holiday season was my partner in crime on "fox and friends first," excited for what 2022 is going to bring but excited to kick off this final hour of our anchoring together in 2021. we begin with a very tough story happening in our nation's heartland. a fox news alert, a life-threatening fast-moving wildfire forcing tens of thousands of colorado residents to evacuate their homes. carley: fire crews, over 580 homes. the latest on the marshall fire, good morning. >> reporter: dangerous wind driven wildfires sparked my down power lines for thousands to evacuate homes and businesses but the colorado governors declare a state of emergency. apps unfolding the town of louisville, the entire town forced to flee, video on social media showing frantic parents running out of the chuck e cheese with their kids into his fire burns dangerously close. wind gusts 110 miles per hour, blanketing the town with the smoke, prompting the evacuation of the costco and local hospital. >> i believe we are looking down on, definitely a concerning seen, the hospital appearing to be on fire. >> reporter: security camera shows how fast it is moving, nothing but burning homes in all directions. many area residents were caught off guard. >> they are all up in flames, embers everywhere. it will continue to spread to other homes. it was so dark you can't see anything. it is like the black of night. >> i've lived here for 28 years and never seen anything like it. it is crazy, scary. >> i want to make sure i will be okay and my animals okay and hope my neighbors -- >> reporter: the governor promising to speed aid to those who have to drop everything and leave. >> fire personnel working as hard as they can to save additional structures as we speak and when safe to do so we start the emotional process assessing damages. >> reporter: close to 600 homes destroyed, 7 people injured so far including the first responder. officials say there could be more injuries and deaths possible. carley: a terrifying situation. trouble a foot for the vice president as she struggles to answer a question in the inflation crisis. todd: now even prominent democrats are starting to panic ahead of the midterms. lucas tomlinson is details from washington. good morning. >> reporter: many raised eyebrows in washington when the vice president was asked this question about inflation. >> was it wrong to consider inflation transitory? price spikes seem like they will be with us for a while. we need to address the fact that we got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, groceries, solutions to it. >> harris went on from there. in the last hour peter morici blame trillions of government spending for the current inflation crisis. >> we were on a path, in terms of getting employment back in the growth back but the manufactured inflation, finance with printed money, his build back america program would just make things a lot worse. >> any time he or she goes to the store inflation has skyrocketed, it is now at a 39 year high, food prices up 6%, energy of 33%, gas up 58%, 16 cities across america stretching tucson to milwaukee to philadelphia experiencing record number of homicides. detroit's former police chief offered this explanation. >> we are seeing a spike in crime in major cities because we have progressive judges, progressive thes, when will be stop talking about police and told these progressive judges and vas where public servants accountable? >> the number of illegal migrants at the southern border is the highest in decades. hillary clinton issued the following morning toward fellow democrats. >> time for careful thinking about what wins elections. it means nothing if we don't have a congress that will get things done and a white house can count on to be sane and sober. >> the clock strikes midnight the countdown to the midterms begin, gop banking on inflation, crime and illegal immigration help this congress. happy new year. todd: best of health and happiness. that is what dems are hoping for, listen to hillary clinton, they don't feel they are happy going into 2022. how nervous must you be of your hillary clinton or one of these other senior democratic individuals when throwing members of your own party under the bus, the elections haven't even happened. the old guard them starting to see what a horrible mistake they made by allowing progressives, specifically four members of the squad to hijack their party. you this morning from hillary and why you're seeing so many congressmen and women retiring. this is a last ditch effort as the calendar changes to pivot the democrat party to the center, try to get some legislative wins as you heard hillary talking about but the damage may be done and it is three issues we always talk about, crime, inflation and mandates on covid the do not seem to be slowing the virus down. carley: hillary clinton is not for us to talk about this, james carville has come out strong on this front when he says you got to stop with the woke stuff because there are progressives -- progressives are outspoken part of the party and most americans completely disagree with that perspective and president biden should listen because he has aligned himself with more progressives than moderates and remember when people were