[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: good saturday morning. our nation s anthem, the perfect way to kick it off. a tradition here on fox & friends weekend. let me say, guys, our viewers not the absolute best, i will confirm those are all viewer pictures that played during that nation s anthem of just absolutely beautiful. it is december 18th, year of our lord, 2021. and it is 6:00 a.m. where rachel is, it is 5:00 a.m. where will is. and it is 4:00 a.m. where i am mountain time because i m at the turning point u.s.a. america fest which kicks off today. registration starts in a few hours. and it is covered all by fox nation. so fox nation has got exclusive coverage here of that entire event. but, until then, we have four hours of fox & friends, rachel, will, good morning. will: good morning, pete. rachel: good morning. will: if not a show that represents america coast to coast thanks fo
today, they don t represent the millions of law-abiding, hardworking, taxpaying citizens, responsible american patriots that are worried about election integrity. and then and then here s how hannity responded tonight. i have always been consistent on january 6th and every other right. liz cheney? have you ever called for a committee on the rights in the summer of 2020. we condemn january six. we did it that day as it was happening. we did it at night on this show. just like we condemned that i have 574 left wing rights in the summer of 2020. the january six committee has yet to reveal which law makers were texting with meadows. today, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell was asked if he was one of them. ell was asked if h wa i was not, that i do think we re all watching, as you are, what is unfolding on the house side. and it will be revealed all the participants who were involved. so, again, that vote is on going. folks have been coming up to the lecture, getting
i listen almost exclusively to the audible originals. i also think it s pretty special that they get audiobooks that aren t released anywhere else. my friends listen to audible as well. i ll recommend a lot of things to them, especially the new sandman series. you can find things that will take you to new worlds. audible is a great escape. go anywhere you want. endless entertainment and education and content. for the best audio entertainmet and storytelling, text listen4 to 500500 to get thirty days free. here s the breaking news. the house january 6th committee voting unanimously tonight to recommend former white house chief of staff mark meadows be charged with criminal contempt of congress for refusing to cooperate with the committee and failing to appear for a deposition as required by the committee s subpoena. the committee revealing text messages between meadows and several fox hosts and even the then-president s eldest son as the capitol was being violently attacked by
covid and mandates. a lot of the patients on this floor won t make it out of this floor. with cases and deaths spiking again, are democrats and the biden administration doing enough to push for vaccine mandates? know this. everybody in north america is either going to get vaccinated or get covid. joining me is governor roger marshall of kansas who opposes mandates. president biden says he s warned vladimir putin against any invasion of ukraine. there will be severe consequences, economic consequences like he s never seen or ever have been seen. how much is the u.s. willing to stop another russian invasion? i ll ask secretary of state anthony blinker. joining me for insight and analysis, executive editor of the recount john heilemann, kimberly atkins stohr, senior writer for the boston globe, republican strategist brendan buck and marianna sotomayor of the washington post. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. announcer: from nbc news in washington, t
good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. they attempted a coup. we use that word a lot on this show to describe donald trump s attempts to stay in power following the 2020 election. we use coup. we use it in scripts and graphics and banners that you see on the bottom of your tv. and when we first started calling it that, and we made a choice to do so, when we first started after january 6th it sounded provocative, i think. coup is not a term you throw around lightly when you re talking about the united states of america. by definition, a coup is a sudden, illegal, often violent seizure of power from a government, and it s something that happens all around the world in other countries. some examples, places like chile in 1973 or bolivia in 1971. it s happened in turkey, pakistan and on and on and on. but the way that we think about a coup is that it doesn t happen here. not here in what is supposed to be the beacon of democracy throughout the world. and there was some init