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senior advisers, a lot of people involved and all of those folks have the trust in the president to get this done and to do these negotiations. remember, we have done negotiations multiple times here and have gotten things done for the american people and many times in a bipartisan way. so, that's what's important that the president has a team that he trusts, that has done this before in the past two years, even more, and getting these bipartisan kind of conversation compromises done, and so he entrusts in that whole entire team to get that done and sometimes it's jake sullivan, sometimes it's, you know, shalonda young and ola and others, we work as a team, as a unit to get things done. >> has his chief of staff been in the room? >> i am not going to list names but the senior advisers are involved unthis and the chief of staff, yes, the chief of staff

has been involved but again, he has a team of folks who have been critical parts of -- critical component of getting this done and having these conversations. >> clarify, been on capitol hill? >> not everybody has been on capitol hill. people have picked up the phone, have conversations, members of leadership in congress call on this side wanting to talk to maybe the chief of staff and others who are part of this, the president's team. and so conversations certainly have been had. i don't have a list of who has been back and forth from here to the hill. so, it's the president's team who has done this many times before on negotiating and finding compromise, especially on important issues that matter to the american people. >> two questions if i can. how concerned is the white house there seems to be very little movement on appropriations bills and when lawmakers get back into town after the holiday recess the first funding deadline of january 19th will be quickly approaching. >> so look, let's not forget the deal made as we are --

>> sandra: okay, so there is still not a question in the room about the house approving the formal impeachment inquiry, peter doocy is in the room, and edward lawrence, if that happens -- >> john: curious nobody has asked her a question about that. >> sandra: news in itself. >> john: stunning, i would think. if it was donald trump, it would have just been the subject of an official impeachment inquiry, the room would be on fire. the fire department would be there, five alarms, trying to keep the flames down. but nobody asked. >> sandra: this is true. a lot of the news centered around hunter biden, of course, and all of this is just coming hours after the president's son skipped that closed door deposition on capitol hill. we'll also continue listening to the white house press briefing to see if the press asks about that. questions over whether or not he will be held in contempt for

defying a congressional subpoena, that is a big question at this hour as well. again, we'll keep monitoring the white house press briefing and back in there as the news warrants. had -- hello, sandra smith in new york. >> john: john roberts in washington. republican leaders say the impeachment inquiry is necessary to force the white house to comply with their investigation while the same time giving them more leverage when seeking documents and testimony from key witnesses. >> sandra: right to it with hillary vaughan, does this formal impeachment inquiry change things for republicans? >> sandra, that's what they hope. they think that launching this formal impeachment inquiry means their subpoenas have a little more teeth and they will have a little bit better luck getting people to actually show up so these closed door depositions that they are trying to do as

part of their ongoing investigation. today the committee did hear from lesley wolf, the former assistant attorney in delaware, accused of slow walking the hunter biden irs investigation by the irs whistleblowers. >> lesley wolf, according to mr. shapley and -- you cannot talk about the big one, meaning joe biden. >> majority of interviews after the new york. and also hunter biden facing potential contempt of congress. beginning the process now. today hunter biden did an interview with axios and insisted he is innocent, saying republicans have weaponized my

dad's love for me, into evidence of corrupt complicity. democrats largely backing hunter biden for ditching the deposition out of protest he did not get the public hearing he demanded. >> they said multiple times he could testify publicly or privately, and he said publicly, so he showed up. >> he didn't answer any of our questions. he said he wanted it to be in public with cameras there, but we tried to ask him questions, he didn't say anything. what do you think he's afraid of or what do you think he's hiding? why -- >> i don't know what james comer is afraid of. he said hunter could testify publicly, and then comer no wanted him publicly. >> as far as the timeline goes, looks like the biden family will be ringing in the new year with a few new problems, president biden himself potentially facing impeachment in 2024 and his son hunter biden could be potentially facing jail time if he's prosecuted for the contempt of congress.

sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughan live on capitol hill, appreciate it. thank you. >> john: take a look at this. exclusive video obtained by fox shows another mass surge of migrants waiting to catch trains in mexico this. is about three hours away from the u.s. border. border officials are already at their breaking point with nearly 15,000 migrant encounters just this week alone. fox team coverage now, brian kilmeade's reaction to that and the slow moving border security talks in washington in moments. but first, to our griff jenkins, live from eagle pass, texas, where the migrant train is headed and griff, we understand border patrol agents have encountered almost a record number of migrants just where you are let alone across the entire southwestern border. what's it looking like right now?