harassing joe manchin and kirsten cinema and that is just politics for you, don't think that played well with the american people, draconian lockdowns, high crime, massive inflation and that is what president biden has created and the american people align all those negative things with democrats. the virginia election was seen as a barometer of things to come. in the beginning glenn youngcan look like he had no shot when it came to winning the governor's race and he ended up doing just that. interesting comments from hillary clinton that i'm sure we will be talking about through the course of today on this new year's eve. in the meantime record-breaking covid cases being recorded across the us while president biden vacations in delaware. the leaderships has some questioning the whereabouts of health and human services secretary xavier becerra who is not been seen at any white house covid briefings. >> this is turned into a game of where is waldo. no one seems able to find him on any of the issues. >> how the media treat donald trump if he and his administration were in this position? we will talk about that with lara trump coming up. neil: new york city mayor eric adam says the vaccine mandate will stay in place when he takes office. >> we want to maintain what was put in place for the business community and if there's a moment to change or alter that we are going to do so based on the science. >> this would focus on compliance, not punishment. any new variant could be met by increased restriction beyond the current vaccine mandate. carley: the race in the healing metal trial sent prince and legal team into emergency talks was the mirror reporting it is seizing on any opportunity to discredit his accuser and nancy grace says maxwell may finally name names to reduce her sentence. >> he has been playing her cards very wisely. she didn't need to implicate other people but this would be the time for her to start naming names. carley: experts warn socialites conviction will raise questions how much prince andrew knew about his two frenzy ghislaine maxwell and jeffrey epstein. in 2009 settlement agreement between jeffrey epstein and going to be made public on monday. the one that has the civil lawsuit against prince andrew accusing him of sexual abuse so this could be a big deal of the settlement includes other names, virginia is not allowed to talk about these people as well and these interactions she had with other high profile people something to watch come monday. carley: who will she flip on, does it make sense for her to flip? we heard some dividend viewpoint on this. you heard what nancy grace said that on the channel earlier yesterday you heard one of the victims lawyers or some other victim's lawyers say he doesn't think maxwell will flip just because that is not how things are done in this uppercrust society, she wants to maintain her reputation and that is not a world i am familiar with so don't know if that will be the case but also how much time could she have shaved off her ultimate sentence, she's facing 65 years and get it down to 30 and she will get out of prison when she is 90. i don't think you know but the world wants more answers. we have some answers but we want more answers and more justice for those individuals and we know this has spread its tentacles further but a question of how far. carley: i want to say quickly because this came out overnight prosecutors just ended the criminal case against the two manhattan prison guards tasked with guarding jeffrey epstein, that case is no longer going forward. a lot of stuff came down this week when it comes to this jeffrey epstein scandal. todd: the point you raise raises questions on its own, why was this dismissed like that. 12 minutes after the hour, did you hear about this? i can't believe this is true but turns out it is. the federal government wants to make money off crime, telling criminals to report income on illegal business and the value of stolen goods to the irs when they file their taxes. carley: seems like fake news but it is not. when sheriff said call us if you need help, we are talking to that sheriff elect coming up. ♪♪ 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. ♪ moving is a handful. only pay for what you need. no kidding! fortunately, xfinity makes moving easy. easy? -easy? switch your xfinity services to your new address online in about a minute. that was easy. i know, right? and even save with special offers just for movers. really? yep! so while you handle that, you can keep your internet and all those shows you love, and save money while you're at it with special offers just for movers at xfinity.com/moving. carley: 5 the irs has reminded cities, income for illegal activities like selling drugs and solar property must be reported on taxes. that got the attention of the erie county new york sheriff's department so they are telling criminals to call them. john garcia joined me now. we are looking at the post on screen their your dependents post on facebook, attention all car thieves, the stuff you stole from people vehicles in 2021 must be cleaned on your income taxes. if you need an itemized list of property, call us and a deputy or detective will be happy to meet you with the list. it would be our