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year's eve edition of "the evening edit." >> we're going to help our country heal. we have a country that needs if help -- [cheers and applause] and it needs help very badly. we're going to fix our borders. you know, we're the party of common sense. we want to have borders, we want to have security, we want to have things be good, safe. we're going to invoke the alien enemies act of 1798 to target and kiss mantle every migrant criminal network operating on american soil. jason: new year, new administration. americans looking forward to president-elect trump making his first 100 days back in office focused on border security and much-needed reform. in just a minute, we will speak with border congresswoman debbie lesko about how a trump administration will stop the grow of -- flow of migrants into her home state of arizona. plus, the 2025 the economic outlook, it looks pretty good. investors expecting a more

business-friendly administration if including tax cuts and and tariffs that will encourage businesses to set up shop right here in the united states. this year the majority of americans said yes to four more years of donald trump, but the media had a meltdown unlike anything we've seen before over trump's resounding victory. and and remember this? >> when it comes to inflation, when it comes the lowering costs, that is a priority for him. going to secure the border and do the work. we're, certainly, doing a rot more to secure the border. we have taken unprecedented action oh the past year -- over the past year behalf. the border is not open. we're doing everything that we can. the president believes no one is above, is above the law, and the president met the moment talking about how no one is above the the law here. the president expect vice president believe that no one is above, above the law, right? jason: we are taking a look back

at all thing ways the biden white house misled or straight up lied to the american people. the great mike huckabee and gregg jarrett will take that on. also tonight we'll look at how the doge duo, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, will try to cut some billions of wasteful spending many washington d.c. plus, dr. peter mccullough will join us later tonight to discuss how the incoming trump administration wants to make america healthy again. finish as many of us set our new year's resolutions to improve our health. but first -- >> we'll have a peaceful transfer or of power here in america. >> we will engage in a peaceful transfer of power. >> we believe in the peaceful transfer of power. jason: after insisting for years trump was the gravest threat to democracy that our country has ever seen, democrats say there will be a peaceful transfer of

power on january 20th, 2025. many americans -- meaning americans can finally say good-bye to biden and harris and ring in a new year and a new era focusing on what not to -- focusing not only on undoing what biden and harris did, but performing, reforming america to make it great again. which includes securing our border. >> well, among to other things, it's drill, drill, drill, yeah. >> what's your answer -- >> you have to get to oil. >> i will stop the kamala crime wave, and we will do everything we can. we're going to get these violent criminals behind bars. we're gonna get 'em out of our country. we're going to take them back to the country from which they came. [applause] we're going to reduce government waste, fraud -- we're going to the stop child mutilation, because it's time. [applause] if the day i take the oath of office, the migrant invasion

ends, and the restoration of our country begins. cause -- [cheers and applause] the united states is now an occupied country, but it will soon be an occupied country no longer. jason: joining us now from the congressional border security caucus, arizona congresswoman debbie lesko. all right, trump, he's got a big agenda, is and he laid it out. but let's start with the border. what kind of roadblocks do you think they're going to throw in front of donald trump to get done what he promised to the american people? if. >> well, first of all, i want to say it's going to be a great new year with president trump in there x. he said he's going to secure the border, and i believe him because he's done it before. but the democrats are going request to do everything and anything they can to to try to stop him because that's what they do. i mean, biden for four years has basically had an open border. we had lawlessness, and with

trump back in there and the people that he's choosing to secure the border, i know we're going to have a secure border, and i'm excited about it. jason: so in order to get that done, democrats have said there need to be legislative changes, but i've always believed that if they'd just enforce the curve law, we would have a secure border. that means if you come in between a port of entry and you to do so illegally, you're to be detained and and deported. and -- but it's going the take some political will to get that done. do you think congress has the political will to back up the president as he actually does this? >> i do believe. in the house we passed h.r. 2 in the senate past. the senate never picked it up. so i'm hoping now with the nating with in the republican -- senate being in the republican majority that we will have it through legislation and through executive orders. i think trump's going to go back to building the wall, returning

the remain in mexico policy so that when people ask for asylum, they stay in a different country instead of coming into the united states. in more of this flying mass amounts of people every month from different countries directly into our country. no more of these venezuelan gangs that are going around raping kids, murdering people. i mean, we're going to have law and order, and that's what the people wanted. that's what they roted -- voted for, and that's what president trump will give them k and that's what the republicans will give them. jason: yeah. the president promised this. it was a temperature-tier issue -- top-tier issue, as it should, and i do believe trump will actually follow through with this. he's let the canadians know, and and he's really let the mention mexicans know that they've got a tariff coming their direction in the form of 25% if they don't do that and they don't take care of the border. that should be enough of a bludgeoning tool, you would