>> that's right, john. they are just getting absolutely hammered, more than 2000 every day since i've been here. the week's total since i've been here is just shy of 15,000. get 24, the last 24 hours, more than 11,000 migrant encounters and nine sectors that line our southern border. in five of the nine, they have gotten more than at least 1,000. the cartels are hammering these agents at every turn and they know well what they are doing. i want to show you our live camera, 286, the migrants are processed right here under the bridge. we have a couple hundred slowly trickling in. they will be taken to a soft sided process and many of them, if not most of them released on an nta, that's what's driving them, the guarantee they will be released and the exclusive video, i want to go to the train, three hours south, they'll be here soon, john. if not tonight, by tomorrow.

and that train shows thousands of migrants waiting to get on trains to come right here. now, i want to bring in a special guest we have here, i've been talking to odden, a mexican independent journalist and you live in mexico, you see this every day. what do we need to know about the train and why can't mexico stop it? >> that's one of the things i've been documenting on the mexican side is most of these migrants, they are riding this freight train because they are free, poor, they don't have a bus ticket. mexican officials do everything to get them off the train, in this case they got them off about 100 miles -- >> griff: i'm sorry, john, you have news there. you get the idea the trains won't stop. >> sandra: on the heels of the formal house impeachment inquiry vote that happened, the who --

white house is responding to that, and referenced house republicans as wasting time. listen here. >> the president has done wrongdoing, there's none, absolutely none, none, and that is just a fact. you have heard it from republicans themselves so they are wasting their time instead of doing the work on behalf of the american people, they go after the president's family. but that's a waste of time. >> is there an easy way to counter the central message, though, that the president interated with associates and has been lying about it since? >> the president is not lying about anything as it relates to what house republicans are trying to do. it is baseless, a political stunt, and he has -- it has not proven that the president has done anything wrong, anything wrong. and so they are wasting their time, they are wasting the american people's time and what they should be doing, the things i just listed. they are going to go home, they have not taken care of what we need to make sure that we are helping ukraine. there is going to be potentially

a shutdown next month, they have done nothing to avert the shutdown. >> to follow up the concerns of the hispanic caucus and some other groups. have they now been contacted by white house officials to the ongoing -- >> we have been in touch with them, that's what i can say, we have heard their concerns, we have had conversations, been in regular touch. i'm not going to go into details about the conversation. >> two other things. you keep mentioning how the house has left town. would the president consider postponing christmas vacation plans of his own? >> we are hoping a deal is done. i can't talk about changes in the president's schedule. we have a week left before that happens. we know the conversation is going well, right, it's going in the right direction, we believe, we are encouraged by that, the president's team on the hill and also today -- i'm sorry, tuesday, and that's encouraging,

that's what we are going to focus on. we don't have anything on the pres president's schedule. he will go to milwaukee and then to the national cathedral to give words on sandra day o'connor. >> as we near, should we anticipate a year-end news conference. >> he just did a press conference. co-start -- no, took more than two questions. there were four -- there were two plus two, ok, for american press. look, guys, i -- you said it, not i, ed. look, he did a two plus two on tuesday, gosh, the week is going by really fast, on tuesday with president zelenskyy, you heard the president speak very passionately and important -- an important way about the way forward how he wants to move -- >> sandra: i guess the answer

