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well welcome back merry christmas
we're having a wonderful day here but uh
we're thrilled to have somebody who's
dear to our hearts all of us know him so
well and you know him at home he's a fox
news contributor dan bongino
dan's been going through some tough
tough things with his health and
i haven't seen him on the air since
before the election but
dan you you're looking good merry
christmas give us an update how you
feeling what's going on in your life
thanks jason it's good to see you all
griff nicole as well
uh yeah thank you i appreciate it i've
been working out and sticking to my
routine you know
unfortunately i was diagnosed with uh
with cancer hodgkin's lymphoma and i
want to thank nicole specifically and
all the team at fox for helping me
uh get through it so it's it's been
tough you know you i'm tired the chemo
is rough
you know i you got to get through it
with a bit of a sense of humor though i
kind of joke i tell everyone i give
chemo zero stars on amazon i
i don't recommend it but it but two
thumbs down on yelp but it definitely
works i got my next and
hopefully last treatment uh this coming
tuesday
so it should be back to full force i'll
be in for sean on a monday night jason
something you're intimately familiar
with
so uh but thank you to all of the uh
specifically to all the viewers out
there
on fox i get your emails i read all of
your social media posts
and um really it's been heartwarming i'm
i'll be i will be a-okay though i
promise you my
the prognosis is really good um
unfortunately unlike our friend rush who
really is um having a rough time right
now rush limbaugh god bless him and his
struggle too
and everyone out there struggling with
this really awful uh disease
it stinks two thumbs down big time
well dan you know i really have to
commend you on how open you've been with
all of your fans and your viewers you've
really
let them be with you during this process
as you know everyone
will either have a cancer diagnosis
themselves or know someone that will and
so it is great to see someone like you
continue to be positive even though you
have moments of
feeling sad or scared or concerned but
to turn it around and be positive and
show that
you know if you trust those around you
and you really trust the process you
have faith you know
you can get through anything and so just
thank you for all that you do
for everyone watching oh you're welcome
and then
i just want to give a hat tip again to
memorial sloan kettering i know nicole
obviously you're familiar with that
institution they did the operation where
they took the tumor out and md anderson
which has been caring for me as well
just brilliant people we have the best
medical system in the world and uh
really all the doctors out there caring
for people during this season
uh thank you and thanks to everyone
who's been caring for me too it's just
uh it's been amazing make sure you ring
your bell
yeah i will soon come in treatment take
a video
i want to see you all right all right i
did i put a picture on instagram of my
my last chemo i had like what i called
the chemo smirk on
because you know it's coming the first
few days after chemo are generally rough
but the second week with this week i'm a
okay i feel great so everyone in the
audience
don't waste a minute worrying about me
i'm a-okay well danny you look great and
no surprise you are a
fantastic fighter and you're doing a
great job and obviously this is a
different
christmas for you and i understand you
may have some surprises for us
yeah well for this christmas season the
audience has been so great to me
so i wanted to give back so i'm wearing
my folds of honored shirt
we did a ten thousand dollar donation of
folds of honor which was matched by our
friends at patriot mobile by the way
very thank you for that but i i saw
yesterday one of the tunnel
the towers commercials on fox so and i
thought of rick reichmuth who
he did a donation of falls of oddity
remember he wanted to get one of those
big checks
but he couldn't get out and do one so he
did his own big check so i did my own
big check
um it's actually small check uh we're
gonna do one for tunnel to towers today
for ten thousand dollars thank you
tunnel to towers uh mortgage free homes
for our heroes
and i was touched also by dave portnoy
from barstool sports who has raised
close to five million dollars for
restaurants so here's my other fake big
check and you'll notice i had to cross
it out
because i just learned about i was going
to do 5 000 but i'm going to do another
10 000 of dave portnoy's bar stool fun
for struggling restaurants those heroes
out there in a restaurant that have been
feeding us through this pandemic
at unbelievable risks to yourselves so
we're going to do another 10
000 for that too well dan
i mean you are an incredible human being
thank you for all that you're doing for
yourself
for helping small businesses and those
who really need it
and you know we're so happy to have you
here dan you look wonderful and i hope
2021 brings you nothing but health and
happiness
no i appreciate it i just got some
special guests i got to bring on who
have a message for the whole nation
come on kiddos i saw conscious beautiful
daughters
coming there's one this is my daughter
isabel and amelia
no dad you know everything's backwards
on return so whatever i point
these are my two daughters i love these
two what do you want to say girls to the
nation
merry christmas america there you go
she's a patriot too so
hey girls i have a quick question for
your daughters
what's it like what's it like with
dan bongino as your dad they want to
know what's it like to have dan bongino
as your dad wait hold on microphone
what's it like
televisible it's pretty cool
we get to do a lot of cool stuff a lot
of cool stuff there you go what do you
think
daddy's the best daddy's the best dude i
didn't pay her for that
i didn't pay her that's two thumbs up on
yelp i did not pay her for that that she
just knows
all right you know what i did one more
thing thank you very much but we were on
fox with friends once
she loved me she remembered time with
him thank you and we've got to leave it
there
merry christmas bongino family we'll be
back with more fox and friends after
this