third hour of "fox and friends" starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [musical instruments playing] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> steve: up really early to be with us, special day at the opry and live behind the scenes of the opry, talking to pat boone, how he's performed in that circle there. here is brian with trace atkins and craig morgan, who have also stood in that circle. >> yes, right now trace atkins begged to do a tour with me and craig morgan is here. they want to show me personally and you at home how special this place is. is this true? >> absolutely true. >> brian: how do you feel being here now? >> like being home. >> it is home, this is a very special place for us. >> brian: on this wall? >> the wall of the names. >> it starts back there from the members on down. >> brian: what do you do to get on that wall? >> boy, if we only knew. >> i don't know, i really don't know. i don't know what the -- >> there is no book, no list. it happens and you are grateful for it. >> feel like to see your name up there? >> pretty special, i make my kids touch that when they come in here. >> brian: nice, you reenlisted on this stage. walking through, what room is >> brian: check >> allow myself to dream that big. i was a realist and i never would have imagined i would have been here. >> brian: this really came true. we see this rotation quite often. you see pictures come through. >> that is mine right there. i call that my room. the stars and stripes. >> brian: right now it is hannity's room. >> he is borrowing it. >> brian: jesse's room, it is closed, he must be in there. >> there is trace, on the wall there. >> brian: look at those 95 yea. >> brian: old music, too. >> ainsley: they talked about tearing it down and so many people came together and said no. they cut a big circle out of the floor and that is here. it still creeks, like you church. >> ainsley: you hear it creeking. i remember when carrie underwood stood there for the first time and some of the shoes she wore on stage are in one of the display cases in the back. >> steve: they probably aren't going to let us carve our initials. it would be inappropriate. >> ainsley: six capitol police officers injured after battling anti-israel and protesters terror out of the dnc office last night. >> lawrence: a man from griff jenkins is live from washington. what can you tell us? >> good morning, guys. such a contrast on tuesday, i was out at that 300,000 peaceful rally on the maul. compare to last night, look at this video, violent mob of 150 pro-palestinian protesters blockading the doors to dnc headquarters, demanding a ceasefire while punching and cursing police officers, forcing the u.s. capitol into lockdown and evacuation of lawmakers like congressman brad sherman, who posted this on social media. he said, was just evacuated from dnc after pro-terrorist, anti-israel protesters attempted to break into the building. republican congresswoman luna said, my husband, newborn and i are in my office in the capitol that is in lockdown because of uncontrolled protesters. six police officers sustained injuries, one protester. it was claimed to be peaceful, watch. >> the folks in that building, democratic leadership have not been listening to 80% of us wanting to stop genocide of palestinians. instead of being met with leaders engaging with us, instead of being met with peaceful protest, we were met by police. >> griff: that protest organizer saying they stood outside the dnc wanting to send a message that 80% of democrats are for a ceasefire democrats for ceasefire, he said i was with democrats last night when they got locked down in the capitol and he said the majority of democrats support israel. quite a contrast from what organizers are saying. i will send it back to you at the grand ole opry. >> lawrence: looks like this is political intimidation, whether you agree with dems or not, looks like radical activists are trying to get them to change their policy on this. i wonder if the feds will do anything about it. >> steve: great question. we have heard nothing from federal authorities about what they will try to do to get it under control. you put your finger on something important, that is organizers behind this, democrat socialists of america, protest group, they have been involved with other protests in other cities that have gotten violent and involved with actions on college campus. democrat socialists of america, as well as jewish voice for peace group that has come on to the scene since october 7. see if anything comes of it. one thing for sure, it was definitely not what we saw on tuesday when pro-israel protesters wanted to voice support in a peaceful manner. guys. >> brian: we all know ceasefire would be utter disaster. hamas lives to fight another day and the palestinian people reportedly do not want to be ruled by hamas. they kill your family, if you speak up and maybe we're doing the best thing for them or the idf is doing the best thing for them, too. >> ainsley: do you feel safe there, what is police presence like in d.c.? >> griff: the police presence is great. i was looking through x, used to be twitter, feeds, and there is a democrat running from arizona, his name is andre, he posted thank you to the kap tol police who protected me tonight as i was evacuated and he said the protester message was wrong because ceasefire means one side surrenders. this is democrat candidate for congress. he said he disagreed. >> ainsley: benjamin netanyahu said the same thing, a ceasefire is surrendering and we will not do that. >> steve: we've been talking about why the administration did not send anybody to the peaceful protest with 300,000 people. the white houses the president was going to meet the chinese president. they could have sent the vice president, though. when you look at demographics, a lot of people in the democratic party support the other side. that is one reason and we have not seen polling since the march, when you look at joe biden disapproval, number of people who don't like him at this point, year before the election, there should be a red warning bell going off, warning light on the residencealate desk in the oval office because he's got problems there and needs voters to be much smaller nsh numbers. >> ainsley: 63% of men don't like him, 62% of voters under 65. 