is, i don't know, but we'll see. brian kilmeade is here, "fox & friends" co-host of one nation, he's got a live book tour coming up, good to have you here. i keep reminding our viewers, we will jump back in as she continues to take questions here. first your reaction to what you just heard there. says republicans are wasting time, they are wasting time when they could be working on behalf of the american people. calls the impeachment inquiry baseless, it's a political stunt, the president did nothing wrong. your reaction. >> brian: my reaction, she better have a plan b because we don't know what the president did wrong or right. we know he has not been candid. nothing to do with his son's overseas business dealings, and now called in according to devon archer, and met with business partners in the past, and tony said he dealt with him directly in beverly hilton, he's coming

in, too. just look at the republican caucus. they were not ready to produce a majority vote to have an inquiry, impeachment inquiry three weeks ago. now they looked at this, they said the material that they have already gotten from the witnesses they have already brought in is so overwhelming, this crazy chaos caucus voted to make this an official impeachment inquiry so there is a lot there. now the president of the united states calls everyone liars, you are lying, and said 51 intel agentis said it was russian misinformation, knowing it was beau biden's bumper sticker and his emails on there, and someone looks you in the eye and lies to you you wonder what else they are lying about. and you saw yesterday from hunter is a stunt, and from eric swalwell he says he'll go in front of the masses and do something publicly.

we know, sandra and john, five minutes, and then they come in, raskin asks, and they say donald trump is behind it. so impeachment and investigations and donald trump. >> sandra: ok, on that note, we had debbie dingell on at the top of the last hour, this is call for 3, she thinks that this impeachment inquiry will be a political liability for the gop in the 2024 presidential election. >> i think it's a real problem for republicans and seats that biden won, some by as much as 13 points. many people, not -- it's an issue, are going to call it exactly what it is, a political issue. >> sandra: is it, brian? >> brian: if this is a full blown impeachment, yeah, it's a problem. it's an inquiry. six out of ten people when asked

surveyed thinks joe biden knew about his son's overseas business dealings and they are concerning. china, kazakhstan, ukraine, moscow mayor, the richest woman in the country, pretty significant. what did you say about it, nothing. what did we find about it, a lot. if it ends up being a vote for impeachment, you are right, it will help donald trump. but the investigation is revealing things along the way that are not disputeable because they are partners of the biden, of hunter biden and now coming forward. they fractured from the family, and devon archer's case and look out for schwerin and bobolinski, he was threatened being sued by the biden, and said bring it on. >> sandra: amazing how few questions were on the impeachment inquiry. you are like a rock star, on

tour. >> brian: friday night on fox nation i talk about the war on history and teddy and booker t.. >> sandra: good to have you here. there you have it. >> john: hanukkah menorah draped in a palestinian flag, putting a damper on the jewish holiday across the country. more troubling examples of this. >> sandra: sexual violence committed by hamas terrorists is well documented but not officially investigated, and a group of bipartisan senators are demanding the united nations look into it. iowa republican joni ernst is among them. she will be joining us live next. miralax works naturally with the water in your body to help you go... ...free your gut. and your mood will follow. for 8 grams of fiber, try new mirafiber gummies.

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>> sandra: the last night of hanukkah but the festival of lights is not shining as bright as usual this year. menorahs are vandalized worldwide, and here in the united states since the hamas war began. gillian, what's the state department saying about these antisemitic crimes? >> gillian: the state department is forcefully condemning antisemitism since october 7th, the day hamas attacked israel. the reality, though, is that the jewish holidays this year have been menaced by this spate of overtly antisemitic attacks, including vandalism of menorahs. in connecticut near yale university's campus, fofficials say they scaled it and placed a

palestinian flag on top. >> it's a deeply, deeply painful thing to see. it evokes thousands of years of trauma and pain for the jewish community. >> this potential crime and most important every one of you who have come out because you are being here sends a message. we will not tolerate hate in america. >> gillian: in brooklyn, new york, one rabbi tells us the nypd hate crimes unit is investigating vandalism of two menorahs at his congregation. >> a beautiful diverse community but since october 7th the streets of new york, streets of brooklyn are different. we are experiencing real antisemitism. anyone who denies it is an

