. all right, thanks, congressman. appreciate it. >> thanks guys. >> turning to a fox news alert now the verdict is in, ghislain maxell is found guilty on five of six counts a jury convicting her of sex trafficking, recruiting and grooming underage girls for jeffrey epstein. todd piro is live with the details on that front. todd, good morning. todd: good morning, again, to all three of you as maxell's accusers rejoyce those inside the courtroom say maxell showed no emotion as that verdict was read. the 60-year-old now facing up to 65 years in prison. her crimes include conspiracy to entice and transport minors for sex acts, plus, the actual transportation of those minors for those sex abouts, conspiracy to commit sex trafficking and sex trafficking of minors. she was acquitted on one charge though, enticement of a minor to travel for sex acts on this charge, jurors earlier in the week indicated they need more clarity, but the prosecutor says the ruling was still a big win for the brave women who stepped out of the shadows and into the courtroom. listen. >> the road to justice has been far too long but today, justice has been done. todd: and one of those accusers who celebrated the verdict was virginia roberts joffrey, who says she was used multiple times while under epstein's control when she was just 17. she tweeted i hope today is not the end but rather another step in justice being served and maxell did not act alone, others must be held accountable, meantime maxell's defense attorney says the once-popular british socialite will fight these charges, watch. >> we firmly believe in her innocence. obviously we are very disappointed with the verdict. we have already started working on the appeal and we are confident that she will be vindicated. todd: that is not stopping maxell's accusers from acknowledging their triumph some saying they are "relieved and grateful" at the verdict. back to you. >> certainly major news in a big day for the accusers in this case. many dozens and dozens of them, todd, thank you. todd: okay. >> turning to headlines now we begin here with a fox news alert , a manhunt is underway for an armed and dangerous suspect after an illinois police officer is shot and killed in another is injured. police in bradley say the shooting happened at a comfort inn hotel, this comes hours after police arrested suspected gunman ray tate, accused of fatally shooting deputy sean riley. he is accused of going on a brazen crime spree where he took multiple people hostage inside of a residence. >> now to fox weather severe storms pummeling the south as a large and extremely dangerous tornado is confirmed in alabama. tornado warnings are also issued in mississippi. no injuries have been reported but there is significant damage. meanwhile, snow pounding northern california, a series of storms dumping 17 feet of snow along the sierra nevada trapping some people in the lake tahoe region. >> holiday travel might be facing americans spilling into a sixth day and it's not likely to end anytime soon. according to flightaware, over 1,000 flights have already been canceled today, and over 600 have been delayed. major airlines blaming staff shortages from workers calling out sick as well as bad weather, for contributing to the setbacks , as a result, jet blue has proactively reduced its flight schedule through january 13. >> and a flight fiasco, a chicago teacher taking the quarantine after testing positive for covid in the middle of a flight to iceland. watch this. >> ♪ >> well that woman spent the last four hours of her flight in the plane's tiny bathroom. she says she tested herself mid- flight after getting a sore throat and volunteered to jam into the john to keep everyone safe. those are your headlines, guys. lawrence? over to you. lawrence: that is wild. i'm sorry. >> let's hope nobody needed to use the bathroom. i guess there's two, but still, yikes. lawrence: okay, thanks, carlie. new york's health chief admitting to inflating covid-19 data children in an attempt to get more parents to vaccinate their children. are they really following the science? we'll ask dr. marty makary, next and finding their furever home on christmas. we'll talk to a police officer who saved the day and took those little guys home, next on fox & friends. ♪ you've got the best of my love ♪ as a professional bull-rider i'm used to taking chances. but when it comes to my insurance i don't. i use liberty mutual, they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. wooo, yeaa, woooooo and, by switching you could even save 665 dollars. hey tex, can someone else get a turn? yeah, hang on, i'm about to break my own record. yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ hey, angie! you forgot your phone! only pay for what you need. hey lou! angie forget her phone again? 