60% of hispanic voters don't like him and 41% of black voters. >> brian: when it comes to, fox news poll on preference on the republican side, we are still in primary process, according to fox news poll, donald trump popularity went up from october to november. ron desantis up a point and nikki haley up a point. he is way up in front. >> ainsley: why do you think that is, brian? >> brian: donald trump has a resume and his resume looks better, they compare it to what we are living through now from the border to the economy to foreign policy to military, respect around the world, trade deals don't happen under this president, the unrest in the city, the way the president insisted on cracking down and you have another guy who doesn't think there is a problem with crime. no problem with illegal immigrants overwhelming democratic cities with democratic mayors. >> lawrence: then it gets worse, former president against biden and r.f.k., getting 41% of the vote right now and it just shows you that the whole notion of emotion is not working with the american people now, living paycheck to paycheck. we're not in this war, i think the weakness of joe biden compared to the past administration, they were supposed to bring adults back into the room and get peace and all this. >> steve: ainsley, to your point about why donald trump went up and nikki haley went up and ron desantis went up a guilty. two people who had substantial amount of voters behind them, mike pence and tim scott both dropped out. a couple went to trump, a couple went to desantis and haley. >> ainsley: interesting they went up in october, the attack was october 7 and we're watching that happen and we watched afghanistan and watched russia invade ukraine and watched what happened in israel. and president xi is hinting he will take taiwan. >> brian: how about this? how about the civil trial? this is out right political attack with attorney general that says this is what i want to do. nobody sees anything wrong. there are no victims. instead of trying to take down a president known for wealth and success, people go, this is a political hit job and that helps trump. much to their surprise, this is upon hadding trump. bragg, da -- you think even democrats in new york would be let's focus on issues, you have crime surge in all of new york city and this immigrant crisis going on right now and a lot of them have been committing crimes outside of the roosevelt. there will be a story on that soon. you have cops going back and forth there everyday to the hotel. you think they would shore up their base with the crime issue. the attorney general has not gone to the crime trials in new york city and all of a sudden she goes to the civil trial everyday. >> ainsley: and smirks up there. what about the jewish vote? how will they vote in the next election? >> lawrence: they identify as democrats, but say i can't vote for him anymore. he did a disservice not attending the rally. >> brian: van jones, hakeem jeffries, chuck schumer, democrats. carley shimkus, i believe, according to report, ready to do the news. you do a hat piece and do the news? >> carley: what an abrupt transition. i was like, where is he going? brian, you are perfect. you could do no wrong. shall i deliver some more news? >> brian: what is the sarcasm? >> steve: good story. >> carley: fox news alert, after all the drama, senate passed house speaker mike johnson stopgap spending bill last night funding the government through early next year. passing by vote of 87-11. the move averts shutdown before the holiday season. the bill is on his way to president biden's desk and he is expected to sign it. case closed. fox weather alert, widespread power outages across florida. 120,000 homes and businesses are without power in miami dade, broward and palm beach, getting battered with hurricane strength wind, flood warnings in place and all broward county schools are closed today. countdown to christmas is on and one company will pay you big bucks to watch hallmark christmas movies with a critical eye. >> it is magic. it is around us. >> oh, and -- >> they don't call me the king of christmas movies for nothing. >> lights, camera, christmas, the subscription site bloomsy box will pay to watch movies and the user provides ratings, applications are being accepted now through december 3. that would be such a fun job. >> carley: let's apply and split the money. we love hallmark movies. >> steve: brilliant, they are saying you might win $2000. >> they provide hot chocolate and cozy uggz slippers and socks. >> brian: i sense another carley feature. >> carley: we set up the christmas tree yesterday. when i go home, we're having hot chocolate and going to decorate together and christmas music. >> steve: we should point out, we are at the patriot awards on fox nation, fox nation has a brand new christmas movie, too. >> carley: that's right. >> ainsley: excited to watch it and lighting our christmas tree on monday. >> brian: these were all better transitions. >> carley: i didn't mean to criticize. >> lawrence: effort was there. >> brian: watch lawrence smoothly go to the tease. >> lawrence: thank you. coming up. take it, brian. >> brian: go ahead. >> lawrence: president xi meets biden and says the world faces great problems from covid without taking blame. >> ainsley: fifth annual patriot awards tonight, inaugural t2t patriot awards tonight. tonight's top honors -- >> brian: frank siller and his nephew joins us. franklin high school marching band. ♪ ♪ providing for your family is a top priority. but what happens when you need affordable health care? 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