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the house. thank you so much larry merry christmas happy hanukkah. welcome to the "evening edit" i'm elizabeth macdonald. >> we're going to go full prosperity and to build the greatest economy the world has ever seen just as we had just a short time ago. the golden age of america, i call it, its begun. liz: president-elect trump with a refreshing press conference taking reporter questions on policy and how he wants to fix america. we're going to show you the new sound, and trump's nominee to be ambassador to israel, governor mike huckabee will join us, plus trump asked the ceo of softbank on camera to double his $100 billion investment in america to create 200,000 jobs. that's what america can expect from trump. the art of the deal in realtime, also tonight, the update on trump's hhs secretary nominee rfk jr. is his make or break

week on capitol hill. we've got that and also this story. >> the bernie sanders, elizabeth warren faction of the democrat party with some of this defund the police, biological males in womes sports. these things had a lot of the people in the middle class flee the democratic party. liz: we've got more from outgoing senator mitt romney and who says the democratic party is in ruins plus he is praising trump. tonight greg jarrett breaks that down and this new bombshell. biden is rubber stamping his pardons setting free from prison criminals. why? because biden could not know the specifics and actual details about these people and their crimes. he just wanted glowing headlines plus this story. >> you guys finally for illegal aliens who haven't put a dime in this country, this falls on you. i don't care, it falls on you.

you're the mayor of this town. >> we don't want migrants terrorizing our own people. liz: okay, we've got news coming into the studio. it's happening right now. chicago's city council meeting now underway. chicago residents want the democrat socialist mayor brandon johnson to go. leave office, for prioritizing illegal aliens over american citizens but the mayor is doubling down, attacking trump. chicago voter p-rae easley will join us plus the update on the mystery drones, are we closer to getting any answers on this , we've got an expert on the ground but first this story. the news this hour, hhs secretary nominee rfk jr. , he is now scheduled to meet with more than two dozen senators in a make or break week on capitol hill. hillary vaughn live from washington with more on the story. hillary good to seen you question. reporter: great to be with you, liz. kennedy has already ticked off a few senators on his list and

wrapped up a meeting with senator rick scott and now meeting with senator ron johnson and kennedy is getting his steps in here on capitol hill. he is kicking off a marathon week of meetings with over two dozen senators. his spokesperson telling fox business that kennedy is energized and excited. kennedy's nomination has faced some unease from some republicans who are skeptical of his past comments on vaccines. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell who contracted polio as a child had some concerns about kennedy's comments on the polio vaccine specifically, but kennedy told reporters today, he is all for the polio vaccine. the "wall street journal" reports that kennedy's strategy going into these meetings is to focus on cleaning up our food supply and not focusing as much on vaccines. president-elect trump said kennedy is not extreme. >> i think he's got a very open mind or i wouldn't have put him there. he's very much less radical.

reporter: kennedy is not just courting conservatives but meeting across the aisle with some democrats even. some of them are more open-minded to his nomination than you would think. senator corey booker says he's not an automatic no on kennedy. john fetterman is also not immediately a no and even senator bernie sanders said kennedy's takes on the food industry is "exactly right." are you open to voting yes on rfk jr. , senator? >> the process, you know, there is a process. i'm going to sit down and i'll talk to him and have a hearing on it and it's premature to say how i will vote. reporter: and liz, trump was asked today if kennedy well revoke any vaccines outright. he said no, that he just wants kennedy to prepare a report on vaccine safety and senator rick scott following his meeting with rfk jr. said that he really just wants to know about or just wants transparency around vaccines and the risks that they may or may not come with. liz? liz: great reporting hillary

vaughn thank you so much. >> there's a light shining over the world. we're trying to help very strongly getting the hostages back as you know, with israel and the middle east. since the election, i've been working every day to put the world at ease a little bit to get rid of the wars. we had no wars when i left office. the biggest difference is that people want to get along with me this time. well they've gone through four years and wasn't easy for me but wasn't easy for them either. we'll be opening up a lot of businesses and pouring in because of our tax policy, and we're going to use the money we made to pay off debt and to reduce taxes. we're going to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of wasted fraud and i can only tell you, i'll give you a little early report they are finding things you wouldn't even believe. i'll keep my promise to pass historic tax cuts for families, workers and businesses that create jobs in america. we'll immediately restore the sovereign borders of the united states and stop illegal immigration which is