anti-semite themselves. >> gillian: and also this in lakewood, illinois. >> you made us stronger, make sure there's a menorah here this hanukkah. >> gillian: they are battling antisemitism abroad as well, take a look at this incident in the polish parliament. a member of parliament uses a fire extinguisher to snuff out a lit menorah, chaos ensued. that happened a few days back. but the menorah was relit earlier this morning thankfully. also worth noting on this topic that there were several bomb threats made against temples in america today, two we know of in missouri, one in west palm beach, florida, also the day before yesterday, statewide threats made against synagogues across hawaii and law enforcement investigators are now looking into all of those

threats. >> sandra: gillian turner with all of that live at the state department for us. thank you. john. >> john: sandra, from that to this. a bipartisan group of senators is urging the united nations to open an investigation into a growing body of evidence that suggests hamas committed sexual violence against israeli women during the attack on october 7th. 33 senators wrote a letter to the u.n. secretary general demanding an investigation with survivor and witness testimonies. one of the authors of the letter, senator joni ernst of iowa. great to see you. you together with gillibrand and others said in part, we write to express our profound disappointment with the united nations response to hamas's widespread sexual violence, including rape and mutilation as a weapon of war of the women of israel october 7, 2023. sexual violence on this scale and level of brutality must be condemned unequivocally and

without qualification, why we are shocked it took u.n. women nearly two months to speak out against these atrocities. and john bolton said you can take top 20 floors off the u.n. and would not make a difference. >> we saw it took the u.n. women 57 days to come out and condemn sexual violence and mutilation against israeli women and men that was committed by hamas. these are atrocious acts. it's not about sexual excitement for hamas, it is about degradation, it is about humiliation, it is about the power behind the act, and again, if this had been any other group of individuals, the united nations would have been out right away. the reason they weren't, these women are jewish. that's it. that is it.

so we are sorely disappointed in the united nations. they hide behind the facade of a human rights organization and they have failed miserably. >> john: and one was on cnn and asked by the host why she couldn't condemn hamas for engaging in sexual violence as a weapon of war. listen to the answer. >> u.n. women always supports impartial, independent investigations into any serious allegations of gender-based or sexual violence, and within the u.n. family these investigations are led by the office of the high commissioner of human rights. >> john: she went on from there with a stunning word salad of bureaucratic gobbly-gook. >> call it what it is, sexual violence and mutilation, that's what it is. hamas is a terrorist

organization, they are backed by the iranians, and again, i charge anyone out there unite d nations, i charge anyone if one woman is raped, two women are raped, dozens, hundreds of women are raped, decry it for what it is. >> john: they seem to have a problem doing that. quick to call for a ceasefire yesterday but would not support a resolution condemning hamas. a month from monday are the iowa caucuses. let's put up on the screen where things sit in the race according to a new nbc poll, trump, desantis, nikki haley, and kim reynolds has thrown in with ron desantis, does not look good for anybody whose name is not trump. >> i do believe that donald trump will come out the victor

and the iowa caucuses. every indication we saw that poll, i think he is, headed well on his way there. but there are a number of other favorites, especially if you look at nikki haley and ron desantis, they are virtually running neck and neck in this race and then the follow-on states will tell a pretty big story as well. but all indications are we are headed for a trump victory in iowa. >> john: history of iowa has produced some surprises, but not typically when the front-runner has -- >> normally the front runner in iowa has not typically gone on to win the presidency. so who knows, folks, who knows. >> john: a lot can change, maybe not, we'll see. senator, great to see you. thanks for stopping by. >> sandra: done with the white house briefing and now moments away from a pentagon briefing as the war in gaza rages on in the third month now, more than 130 hostages remain in hamas custody.

