♪ we've been apart from each other for a good while until now. ♪ scatter family and friends. ♪ create new memories. ♪ let's make a special time of every moment we have. ♪ get ready. ♪ it's about to be a fun time. ♪ where everybody's in the same room. ♪ it's gonna be a great christmas day. ♪ ready, it's about to be a fun time. >> oh, yeah. [ applause ] >> bravo. >> beautifully done. that was jakailin carr singing great christmas as part of the all american christmas concert series. >> thank you so much for being beinghere this morning. >> thank you so much. >> she will performing oh, holy night coming up. rachel: can't wait for that. >> we never miss a reason for a concert series. christmas certainly qualifies. rachel: oh, holy night qualifies for sure. >> i love oh, holy night. rachel: me too. >> moving to some other topics this morning, starting with this. you may have seen this late yesterday, but the president of the university of pennsylvania has resigned, as has the board, the chairman of the board of trustees and that's following a lot of blowback she received not just because of this testimony but this testimony was the for liz mcgil the straw you that broke the cam he'll's back. she in-- camel's back. she invited a group to campus that jewish groups felt threatened by. october 7th happened, she had a tepid response, didn't speak out and defend it. she was asked whether she would condemn, i don't know, genocide, she said it depends, you need context. here's a reminder. >> does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn's rules or code of conduct? >> yes or no? >> if the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment, yes. >> i am asking specifically calling for the genocide of jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment? >> if it is directed and severe and pervasive, it is harassment. >> so the answer is yes? >> it is a context and decision, congresswoman. >> it's a context dependent decision, that's your testimony to dorks calling for the genocide of jews is depending on context, that is not bullying or harassment. this is the easiest question to answer yes ms. ms. mcgil. yes or no -- >> if the speech becomes conduct it can be harassment, yes. >> conduct meaning committing the act or genocide? >> the speech is not harassment? this is unacceptable, ms. mcgil. >> it's amazing. that smug look as well, she has resigned. >> in response congresswoman elise stefanik said this on twitter, one down, two to go, this is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of anti-semitism that destroyed the most prestigious higher education in institutions in america, this foursed resignation of the president of penn is the bare minimum of what is required harvard, mit, do the right thing, the world is watching. why do you think so much focus landed right there on the desk of liz mcgil from pen? penn?they all said something sir in the hearing, is it the way she conducted herself and smiled or is it things that have been happening on the campus of penn for some time. rachel: or $100,000 of donation that was pulled from the school. >> money talks. u-penn had a larger population of y jewish students, it reduced in recent decades, for a lot of reasons, some which are crt and dei related. there's frustration there. you had a campus where jewish groups were feeling more unsafe because of the teaching inside the university, of radical left wing professors and others teaching a different view of the middle east. you had a student group that talked about from the river to the sea before october 7th then you had -- you had donors pulling money already, board members resigned. we interviewed a couple of for our upcoming documentary coming out in january on fox nation. there was a growing sense that she had to go, a lot of donors giving $1 as a testament to not want to support the university. it will be interesting to see what happens to h harvard and mt and other places. >> rabbi david wotby was at harvard and he resigned, he was part of the anti-semitism committee. he was warning that firing school leaders as we talked about here is really not going to fix this problem which lies much deeper than the testimony of a few presidents. watch. >> i don't want to suggest for a minute that the president is the problem because it's not true. the problem is the deep-seeded culture that has been growing now for years and the universities are sort of the paradigm of it, they're the best example but they are hardly the only example. we see it in the streets of major cities. we see it in some of the high schools. we see it in businesses. rachel: so is he talking about anti-semitism? is that what the rabbi is talking about? or is he actually talking about the ideology, the marxist ideology that is perhaps at least a large part of it which is the oppressor, oppressed point of view. >> it's a great point it's the right question. now it's all been exposed because we're suddenly supporting terrorist organizations but where were you when the marxists took over the institutions? there's been a spectrum of this ignored by leaders, by donors and they allowed a generation of kids to be fully indoctrine ated and become radical activists and it takes out and out support for a terrorist group for people to think maybe i shouldn't give money anymore. maybe you shouldn't. they're poisoning the minds. the universities are just expensive, not actually good schools. rachel: my concern is if we don't address it holistically in the way you talk about, had that we could come out of this with the donation threat of having donations or not having donations, we could come out of this firing people like liz mcgil and we might be able to solve on a surface level some of the anti-semitism problem, but won't address what's happening to conservative, won't address that we don't have a place on campus and talk about everything and have free speech and if we only address anti-semitism and not critical race theory in this moment that we're in right now, where the scales are falling, but it's only falling for anti-semitism and not the whole thing, we won't solve the rob. >> i do think in part there is pure anti-semitism. rachel: of course there is. >> at