>> thanks for watching. if you have time sunday night at 10:00 watch jim gray's on his new book talking to goats "fox news sunday" on see you. >> sandra: fox news alert an a manhunt for a cop killer in arkansas. the officer was shot at a hotel. the suspect is wanted in another shooting. when they approached him he opened fire. the officer who was hit later died at the hospital. the suspect is 29-year-old latarius howard. we'll have more on this story in a moment. first we begin with the legal battles as they pile up as president trump challenges the results of the election in several battleground states including pennsylvania where his campaign claims thousands of ballots were improperly counted. good morning, i'm sandra smith. hi, trace, happy friday.

>> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the trump campaign submitted new affidavits saying some counties in pennsylvania illegally processed mail-in ballots before election day and the judge ruled that pennsylvania's secretary of state lacked the authority to extend the deadline for mail-in and absentee voters who needed to provide missing identification to validate their ballots. trump campaign senior advisor kayleigh mcenany claims sl is an unequal system as democrats push back on voter fraud allegations. >> people in republican leaning county i voted for 15 years absentee. i went to turn in my ballot and was informed after the election it was canceled with no opportunity to fix it in advance. this is an equal protection violation. >> the election is not in doubt. nothing more than a temper tantrum by republicans. nothing more than a pathetic

political performance for an audience of one, president donald trump. >> gillian turner is live for us at the white house. we anticipate a slew of pennsylvania hearings this morning. what can you tell us? >> that's absolutely correct. now we're standing by a judge in philadelphia slated to hear five appeals this morning. the city is at the heart of the trump campaign's efforts to get the ballots tossed. they say there are 8,000 ballots in the city that are ineligible. last night the trump campaign submitted affidavits that claim multiple pennsylvania counties pre-canvassed mail in ballots prior to election day. kayleigh mcenany says it's an equal protection violation. >> in this country voting is a fundamental right. that means there has to be uniform standards throughout the state of pennsylvania but what we saw here and we have the evidence to prove it is

this, there was one system for democrat counties. there was another system for republican counties. >> in a blow to democrats yesterday a judge ruled the pennsylvania secretary of state lacked authority to extend the deadline for mail-in and absentee ballot voters to provide missing proof of ideas by three days. democratic leaders on capitol hill say it's just moves to disenfranchise to have american voters have their votes counted. >> they are engaged in a circus right now refusing to accept reality. the republicans are shamefully pretending proceeding without recognizing what our responsibility is and making it even harder to address the massive health -- health and economic crisis that we're facing. >> a temper tantrum, a crisis, a circus, president trump's

campaign is undeterred by all this criticism, trace. they're moving full steam ahead with all these lawsuits. >> trace: on the other side what are we expecting from the biden campaign as far as prioritization goes today? >> as always, trace, the campaign on the other side is focused on covid, covid and more covid. president-elect biden's future chief of staff ron klain newly named said yesterday morning biden's first act as commander-in-chief may well be a national mask main date. >> he will issue a nationwide masking mandate requiring people wearing masks. where federal authority extends and urging governors and other local officials to impose mask mandates in their state. we will move to get this virus under control from day one. >> earlier in the week biden discussed his plans to combat the virus from day one in office and painted a stark

picture of a nation headed into a winter that may be even more deadly than the one americans lived through. president trump insists the virus is on the wa*en as new cases skyrocket this week. listen to his former chief physician. >> i think the doom and gloom needs to stop at this point. we still need to be responsible about what we're doing. we need to approach things in a logical fashion and safe fashion. >> one thing to take note of, we heard from dr. anthony fauci yesterday on "good morning america." i took his remarks to be the optimistic forward-looking ones we've seen from him yet. he said the general population here in america, not people who are old or sickly or pre-existing conditions that make them more susceptible to covid will probably be eligible for a vaccine by may. >> trace: i took it the same way. gillian, thank you. >> sandra: thank you, trace.