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>> i have my literal business marketing degree and i make more serving sushi rolls because i was -- i've been applying to marketing [bleep] for weeks now, and the pay cut is insane. >> sandra: let's bring in larry kudlow, host of kudlow on fox business. who better to respond to tiktok. >> larry: why do these young kids always complain? seriously. >> sandra: i don't know if it's the case. >> larry: it was a whine, give it to me, i don't want to work for it. how about work for it, and you think you are working hard, six days a week, easily. i did that for so many years. i'm still doing it. i work on saturdays. and you think you are working harder, that just means you have to work harder still, and if you majored -- what did john say, major in greek history or greek

philosophy, there's nothing wrong with that if it teaches you to think. but when you get a job, let them train you, you have to work your butt off constantly. that's my -- i don't know that it's true for all kids. you are right, you are 100% right but i hear it too much. i used to give talks to the white house interns, true story, a couple hundred of them, bless their little hearts, beautiful looking, scrubbed ties and every darn thing possible and the same rift to them, probably spoke to them three times a year for three years and i would just beg them to work harder than they have ever worked in their lives. >> sandra: message well taken. and one i have lived by. but, does she have a point, though? are they growing up in an economy that, you know, they are basically getting the shaft when it comes to, you know, finding a job that is -- that pays them enough so they can go out and buy things and live a nice life. this was -- i'm going to let you rift on this in a second.

kjp was talking at the microphone at the white house and admitted an environment where things are not affordable, listen. >> larry: that's it, that's the key. >> what you say to americans who are looking at the month president biden came into office, eggs up 24%, milk up 17%, gas is up, prices overall up 17%. >> the president spoke to this not too long ago, i believe on tuesday, actually, a couple days ago and says we know there is more work to be done, right, and this things are still unaffordable. >> sandra: there you have it. >> larry: rare moment of honesty from them, and i'll give credit where credit is due. look, there are some positives in the economy. very seldom all bad or all good. holiday shopping may be a tiny bit better than people were concerned about a few weeks ago. the federal reserve deserves some credit for getting

inflation down. here is what the fed has done. they have not gotten help from the bidens. the bidens are spending like drunken sailors and want to spend more and that's going to be a big problem down the road. but, the fed has tightened the money supply and raised interest rates substantially. they may be coming to an end for the interest rate hikes, but the damage is done. you will see a very soft weak economy, perhaps a deflationary economy, perhaps recessionary economy next year. >> sandra: geez, ba hum bug, larry. >> larry: market rates. maet rates have been coming down for a couple months, that's not as fabulous a sign as one would hope it is. but, these kids, all right, affordability, the level of prices and the level of interest rates, although are coming back down, they are still out of reach, and that's made life much tougher. >> sandra: and take issue with

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>> john: san francisco spent millions of dollars cleaning up the streets during the recent apec summit but just weeks after the news crews and the extra police left, the homeless and the problems came back along with the needles, trash and human waste. it has left many residents of san francisco wondering if the clean-up was just for show. let's bring in michael shellenberger, environmental progress president and the author of "san francisco," good to have you in the studio. was it just for show, remember when gavin newsom said this back in the middle of november. >> san francisco, don't count yourself out. the city, the state is resilient. i'm really proud of what's been happening here and i'm so excited about showing this off to 21 fancy foreign leaders from around the world, tens of thousands of people that will come in and wonder what the hell fox news has been talking about all these years.