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>> well, the numbers are not being accurately represented, and in south africa, the head of the south african medical association said don't panic, don't worry that's the kind of leadership we need in the united states from our leaders, and new york, they reported a 395% increase but really the numbers went from 22 to 109 over two weeks in the city and any of those people are hospitalized with covid, not for covid. lawrence: you're exactly right, doctor i'm sorry we're having issues with your audio hopefully we can get that figured out, but i think it goes to the core issue that is happening in florida is like they are pushing back against this governor as well as the healthcare professionals for them doing their job. dr. makary, i wish we had more time but we'll circle back with you later, thank you so much, sir. all right, sorry about that. that's the beauty of live television. the biden administration is taking its fight over the trump remain in mexico policy all the way to the supreme court. lara trump on what the move might mean for the american people and actor rob schneider has a special thank you for a group of officers who came to his aid. we'll talk to him about how these arizona officers saved the day. that's next on fox & friends. we hit the bike trails every weekend shinges doesn't care. i grow all my own vegetables shingles doesn't care. we've still got the best moves you've ever seen good for you, but shingles doesn't care. because 1 in 3 people will get shingles, you need protection. but, no matter how healthy you feel, your immune system declines as you age increasing your risk for getting shingles. so, what can protect you? 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>> well, i mean, clearly, at every possible turn joe biden has made the wrong decision for america. life is worse under a biden presidency for most americans. obviously, you look back at a series of decisions he's made the first one being shutting down the keystone xl pipeline, obviously we know about his unconstitutional vaccine mandates continuing to hurt businesses, continuing to add to the supply chain issue that we currently have and obviously, we have had a fully-opened southern border under president joe biden , and so the fact that he initially was told as you just referenced by a federal court to uphold the remain in mexico policy and it did just what you said, joey. basically what it said is if you are a legitimate asylum seeker, obviously, we want to help you in america. obviously we want you to be able to come here, but while your case is being heard, you remain in mexico until that date, so that people couldn't just falsely come into america and say i'm here for asylum, but i'm going to be released into the country, and then they never show backup to see what happens with their case. so many people illegitimately came to america that way and so the fact that a federal court told joe biden, you have to reinstate this policy, but he is now seeking to yet again have it pushed by the wayside is so bad for america, it is just another one in a series of bad decisions made by joe biden, made by the democrats, that ultimately goes to hurt america, and so i don't think anyone is surprised by this. i think we all hoped he would do the right thing, joey and say do you know what? a court told me to uphold this policy. let's put it back in place. better for america, better for the people that are trying to flee here, gosh we know how dangerous the journey north is from the southern border a third of the women are sexually assaulted, people die along that journey, it is treacherous and dangerous, no one should ever take it but here you is joe biden, the biden administration, democrats yet again signaling they want a fully open southern border, they don't care what a court ultimately tells them. >> no you're absolutely right. we have got governor greg abbott i guess building the wall and taxpayer money funded a wall that isn't getting built and ultimately i'm from a town called dalton, georgia, and we have a lot of immigrants there and we want to give them the chance to be a part of this country as well and you've got to do it legally to really be an american and be part of this country. lara, thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right, up next, a rough day quickly becoming a christmas miracle, when oklahoma police officers adopt five abandoned puppies. the officers join us, live, to tell us about the story and i think they will have some special four-legged guests with them. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> a christmas tragedy quickly turning into a miracle, when five abandoned puppies found their furever homes with oklahoma police officers. someone allegedly left the liter in a zipped up duffel bag on the counter of a tulsa convenience store, but lucky for the pups, the four responding officers couldn't resist and each took one home. the fifth puppy went home with a store employee, and those officers join me now. welcome, jacob cordova and his puppy arlo, scott perry, and puppy riggs, amy johns and luna, and emily patchley with daze it. we've got a packed house this morning. good morning to you all. >> good morning. >> all right, so officer cordov a, why don't you set the scene for us. it's christmas day, you get this call to head on over to a convenience store, and what do you find? >> well like you said it was christmas day, i was just clear ing a motorist assist on the highway and i looked at the screen and saw the call pending there and i was like oh, it's my area, let me head that way real quick and without even reading the notes on my way i realized o it's a abandoned dogs, so we head over there, soon after, my partners here terry and john show up and we find a box full of puppies. >> wow and there they are on the screen, so officer johns, the four of you responded this situation. what was the conversation like when you all decided to take a puppy home? >> i think it was just, there wasn't a lot said. it was more of just oh, these are ours, you see the faces and you know that there's not a whole lot of to this christmas but what better chance than to give them a great home. >> oh, i love the fact that you all did this together as a group and then the fifth puppy went home with one of the convenience store workers. officer perry, do you have any leads on who abandoned these puppies? >> we're looking