for more on this let's bring in katie pavlich editor for town hall.com. we're learning more about what a biden administration plans would look like and how they would handle this virus. and what do you think that would do to the country a mask mandate? >> well, sandra, we've seen a number of mask mandates on the local level across the country. hawaii, l.a. county, san diego, kansas, west virginia and seen the mask mandates be implemented in france and peru but we still see increase in coronavirus cases. the first question that dr. rand paul is asking this morning is not only is this constitutional but do these mask mandates work to stop the spread of the coronavirus? and you have, of course, the biden advisors, ron klain who will be joe biden's chief of staff. let's not forget in february he said we don't have a covid pandemic crisis, we have a fear

crisis and he praised new york city mayor bill deblasio for holding a dinner party to fight against that fear. so when it comes to the credibility of these people i think it is good to look at the record what they've been saying about the pandemic up to this point. >> sandra: there is the mask mandate and then there is a look at what might happen as far as a coronavirus stimulus package. there was a promise and talk of from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer and other democrats of a slimd-down package. now they're talking about a bigger package. $3.4 trillion hero's act, a starting point. here is chuck schumer on that. >> the heroes act does something that vital. strengthens medicaid and improves access to healthcare coverage. support for hospitals at a time when covid is raging and the heroes act should be the starting point. not an emaciated bill that

prioritizes protections for corporations and considers the needs of american families as an afterthought. >> sandra: you have the possibility of a mask mandate. you are talking about a $3.4 trillion heroes act. chuck schumer talking about it. "wall street journal" writing about it this morning on the biden lockdown. joe biden's lockdown lobby. covid advisors seem to have learned nothing from the spring recession. you put this all together and katie are we starting to get a good idea at what this all may look like under a biden administration? >> you mention biden covid advisors. dr. michael os tear home suggesting the country shut down for 4 to 6 weeks and we can make up the difference by giving people stimulus checks or checks to replace their paychecks especially workers who can't work from home. but we're talking about 3.1

trillion bill when we've already spent $10 trillion this year trying to keep the economy afloat. as you've seen there have been economic consequences to this but other consequences whether it's suicide rates going up. healthcare not being taken care of in other levels. in terms of how we go forward with the economy joe biden has promised he did not want to shut down the economy as a whole after previously saying he would shut it down if the so-called scientists told him to do so. but we do have a number of his advisors saying we need to shut down the economy for 4 to 6 weeks and what it looks like in terms of money is a big question. let's not forget what nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have come out this week saying we need to get back to the table to negotiate. the white house has been negotiating with them for months on end about a bill. you had a bill that nancy pelosi put forward full of poison pills like cashless bail, healthcare for illegal immigrants. so it's not just an issue about relief. it is about what is in these relief bills when it is a $3.1,

2, 3, 4 trillion price tag and a lot of pork that goes along with it. >> sandra: the cost of the severe lockdowns would be horrendous and make many points you did. ultimately the human cost is even worse. great to talk with you this morning. stay with fox news tonight with the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 election with tucker carlson add 8:00 p.m., hannity at 9:00 and "the ingraham angle" at 10:00 p.m. tonight. >> trace: arkansas police have identified a suspect in the murder of a police officer last night. police say latarius howard opened fire on officers as a west helena hotel. an officer was hit and died at the hospital this morning. the suspect remains on the run. mike tobin live in chicago. what's the latest?

>> trace, the incident and search originate in a town that's 2/3 of the way between little rock and memphis. the manhunt is underway for the suspected cop killer. he is identified police as 29 yeerd latarius howard and goes by the name l.t. true yit and he is on the run. they came to a hotel to investigate a shooting from november 1. when they arrived at the delta in a maroon suv opened fire. the gunman was latarius howard. the officer shot was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. the original shooting from november 1 involved a man in his home who claimed he was listening to music when a man broke into his home, hit him in the head and shot him. it generated a tip that drew

police to the delta inn where someone opened fire. the police officer hasn't been identified. many agencies are involved in the manhunt now. >> trace: mike tobin live in chicago. thank you. >> sandra: raising the alarm on covid-19. >> more worried about covid right now than i have been at any point since march. >> sandra: new stay at home orders as covid-19 cases surge to all-time highs plus the political world now laysor focused on one state, georgia. how both parties are gearing up for two runoff elections that will shape the balance of power in washington arkansas senator tom cotton will join us live next to discuss. >> now we take georgia and then we take the world. now we take georgia, and then we change america.

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>> trace: chicago issuing a 30 day stay at home advisory and 10-person limit on social gatherings as the city faces a surge of coronavirus that officials say is worse than the first wave. mayor lori light foot. >> if we continue on the path

we're on and you and me and others don't step up and do more, our estimates are that we could see 1,000 more chicagoans die from this virus by the end of the year. we're a long way from where we need to be. >> trace: she is urging people to avoid unnecessary travel and not hold large thanksgiving gatherings. the lockdown begins monday morning. >> this election in georgia will be the most important in the history of ever. you have nothing to worry about unless you are a taxpayer, a business owner, a parent, a gun owner, a cop, a person of faith or an unborn baby. >> sandra: that was senator john kennedy at what is at stake in georgia where two

senate runoffs will determine the balance of power in the senate. campaign contributions pouring in from both sides and the ground game for all sides ramping up. what is at stake in georgia, senator cotton? >> good morning. pretty much everything is at stake in georgia when it comes to the united states senate and the democrats' radical agenda. if the democrats elect ossoff and warnock, chuck schumer will be the majority leader and your viewers heard what he said. first we take georgia and we change america. how do they plan to change it? not just raising your taxes or taking away health insurance on the job or confiscating your guns but they want to pack the supreme court, want to make washington, d.c. a state to pack the senate. eliminate the electoral college. the president is elected by a handful of mega cities. they want to pass amnesty to

grant legal status and voting rights to 15 million illegal aliens. radically change this country. i know the good people of georgia are not going to allow them to do that january 5. >> sandra: you reference chuck schumer's comments on georgia over the weekend. here they are. >> now we take georgia and then we change the world. now we take georgia, and then we change america. >> sandra: as you know, big money is pouring into this race. these races down there, senator. what do you see ultimately happening? what's the message from your party? >> well, i think chuck schumer gave us our central message. i suspect georgia voters may see that clip on a few ads between now and january 5th. those are the stakes of this race that chuck schumer and the democrats want to fundamentally change america and republicans want to protect america and very important that georgia voters have a chance to review

kelly loeffler opponent's warnock's record. there were 25 candidates running in the general election. he is a true radical. it is a widely known secret in washington that chuck schumer and democrats didn't want him as their candidate. stacy abrams forced him in because he is so radical. he celebrated fidel castro, celebrated jeremiah wright and was even arrested for obstruction of justice into an investigation of child abuse at his summer camp. he has not answered questions about that. why he was arrested for obstructing justice. what was the nature of the suspected child abuse at that camp? he needs to answer those questions today or needs to withdraw from this race. >> sandra: the money pouring into these races, senator. mark cuban is going on the record saying don't do it. don't put your money towards these races. don't put it towards politics. put it towards good use,

charity. can you please reconsider and donate that money to organizations that can help those without food or shelter? let's put america's need above politics. he will be doing both but let me get your reaction. >> i would encourage everyone, pitch in a few bucks for the candidates and a few bucks for your local food bank or church or wounlded warriors. a worthy sentiment. if the democrats get control of the united states senate you won't have much money to give to any charities. they will raise your taxes and leave you with less money in your paycheck each week. >> sandra: a "wall street journal" headline on what president trump may or may not do come 2024 if he does not win the current presidency. as trump focuses on 2024 aides mull agenda for final days. the president's attention has been on a legal fight and policy comeback lid.

not a policy to do list for the next two months. what do you see president trump's role in the republican party for the next four years? >> well sandra, i know everyone likes to speculate about the next election. we should try to put this election on the books before we move to that speculation. the president has a recount going in georgia right now. he has multiple lawsuits. he won an important ruling in pennsylvania yesterday in one of those lawsuits and we have these two vital runoffs in georgia on january 5th. before we move on to 2022 or 2024, i think we should put 2020 on the books first. >> sandra: kayleigh mcenany suggesting he will have an impact on this party and on this country for decades to come. here she is with that. i'm get your response. >> he has 72 million people who love him, who want to show up and support him. his base is strong and there is no denying this president is the head of our party for many

decades to come. >> sandra: your name has been floated around as a possible 2024 candidate. are you thinking about it? >> sandra, let me say this about donald trump's influence on our party. we did not win control of the senate, we did not gain seats in the house or pick up legislators in spite of donald trump, we won because of donald trump who brought millions of new voters into our party. first in 2016 and again this year. he did so by changing a lot of republican orthodoxies and opposing bad trail deals and importation of cheap foreign workers, by standing up to mobs in our streets. that is the agenda of the republican party going forward. anyone who thinks that we'll go back to the pre-trump era of bad trade deals and open borders they aren't thinking clearly about things. >> sandra: are you considering a run? >> sandra, i would like to put 2020 on the books.

i'll work hard to reelect my two colleagues in georgia before we move onto the next election. >> sandra: all eyes on georgia. we'll hear from you a bit later it sounds like. thank you for your time this morning. >> thank you. >> trace: nancy pelosi churning up controversy over an interview showing her freezer full of ice cream. some progressives now accusing the house speaker of being tone deaf. our panel weighs in on this next plus a spacex mission for the history books. where the rocket will be taking american astronauts tomorrow. new projects means new project managers.

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>> sandra: bottom of the hour. time for top stories. a manhunt is underway for the murder of a police officer in arkansas. the suspect was wanted for a previous shooting. the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. >> trace: president trump banned americans from investing in chinese companies with military ties. the ban will take effect in the beginning of january. he signed an executive order. >> sandra: in new york city republican flips the 11th district bat to red after defeating max rose. he conceded the race thursday after serving one term.

>> oh my -- wow. >> other people in our family look for other flavors but chocolate and we have some other chocolate. i don't know what i would have done if ice cream were not invented, i just wonder. >> trace: that's nancy pelosi showing off a freezer full of ice cream in an interview with james cordon during the peak of the pandemic. today's cover of the "new york post" refers to the controversy as dessert storm. richard fowler fox news contributor. charlie hurt washington times opinion editor and fox news contributor. welcome to you both. the letter by progressives goes after nancy pelosi having her $24,000 freezers filled with $13 ice cream. the letter goes on to dress down moderate democrats criticizing everything from backing candidates like cal

cunningham to not putting enough emphasis on black lives matter and socialist issues saying whatever moderate democrats think of bernie sanders and elizabeth warren the unavoidable reality is that they have provided democrats with a profoundly compelling economic message. in other words, socialism might be the key here, charlie. your thoughts on this. >> yeah, well, it's the right attack but the wrong message i think. nancy pelosi has always been wildly out of touch with voters. i think even a lot of voters in her own party. republicans have been running against her instead of candidates. the candidates they face in congressional districts around the country for 10 or 15 years now. and so i think attacking her is a good idea. but i think they are drawing the wrong conclusion. if they think the problem they didn't double down on some crazy ideas that we heard from democrats this time. democrats had a lot of motivation on their side against donald trump. all they had to do was run

against donald trump. that's what they did with joe biden. the problem is they piggy backed a bunch of crazy nonsense like socialism and defund the police on top of that and which of course is why they lost however many -- nine house seats so far. >> trace: he says, richard, wrong message, maybe right attack. your thoughts. >> i think we'll have to wait to see. here is what we do know. we know that nancy pelosi will likely retain her speakership and i think that's the most important as we get into the new phase of where we are. the transition team and the transition between the trump administration and the biden administration. i think it's interesting to sit here. the marked difference that will be. as we do the segment today, trace, the map on covid-19 is literally red. every state is seeing a spike in this virus. we haven't seen the president even talk about it. in the past 48 hours he spent 57 tweets about how he lost the

election. attacked this and other networks and yet to talk about covid-19. he has yet to tell folks how to get tested. while it is happening we're seeing spikes and death tolls just like we saw back in april. america right now is a plane without a pilot. that's because donald trump has failed to lead here. that's the most breaking news story in this country. >> trace: back to the internal disputes in the democratic party. you had joe manchin this week saying i'm not going to be the 50th vote for the socialist agenda and followed it up with this. defund the police, defund my butt. i'm a proud west virginia democrat. we're the party of working men and women. we want to protect americans jobs and healthcare, we do not have some crazy socialist agenda and we do not believe in defunding the police. you can see ocasio-cortez giving him the death stare behind, charlie. >> glaring. >> trace: it's a glare. >> what's interesting here,

trace, the fact -- and i agree nancy pelosi will be very hard to -- you won't be able to get her out of that seat with dynamite. nancy pelosi used to be the far left wing of the party. she is now the center of her party with people like aoc far off to the left and dragging nancy pelosi, who refuses to stand up to any of these people, along with them. but the other thing i think is very important to remember is that richard you may not have paid attention to the last eight months but the president has been talking about covid the entire eight months and doing a lot about it. >> really? >> last word, richard. >> i think i missed those stories. at least in the last 48 hours i missed the president telling folks where to get a covid test. let me be clear. there is no need to worry about -- no need to worry about that, charlie. here is what we do know. when president-elect biden and

president-elect kamala harris take the reins on this government they'll be focused on that. democrats will protect healthcare and democrats protect those with pre-existing conditions. now there are 10 million more americans with pre-existing conditions because of covid and biden and harris will stand up for them. >> trace: thank you both. >> sandra: thank you, gentlemen. four astronauts are gearing up with the spacex trip to the international space station tomorrow. phil keating is live at the kennedy space center. exciting. what can we expect? >> very exciting. the rains of tropical storm eta passed through the state yesterday. the weather is looking good for the maiden voyage and launch of the crew 1 dragon capsule. this will be big. look inside. weather conditions now 70%

favorable. that is historic launch pad 39 and spacex falcon nine rocket on bottom and on top the crew dragon ready to go tomorrow night. the spacex launch is a bigger deal than any launch since the last space shuttle in 2011. in fact, nasa administrator calls it historic. it rolled to launch pad 39a a few days ago and ready to go. blast-off scheduled saturday night at 7:00:49 eastern. yesterday afternoon all four astronauts put on their pressurized suit. went up to the capsule for one final rehearsal for tomorrow night. they sat in seats and did every step of a launch and docking with the space station. the crew for this first commercial crew launch beginning a new chapter for nasa left to right mission specialist shannon walker,

pilot glover, commander hopkins and naguchi from the japanese space agency. in may for the second and final test flight, doug hurley and bob ben k*in. nasa is beyond excited. >> to be able to do the research at the iss to get us to the moon and mars is historic. having everybody going up together and flying them more regularly has always been the goal and now we're kicking that off. >> once the crew gets to the space station early sunday morning they all will stay up there six months, 250 miles above you and me. >> sandra: we look forward to it. thank you. >> trace: that is exciting. some cities and states are increasing coronavirus restrictions. what one supreme court justice says should happen after the pandemic and new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is defending calls to reallocate money from

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>> sandra: a scary moment for news crews in north carolina. >> not too long ago washed up here. this is incredibly scary, okay, we're backing up. we're backing up. live on tv, we saw the road collapse. >> sandra: wow, fox 46 amber roberts was reporting live on some major flooding in alexander county when part of that bridge she and her photographer were on fell into the raging waters below. the crew moved to safety. thankfully no one was hurt but wow, you don't see that every day, trace. thank goodness they're okay. >> trace: we've seen steve harrigan get in these

situations and close calls. very frightening. the roman catholic diocese of brooklyn is pushing back against coronavirus restrictions submitting an emergency supreme court filing asking to block governor cuomo's limits on church attendance. jonathan morris is a theologian. the roman catholic church is saying the idea here is this is biased against the church. in their letter they write the following. while this executive order effectively closes churches and other houses of worship, all businesses deemed essential by the governor including everything from supermarkets to pet stores and huge hardware stores and broker's offices are permitted to remain open without capacity limitations whatsoever. even in the most restrictive red zones. orange zones non-essential businesses including department stores can remain open without limitation, yet churches cannot. what do you think of that?

>> it's unbelievable and ironic that governor cuomo at the beginning of the pandemic, he became famous for a very simple line. follow the science. and he went after president trump over and over again, we need to follow the science. then he would also say he had a huge campaign all over the country really it was shown wear a mask, wear a mask. masks work. can i tell you in a church that can hold 1,000 people that is enforcing mask wearing throughout the service, that has huge social distancing requirements, to say only 10 people can be in there? that's absolutely not scientific. you should add to the necessary businesses, how about liquor scores? you can have 50 people in a liquor store in these red zones he is talking about and you cannot have a church with more

than 10 people? it's unscientific and very sad. >> trace: i'll go you one better. i flew back on a plane, every seat was filled. you have to stay six feet apart when you get on the plane. once you are on the plane you're shoulder to shoulder. because many people depend on their faith the catholic church in some capacity has argued maybe church services should be deemed as essential. your thoughts. >> yeah, that's the argument that the diocese of brooklyn is making because governor cuomo has said some places are certainly necessary. like grocery stores, understood. and you know what? is diocese of brooklyn at the beginning of pandemic did everything the governor requested. they shut the churches down for months. but we know more about the virus now and people above all know the risks that they're taking. to suggest that you can only

have 10 people in a massive church goes against the very science that governor cuomo is suggesting works. he says masks work, he says social distancing, but not in a church. and that is outrageous. >> trace: i want to get this in. this is justice sam alito speaking last tight to the conservative federalist said this. nevada was unable to provide any justification for treating casinos more favorably than other houses of worship. and the courts ruled in favor of the nevada governor and casinos so you can load up the casinos but you can't go to church. your final thoughts. >> this is ideology over science, i would say into what governor cuomo is doing. let's see what the supreme court decides on this. they have been friendly to religious liberty issues most recently and i trust that science will win over and that the judges will recognize the

fact that this is just unscientific and unfair. >> trace: congratulations on your recent wedding. best of luck to you and your new bride. >> sandra: at this time congress arguing over stimulus funds for coronavirus. what nancy pelosi is calling for now in the next relief package. an update next hour. plus this. >> the president doesn't like to lose and never admits loss. i'm more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with it. >> sandra: that was former president obama slamming republicans for supporting president trump's claims of widespread voter fraud. why he says they are putting our democracy in danger. a big n just a snack for dinner. so we're using a speakerphone in the store. is that a good idea? one of the ways i do that is to get them out of the home.

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>> sandra: former president obama slamming republicans for defending president trump's claims of voter fraud in the election saying republicans are not merely humoring trump they're undermining our democracy. "wall street journal" columnist bill mcgurn joins us now to discuss. good morning to you. let's hear a bit more from president obama in this piece, listen. >> i'm more troubled by the fact that other republican officials who clearly know better are going along with this. are humoring him in this fashion. it is one more step in delegitimizing -- not just the incoming biden administration, but democracy generally. >> sandra: bill, what do you think of former president obama weighing in on this? >> well, it looks to me as though the obamas didn't get the memo that demonizing your opponents is out. earlier in the week michelle