play. which has been evident throughout human history, a lot of problems have been laid at the doorstep of jews. that has happened h historically over a big enough timeframe to say this is an element that always has to be considered. i agree, it's deeper than anti-semitism. if you only solve it for the moment, you're only papering over its ability to come back in another form. i don't think the focus should be on conservatives. that's symptomatic. you used the word marxist. it's an ideology that says let me divide people in as many fashions as possible. old world communism did it by class. it doesn't matter how you divide people. you divide them to pit their identities against one another in a hire arcky of victimhood and oppressed. and once they're divided and they're fighting, then you can rule. then you can appoint yourself with power. >> in this case, both of those things you just laid out, will, layered on top of each other. you've got anti-semitism plus the view the palestinians are the oppressed group so that's justified speech in the view of the new left wing thinking on campus. rachel: it will be an interesting situation for the jewish commune you at this. many of them -- community. many of them are left wing thinking in some ways yet they're seeing the fruits of marxism and how it affects them and a it will be interesting to see how they play it out. >> i know you heard the same thing but i heard from folks that are related to jews or are jews themselves saying i'm not conservative but i've been watching fox more for the last couple months because at least it's a fair shake. >> i want to say as an example of how these conflicts of oppressed categories run into one another and all of a sudden realize their place on the totem pole i would give you the fight betweens trans communities and feminists. feminists thought they were the one that's people -- wait a minute, now i'm a turf. you know, or whatever. rachel: right, right. by the way, it's also trans and sort of -- and the gay community that's older, that's like that's not part of my movement, i don't understand that either. there's a lot of things happening. it's a moment of-- >> suddenly the oppressed becomes the oppressor and you're on the wrong side of it. rachel: that's where jk ruling found her -- jk rowling found herself, she was thrown out of the feminist movement, she wants to defend women's rights, not trans rights, which often conflict with women's rights. >> you missed your truth 15 minutes ago and that's your fault. sorry. >> now we move on to another issue starting with this. major tornadoes barreling through parts of tennessee, kentucky and mississippi yesterday. at least six people including a child are dead. dozens more hurt. rachel: thousands still don't have power this morning. >> nicole valdez is live in nashville, tennessee with the details. nicole. >> reporter: guys, good morning. the street i'm standing on right now is where at least three of those six you just mentioned lost their lives, the pain here palpable. the heart break very real as families are just now coming home this morning to look at what is left of their home with tears in their eyes and as they look at the destruction behind me and it is so difficult and so horrific to look at. look at this home there. you notice the second story almost completely ripped to pieces. you can now see inside what looks like might have been a bedroom at one point. the walls have caved in, sheer force of those winds, the roof completely ripped out, ripped off that area and as you take a look further down the road, the scene is very similar. house after house after house, home after home after home, there are families who are now ska veining, digging through the rub bell to try to -- rubble to try to see what if anything is sal val an for them. you -- salvageable for them. power outages are still very much a problem. we're looking at power lines lying on driveways of several members of this community, of madison, tennessee. one of the hardest hit areas according to nashville officials here. not too far from here, a local church collapsing with about a dozen people inside. thankfully, they are all okay. they're recovering. but over in clarksville, about 45 minutes north of where i'm standing, a very similar scene of pain and destruction there. three others killed can as you mentioned including a child according to montgomery county officials. several buildings there leveled. homes destroyed. it's a very difficult scene here and we know it's going to take time for families and for officials to try to get a handle on this, to get recovery going and get the lights back on. >> thank you, nicole. >> now we turn to a few additional headlines. starting with this. former kentucky governor julian peril died earlier this morning after being in hospice care for the last six months. carol served as governor from 1975-1979 before serving as state senator for more than 16 years. he is survived by four children, seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren. funeral arrangements will be announced tomorrow. he was 92. and joe biden's ex covid advisor is admitting that p covid-19 may have been caused by a lab leak in china. now we're getting to it. he is warning that there's a 50% chance of another pandemic by 2050. >> spes be figure. specific.