>> john: so they clean it up and look great, peter doocy said you could eat off the sidewalk but eat off the sidewalk now, might be dog poop. >> he almost admitted it, basically acknowledging, so cynical, that's the thing that worries me. people start to lose hope in anything really and it's shocking because the governor of california is a very powerful person. he has huge amounts of resources at his disposal and he's the one that is needed to provide the leadership that the city needs. they can provide shelter and medicine to people that come into san francisco and many parts of california he could have that authority, that's what other states do. he has not done that, he just seeks to blame outsiders, fox news or governor desantis for the various problems. >> john: and what else he said about cleaning up the streets of san francisco for apec. >> any time you put on an event by definition, you know, you have people over to your house, you clean up the house. you are going to make sure the

kids, make their beds. take the socks, you know, put them in the drawer. >> john: auntie and uncle are coming over, clean up the house. is he saying essentially we care more about what world leaders think than what residents and people paying taxes think. >> that's absolutely what he's saying and we pay the highest taxes in the country in california. huge income tax, huge sales tax, huge tech industry in san francisco and california but plenty of resources, in fact all of the spending is a reason we have the problems. subsidizing addiction, they literally pay people to be homeless in san francisco and that's the underlying problem, there is no discipline, no law enforcement and there's no mandating of the treatment that people with mental illness and drug addiction need in order to get into recovery. >> john: a fellow who owns a consignment store in san

francisco, thieves came in and just before they went to crash through with hammers and axes, jewelry case, he pulls out his .38 revolver pistol and points it at them and they are scrambling as they take off and get in cars, just as the police officer pulls up and chases them down the street. i think they still managed to get away. but you know, this -- this is the glorious, fabulous, shining city on a hill, gavin newsom was talking about for the apec conference and you've got people who own consignment stores having to pull guns on these guys so they did not rob him blind. >> and you have the governor out there moralizing gun ownership, and claiming california is the best, but created a despere situation he's left homeowners and property owners with little choice than to protect themselves against home invasions, store invasions, it's truly lawlessness right now.

>> john: seems the thieves did not have weapons or if they did, they didn't pull them. but something like that could end up in a shootout but you have to protect yourself. >> absolutely, and 540 police officers shore in san francisco and new calls to cut the police budget even more. >> john: michael, great to see you. see if the problems ever get worked out. not holding my breath, though. sand. >> sandra: russia has once again extended the pretrial detention of "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich. and now vladimir putin is speaking out about him. >> john: and the fight to bring evan home. that is coming up next. he subwa. now that's a deal worth celebrating. man, what are you doing?! get it before it's gone on the subway app. ♪ after advil dual action back pain: yo. who. haha. [dog barks] what? my back feels better. [rewind sound]

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>> vladimir putin says he's willing to release evan gershkovich in a prison swap. matt finn is live in london. what did putin say here in. >> earlier today he said that russia is not refusing to release these two americans in prison. in a short while later, the u.s. state department responded saying if putin is serious about releasing the americans, he should take a closer look at the good faith offers that america has already made.

>> we have put multiple offers on the table. there's one offer that we made as recently as a few weeks ago. we have seen those offers rejected every time by the russian government. >> today putin re-ignited hope that americans, evan gershkovich and paul whalen might be freed. >> we are in communication with american partners on that. the dialogue is john going. i will not speak about the details now. we're speaking a language that we both understand. i hope we find a solution. >> reporter evan gershkovich has been held more than 250 days in russia on allegations of spying. the u.s. says evan never worked for the government and is being wrongfully detained by russia. russia has extended his imprisonment until the end of january. paul whelan was sentenced to 16 years on allegations of

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>> john: moments ago at the white house, peter doocy asked about a report that claims that vice president harris is at odds with the president over the israel-hamas war. >> there's a leak that the vice president is upset with the president about gaza. >> that's a great question. i just -- i mean, if i could answer a question why somebody

would leak, that would make me pretty smart and smarter than i am. let me just -- just give me a second here. you've seen us officially end on the record, not in a leak, refute the basic premise of the story that there's some sort of daylight between the president and the vice president. i found the headline interesting. that the vice president is pushing the white house to you fill in the blank, xyz. >> john: a lot of news about the white house and the war going on there. jake sullivan pushing back on the idea that the president has told netanyahu that he wants this wrapped up by the end of the year. >> sandra: that's a lot that happened in two hours. good to be with you today. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: that's why we're here every day. see you tomorrow. i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> thanks, guys. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum