griff: former presidential candidate and arkansas governor mike huckabee joins us. good morning. >> good morning and merry christmas to benjamin and griff. great to be with you guys this morning. griff: now, governor, thanks for joining us, is president biden possibly headed for a lump of coal on christmas with broken promises? what say you? >> well, he certainly has given most americans a lump of coal. i think if biden were santa claus, people wouldn't be leaving out cookies and milk. they would probably be leaving out soured eggs and rotten things here you go you deserve it the rnc put out six page memo outlining many of the broken promises with joe biden. the fact is the only promise he has really kept this year, he has united america. he said he would do it. unfortunately for him. he has united america to believe that his presidency has been an abject failure. we have seen that on a number of things. that's what this memo that the rnc released really outline. things like the border crisis. it's a mess. it still is. it's not gotten that much better. the supply ch

joe concha, mike huckabee. thank you both. when we come back, liberal leaders continue to push their draconian covid agenda and it it's getting worst and service members are now are being discharged from the military because of the vaccine mandates. butt jen psaki says it is no big deal. excuse me? dr. oz -- the fact that philly will no longer call him dr. straight head. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: big blue states cannot let go of their pandemic power grab. draconian shutdowns. california, new york now re-imposing their own unique indoor macs, mask mandates despite little signs were dated to back it up. to get this. just a day after the mandate went into effect, the new new york governor, kathy, appear to walk back saying the state will not be enforcing the order and that it is subject to individual a a counties. what is driving democratic efforts to keep the pandemic going? and to stand in the way of a full recovery and a return to normal. we have vaccines, we have boosters, wera have monoclonal antibodies the democrats

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kellyanne conway along with fox news contributor mike huckabee. kellyanne, your take, look, i know the state of georgia, i lived there a number of years, i know a lot of people there, many friends, and kemp is not particularly well liked. i don't think he would be a good top of the ticket person for the republicans. >> well, senator purdue, and obviously the purdue name is very popular across the state of georgia. he's been talking to trump and others about possibly getting in the race for governor. and stacey abrams, she's a formidable candidate because she's already gotten the celebrity treatment that can indicts like that do. she's raised millions and millions and millions of dollars from the likes of george soros and family members. michael bloomberg gave her about $5 million. she was given debate prep. pointers, because he was destroyed by elizabeth warren in about two seconds on the debate stage. this is a woman who i think everybody should pay attention to. stays aabrams group, they basically, they registered about 800,000 new voters in the

former arkansas governor mike huckabee will take that one on in our next hour. you don't want to miss that. a groom is robbed in philly on the day of his wedding but the pennsylvania district attorney claims the city doesn't a crime crisis. rolled tape. >> we don't have a crisis of lawlessness. we don't have a crisis of crime. we don't have a crisis of violence. david: why all those air quotes. i don't understand. now a pennsylvania congresswoman was carjacked at gunpoint. we've got that story coming next ♪. ♪ david: now this wonderful story. we're not making this up. the real estate market is booming in a small midwest town where there is christmas here all year long. the town is called santa claus, indiana. that is where grady trimble is. grady, why are people moving to santa claus? reporter: david, some people are drawn here because of the name. they certainly embrace it with a santa claus statue on just about every corner in town. of course where we are in front of town hall but there is another big reason and that is the low taxes. in fact the governor

stuart: of it or mike huckabee will address that. i can't wait to see what he is going to say about that. according to a writer for the atlantic if you're unvaccinated you should the last in line for hospital treatment. is that legal? is it moral? we will discuss it. senate democrats want to expand the child tax credit. republicans say we can't afford it. the problem is it is politically popular. senator marsha blackburn has strong views on this and she will join me next. at vanguard, you're more than just an investor, you're an owner with access to financial advice, tools and a personalized plan that helps you build a future for those you love. vanguard. become an owner. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let yo

let's bring in mike huckabee. great to see you. i said to start with a good news story because we've had so much bad news with omicron and other stuff. it's great that michael bloomberg is on the right side of this issue, $750 million is a lot of money giving it to charter schools because he says the teachers unions have been unresponsive and unaccountable. i think this is good news. >> i think it is great news and refreshing to see michael bloomberg spend his money on something other than gun grabs and failed presidential campaigns the didn't earn a single delegate. very good news. i also applaud him for recognizing charter schools are one of many alternatives parents ought to be able to make for their children. this is a time we've seen the failure of government schools, teachers didn't want to teach or go back because of covid so you found the teachers union fighting not to get schools open but to keep them closed. which is counterintuitive for what teachers ought to be about. it is nice to see this push by bloomberg on charter