at the footage and everything, and we'll figure out who did it. >> i hope so, but luckily this one had a happy ending but sometimes these situations tragically do not. officer patchley, this story is obviously getting national news attention, so you're doing your police work, you're on the news, and the four of you also have the added responsibility of a brand new puppy. what has the last few days been like for you? >> its been great for me. i have a new best friend. >> and officer cordova, how did you all decide which puppy was going to go with which person? >> i think it just happened. it wasn't one of those things where let's call dibbs on a dog, but everyone just kind of picked one up and started petting them and little by little we all fell in love with the one in our hands and we just said we'll take care of this one, we'll take this one home, and that's how it happened. >> yeah, officer johns, is this above and beyond what you normally do, or is this something that is typical for police officers that sometimes just doesn't make the news? >> i think any officer responding to this situation would have a similar response, just, you know, you want to do good and you want to help out, and you know, we say that we protect and serve all citizens and that includes our four legged ones. >> oh, absolutely, officer perry do you know how old the puppies are and what kind of dogs they are? have any veterinarians weighed in on that? yes, according to my vet, they are about four weeks old, and she thinks that they are probably border collie aussie shepherd mixes. >> so how big are they going to get and what sort of personalities are they going to have? >> well border collies are usually very intelligent, they get about 50 pounds. >> that's great. well we love this story, it's definitely a feel-good story with such a happy ending. jacob, scott, amy, emily, and your four beautiful puppies thank you all eight of you for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> great stuff. fantastic. all right, we've gotta turn to some headlines now, a portland antifa rider accused of assaulting police last year has their case dismissed after just 30 hours of community service. ava warner also known as joshua , was facing felony charges, accused of assaulting multiple officers during a riot in august 2020. police say warner was arrested again just two weeks later, charged with criminal mischief in connection with another riot and both cases police say warner was freed without bail. i like the puppy story better. >> all right today tesla shares are down amid news the company filed to recall over 475,000 cars. over 35 6,000 model 3 cars are reportedly being recalled over a rear view camera issue and 119,000 additional model s cars reportedly also be recalled due to a miss alignment in their front truck latches, which prevents the secondary hood from engaging. >> a 12-year-old boy is badly burned attempting do a tiktok experiment. connecticut fire officials say the boy was using alcohol and fire to do the so-called woosh bottle challenge which creates combustion inside a bottle to make a wooshing sound and on twitter a mother is warning, my 10-year-old just asked their amazon alexa for a challenge and this is what she said, the alexa telling her daughter to plug in a phone charger half way into a wall outlet and then touch a penny to the exposed prong, which could cause potentially deadly electrocaution, amazon says they are looking into this issue. >> oh, boy did you hear this? a group of jeopardy contestants failed to name the governor of new york, and one of them is even from brooklyn. watch this. >> 2,000, please. >> in 2021, she became the first female governor of new york state. >> kathy hochul. >> governor hochul herself chiming in tweeting, think i know the answer to this one, jeopardy. hochul took office after disgraced former new york governor andrew cuomo resigned. so it looks like governor hochul needs to do a little something for the name recognition, you guys. lawrence: i mean, with all the things she's doing here you'd think people know exactly who she is. >> right. lawrence: all right, let's check in with meteorologist adam klotz with our fox weather forecast. what's up, adam. >> good morning guys a little bit of different weather on each side of the country feeling like spring for folks in the southeast take a look at the early morning temperatures 50, 60, never really got too cold last night but just off to the west that big cold front you see it, temperatures drop down pretty drastically and that's where all of the winter weather is hanging out but beginning with what is happening in the southeast, we've got a line of thunderstorms of that spring- like temperatures alongi- 20 from atlanta back to birmingham very heavy rain, you look off to the west and its been round after round after round winter weather in southern california just a whole lot of rain but for some of the mountains that the is snowfall already a ton of snow on the ground, this is going to be additional snowfall and plenty of areas here where you see the pink and purple and that is another two feet of snow or so, in the next couple of days, those are your weather headlines for now tossing it back out to you. >> thanks, adam. i hope you're wrong about that rain here in georgia. i hope that maybe you got that one a little wrong and it pushes out of the way there. 