in northern gaza and starting new offensive in the southern part of the region. idf is moving into the southern part while the u.s. tries to help the two sides bring an end to this war. you are watching fox and friends first on thursday morning. i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro, a lot going on that we will start feeling at home, we ll get into it with cory mills in a moment. carley: first trey yingst has an update from tel aviv. trey: israeli forces say they are close to completing high-intensity phase of this war in gaza. much has been in gaza jabalia neighborhood where troops from 551st brigade evacuated a group of civilians in a building. weapons were found at that school according to idf. difficult fighting taking place in southern gaza. death toll is rising with total of 137 killed since the ground operation began. they discovered new tunnels in gaza city used by hamas leadership. take a listen. from this infrastructure, they other than able to move and
look beautiful in your matching sweaters. thank you. happy holiday season. carley: second hour of fox & friends starts right now. happy holidays, guys. giddy up jingle horse jingle around the clock a mix and a mingle and jingle that s the jingle bell rock. [laughter] lawrence: i m so glad to work here because here we believe in santa. growing up my dad did not tell us about santa. lawrence: no. i work all year to buy all these presents do you think i m going to let some mythical take credit. he didn t buy it i did. carley: santa is real and visits all the house as. lawrence: i m so glad i goat believe in santa. carley: when i was a kid for christmas, santa would bring some of the presents and then my parents would write mom and dad on the other ones that they gave. santa would drop off some. brian: a lot of kids watching now i m just saying lawrence lawrence what you are telling me, brian, my dad took credit for santa s work? that s what i m sayi
with what is in this bill. there appears to be some widespread relief at having at least some sort of agreement to avoid a potentially catastrophic default. that would happen june 5 at the house and senate did not pass his agreement with speaker mccarthy: the built transformational for americans. democrats are accusing republicans of quote dragging their feet until the last second period mccarthy says he hopes have the house but on this bill by wednesday. as usual chad pergram following mercy joint disliked capitol hill. so chad what happens next? good afternoon. president biden says he s confident a bill will get to his desk with the debt ceiling challenge is now entering its most daunting phase. getting the agreement through congress. passing the bill requires a delicate bipartisan formula of democrats and republicans in both chambers. house speaker kevin mccarthy is trying to excite his side. is not one 100% of what everybody wants it. countries going to be stronger th
hamas war escalating just days after the u.n. approved a watered down resolution calling for aid to the embattled region as the toll of the war caused christmas celebrations to be canceled in bethlehem. and getting down to the wire in iowa where a gop presidential candidate spent the holiday weekend trying win over voters. did he make any headway? we re going to find out. and if you ve been dreaming of a white christmas, you re probably going to be disappointed. we re going to tell you why most people around the country will just have to keep dreaming. we begin this hour with the growing fight over whether former president trump can claim immunity to election interference charges. trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington over the weekend asking it to toss out the federal election interference case against him. his lawyers arguing quote this. president trump has absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts as president. so, they s
a 1% cap on spending growth for six years. it caused back some unspent pandemic relief funds and it toughens work requirements for food stamp recipients. that last issue seen as a win for republicans. arthel: florida republican congressman mike joins us with his thoughts on the deal but first about life coverage lucas tomlinson at the white house with a presidents reaction cheddar program live on capitol hill with more details on the deal and where lawmakers go from here. chad do tell. chris arthel if you thought the hard part was getting a bill considered how part would be to pass a bill but some democrats are leery of the deal and conservatives are torching the legislation. tweeting it is unacceptable. he said it greenlight an additional 4 trillion in debt. house speaker kevin mccarthy claims he is not concerned about gop defections. week did a conference call with our conference in over 95% over were overwhelmingly exc excited. this is going to be transformational congre