think, to get the mexicans' ages that they too need -- attention that they too need to slow down this funnel that is going into the united states. do you think that's going to work? >> well, i think so. i think it happened last time when trump was the president. he a managed to decrease the number of illegal immigrants that were crossing. they had all kinds of innovative things. steven miller is going -- stephen miller is going to be his policy adviser again, and stephen miller is a huge border security hawk. so i think it's going the happen again. i really have faith in president trump. he did it before, he's going to do it again. now he has a republican majority in the house and the senate. i really think things are going to get done, and you see how the canadian president, prime minister, talked to him, how mexico president talked to him, and now he wants to threaten to put a 10% tariff on china because of all the fentanyl that's coming into america. i mean, he just knows how to get things done. i trust president trump.

i think he's going to get it done. it's going to be a great new year. it's going to be a great four years for america. jason:woman, i appreciate -- congresswoman, i appreciate it. thanks for joining us. have a wonderful, happy new year and thanks for the for all the good work you do in arizona. it's impressive. with we really appreciate you joining us tonight. >> thank you. happy new year to you. >> through the department of government efficiency, elon musk has been working very hard with various people including vivek. we're going to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and i can only tell you -- i'll give you a little early report, heir finding things that you wouldn't even believe. jason: that is just the tip the of the iceberg if for what president-elect trumps has planned for the economy. and as he vows to bring america into a new golden age. >> -- be the most exciting and successful period of reform and

renewal in all of american history. maybe of global history. the golden age of america, i call it, it's begun. so it's the golden age of america, and that's what it's going to be. jason: from wall street to to washington, optimism has grown after trump's sweeping victory. americans feeling hope after living with rampant if inflation can and a crippling increase in household essentials. joining us now, americans for tax reform president grover nor if quist. grover norquist. thanks so much for joining us tonight on "the evening edit." you've been a huge champion through the decades, as long as i've known you and seen you from afar, you have been a huge, you know, let's lessen government. let's starve the beast. we've got to have less government in our lives. but is there a single policy out there that is the most key in your mind to fixing the economy and moving this country forward?

>> well, we need to get the trump tax cuts from 2017 to be made permanent, take them out another 10 years. that's the president's top agenda. we need to do it now so that businessmen and women asking themselves can we hire another truck, should we employ if two more people, you need to know now what taxes are going to be a year from now and two years from now if you're going to make those decisions. so we need that tax cut x. there are a number of things the president wants to add to his previous accomplishments; taking the corporate rate to 15% which would make us competitive with china, more competitive with the rest of the world, taking a look at getting rid of the inflation tax, in the taxing inflation on capital gains. the president wanted to do that during his first term. a lot of good things he was working on. not taxing tips. he's made it very clear that's on the list of things to add. getting rid of the death tax is not only important as a

republican issue i, but senator thune, the new leader of the senate, it's his leading issue i that he's been working on over many years. we got rid of hutch of it with the trump tax cuts but not all of it -- much of it. there are a lot of serious, pro-growth tax cuts that will bring down the deficit by growing the create economy strongly. the economy strongly. jason: well, grover, you know that that president biden, he tried to fool america with this so-called inflation reduction act. shame on the democrats for trying to name it like that. let's go back to memory lane earlier and look at this. >> yes.s supposed the call -- supposed the call the inflation reduction act, remember in and they admitted it was a scam. it's not a name because it had nothing to do with inflation except raising it. it was really a way of getting money for the green new scam. jason: the president, president trump's right on that, isn't he?

>> he is. it was just a massive spending bill. it was a big mistake. it made things worse. you know, prices jumped up 20% during just the beginning of his presidency. they continue to go up. it is a very real problem. we need to bring spending down, and that's why president trump's idea of bringing in elon musk and vivek in to take a look at everything can and to get the republicans in the house and senate to hold hearings and to to subpoena information so he can fine out from these bureaucrats what's really going on. there's a lot of money to be saved for people, and the deregulation and the changes on permitting, these will tremendously help economic growth. and and we have several years of work ahead of us. jason: yeah. and, grover, you know, to hear the democrats say it, oh, the tax cuts from president trump, they were so bad for us. but as i recall, when he cut

taxes, revenue to the treasury actually went up because the economy was buoyed. it was thriving and that sort of thing. and so if you can do that and cut spending, hen you actually have a -- then you actually have a formula that will work. >> absolutely. there's a lot of spending that can come down. a lot of it spending that biden put together hasn't actually gone completely out the door. he's been trying to get it out the door before he leaves, but we need to claw some of that back. that would be a big saving. and some of the tax credits can be eliminated. that's just really spending. there's a lot to be done but not just in washington, in the 50 states. there are ten red states that are a phasing their income taxes to zero. the republican governors is have said we're going to zero and begun the process in north carolina, iowa, west virginia, kentucky. i mean, they're really moving forward on phasing their income taxes to zero. and january 1st, 2025, the

eighth state will be completely income tack-free, that's new hampshire. -- tax-free. they did have a tax on individends and interest. that disappears january 1st. jason: well, look, january 20th can't happen soon enough. but until then, happy new year, grover. thank you so much for joining us on "the evening edit." >> good to be with you. >> i would put the president's stamina, the president's wisdom, ability to get this done on behalf of the american people against anyone. you all have called this the cheap fakes video, and that's exactly what they are. >> reporter: is anyone in the white house hiding information about the president's health or his ability to do the job day to day? >> absolutely not. jason: another year, another list of misleading statements out of this white house. from claiming biden was not going to pardon hunter to biden being fit to serve, to biden

claiming he wasn't dropping out, coming up, we'll break down all the way it is biden administration if misled the american people this year. mike huckabee and gregg jarrett joins us to discuss. plus, the doge duo taking on wasteful spending in the new year. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy look to slash some $2 trillion in unnecessary program budgets. but is that realistic? coming up, a guest says, absolutely. also tonight, trump's november win sparked widespread panic and hysteria from media anchors and democratic pundits. we have the sound. wait until you hear all the joe concha and jason rantz have to say about this past year's media meltdowns. plus, the incoming trump administration pushing to make america healthy again in the new year. internist and cardiologist dr. peter mccullough has his best advice for your new year's

resolutions. all of this coming up on this special new year's eve edition of "the evening edit." we'll be right back. ♪

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>> i have never discussed with my son or my brother with or anyone else anything having to

do with their businesses, period. i got my education for real in the black church k if that's not hyperbole, it's a fact. this day 30 years ago nelson mandela walked out of prison and entered into discussions about apartheid. i had the great honor of meeting him. i had the great honor of being arrested with our u.n. ambassador trying to get to see him on robin's island. my son has not made money in terms of this thing about, what are you talking about, china. four years i was a professor at the university of pennsylvania. i've traveled 1.2 million miles on amtrak because i commuted every single day. i was raised in the pert' a can community at home. jason: oh, i'm going to miss that. outgoing president biden if opinion's lying started long before he was in the white house, but his administration continued the tradition. >> he is a genuine threat to our

democracy, and that's not hyperbole. >> donald trump is an existential threat to our democracy. >> [inaudible] >> yes, yes, yes, i told you we're going to have a soft landing. we're going to have a soft landing. my policies are working, start writing that way, okay? >> inflation is down and wages are up. bidenomics is working, it's working. >> we're also securing our border. >> we have a secure border. >> we're going to secure the border and do the work. >> we have a very bold and vibrant president in joe biden. joe biden is very much alive and running for re-election. >> no one is above the law! [applause] >> the president's not going to pardon -- will he pardon his son? he said he would not pardon his son. >> e said i'll abide by the jury decision. i will do that and not pardon him. >> will you accept the jury's outcome, their verdict, no matter what it is? >> yes. >> have you ruled out a pardon for your son?

>> yes. jason: joining us now, former arkansas governor, soon to be ambassador mike huckabee, and fox news legal an list gregg jarrett. above -- governor, ambassador, all around good guy huckabee, let's start with you with what was, a -- perhaps, the most egregious lie. there's a long list there. what about this so-called preliminary pardon of joe biden's son, hunter. in your opinion, i mean, is this an admission of guilt for all the bidens? how to do you take this? >> you know, you don't pardon people who are not guilty. they go through the appeal process. but with let's be fair. if you had a chance to do something wonderful for your son, you might do it. you won't lie about it and tell everybody, oh, no, i would never do that, and then turn around and do it. i think he should have been honest and said, i don't know, let me see how this plays out. that would have been an honest

answer, but he can't do that. he's been lying for years. these lies have just gotten worse, not better. and he flat out lied when he said, no, i will not pardon him and then turned around and did it. i don't think his own staff was even aware of it. i drought that karine jean-pierre or as nashville calls her, cringe jean-pierre, i don't think she had a clue this was about to go down, and it was really an unfortunate way for him to end his presidency, by a lie. jason: yeah. i mean, we're just turning the corner into the new year. he still has 20 more days and who knows? i mean, he's already kind of setting records with the number of pardons, gregg jarrett. i mean, and some of the people on those lists, i mean, these are some incredible -- i mean, i don't see any justification for the people that have gotten those pardons. >> no, not all of them are

remotely justified. but i love the clips you just played because the litany of biden lies are truly breathtaking, jason. not just lying over and over about not pardoning his son, but biden lied habitually about his family's influence-peddling racket, his own involvement in it claiming he never talked with his son about his business dealings, never met or spoke with his overseas partner partners, that hunter never made money in china, that the laptop was russian disinformation. those are proven, demonstrable lies. but he lied about so many other things, jason, inflation, the price of gasoline, immigration, tax rates, his own classified documents scandal. he lied about domestic violence and covid vaccines. he lied about student loan forgiveness and afghanistan. the list of fact-checked lies is almost endless.

and biden used those lies as he crashed the u.s. economy, opened the floodgates the millions of illegals, all of which i think has cemented his septic legacy as the worst president in american history bar none. and that's saying something. jason: yeah. governor, follow up on what gregg was saying. i mean, the -- what was permeating out of this white house whether it be karine jean-pierre or alejandro mayorkas, the secretary of homeland security, i mean, for a long time they kept telling us the border's secure, they had operational control, that the inflation was just transitory. i mean, the number of things that came out of this white house is pretty stunning. and it seemed to permeate through the rest of his spokesif people and some of the people in their key positions. >> you know, jace, if you lie about little things, it's easier to lie about big things. what gregg just outlined was a

litany of big things that joe biden lied about. but if you listen to his entire career, he's always lied about little things, that he taught for four years. he didn't. or that he was raised in a pert if rican community. he budget. that he had 1.2 million miles on amtrak. not so. i mean, it was the all the little things. every time he went to, was it a synagogue? well, it was the jewish people who raised him. if he was in puerto rico, a community there, they raised him. if he was with a black church, turns out that he was raised by people in a black church too. i've never seen a more religious man in my life run for president. he's covered the full spectrum. i mean, he's a part of every religion there is, and they all helped raise him. and i would say if that's the case e r, they did one lose key job. [laughter] jason: gregg, real quickly, we have a very short amount of time, but i think the idea that he was vigorous to, that nobody

could keep up with joe biden behind the scenes was one of the biggest lies out there. >> yeah are. you know, the legacy media is as much to blame for biden's chronic dishonesty as he is. they propped him up, they covered up for him, they made excuses at every turn. he told whopper after whopper, and they said, oh, gee, it's okay, it's just joe biden. their worst embarrassment though was covering up his diminished mental acuity, his cognitive decline. jason: yeah. >> they knew it, they chose to lie to the american people about it. is it any wonder then, jason, that according to the latest gal with line up poll -- gallup poll, americans have totally lost trust in the legacy mainstream media. jason: gentlemen, happy new year. appreciate you joining us. mike huckabee, gregg jarrett, have a wonderful new year. appreciate it. all right. 2024 was the year of the media meltdown. president-elect trump's

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racism in this campaign. jason: oh, what a night. following president-elect trump's resounding victory powered by a strong economic agenda, media anchors and pundits erupted in emotional meltdowns, tearful monologues and furious rants against the american electorate. let's welcome seattle talk radio show jason rantz and fox news contributor joe coen -- concha. all right, joe, let's start with you because, remember, we can take three hour this is to do this, but what was your best of the best in terms of the media melt? >> well -- meltdown? well, let's start with what you just played there, jason, the night and day after the election. so let's get this straight. kamala harris lost because of racism and sexism? that's funny, because when she ran in 2019 for the presidency where he didn't even get to 2020, democrat voters rejected

her resoundly. she didn't get one delegate, never got to iowa. so does that make democrat voters also racist and sexist? i mean, this is 31 flavors of stupid. she lost because she was a profoundly horrible candidate. she lost because they waited six weeks for her to do one interview after she became the democratic nominee. but to answer your question, i think the madison square garden rally, which i was at for fox, you know, i left it and said, boy, what a crowd. i mean, that's the happiest crowd since i've seen in cancun many in '93, my last spring break. [laughter] and then i watch msnbc, and they're saying it's a nazi rally even though there were four democratic conventions held there over the years. that was a huge one. i think the al smith dinner and kamala harris blowing that off and sending in that cringe video with molly shannon, that was horrific as well. and, obviously, "60 minutes" and the fact that they will not

release a transcript of an interview they did with kamala harris where 26 minutes of tape apparently no one's allowed to see, and now donald trump is suing. yeah, those are my three biggest moment. jason: now, jason, i went to joe was he made -- because he made the effort to dress up the way he did, and we appreciate that here at "the evening edit." [laughter] but nonetheless, we want you to weigh in on the media a meltdowns because there were a lot of them. >> there were a ton. and overall, my favorite has just been watching "the view," and i've never ever said that about "the view." but seeing tv's dumbest lawyer, sunny hostin, just completely lose it, and i don't even know if you can call this a meltdown. i feel like her reaction indicates he needs some serious mental health help. this is someone who has reacted in the worst kind of way but also epitomizes why democrats are doing as poorly as they're doing and, frankly, why the

media continues to earn less and less of our trust. this is someone who argues in bad faith. this is someone who frames stories in the most horrific ways. and whether it's the her or anyone else on msnbc or in "the new york times," the way they talk about the voters and assume that this had something to do with racism and sexism, that can only come from a place where you just don't like the american people. you don't like this country. and, of course, for the last four years we've heard over and over and over again progressives founded on white supremacy. they don't have a respect for this country, and it shows in the way they talk about its people. if. jason: and they never bothered to figure out who the american people were, what they're about. i would argue, joe, that donald trump's victory was because he was the best candidate with the best policies in place. but it was also about how bad vice president kamala harris

was. have a watch of this and listen to this, and i want to get your reaction after this. >> all right. >> under a harris administration, what would the major changes be and what would say the same -- stay the same? >> sure. i mean, i'm obviously not joe biden -- >> i know. [laughter] >> and so that would be one change. we're also different people, and i will bring those sensibilities to how i lead. this is not a time to worry about modesty becauses this is, you know, obviously you've got to let people know who you are. jason: i mean, even the softball interviews, joe, they were terrible. >> yeah, jason, those were t-ball,s actually, with a beach ball on the tee. the fact that youd had kamala harris be the first democrat candidate in history go on "the view," and then blow that interview, she looks up and says

i can't think of a thing. and at that moment, i go, this election is over. she wants to be the change candidate but still would not do one thing differently from joe biden? that dog don't hunt. jason: that's why she didn't flip not even one county. not even one. thank you, joe concha, jason rantz. joe, really appreciate you getting dressed up. it made all the difference. [laughter] >> happy new year. jason: happy new year. >> through the department of government efficiency, elon musk has been working very hard with various people including vivek. we'll,'re going to to eliminate hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and fraud, and they're finding things that you wouldn't even believe. so we're looking to save maybe $2 trillion. jason: -- new wasteful spending. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk looking to cut some $2 trillion from the federal government. with a growing list of democrats insisting there is bipartisan

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>> elon musk is, ultimately, the most s. businessman on the planet. and the reason you see all these people supporting the same person for president is is we've got to understand we've got to not only have the vision, but execute. i think it's going to be one of the highest roi investments on politics that we've seen if a long time. yeahs yeahs that was vivek ramaswamy. he'll be heading the new department of government efficiency with elon musk in the new year. the 2000 are calling -- the two are calling out wasteful pentagon spending. let's welcome to the show cohost of "the verdict with ted cruz" podcast ben ferguson and wor a radio host mark simone. why is this generating bipartisan support? if democrats just reading the writing on the wall, saying, hey, we better get on with this? if mark, what's going on here? >> they say it's impossible to

cut the waves out of the government. tell a guy like elon musk something's 'em possible, and and he'll come to life. two people. if democrats or somebody else put this together, the commission would be 400 to people already. the it's just two people. it's going to be easy to do. you've to without9 the most brilliant guy on earth, elon musk, and you're giving him the easiest task in the world. try to find something in the government that's not waste, that's going to to be the tough part. jason: yeah. ben, democrats are in a tough spot p right? what do they do with this? they haven't been in this position before. >> well, and, look, here's the other thing, there's organizations that have spent years slowing government waste and abuse in spending. citizens for government waste, for example, puts out every year weaver getting hamsters high and hunting -- running them on a tread mill backwards, i'm being a little star cast ec, but it's tens of managers. and this is what our government does. they waste money on the most

stupid things. if a child came to a parent and said, i want to do this, no, absolutely not. we're not wasting our money on this. yet the government will fund anything. when you have two individuals like this and you have democrats that are in this impossible position now, when they bring it to light and they show that this is where the government is spending your dollars, to democrats really want to sit there and defend this type of spending? now look, for far too long republicans and democrats they've been looking the other way when there's these big bills that come together and everybody throws in their pork barrel spending that helps somebody they know or helps somebody in their district. and i think now they're in this new world where the american people are saying enough already, and these two individuals are willing to go to war to protect tax dollars of all americans is so it went waste on these pork projects. so i think democrats are in a bad spot, i think some rino republicans, by the way, who love spending money on pork barrel projects are in a bad spot, and that's good for all

americans. jason: yeah. no, there's a lot of truth to that. just was they're republicans -- because they're a republican doesn't mean they're a fiscal conservative. >> bingo. jason: there's a lot of truth to that. i want you to listen to this, mark, i want you the listen to this array of thoughts on doge. >> it's unclear to me what exactly the objective is related to this so-called doge initiative. if from our perspective, we wans effective and efficient and equitable. >> there is no such department of government efficiency. it's made up. finish so good luck to to 'em. >> let's be honest about doge and this whole thing, it's a joke is. we're talking about two billionaires who are cosplaying as government officials. >> progressives have always been for efficient use of our tax dollars. unfortunately, elon musk has largely proven himself to be an efficient liar and self-serving plutocrat.

and so i don't have high hopes for him having anything other than pretty awful ideas. [laughter] jason: i don't know, mark, i served eight years in congress. tell me thing progressives were always interested in an efficient use of taxpayer dollars? the that's a bit of a stretch. >> yeah. i think the idea is don't have 47 people do a job that 3 people can do. it's $40,000 a mile to pave highway, we're currently spending a million dollars a mile. it's stuff like that, and it's all through the government. jason: last thought to you, ben. >> yeah. i think it's going to be very interesting for them to do exactly what mark just said. here's what it should cost, here's how much we're overspending. here's a project that doesn't benefit you, and here's how we're going to cut it. look, if you look at progressives who want to always take money from the evil, rich people and give it to some government program, when you expose those government programs, the waste, the fraud and the abuse, it's very hard the to stand up to somebody like elon musk who's probably going

to be out there on x saying here are the facts, here's where your money's going, here's why we want to cut it. and when you have two people that are ocd, and i say that that as a compliment to these two individuals running this, they're not going to let are anyone get away with government spending that is an abuse of power, and i love it. by the way, when you were in congress, you know this, the republicans, they loved pork barrel spending as well. there's a lot of them up there controlled by lobbyists, there are a lot of lobbyists that are not excited about this, and it's going to be fun to watch. jason: yeah, that's right. they're putting a big old smile on it, but i know it's fake because they are big spend per as well. >> get ready. jason: thank you for joining us, happy new year. the incoming trump administration if pushes to make america healthy again in the new year targeting ultra-processed foods and staggering obesity rates. as we look to make our new year's resolutions, what could we do to get in better health for 2025 the?

internist and cardiologist dr. peter mccullough is ready to help us out with all this coming up next. ♪ ♪

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jason: incoming trump administration wants to make america healthy again. taking aim at ultra

processed foods served to or children in school, and growgrocery store shelves for more we welcome internist, cardiolist dr. dr. peter mccullough what it will take? >> we should do our part, each one of us has a personal responsibility to do everything that we can, continuously to improve our health. i think in three major areas, d diet, fitness and sleep. jason: dr., i am probably guilty on most of those, i like ding dongs and chips it does take discipline, i can't eat like i did when i was 13 years old. how do i know the difference? the food pyramid of old, i

felt they lied to me, now i'm realizing i have to have a new aroach. what do i do? >> in my brief advice to patients, diet has two components, one making healthy choices and other controlling portions. on healthy choices, we want high quality sources of protein. and then fresh fruits and vegetables, three things that make us gain weight that don't want us are 3 sasugar starches and saturated fats, we have that third of this try partake domain under control. jason: you make a lot of sense. as people put together new year's resolutions, what is

the number one thing they can do in their resolution to make sure they get it right? >> do something in the area of diet, we have covered that, on fitness, both a strength and aerobic activity, just get outside, and get outside and need to move. and you know people get outside and get some increase in fi physical activity, they always get better sleep. jason: that makes sense dr. peter mccullough thank you, happy new years and good luck, i am jason chaffetz in for elizabeth macdonald, thanks for watch "the evening edit" on fox business. hope everyone has a healthy, happy new year. ♪