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and he gave me the nod, he was very appreciative. i would have treated any other disabled motorist or stranded motorist the same way. it was just a nice interaction, a lot of these days a lot of negativity. >> all right, actor, the rob schneider joins us now. good morning, rob. >> well, thank you, good morning, first of all just like president biden, i want to wish you guys a season of severe injury and death. merry christmas. >> [laughter] >> no, you know how you lie to your wife and then you hope she never finds out and then the next thing you know it's on the news? >> yeah? >> that's what happened here. she said don't take the car, i'm telling you, the tesla, it's breaking down, don't take the car. then my wife's mexican and she said don't take the care, it'll break down i'm telling you don't do it! come on, now, so i took it and i says it doesn't break down. elon musk, he's going to mars. he knows what he's doing, so just i'm going to, i took it and of course, it broke down right in the middle of the road. >> oh, boy. >> and i was really stuck. so i was blocking traffic so i felt bad, and people you know drive very fast here in arizona, and because it's usually 120 degrees, most of the year, so i was blocking the lane and then i got out and i'm trying to , the police officer lee came by and the nicest guy. he just blocked that area and started, you know, making sure that i was protected. i was literally on the side of the road, and we had, he looked at me like i know that guy. you look like that guy. >> [laughter] >> but this guy would not be dumb enough to be on the side of the road. >> yeah, that's right, so rob, you posted this tweet and you shared your appreciation to the police officers who helped you out. it's a simple act of kindness, you know, to just give the police officers a shout out, but it meant so much to them. what motivated you to do that? >> well, you know, first of all , these police officers are getting day in and day out, they are protecting us, keeping us safe, and also, you know, being in tense situations all day long like i was literally shaking i'm on the side of the road and cars are going by me at 60 miles an hour and this guy was just officer lee is cool as a cucumber and said you're going to be fine, he parked behind me about 20 feet with his lights blinking so people can go around and he was just great until we got the tow truck over there and kept me calm and i was scared of more than getting run over but getting scared my wife would really yell at me, and i really appreciate them, and then actually, we did get the car started to go a little bit so i parked in front of the police station in scottsdale, and then the guys came out, you know, and a normal day for the police officers, they came out to say hi and it was great and i really appreciated the good work that they do and they also told me scottsdale police department also was providing presents for kids, they literally will get kids on a bus, and then take them to a toy store, to like target, and then they will be allowed to pick out a present, and so these are just really good, hard working americans, that their job is to protect citizens who don't listen to their wives, like me, and get stuck on the side of the road. >> wives know best. >> i'm grateful to scottsdale p d. what's that? >> i said wives know best. go ahead. lawrence: i get a kick out of you tanking tesla stock even more by saying it was a tesla on the side of the road. >> [laughter] lawrence: but now it's working so maybe it went backup. why was it important for you to show your appreciation for those cops, and what do you think about the current sentiment of the anti-cop rhetoric that it's just being spewed everywhere? >> well i would just say to the people that like, you know, things break down really quickly without police, and without that protection. you're going to need that. you're going to want that, and i do think that it's unwarranted and i think that you have to really appreciate the people who , it's the firemen, the police officers, these are people, emergency front line workers who are the first people called. if something does happen, they are the people who show up and not necessarily know what they're getting involved in, whether it's something spilled on the side of the road or some fire, i mean, these are the people who will run into a building as opposed to people trying to run out. these are the people we really need to show our appreciation to on a daily basis, and so i would just say just, you know, it's a wave, it's the thanks, and it's going down there and seeing what program the police are doing that you could help with, and like this toys program, it's something that i want to be able to help with because that's something that they care about and like i said the scottsdale p d, they're great people and they could not have been nicer, they made me feel calm and again the only thing i wish they would have done is talked to my wife so she didn't yell at me when i got home. >> [laughter] >> well, rob, you are going on tour. it's the "i have issues" tour and tickets are available at rob schneider.com so if you like what you see here, you know he's a funny guy go on tour and what have some of the cities you'll be hitting, rob? >> well i'll be in utah, salt lake, this weekend and i'm just going all over the place, bakers field in a week, and just kind of fun right now because i really think people are especially worried about free speech and getting knocked off twitter and these other places where people aren't allowed to really say what you want. i think in the theatre, you can say what you want and i want to thank you for supporting me. thank you so much for joining us , we've gotta run but thank you for joining us. >> all the best to you. >> more fox & friends moments away.