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though the plane was on fire. the explosion, all the video looks like it is the fuselage on fire and yet it is the wings that have the fuel tanks. did they rupture? >> greg: that is apparently what happened. we don't have all details. a fuel tank set on fire exploded literally setting the entire plane on fire. one last time, all people were off the plane. eyewitness report 've smoke in the cabin, the fire had begun, but hadn't engulfed the plane. >> ainsley: remarkable. >> griff: unbelievable. tokyo international airport is a major hub, particularly for travel in that part of the
what a sports school. >> steve: comes down to quarterbacks and mascots, who can explain what is going on? this is cheez-it. >> ainsley: ched z. nonedible mascot. >> steve: he put that up because of what happened to the pop tart. >> griff: he is throwing shade, the pop tart happened first, the pop tart toasted itself and the team that won ate him ched z held up a sign, nonedible mascot, throwing shade at the mascot. >> ainsley: cute.
remember, when jeffrey epstein died mysteriously in jail, here in new york city, in high security lockup, there were all sorts of rumors floating around about did he really kill himself? and things like that. ultimately, the department of justice said it was suicide. but there were a lot of people who were saying, you know, kind of suspicious because there are a lot of influential people on that list. there is nothing to suggest that he was murdered, according to the department of justice. griff griff that's because a lot of questions about how the bureau of prisons handled having such a high profile inmate like that. >> steve: and, remember, wasn't it about that time and ainsley, we were on the couch discussing it. wasn't there is a problem with the surveillance camera? it just didn't work. >> ainsley: security guards falling asleep on the job. we interviewed someone earlier alana goodman a author of a book called "a convenient death.
this case for a whole variety of reasons. he was never charged with insurrection. he was never even accused of it except in a political context but not in a legal one. so you have voices on the left who are now seeing, griff, that this is rocket fuel to president trump. now, his numbers have gone up, not down, and, like a super hero, he has been strengthened by this. and now they are realizing it's back firing on them big time. >> griff: we will see what happens. we will see what the trump legal team does and what the supreme court may or may not do in the coming days, hours, weeks. we will see where it goes. monica crowley, thank you very much for taking time. >> thanks, griff. >> griff: steve, send it over to you. >> steve: thank you very much, monica and griff. now for your headlines. we start with a fox news alert. a south korea opposition leader stabbed in the neck. he was apparently making his way through a crowd of journalists and political supporters when a guy with a knife lunged forward. you can see the attacker being tackled to the ground before he was carted off to the police
confusing. poncho is a beta fish. named after the great mexican outlaw. i don't know why i named it that. it just seemed to make sense. >> producer ari gave this to rachel. >> steve: griff named it. >> griff: i named it because it's stressful to work in the holidays. >> ainsley: that was your secret santa gift a pet. >> griff: somebody at the office to kind of sooth the stress. >> ainsley: that is a good idea. do not mix that bet pa fish with another beta fish because they will eat each other. they attack. >> steve: giving somebody a fish is a lot of responsibility. ainsley: it it is but better than a surprise dog. like if you didn't want the dog. >> steve: the neighbor gave one of those. >> ainsley: bigger responsibility for 17 years. even though we love our dogs. >> steve: no kidding. >> ainsley: whatever you're maybe a little bit depressed about. maybe all the work you have to do taking down the christmas tree, packing up every single
ornaments that maybe the win have to do this unfortunately. just take it in stride and know that you can do it tomorrow. can you do it on thursday. can you do it over the weekend. there is no rush for that and i think, also, just try to fill your time there san article that goes with it. fill your agenda with activities. go to lunch with your friends. have that glass of wine at lunch if you want. to say. >> steve: can't do it dry january. >> ainsley: damp january. >> steve: i'm so relieved it's over i'm excited. how do you deal with it email us at friends@foxnews.com. >> ainsley: it is stressful. now we can breathe. >> griff: why you buy a fish. stage is set for the national championship. cheez-it throwing shade after the infamous pop-tart bowl. jimmy failla joins us live on his take on why this is happening. ♪ ♪
>> griff: that's not good. >> steve: that's not good. anybody who flew in or out of florida over the weekend and going through the holiday week knows for sure that there were so many ground stops because the traffic was so heavy because they simply did not have enough air traffic controllers. completely unrelated to what happened in japan. we will be bringing you details as it's 8:03 over there right now we should hear shortly. >> ainsley: yesterday was january 1st. i was getting all these text messages from people saying this year is going to be wild and crazy. two weeks of the iowa caucus. and people are talking about joe biden. they are talking about donald trump, amongst other candidates. and there is some new polls that have just been released. a and biden is not doing well among some of the groups. some of the like the young voters and he is not doing as well among african-american and hispanic voters as did he in 2020.
fox news alert. shocking footage out of japan. right now, firefighters are battling a raging fire after japan airlines flight burst into flames on the runway at tokyo international airport. >> steve: folks, these are live pictures right now that we were just looking at. here's a little play back as you can see. the plane -- the video shows the plane erupting at the tarmac while it was taxiing. 367 passengers and 12 crew members evacuated safely. japan's coast guard confirming that commercial flight was involved in a collision with a japanese coast guard plane that could be where this ignition came from. and reuters is now reporting five of the six members aboard the coast guard aircraft are unaccounted for. an investigation is underway. we are going to keep you updated on this breaking story throughout our morning. >> griff: you just stay on that shot for a second though. it is remarkable that anyone
♪ >> only gained since started getting indictment. what you thought might be kryptonite for him has turned out to be battery packs. >> this is a big one for him. presumably the supreme court will deal with it fairly quickly. i expect that they will leave him on the ballot. i do think it would rip the country apart if he were actually prevented from running because tens of millions of people want to vote for him. i think if you are going to beat donald trump, you are probably going to have to do it at the polls. >> griff: former obama senior adviser david axelrod warning dumping donald trump from the ballot would, quote, rip the country apart as the trump legal team could file charges in colorado and maine as soon as today after both states disqualified him from the ballot. monica crowley served as assistant treasury secretary under former president trump and
that the coast guard plane was on a mission to deliver aid to victims of that massive earthquake that rocked japan on new year's day. and so, the coast guard plane was taken off just as this commercial jetliner with close to 400 people was landing. sounds like they clipped each other mid-air. and then it just blew up. >> ainsley: almost 400 people were on board that large commercial airplane and all of them were able to get out safely which is remarkable when you see the images. so sorry for coast guard members who lost their lives and their families. >> steve: this was just about an hour ago. look at the flames inside that plane. this is like a disaster movie. you never see that. this is one of those instances where you actually see something like this and it's terrifying. >> griff: these are live images we are showing you. they are still battling raging fire well after an hour after the remarkable evacuation of all the passengers aboard that