>> seems very specifih fronts. the doctor speaking at a new york city health conference last week, saying, quote, it is plausible that covid originated in a lab accident in wuhan, that will get you banned for saying that a couple years ago. we've got to do more to keep labs safe. the risk of a pandemic is only growing in the modern world. the white house, though, continues to maintain that the origins of covid remain an absolute mystery. [laughter] >> no up one c one can figure w a virus landed in wuhan next to the virus lab. it's too hard. rachel: and we helped fund -- we know because we helped fund the study. >> no, we don't know that. rachel: gain of function. >> nothing to see here. and this. an astronaut in celebrating hanukkah in space this year with a dradle spinning in zero gravity. >> the nasa astronaut said the family made her a paper menorah so she could celebrate while on her mission she and her crew mates have been in space on a six month mission since august. >> will it go forever? >> if you spin that thing and don't touch it -- >> in a zero gravity environment. >> until you touch something. we're physics whizs and we figured it out like that. >> gravity makes it stop spinning. >> i don't know, physics whiz. >> i should stop talking. >> you were ahead. now stop. rachel: coming up, hypocrisy on the menu at the climate conference, leaders enjoying prime rib and smash burgers while calling on everyday folks to reduce meat consumption. federalist contributor helen riley grew up in communist china and she said this is something out of the ccp playbook. she is going to join us next. goli, taste your goals. goli, taste your goals. rachel: this morning the u.n. still won't condemn the brutal hamas you attacks against innocent israelis, instead they're focusing on another one, the war against climate, urging the world to cut back on beef to help fight it. meanwhile, world leaders reportedly dining on prime rib and burgers, smash burgers at yesterday's u.n. climate evidevent,a hypocrisy our next s reminds her of growing up in alcohocommunist china. helen riley joins us to explain. helen, welcome to "fox & friends." i love having guests like you who can tell us sort of warn us of what you've seen in china and you know what it's like to have your government, the communist party restrict meat, right? >> oh, good morning, rachel. yes, when i was growing up, the chinese government imposed very strict food rationing system including limitation on meat. for each one of us we received the food y coupon which would allow us to purchase two pounds of meat each month. due to the widespread food shortages, even that 2 pounds of meet was not guaranteed. so without having meat for weeks or months, without good source of nutrition, the chinese people's life expectancy in the 1960s was only 44 years. but nowadays when chinese people actually have more meat in their diet, life spec taken you sigh has improve -- expectancy improved to 77 years. it shows how much the government policies ruined our well-being in the past. rachel: here our government -- it's not really our government as much as these organizations like the world economic forum and these crazy globalists, had want to restrict meat. they're using the climate as the excuse. they know that meat is a nutrient rich food that anywhere that people eat meat they get healthier where you restrict meat they get less healthy and lose life expectancy as you talk about. why do you think they want to launch this war on farmers, launching a war on small farmers and ranchers. what's at the heart of this as you analyze it from your pir perspective. >> i think this is a climate alarmist, they're really eco socialists, the thinking comes from the marxist playbook. it's not about climate. they don't care about lowering global warming, their intent is control, to control how people live their lives, they want to tell us what car to drive, what source of energy we should use, what stove we should cook our meal on and they're not satisfied with those restrictions, they want to tell the us how much to eat and what to eat on a monthly basis. it's all about control of freedom, has nothing to do with the environment. rachel: you call it green socialism. i think of it more at green futileism. they don't intend themselves to stop eating meat as you can see from the u.n. conference, they had ha hamburgers and prime rib. they don't want us to have it. it's some somethi something eli. >> they exempt themselves from any suffering they tell us to do. rachel: what's your warning -- what's your message for americans, you how to stop this? >> my warning to america is that lessons from china's history tells us that the policies go against human flourishing, normally bad for the environment too. we can protect our planet through innovations without lowering our living standard so we must reject the ruinous policies and we must protect our freedom. rachel: and our food. we must protect our food sources, they're attacking them. thank you so much, helen. it's such an important warning and we really appreciate you joining us. merry christmas. >> merry christmas and i'm going to have some bacon for breakfast. rachel: good for you. all right. thanks, helen. coming up, a special weekend edition of breakfast with friends raymond rayoo is talking to friends in shreveport, louisiana and he has a special guest, speaker of the house, mike johnson. is all about presents and shopping and cookies and trees. but we know christmas isn't about something you buy at a store. it's about something so much greater. it is the day we celebrate the incredible truth that god so loved the world that he gave his only son. it's not about presents. it's about jesus. join me this advent in praying every day on hallow. cut through the noise and find god's peace. 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[cheers and applause] >> let's pick up on what we were hearing from pete, the inquiry is underway, they're voting to have an inquiry. some of the folks in the diner say there shouldn't be an inquiry of joe biden, there should be an impeachment proceeding. >> we have to be careful and deliberate out it. next to the declaration of war, i think impeachment is probably the heaviest power that congress has, the house specifically under the constitution so we have to be method call and careful and follow the facts where they lead. the impea impeachment inquiry ie next step. >> they're threatening hunter biden with contempt. he doesn't want to testify in a closed door hearing. here's my question. you have a difficult job to get anything done. george santos was expelled. kevin mccarthy is leaving. you are down to a one seat majority. how do you do anything with a one seat majority? >> well, we have to keep the team together and i think everybody understands the importance of the job that we have to do, we have to demonstrate we can govern well. when we do that, i think we'll expand the majority and we'll be in a much better situation in the next round. >> there was a report in your foreign relations committee, the house