huckabee happy new year gate tough here we've got -- outright now, that thank you, sir. we've got initial jobless claims whereofing o o o right now coming in 198,000 that is not had about i bring in mitch roschelle, angela morabito 108,000 better than expected looking for 08,000 continuing claims, -- 208,000 falling to 1.716 million the estimate 1.8968 million not may be not surprise better-than-expected nupz a massive labor shortage happening right now. >> i was expecting potential spike here, because a lot of that part-timer worker hired for the holidays may have found themselves out of work maybe because of some shutdowns, because of infections we may have seen, some furloughed workers, pretty encouraging, improvement in labor market back to the beginning of september, when we wiped out those several employment benefits the challenge remains 11 million open jobs the fact can't fill them that is going to be a big challenge in the year ahead. cheryl: you know i do these every week i remember thinking several months ago that i really wanted to see numbers get back down t

now with reaction form arkansas governor mike huckabee and former advisor to president trump steven miller. did they believe what they were saying or was it just a play what they thought was donald trump's weakness they would build their campaign on and we will figure it out when we get there? >> the truth is they didn't know what they were saying. that's what made it so bad. joe biden blurted out a little truth the other day. when he said there is no federal solution, i don't think that's what he intended to say but it's the truth and he knew it. that's what donald trump said from the beginning. we said we have to let governors manage this crisis. he understood and respected the 10th amendment. joe biden didn't. what i find most interesting is that all of the legal positions that the white house under biden has taken have been because he has the authority to set the policy. now he admitted not only does he not have the authority, but he doesn't have a clue how to fix what he claimed he would fix lock before now. the biden administration -- long before now. the biden administration needs t

huckabee said is admitting the plan or the power to shutdown the virus. >> president biden burped out a little bit of truth when he didn't expect he would be doing it. when he said there is no federal solution i don't think that's what he intended to say but it is the truth and deep down he knew it. that is what donald trump said from the beginning, that we have to let governors manage this crisis. he understood the tenth amendment, president biden didn't but what i find interesting is all of the legal positions have been because he has the authority to set the policy. now he has admitted not only does he not have the authority but doesn't have a clue to fix what he claimed he would have fixed long before now. benjamin: a lot of people saying the last he's giving it back to the governors because there is no 1-size-fits-all solution to this but it has taken a wild. the realization that can't be solved through federal mandates, vaccines, masks, all weather, a different stage of the pandemic, we don't know yet. todd: i don't understand the messaging from the white house. i don't know if

now with reaction form arkansas governor mike huckabee and former advisor to president trump steven miller. governor, let me start with you. did they believe what they were saying or was it just a play what they thought was donald trump's weakness they would build their campaign on and we will figure it out when we get there? >> thehe truth is they didn't kw what they were saying. that's what made it so bad. joe biden blurted out a little truth the other day. when he said there is no federal solution, i don't think that's what he intended to say but it's the truth and he knew it. that's what donald trump said from the beginning. we said we have to let governors manage this crisis. he understood and respected the 10th amendment. joe biden didn't. what i find most interesting is that all of the legal positions that the white house under biden has taken have been because he has the authority to set the policy. now he admitted not only does he not have the authority, but he doesn't have a clue how to fix what he claimed he would fix long beforeno now. the biden administration needs to go to th

let's bring in former republican arkansas governor and presidential candidate mike huckabee. he's a fox news contributor and democratic strategist crystal knight. governor, to you first. aishah hasnie, i'm not sure you heard her, the naughty list was more than the nice list. i want this chart on the screen. it's the consumer price index surge in 2021. the cost of everything keeps going up, governor. the president's poll numbers keep going down. it appears the democrats are digging themselves a bit of a hole. >> there's no doubt about it. when you look at fundamentals, fuel, whether it's for heating oil or for your car. when energy costs go up so dramatically, that hits everybody. it hits that single mom that can barely afford to put enough gas in her car to drop her kids off at day car and work and back and pick them up. it affects every single family. add to that the increased cost of groceries. so already the biden administration was dealing with covid explosion. joe biden said we're going to lick it, we're going to take care of it, we're going to totally control it. its co

