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and good morning. it is going to be another very wet day across the west of scotland. elsewhere, dry, cloudy, breezy. i ll bring you all the details very shortly. and we have a winner the strictly glitterball trophy is in new hands after a fabulous finale. it s sunday, the 17th of december. our main story: after years of denials, the former conservative peer baroness mone has admitted that she stands to benefit from tens of millions of pounds of profit made from ppe that was sold to the government during the pandemic. the company was led by her husband, doug barrowman. she says she did help broker the deal, but claims she has been made a scapegoat for the government s failings. our political correspondent laura kuenssberg has more. questions about the pandemic, profit and politics have followed baroness mone and her husband to southern europe. foryears, mone and her husband to southern europe. for years, they denied links to a firm that receives £200 million in taxpayer mo ....
supreme court, that donald trump is constitutionally disqualified from being on the ballot in the ste primary. the opinion pulls no punches. quote, president trump incited and encouraged the use of violence and lawless action to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. the tenor of president trump s messages to hisupporters in exshorting him to had an option to fight back. the cavalry was coming to find. here s where the colorado state supreme court went further, reversing the lower court s finding that donald trump doesn t qualify as a, quote, ofce under section 3 of the 14th amendment. section 3 of the 14th amendment is a civil war era amendment to the united states taken an eat from various state and offices. it rules that the founding officers backed that up, writing americans have referred to the president as an officer from the days of the founding fathers. this is seismic. this is unprecedented,nd this is very, very likely destined to go before the supreme cou ....
rachel: good morning, it s 7:00 here in new york city. come on, christmas. will: never heard it. but sounds familiar. pete: come on, christmas. rachel: how would you like me to say it, pete? pete: i don t know. come on, christmas. you were like, come on christmas. yeah, we re saying come on, christmas. come in. will: felt like we re talking about the state of the country. come on, christmas. pete: do better. rachel: when we have racist christmas parties and satan displays, come on, christmas. will: oh, yeah, christmas. pete: somebody took care of that satan display in the iowa capitol. rachel: by the way, i thought it was going to be you. when i heard somebody decapitated the satan statue, i was like, where s pete? pete: count me in. rachel: i thought for sure it was going to be you. pete: different veteran beat me to the punch in the capitol. we hope you re having a wonderful christmas in your home and maybe do people ever stoke warning fires if you have a fireplace. ....
yes! yes! that s right. it s friday. so you know what that means? let s welcome tonight s guests. he s hear on a day pass from the halfway house, founder of the leftists party, michael loftus. she s my third favorite charlie after chaplain and horse. charlie are no. she loves pranks, giving thanks and getting restraining orders because of your cousin hank. new york times best seller, kat timpf. and the only thing he hates more than snow is child support. new york times best-selling author, comedian and world champion nwa whatever. all right. this audience is out of control. but before we get to some new stories, let s do this. greg s leftovers. you know it. it s where i read the jokes we didn t use this week. that s why they are called leftovers. as always it s my first time reading them. if they suck we will take joe on a helicopter ride and drop him into a volcano. all right, southwest airlines is being praised by plus size travelers that allow overweight customers ....
haas christmas i gave you my heart. the very next day you gave it away. this year to save me from tears rachel: welcome, everybody. it s 9:00, it s fox & friends. we were talking, by the way, in the priest hour about how many people are sitting by the fire in their robes [laughter] watching fox & friends. mike if e-mailed me, he said i happen to be working at my kitchen table with the fire on during your back and forth about a morning fire, and look at that. look how cozy that looks. pete: yeah, that looks nice. i m thinking that s an electric fire, which is a lot easier or to turn on. will: yeah. pete: first of all, any photo with us in the background, major bonus points, so we thank you,. will: well, you did some homework. pete: yep. will: you got, what, natural fire but propain starter? pete: allege old fireplaces in our house. will: so you re using pete: i throw in a starter log to cheat will: of course. pete: so we do it, i d say, every other nigh ....