costing us i believe trillions of dollars. liz: well, that was president-elect trump at his press conference today a refreshing change taking questions, talking policy. joining us now trump's nominee for u.s. ambassador to israel former arkansas governor mike huckabee. governor, congratulations. your reaction to trump talking detail policies. >> well he's refreshing to hear a president who knows what he's talking about, who has a very very specific plan of how to bring prosperity and jobs to this country. i thought it was incredible and very trump-like that when a $100 billion investment is announced he looks at the guy and says let's make it 200 billion and does it in front of everybody. you've gotta love that, and the interesting thing is that, you know, there was not a pulling of the hair when all that happened. i think donald trump is going to bring a level of economic activity to this country, the likes of which we have never

seen before. its already started and liz, we're a little more than a month away from when the man takes office. liz: yeah, and now we see justin trudeau is at a 20% approval rating and his party in shambles, his deputy just stepped down. you know, let's show that moment when trump talked today on camera about doubling a massive $100 billion to the united states from softbank. he wants 200,000 jobs. he wants 200 billion. watch the art of the deal in realtime. watch this. >> i would really like to celebrate the great victory of president trump, and my confidence level to the economy of the united states has tremendously increased with his victory, so because of that, i'm now excited to commit th

this $100 billion and hundred thousand jobs into the united states. >> going to ask him right now. would you make it $200 billion? >> [laughter] liz: [laughter] it's great, right? i mean, so you see trump in action. is the era of failed democrats socialist policies that obama started, under biden, biden took up that baton and ran down the road with it. is that now over or is it changing? do you see the media reacting more positively to trump? where are the house democrats responding positively too. >> i think the past is definitely over and whether the media gets it or not i frankly don't care and i don't think anybody in america cares. they just aren't that relevant anymore. they've proven themselves to be not only dishonest but so discreet id the we don't pay that much attention to them but we are paying attention to is somebody who shows up with the checkbook and says here is 100 billion and the president looks at him and says let's double that and make it

200 billion and 200,000 jobs, and he doesn't run for the exit. this is classic economic stimulation for the country. i love the way he does business. it's straight-up transparent. there's not a lot of hand ringing or let's go back and sweat it out. no. he just says here is what we would like and you know what? people respect that, liz. a lot. it's working. liz: 49 states have swung red. there's only one state that's blue it's massachusetts. it's basically the map is democrat-run cities. let's listen to trump talk more policy. he says he will fire stay-at-home government bureaucrats working from home and listen to him slamming biden for selling off pieces of the border wall. watch. >> if people don't come back to work, come back into the office they are dismissed, and somebody in the biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that so for five years people don't have to come back into the office. it involved 49,000 people

for five years, they don't have to go. they just signed this thing. it's ridiculous, so it was like a gift to a union, but now, we had, we ordered an additional 200 miles of wall. it's very expensive, and now it's about double the price of what it would have been six years ago. what they are doing, it's almost a criminal act. liz: governor, what do you expect more we'll see coming out from when trump takes office, his people getting power. what more will they uncover? >> well the fact they have uncovered that 94% of the federal workforce are working from home. whenever, liz, in the history of the world, do the employees get to tell the employer what their conditions of work are going to be? i've never had a job like that. i've been working since i was a child even before i was a teenager. i never got to dictate the terms. i love the way that donald trump is treating this like a business

ceo would treat it and say here are the conditions. you don't want to come to work, fine. you'll find something else to do but it won't be with the federal government. god bless him. liz: my parents, like you, never wanted stay-at-home children, not working. they wanted us out of the house working. governor huckabee congratulations again, good to see you. thank you, liz. >> the government knows what is happening. look, our military knows where they took off from. if it's a garage they can go right into that garage. they know where it came from and where it went. liz: that was president-elect trump on the mystery of drones over the east coast saying our government knows exactly what is happening. let's welcome to the show new jersey assembly republican whip brian bergen. brian we've seen you in action. do you agree with trump our government knows what's happening? we hear eye witnesses say they are seeing fleets of dozens of

drones more sophisticated than they ever imagined flying in off the ocean reportedly eight to 1. they can't be detected because they don't give off heat. what are these drones? what do you think? what's going on? >> well first of all, i think our government at least here in the state of new jersey and everybody trying to figure this out is completely incompetent and not able to figure out what's going on so if somebody does know what these drones are i don't think it's the state police or the department of homeland security. i don't know who would know, but what i can tell you is that they aren't doing enough to figure it out and that's what really annoys me here. we have all of the resources. we have a governor that is one of the most powerful governors in the entire country with a national guard at his disposal. they can put these resources to bear, to figure out exactly what is going on so we don't have to guess. i represent 250,000 people who are nervous and they don't need to be. liz: well, what is it? whose doing it?

i mean, dhs secretary mayorkas says it's more people flying drones at night because of an faa rule change that opened that up. we're paying nearly l $50 billion a year on defense and we can't figure out whose flying these drones? who do you think is doing it? >> we should be able to. i have no idea whose doing it but secretary mayorkas, you know, he's dead wrong, and it's the type of attitude like that that he has that has prolonged this issue. if they would commit the resources to figure it out, hopefully we would know by now. like you're saying we are the united states of america. i live in the state of new jersey with a $56 billion budget. we can't put a couple folks on this to follow one back to where it comes? it's really driving me crazy, and the in epitude is perpetuated by people like the secretary making excuses and maybe not committing as much resources as they should be. liz: its now taken the biden white house three times as long to figure out this versus the chinese spy balloon which

finally shot down. brian bergen, good to see you. >> thanks for having me. >> he said what he was going to do and that's what he's doing. people are saying i don't like this appointment or this policy he's talking about but those are the things he said he would do in iran. liz: we'll show you more sound from out go senator mitt romney going after the democrat party for being out of touch, intolerant elites. plus he's applauding trump. that's a 180. town hall.com political editor guy benson is a great writer and thinker. he's going to take it on plus this. this happening right now. chicago city council is now meeting. they want their democrat socialist mayor brandon johnson to go. they say he's been botching the illegal alien crisis prioritizing illegals including criminals over americans, breaking his oath of office protect americans. we'll show you the numbers chicago voters there have been paying for this. chicago voter p ray easley ready

to sound off on that. also greg jarrett is here on a now report out of politico. president biden didn't know the specifics about criminals he pardoned. why? because biden is just rubber stamping their get out of jail free cards to get positive headlines that he pardoned the most ever. really? also this story. >> we need a great media. we need a fair media. liz: we will show you more from president-elect trump speaking today. plus, what he said about the need on that for a free and fair media. tonight, this story as well. the emotional story of hurricane helena victims. they're spending christmas still stuck intents three months after hurricane helena hit. is biden getting them more money? he's giving billions to countries overseas. new york congresswoman claudia tenney is ready to break that down. all these stories tonight. please don't go. we'll be back in two.

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it's our son, he is always up in our business. it's the verizon 5g home internet i got us. oh... he used to be a competitive gamer but with the higher lag, he can't keep up with his squad. so now we're his “squad”. what are kevin's plans for the fall? he's going to college. out of state, yeah. -yeah in the fall. change of plans, i've decided to stay local. oh excellent! oh that's great! why would i ever leave this? -aw! we will do anything to get him gaming again. you and kevin need to fix this internet situation. heard my name! i swear to god, kevin! -we told you to wait in the car. everyone in my old squad has xfinity. less lag, better gaming! i'm gonna need to charge you for three people. >> the bernie sanders, elizabeth warren faction of the democrat party with some of this , you know, defund the police, biological males in women's sports. these things had a lot of people in the middle class just flee the democratic party.