and mike huckabee. kelly on, your take? i know it's really little and i know a lot of people there, many friends. kemp is not particularly well liked. i don't think he would be a good top of the ticket person for the republicans. >> senator perdue, obviously the purdue name is very popular across the state of georgia. he's been talking to president trump and others about possibly getting in that race for governor. stacey abrams -- obviously she's a formidable candidate because she's artie gotten the celebrity treatment that candidates like that do. she's been on the cover of fashion magazines, her campaign has raised millions and millions of dollars from the likes of george soros and the soros family members, tom steyer, michael bloomberg gave her about $5 million. i hope he also gave her -- she was destroyed by elizabeth warren in about two seconds on the debate stage. but this is a woman who i think everyone should pay attention to. stacey abrams groups -- they registered about 800,000 new voters in the last several years

huckabee. >> when you came into office, america had gone through a long period where people quit saying merry christmas. it was all happy holidays. you bldeliberately changed that >> this was in 2015. when i started campaigning, i said you are going to say merry christmas again, and now people are saying it. >> it's tempting to say this is just the old arsonist firefighter routine with some mistletoe over it but it is worth asking how this candy cane flavored insanity all began. well, ex-fox anchor bill o'reilly commonly gets credit for immaculately conceiving wart on christmas during a seasonal rant against secular progressives in 2004. but the real story of the war on christmas actually predates fox news by decades, if not centuries. and as i found out while researching our latest reality check digital series, its roots are even weirder and more revealing than you might imagine. let's work our way back to 1959 when a notorious wingnut organization known as the john birch society was busy alerting americans of an assault on christmas at the hands of the united nations. warning that the

we interviewed governor mike huckabee who was governor when there's a very terrible tornado that went through. the state of arkansas. he said they were thereafter others. long after the cameras go on long after the new cycle has moved on, they were still there. i encourage people to find a replacement donate. this tornado being on the ground for 200 miles is unfathomable. one of the tragedies of tornadoes as they come with very little notice. this one came at night. many people didn't have notice. also it tends to impact those who are poor the most. they usually have the weakest structures. some are in trailers. weaker homes. sometimes they don't have insurance or they just don't have the savings to rebuild. this was a tragedy that hurts those that can least afford it and we can't forget this is all the more tragic coming on the heels of christmas and i hope that it is a call to all of us to do everything we can to help these families because as you said, it's the memories, but photographs, it's also these little towns that lost buildings that were there for 100 years. they lose their

. >> these interviews all the time, he gives them to mike huckabee and now maria bartiromo. i'm glad you watched the interview this morning with maria bartiromo because this stuff gets missed. these comments about jews were in a publication that just came out a few days ago. but these keep coming, interviews keep coming. if interviewers ignore trump, i think they ignore them at their peril. thank you all. >>> still to come, joe manchin torpedoed the build back better bill this morning. we have analysis from the one and only carl bernstein. he's next. ♪ exploring the heart of historic europe with viking, you'll get closer to iconic landmarks, to local life and legendary treasures as you sail onboard our patented, award-winning viking longships. you'll enjoy many extras, including wi-fi, cultural enrichment from ship to shore and engaging excursions. viking - voted number one river cruise line by condé nast readers. learn more at viking.com. trelegy for copd. [coughing] ♪ birds flyin' high, you know how i feel. ♪ ♪ breeze driftin' on by... ♪ if you've been playing d

huckabee. let's watch. >> when you came into office, america had gone through a long period where people quit saying "merry christmas" or "happy holidays." you deliberately changed that. >> this was in 2015. when i started campaigning i said you are going to say merry ch christmas again, and now people are saying it. >> i think there's a mistletoe right outside of the camera frame. i mean, what a ridiculous interview, quote, unquote. it's a phony war on christmas, he's a fake field general taking credit. fox has been hammering home this nonesen for almost two decades. this goes back to the john birch society, henry ford pushing anti-semitic propaganda. but this is just nonsense. >> margaret? >> i mean, i resemble that remark about being forced to talk about the war on christmas. it is, it's a recurring trope. the thing that's historically fascinating about it is that it truly does date back to the puritans and has taken on full new steam in the middle of the 20th century as an anti-semitic trop

will: here to react, former arkansas governor mike huckabee. governor, great to see you this morning. merry christmas. we always love having you in the show. you heard there, governor, you heard the governor of texas, greg abbott, stepping up where the federal government has left a vacuum. what do you make of the entire situation? >> well, it's tragic that the state is having to do the job the federal government is supposed to do and that federal taxes pay for. you know, joe biden has this two-word line, got it. of course, it took him 37 takes to get it right, but still he did get through it -- of. [laughter] and it was beautiful. but the fact is what joe biden needs to be focused on is not the jonas brothers, but it's the wall, it's the border security. we have hundreds of thousands of people coming across. i was just in south texas last weekend doing some deer hunting, and one of the things we had to do was go up there and see if somebody was hiding because it was 30 miles from the border. the ranchers are being overrun by illegals, and it's

mike huckabee is on deck. but, first a christmas message from new york archbishop timothy cardinal dolan. >> a blessed christmas, everybody, cardinal timothy dolan here at my house right behind saint patrick's cathedral. we need a little christmas right this very moment, don't we? remember that song with the covid, with the tensions in the world and our country with all the sorrow and sadness that we see, we need some light. we need some life. we need some goodness, we need some love. we need a little christmas right this very moment. i sure wish you a blessed one. ♪ i have something for you. [husband whistles] ♪♪ hi. [wife laughs] i have something for you too. [wife whistles] ♪♪ ♪♪ step up to gmc with 0% financing on these gmc models. we...are professional grade. gmc i may have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. or psoriatic arthritis. but we are so much more. we're team players and artists. designers and do-it-yourselfers. parents and friends. if joint pain is getting in the way of who yo

we had governor mike huckabee on the program earlier. he's former arkansas governor. when he was golf of arkansas -- governor of arkansas, they had some deadly tornadoes as well, so he's got firsthand experience with. he talked about what these communities are going to be experiencing. take a listen. >> tornadoes are just a horrific occurrence because they happen so quickly. there's a sense of loss, there's a sense of shock. a lot of people it's going to be several days, maybe weeks before i ready sinks in what happened to them. and there's another piece of their lives that they're trying to figure out. they didn't just lose photos and memorabilia, they lost their social security card, their medicare card, they lost their truck driver's license, passports. they've -- driver's license. they've got to recreate an identity. it's a bizarre thing what happens in tornadoes. it just almost is inexplicable to see that one house will be perfectly pristine and next to it it's blown completely off the slab, and there's no explanation other than it is a force of nature that no on

mike huckabee, byron donald, sean duffy, a great show, december 31, 2021, "varney and company" about to begin. ashley: there is times square. all eyes on times square tonight as the ball drops. 15,000 people in person. they will have to be vaccinated. they must wear a mask. now to this. president biden and russian president putin held another call to discuss tensions in ukraine. and good morning to you. do you think -- happy new year to you. do you think putin takes biden seriously? >> probably not that much. he may take the overall american to mathematics course seriously. remember this whole idea of ukraine and letting them into nato goes back to at least george w. bush days, continue through the obama years. obama was very interested in getting ukraine in. germany and france said absolutely not. ukraine is corrupt, we can't trust them, it is going to be a mess. we kept toying with it and in the trump year, doesn't have to be that intent. when the biden administration came back and they pushed much harder for ukraine to be admitted into nato and that bothers putin because i think w

nicole saphier, dan bongino, mike huckabee, and congressman byron donalds. steve: very nice. brian: that leaves seven hours. what else are you going to do, rachel? rachel: i don't know. [laughter] brian: okay, fine. ainsley: rachel, your book, all-american christmas. you and sean wrote it together and interviewed some people at fox news about our christmas stories. it is number one in the country. rachel: i know. i'm so excited about it but i have to tell you i don't think it's about me and sean. i think that there are so many people out there who are just excited about christmas. there is pent up energy around christmas after our government tried to shut it down for two years now. and i think people are saying no more we want our traditions back. we're not going to let the government cancel christmas. and i think that that's what this is really about. and about holding on to our christian and american cultural heritage. brian: sean takes full for it that was nice of to you be deferential. brian: when i was signing books i get this picture of pete hegseth in a colonial unifor