pleasure. something tells mccarthy are not going to look for assistance from the service department on filing their taxes. >> i wouldn't think so. we are there to assist and serve any car thieves who might have a question with that. carley: this is a funny post you post on social media but what was your reaction when you saw the irs was trying to collect the money on stolen property? >> the sheriff's office throughout the nation, it is a centuries-old office, we are the collector of taxes so we thought it was funny, a tongue in cheek posts but it is a huge problem with the property crimes and surge in violence through erie county in the nation. carley: there's been a 52% increase in motor vehicle theft from 2019-2021. what his this past year been like for you when it comes to crime and trying to fight crime? >> one of the biggest obstacles is the bail reform act that has been disastrous. police were making the arrests but the individual gets booked, fingerprinted and on the street again. it is a major issue and a major issue with car crimes but also advancing your house getting broken into and the same day the burglars across the street from your house, your family is strong at times and we have to bring back common sense approach, put bale back in the hands of our elected judges. carley: foxbusiness just did a poll showing 70% of americans are either extremely or very concerned about higher us crime rates. how should the country get back on track? you were talking about bail reform. is there anything else that should be done? >> the defund the police movement has been a disaster. it is more defend the community and people no matter what side of the aisle the average citizen, they want to take care of their family and want us to do our job which is to protect and serve. there have been some instances throughout the country which obviously has put our profession back into the stone age but that being said, we have a deep pool of professional law enforcement officers that want to do a proactive job and we need to be an handcuffed and get back to work. carley: we need our police officers, we need the police officers, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you so much. carley: happy new year. todd: the kyle rittenhouse trial, a few major stories the media got totally wrong this year. here is another one. >> critical race theory which isn't real. oppose critical race theory being taught in schools which i should say is not part of virginia's curriculum. todd: beverly holberg begs to differ. she is calling top media offenders of 2021 next. ♪♪ together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org todd: mainstream media had a hard time staying on track, to break down the worst reporting is beverly holberg of the district media group and heritage foundation fellow. number one on your list, false claim that crt is not taught in virginia schools. take a listen. >> specifically targeted the issue of education. what he called critical race theory even though it is not taught in virginia schools. >> categories. which isn't real. >> europe is critical race. being taught in schools which is not part of virginia's curriculum. todd: the voters of virginia sought right through this. >> we could go through clip after clip of those making a false claim that critical race theory doesn't exist. what they decided to do was a narrowly defined term or use a small to finish and to make this, they cite in their own child's education in virginia but the virginia department of education's own website uses the term critical race theory numerous times. we have smart americans out there who can see through the bias on tv. todd: the force border patrol whipping story. >> we be looking at the budget of homeland security? i was not aware what comes from the slave era were part of the package we issued to any law enforcement or government sanctioned personnel. >> quite a leap to a conclusion. >> many in the media, watching the show yellowstone and not understanding this wasn't a with, these were the rains being used but he had the el paso times which put this narrative out there. joy read talking about it, politicians like aoc claiming this was horrific, what was going on on the border and it never was going on, we didn't hear any retractions and even if there is a retraction it didn't get as much coverage. just another example of the bias in the media. todd: that horrific murderous rampage there in waukesha, here's the line from cnn, waukesha holds the murder -- a moment of silence since the car drove the christmas parade killing 6 people, injuring scores of others. they knew what they were doing and using the active versus passive voice was why did they dishonor the victims like that? >> reporter: they didn't want to point was taking place, they didn't want to check out the man who perpetuated this is a man who is a minority, also has a long criminal record and they tried to pin it on an autonomous vehicle incident person and even beyond this tried to downplay, cnn tried to downplay the parade crash versus an actual killing, a tragedy, a massacre so we see this when it comes to tragedies across the country. unless it fits their narrative they don't want to put the blame where it should be. todd: it is shameful. it is absolutely shameful. we wish you the best in 2022. happy new year. carley: 30 minutes after the hour, vladimir putin is talking tough in the face of us sanctions so who will blink first? 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[upbeat acoustic music throughout] todd: president biden and president clinton making demands and attends phone call as the russian president threatens to cut ties with the us. carley: things remained tense on the ukraine border. >> president biden and vladimir putin held their second call to discuss ukraine. the 50 minute conversation followed another one amid tens times, those hides are reacting with the press secretary jen psaki saying president biden urged the russian to the escalate tensions with ukraine and made clear the united states and its allies will act decisively a freshly invaded ukraine. the response include extensive sanctions against moscow. and russia would sever any ties with the united states of economic punishment against his country occurs. to get security guarantees from the west end amid the buildup of russian troops near ukraine's the border, tension is at an all-time high. lower-level conversations continue us and nato countries and officials in moscow advised the biden administration not to make a mistake ahead of the meetings. >> biden has noted escalation continues on the ukraine border and adopt large-scale sanctions with military areas. it wouldn't a grave consequences. >> reporter: the question is whether or not diplomacy prevails was brought up between russia and ukraine would be deadly and throughout the country. carley: the station chief, this is the second time president biden and putin spoke this month. it lasted 15 minutes. what do you make of what was said and what happens next? >> this phone call was made at the request of vladimir putin and make no mistake, the russians seized the initiative by amassing 100,000 troops in creating a false sense of urgency with unreasonable demands against nato and ukraine, vladimir putin framed the debate and we fall into his trap. we are talking about de-escalation and not the substance of the issues. nato would not expand eastward and we are denying ukraine at the table for any discussions of the future. putin wants to crush ukraine's democracy, they are next essential threat to russia not because of the military threat putin speaks about but liberty, freedom and democracy, that is what scares putin the most if ukraine joins the european union at nato, that would be a clarion call to putin's own opposition which he fears so much. todd: to your point he literally created leverage out of whole cloth by moving the troops in. here's the statement from the white house, president biden urged russia to de-escalate, he made clear the united states and its allies and partners will respond decisively if russia further invades ukraine. i to drill into the chess match that is happening here as you see it going forward. >> we will see a meeting on january 10th between wendy sherman and foreign minister rickhalf. and demand specific guarantees for de-escalating the crisis they have themselves created and the question for the biden administration is whether they cave or not. vladimir putin is betting they know but putin thinks the biden administration wants to deal with covid and build back better and other domestic priorities. solve this problem for me, exactly the way i would like it and that would be the challenge for the biden administration and they are playing with vladimir putin's strategy right now. >> carley: vladimir putin said would be a colossal mistake if the united states increases sanctions on russia and that could rupture our relationship with the country entirely. if our relationship with russia was ruptured, will that hurt more than the united states? >> that is the threat from vladimir putin, president biden said there are two ways this to go, one was for russia to de-escalate if we gave russia the guarantees they want and the united states would increase military assistance to ukraine, deliver massive sanctions and increase our military deployment in eastern europe. sanctions of never changed vladimir putin mass behavior, he invaded ukraine, interfere in our elections, amounted massive cyber attacks. foreign-policy measures we haven't seen yet from this administration. we don't have a plan for how this administration plans on shoring up you territorial integrity and sanctions so it is an idle threat from putin. i don't think the sanctions would cause much harm. as for whether the relationship ruptures i'd think putin believes we want a relationship and we have things to do, arms control negotiations and other things that are faltering right now. todd: we look forward to talking to you more about this in the new year. thank you very much. meantime, did you hear about this? turns out mayor bill deblasio owes new york city tax players hundreds of thousands of dollars for wrongfully spending their money. we will ask cheryl casone when he plans to pay it back. carley: we are in the big apple ahead of the new year's celebration. next. ♪♪ feel stuck with credit card debt? move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. ♪ move your high-interest debt to a sofi personal loan. you could save with low rates and no fees. earn $10 just for viewing your rate and get your money right. ♪ this is elodia. she's a recording artist. and get your money right. 1 of 10 million people that comcast has connected to affordable internet in the last 10 years. and this is emmanuel, a future recording artist, and one of the millions of students we're connecting throughout the next 10. through projectup, comcast is committing $1 billion so millions more students, past... and present, can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. when you have xfinity xfi, you have peace of mind built in at no extra cost. advanced security helps keep your family protected online. pause wifi whenever for ultimate control with the xfinity app. and family-safe browsing gives parents one less thing to worry about. security, control and peace of mind. with xfinity xfi, it's all built in at no extra cost. carley: vice president kamala harris struggling to answer a question on the inflation crisis. todd: cheryl casone is here with all the details. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. the vice president appeared to stumble over a simple question about inflation. >> was wrong to consider inflation transitory? >> price hike seem like they will be with us for a while. >> we have to address the fact, we've got to deal with the fact that folks are paying for gas, paying for groceries. >> reporter: this after jen psaki insisted inflation was transitory and would go down the next year. many economists say it is suspending plans from the white house that have been part caused inflation. even the fed stopped using the word transitory. carley: nancy pelosi and other rules for thee, not for me situation. >> new scrutiny over lawmakers who buy and share cells of stock in the spotlight again. a lot more other stocks, there were options, two days after she defended the practice, her husband bought alphabet stock and half $1 million range, 250,000, a free-market economy, prohibits members of congress from using public information for personal benefit. no one is suggesting he did that are she did that but doubling down on this notion that it is okay to buy and sell stock when we see infractions from other members of congress. todd: the only people who can look into this are members of congress. it is the final day of the worst mayor in the history of the big apple but is his other activities drawing attention. >> reporter: another parting gift from new york city mayor bill deblasio, 320,$000 bill owed to new york city taxpayers with a report during his brief run for president, details himself and staffers for a trip. the new york post reports $2.5 million in debt, he will not take away plans to repay the money but he is doing massive renovations to his brooklyn home as he prepares to leave office. he used the nypd, security detail and a long list of things taxpayers and voters have to say goodbye. carley: he owes both of us money, i demand it back. carley: you should go to his house. we are looking forward to you and the and in 2022. let us head the time square where meteorologist adam klotz is at the site of the ball drop for the new year's eve celebration. >> reporter: this is it. this is the 2022 ball that will be dropping tonight at midnight to usher in the new year. this ball you see on tv and maybe don't realize how large it is, 12 feet in diameter, 12,000 pounds, made up of all this cut glass, waterproof crystals, this year's theme is the gift of wisdom, certainly society could use right about now. down below usually there would be 60,000 people in the crowd, they cut the number down because of covid, 15,000 people will be able to come out and enjoy the show. and million people watching around the world. for the folks here in person is it pleasant to new york city. i will dive into the new year's eve forecast and to begin with national temperatures around 50 degrees. throughout the day it will stay relatively the same, looking at temperatures across the country pretty mild especially in the eastern united states, snow out west, the forecast in new york city from the evening running into tomorrow morning, hanging around 50 degrees, overcast but comfortable and for new year's day forecast, still warm along the coast, rain in the ohio river valley, snow falling across the plains into the midwest. as i wrap this up, i think todd is a fashionable guy. is this a good look? is this what i should be wearing? what do you think? todd: we all know when you want to think fashion, go with a guy who is a weird shade orange using the same jacket for a week and a half so you should wear those glasses all day and frankly all year long. carley: thank you so much. prominent democrats like hillary clinton already appear panicked about the midterms and taking them no time at all to start pointing fingers at members of their own party for possible losses. lera trump is here to talk about it coming up. todd: let's check in with lawrence jones for what is coming up on "fox and friends". >> the clock is ticking down his 2021, so close, kickoff new year's eve on "fox and friends" with mike pompeo, michael walsh, chad wolf and joe concha. the weekend crew, pete, rachel and will live from nashville for the all-american new year's special. we've got to cover the secrets of setting financial goals. the clock strikes midnight, new year's celebration would be complete without a champagne toast. more "fox and friends" coming up. when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org. . a . >> it is a time for, you know, some careful thinking about what wins elections. at the end of the day it means nothing if we don't have a congress that will get things done and we don't have a white house that we can count on to be sane and sober. carley: failed presidential candidate hillary clinton taking a shot at progressives saying they could cost democrats the majority come the midterm elections. >> fox news contributor lara trump joins us now as she always does on fridays. we appreciate you getting up with this on this new year's eve. what do you think? will democrats listen to hillary? >> there is no place i would rather on the last day of the year, guys, than with you. thanks for having me back as always. are we really using hillary clinton as a poster child for winning campaigns? is she the right person really to be giving advice on this is the question that i initially have. but, todd, to your question, will they listen to her? probably not. it's as though they have seen the edge of the cliff and they have walked right off of it. but, i think that the alarm bells are sounding for a lot of democrats. people are realizing like the kid that didn't do the project due tomorrow morning. they are panicking, realizing we are heading tomorrow in 2022 a year where they are likely going to basically see a blood bath in the midterm elections. it's going to be very hard for them convince people that their policies have been good for america. you look at polling literally on everything from the open southern border that we currently have under their leadership to things like defunding the police. nobody wants any of this stuff. it is bad for america. we have inflation through the roof. people can't afford their basic needs, and it is all due to the policies of these radical democrats that have taken over the white house and are by and large running america right now. so, i guess i do agree with hillary clinton on one thing, they are not doing a good job for america and the policies they are pushing forward are going to be really hard for them to convince voters are positive. carley: lara, so much going on right now when it comes to covid. there's a testing shortage a monoclonal antibody short damage. the u.s. just hit a record high number of daily covid cases and president biden is in delaware right now on vacation. he is not really facing any criticism for this either. how would the media treatment be if the roles were reversed and your father-in-law was the president? >> well, first of all, we wouldn't, carley, have found ourselves in this position if donald trump was president. we know exactly where he would be in a crisis situation. he would be in the white house. he would have been having talks with the major airlines to make sure that we can rectify this situation. that people aren't strained at all across the country like so many people are right now. he would have had the testing capabilities already in place so that we don't have this shortage but who was surprised by this? the best we have gotten out of joe biden, the most anyone has pressed him on is chocolate, chot lack chip ice cream. whenever there is a crisis everyone in this administration flee. pete buttigieg on paternity leave. when camp david. shooting nasa video to make people like her more. it was very easy for people to connect with her after that nasa video. this is standard for this administration when there is a crisis, they all seem to flee. fight or flight when you had donald trump in the white house, he was a fighter, he was there for the american people pushing forward. joe biden in the white house is he fleeing and getting as far away as possible. todd: speaking of your father-in-law and the white house, senator lindsey graham on trump being republican nominee for president. take a listen. >> you mentioned donald trump, senator, is he the nominee in 2024. >> from a policy point of view he was the most successful president. it is his nomination if he wants it and he will be in the white house in 2024 if he runs a disciplined campaign. todd: 30 seconds remaining on final show of 2021. care to break any news here, lara? >> well, i will leave that up to my father-in-law should there ever be any news to break, of course. olook, guys, real quick, the american people are very smart. they know that things have gotten worse with joe biden and the democrats in control of our country. they know things felt so much better with donald trump. not only was he hand ling day-to-day life but he was doing really incredible things, signing trade agreements, meeting with kim jong un to denuclearize the korean peninsula. making sure we had peace in the middle east. all positive, people know it, if he comes back he will win. carley: lara, thank you so much for joining us on this new year's eve. thank you, everybody for watching. >> happy new year. carley: much more fun to come in 2022. 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