i don't know how they recover. they've lost their base. i mean, union guys and gals have left the democratic party. the democratic party has seen not as rich people, but as college professors and woke scolds. he said what he was going to do and that's what he's doing. people are saying oh, i don't like this appointment or this policy he's talking about but those are the things he said he was going to do. liz: welcome back. that was outgoing senator mitt romney. he's not a fan of trump. he says trump won overworking class and middle class voters. why? because democrats socialists and the democrat party has become too extreme, too radical, too out of touch. joining us now, town hall.com political editor guy benson. guy? it's great to see you again. what do you make of this? he called them woke scolds. >> he's so right. i mean what a perfect way to describe the elite of the democratic party and their media establishment that backs

them. they are woke. they might try to runaway from that soon, but they've been woke for a number of years and more than anything, they scold about how everyone else is terrible and romney hit the nail on the head with his assessment of what's happening. for years you had this uneasy coalition where the democrats, liz, were the party of these rich elites. they like to pretend that was the republican party but they very much had their own version of that that imposed their values on the country at least attempted to, often really out of step with normal people, but a lot of those normal people average folks working class folks union households were also told that they are part of this coalition, part of it and at some point, the tent wasn't going to be big enough anymore. you couldn't have the people at the top of the party telling the whole country how we're supposed to live and think and talk and all of that and still keep normal people within the coalition and what we saw culminating in november just last month is a lot of

those people from the blue collar grassroots of america, middle of the country, just streaming out of that tent and looking for other options and a lot ended up voting for donald trump. liz: you know, guy, it's so interesting what you're saying, because it's wild that for years, the media acted like that thinking was in the majority, that they were the so-called moral majority when they were the moral minority. i mean, the red states are now 49 red states. they are swung red of those states red, all seven swing states kamala harris lost to trump but they have been lecturing like they are in the majority all the time when they have not been. they have been in the minority. >> yeah, i think a lot of what you see on the left from democrats is this perceived birth right to power. they think that they are entitled to have power in this country, to have power over people's lives to tell people how they are supposed to live and when that birth right is not actually reflected in reality,

they kind of have a bit of a meltdown and they feel like it can't possibly be legitimate, but the scope of this loss for them and the victory for trump and the republicans i think is clear enough that some of them are going through some soul searching and back to romney's phrase, the woke scolds, i co-authored a book nine years ago with mary katherine hem called "end of discussion" and one of the things we said on that book tour almost a decade ago, we said the left is getting something wrong. there is a difference between convincing people to shut up about what they really believe versus actually convincing people to believe something new, and i think the left was good for a number of years at convincing people to shut up. you don't think that, you better not say that, but ultimately people still have those beliefs and now they feel like there's a permission structure to actually be more honest about how they

think and feel and they are like liberated and unshackled from all of the woke, scold rules and they are sick of it and that's why a guy like trump and party of this remade republican party is a lot more appealing to a lot more people who have been playing these games along the democrats rules and just don't want to do it. liz: a lot of people call them the amoral democrat socialists a party built on envy and not aspirational, stop beating up america everybody will try to get a crack at the top to make it up. guy benson you're terrific thanks for joining us good to see you. >> thanks, liz. >> can you guys finally force illegal aliens who haven't put a dime in this country, this falls on you. i don't care, it falls on you. you're the mayor of this town. >> we don't want migrants terrorizing our own people. liz: okay this is happening right now. news is coming in. chicago city council is meeting right now.

we'll get you the update because chicago voters want their democrat socialist mayor johnson to go away for prioritizing illegal aliens over american citizens violating his oath of office. biden and chicago democrats stuck chicago residents with a huge $600 million bill to pay for illegal aliens. chicago resident p rae easley fired up ready to go on that, but first president biden politico says he rubber stamped and let out of prison record numbers of known convicted criminals but didn't know the details of their cases. why did he do it? he wanted positive headlines. the great legal mind greg jarrett ready to rumble on this one. stay there we'll be back in two.

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son. joe biden came here and campaigned multiple, multiple times that he was, you know, joe scranton, he was one of us. he knew of our struggles and he cared about our community and our kids and our families, and that is just absolutely not true. he is not one of us. liz: that was mother sandy fonza. her son, eddie, took his own life at the age of just 23 years old. he was sent to jail by a judge who was convicted and went to jail for taking millions of dollars in a corrupt kickback scheme from a private prison, making money off that. that mother just slammed president biden for just recently letting that judge out of jail in biden's hometown of scranton, pennsylvania. let's bring in fox news legal analyst and author greg jarrett. he's terrific. greg, let's first deal with this. what do you make of this case because even the democrat governor of pennsylvania josh shapiro said biden is absolutely wrong about this.

>> shapiro is right. the kids for cash pardon, elizabeth, is in some ways far more despicable than biden pardoning his son. you know, hunter biden committed a plethora of crimes charged in uncharged but they were largely victimless crimes. the kids for cash crimes left a trail of victims. you saw one of them there in the clip you played. their lives destroyed. some children took their own lives. families torn apart, and this crooked judge, michael conahan who is his name, took 2 million in kickbacks should spend the full 17 years in prison. i think frankly should be there for life. the fact that joe biden doesn't comprehend that is a reminder of his utter indifference to the rule of law and pardoned an illinois clerk embezzled 53 million from a small town destroying the town. maybe biden thinks that these

crimes of greed are perfectly okay, since that's what his influence pedaling family has been doing and what is, i think, the largest corruption scandal in american history. liz: well he's stealing his legacy as the worst president america's ever seen. this is abnormal. he's normalizing abnormal behavior. biden is reportedly going to do more pardons but greg, politico reports biden white house aids are saying biden did not take into account the specifics and details of the cases of criminals he let out of prison, that he's granting these commutations based on a broader set of parameters. it's about getting positive headlines, as pardoning the most of any president. what do you think? >> well, it shows the idiocy of their rationale, evoking nothing but negative headlines of condemnation. you know, it's worse than that. i think joe biden and his white house confederates are seizing every chance to sabotage

the incoming president out of spite, out of anger, and they want to handicap trump in the outset but also want to punish americans for putting him in office, so what are they doing? well selling off a border wall materials for a nickel. they are offering another round of student debt forgiveness that is blatantly illegal, favors to the union being handed out like candy, spending taxpayer money like drunk on sailors and this cements his legacy as the worst president in american history. liz: he just, biden just let out of prison convicted drug traffickers including wendy hetchman convicted of the most powerful form of fentanyl in the u.s. a drug cartel linked fentanyl trafficker and armed robber in south carolina on a wanted list for being armed and dangerous home invasion robber, he was convicted by biden's doj for drug trafficking and guns and also biden frees lewis

demartinez sentenced to a dozen years in federal prison for participating in large-scale fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. we have 110,000 people dead from in fentanyl every year. what do you think? >> yeah, he has no idea what he is doing except that, you know, maybe in his twisted contorted mind, he thinks if there's greater outrage over my other pardons, it will make my clemency for my son pale in comparison. one can only imagine what is going through that guy's brain. liz: it makes no sense. greg jarrett you're wonderful thanks for joining us good to see you. to this story. this is happening right now. chicago's far left democrat socialist mayor brandon johnson, he's attacking trump. he's facing a major backlash right now to leave office. the chicago city council meeting is happening now, because he's prioritized illegal aliens over

american citizens. kelly saberi joins us live in chicago with more on all of this. kelly great to see you. what's the latest? reporter: good to see you too, liz. the budget saga continues. johnson is losing the support of fellow progressives for his lack of transparency throughout this budget process. this weekend after finding so-called operational efficiencies and other spending cuts what started as a $300 million property tax hike is no longer needed. take a listen. >> you put these illegals over the homeless, jobless, youth and veterans. companies and catholic churches displayed huge banners in spanish offering employment to migrants. jobs never offered to your constituents. reporter: throughout the budget process the mayor also said he will not back down on his promise to fight the trump administration tosses mass deportation plans and to protect those who are here illegally, but, incoming border czar tom homan says those efforts will have unintended consequences.

>> when you don't give us access to the bad guy and the safety and security of a jail where everybody is safe you force them into the neighborhood and i'm going to find that bad guy so your actions will give you the results you don't want. more agents in the community and non-priority aliens being arrested. you forced me in that position and that's what's going to happen. reporter: liz the meeting is still ongoing. as we discuss this we'll continue to follow and update you with the latest. liz: kelly great to see you. let's bring in chicago voter and resident p rae easley. p rae, always a pleasure to have you on. what's happening right now in this chicago city council meeting because the chicago democrat socialist mayor is doubling down trying to blame trump. >> this is actually a wonderful day. i just left city hall, and as your previous guest just stated the city is against him. the progressives are lining up

one after another saying that we cannot support this budget because of the lack of transparency, so his actions are actually making the people who are with him go against him, and it all works out for the good of chicago red because our goal is to defund the illegals so they don't pass this budget, then the illegals are going to be defunded and we're going to help tom homan do what agenda 47 put out to do and that's to make sure that our city is safe once again. liz: so is there any chance the chicago democrat socialist mayor will go? because we've got criminal illegal alien gangs crossing. we've got border patrol chief jason owens tweeting that more than 10,000 special interest illegal aliens were caught crossing from countries with known ties to terrorism. just in the first two and a half months of this fiscal year. biden collapsed the border just a generation after 9/11 and people like you in chicago are paying for it. >> you know, the border is not,

the border is in texas but the border is also here on the west side of chicago. this is where they are coming. we are the headquarters for the mexican cartel, right here in the city of chicago. a lot of times people look at this as a move against them busing people here but we've been dealing with the fallout of the cartel being here for years now, and now we are actually dealing with a drug epidemic amongst our teenagers because they are dying from taking opioids laced with fentanyl and these are the people who are bringing it in, so it's much deeper than the taxes. we're definitely looking at the safety and security and futures of our children because they're literally poisoning them through the drugs and diseases they are spreading through the chicago public schools. american children deserve much better than what the mayor is giving us and i can assure you that he's going to change his tune or he's going to have to leave us alone. liz: interesting news. >> hopefully he will do better. liz: let's recap the top of

the segment. liberal voters and residents are now turning against chicago's democrat socialist mayor for basically prioritizing illegal aliens over citizens. thank you, p rae easley good to so see you merry christmas. >> merry christmas. thank you. >> we need a great media. we need a fair media. liz: that was president-elect trump at his first press conference today taking questions from reporters saying america needs a free, fair, and open press and media. this , we've got the update, abc news just paid $15 million to an also $1 million in legal fees to president-elect trump to settle a defamation suit over false and wrong claims, host george stephanopoulos repeatedly made about trump on camera. abc also forced to apologize we'll dig in and mark simone will break it down and what is up with the media in trump's incoming second term? but first let's check in with

our friends jackie deangelis and charlie hurt to see what they have coming up next hour on the bottom line. jackie: hey, liz. >> thanks, e-mac. we've got a great show ahead. we've got we talk to ron johnson on how much damage joe biden can do before he leaves washington and we'll talk about how trump wants to make america wealthy again. jackie: and interesting, because joe biden says that kamala harris, charlie, she's at the forefront of the democrat party in the future even though a lot of people don't necessarily believe that. they think she's done, and also, what about those restaurants who are saying they don't want to serve food to trump and anybody that has anything to do with him? there is consequences, we're going to talk about it, all coming up top of the hour we'll see you then. (sneeze)

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just had to pay a total of $16 million to settle trump's defamation suit, and that includes $1 million in legal fees. joining us now w. o. r. radio host mark simone. what do you make of this settlement because a new york jury found e. gene carol not had proven rape but sexual abuse instead. what do you make of the abc host not reporting that instead reporting rape on camera? >> well george stephanopoulos has been caught in all kinds of things. 2015 he didn't disclose how heavily he was involved in the clinton foundation and caught many times, just a weasel. his hatred is so strong of trump. he wasn't thinking straight. i never thought we would ever get back to a fair media after 2015 after they went totally corrupt but now i'm thinking he might do this. donald trump should go after a lot of people for anybody that said he was involved in the 202t said he was going to have a national abortion ban and he

should sue every one of them. liz: but explicitly over claims of rape, because let me back up. byron york at the washington examiner points out e. jean carol can't remember exactly when it happened, 1995 or 1996, two friends of hers said she told them about it but she did not go to the authorities at the time, didn't come forward until at least 23 years later, 2019, three-years after trump was elected, and after as byron york says decided to reveal her secret as part of the promotion of her new book. >> yeah, and the exact thing she described had been a law and order episode, way too coincidental. i know a dozen people that worked back then there and said they never happened and the few times donald trump came in with a bodyguard, two or three salesmen around him and a manager. they all say that incident never could have happened. nobody believed the case and just totally reckless on george stephanopoulos' part. liz: yeah, it's like listen, as personally as a journalist i

had to cover white water. i covered the clintons and i had to deal with bill clinton war room and work with them and try to get information out of them. they would routinely get on the phone and threaten journal its, threaten to cutoff access, you know, saying things like you will never have credibility in d.c. again. george stephanopoulos was saying things like that on the phone, and george stephanopoulos was in that interview when he said eight times accusing trump of rape. he was attacking congresswoman nancy mace who was on camera there to comfort fellow rape victims to be able to talk about what happened to her sexual assault but then he attacked her and said you endorsed trump for president and made that false claim repeatedly eight times. >> nancy mace was heroic there. there's a documentary called the war room and they captured george stephanopoulos threatening people on the phone. liz: it wasn't easy to cover the clintons mark simone thanks for joining us great breakdown there good to see you. >> thanks.

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>> first you know it is hard to kind of be in a space like this when he used to it being your home and where your razor family, but you know, you come out here every day and just kind of get used to it and then a kind of turns into an opportunii guess printed beginnings and be grateful we do have. >> you're still struggling, three months after that hurricane committee forced to live in tents this christmas

season and is been congresswoman claudia mercy and americans from coast-to-coast right hand puppet living intense and biden biden speaking about 90 billion in funding a for disaster but is rapidly spinning millions overseas what's happening. >> will, this is a disaster how embarrassing the united states is still spinning from over $21 billion in afghanistan including another 19 billion just living teach afghanistan's how to make rocks come to be bronx but we let this people who are suffering cover 4900 families are still sheltered as far as we don't even work on the waiting list to seek shelter living in this terrible deplorable situation and why are we prioritizing this in afghanistan were by the way we have the taliban and terrorist organization running the country constituency was sitting in a nine by nine cell and a second year of captivity, with no reasons or basis for him being

there and this is what just the ridiculousness of the biden administration how can we prioritize these terrorist organizations and countries that are lawless of our own people suffering north carolina think it is a travesty and grateful to be of so many people looking into this and brian ness, nature of house one of your committee pointed out was secretary and will see elon musk is looking into the waste of the government and we need to prioritize americans and american suffering that is the only way that we will grow this economy and really prioritize the american academy and what trump's vision will be and we should not have to wait until this january 20th before we start to do the right thanks be back with the biden white house saying about hurricane helene is a send many of is he. >> i don't say anything about lisa remember, have a slow walk with them initially came out with about 1 percent mallorca's network with human i've dealt

with flooding all over the upstate new york as well in this agency really needs to be looked at for efficiencies and there's good people there but there's also problems with the way that we get the eight we need to the people who needed and the administration does nothing about efficiency and transparency heart about accountability for these agencies we still see these americans living in trailers and three months later this is unacceptable for the united states of america. >> so your fellow republicans are going to be all over this when trump gets into office final word. >> yes yes, i do think this would happen right away really strong leaders in the different chairs and you see trump's new cabinet leading away. >> merry christmas to you claudia is good to see you and elizabeth mcdonald think you for watching the evening edit on foxbusiness and please do not forget to dvr us we limit when you do know is time for the bottom line and ascended over to the great jackie deangelis and charlie hurt and thank you guys. ♪ ♪ ♪