obama in a congratulatory message to mr. biden spoke of trump voters sparked hate and division and former president obama is by not conceding they are threatening democracy. that's just nonsense. again, it makes it look more these calls for national unity are hollow. why not let it play out? i personally don't think it will change the results but as long as the president and his team are doing what's legal asking for recounts, bringing things to the court, let them deal with it. then i think joe biden has a better case for unity to say look, you raised the questions, the courts didn't rule for you and i'm president and you will have to deal with it. i think it is more of the same especially if you consider what barack obama's administration was doing in the transition. >> sandra: especially if you

consider what hillary clinton said back in august about no matter what, biden should not concede. listen. >> joe biden should not concede under any circumstances because i think this is going to drag out and eventually i do believe he will win if we don't give an inch. >> sandra: there is, of course, that moment just weeks before election day speaking for her party, bill. and then there was four years of donald trump and one could question whether or not democrats ever accepted donald trump's 2016 victory. >> absolutely, sandra you raise a good point. i did a whole column on that. where would trump supporters ever get the idea that you call a president's election illegitimate? they got it from the last four years. jimmy carter, hillary clinton, nancy pelosi, john lewis, a whole team of people, these are

not msnbc hosts. these are democratic party leaders who at one time or another explicitly stated the president wasn't legit mate. they impeached him over nothing. we had the special prosecutor over nothing. our intelligence chiefs went on the air with no evidence calling donald trump russian asset. so i think it's a bit rich to hear these kinds of complaints come out. the best thing for the peace of the country, 72 million people voted for donald trump. they feel disenfranchised. they may be wrong on that. let it play out. it is not going to take that long. 2000 when my former boss george w. bush was elected president, he didn't get his transition funds in his office space until december 13th right after the supreme court had declared him a victor. so the idea that this threatens democracy i think is nonsense and i think it shows the hollowness of the unity claims. >> sandra: bill mcgurn from the

"wall street journal." thank you. >> trace: fox news alert. minneapolis city council set to vote whether to bring in outside police officers to fill their diminishing ranks. plus the trump campaign filing five new lawsuits in battleground pennsylvania. where do things go from here? former assistant u.s. attorney andy mccarthy joins us with that at the top of the hour. for over 30 years, lexus has been celebrating driveway moments. here's to one more, the lexus december to remember sales event. lease the 2021 nx 300 for $349 a month for 36 months and we'll make your first month's payment. experience amazing at your lexus dealer.

>> sandra: fox news alert. minneapolis city council is about to vote on a request to

give the police department more money so that they can hire additional officers from outside agencies to help deal with a major jump in violent crime. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," good morning, i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> trace: good morning to you. good morning. i'm trace gallagher. minneapolis is facing a major shortage of officers with more than 100 on leave in the wake of months of unrest. many of them filing claims for ptsd amid widespread calls to dismantle the police force. meantime progressives pushing for police reforms and defunding the police are causing a major rift among democrats. >> sandra: fox team coverage for you. david lee miller on the political infight and garrett tenney on the vote in minneapolis. we begin with garrett tenney, good morning. >> sandra, good morning to you. to be clear, this proposal is not a long-term solution but minneapolis is facing a wave of violent crime.

homicides, assaults, robberies, all up compared to this point last year. so the city's police chief is pleading for help from the same city council that vowed to dismantle the police department earlier this year. this proposal would pay to bring in between 20 and 40 officers from the hennepin county sheriff's office and metro transit police to respond to calls of violent crime until the end of this year. a number of city council members are pushing back on the proposal. both over the $500,000 price tag and over the strategy. last night council member cunningham tweeted minneapolis won't be safer by relying on a broken criminal justice system that got us in the crisis in the first place by breaking up families and destroying future. more business as usual won't create different results. when you're in a holl the solution is not to keep digging. when other city council members criticized the plan the sheriff pushed back. if you have other ideas i'm all

ears. a group of residents sued the city council over a lack of police presence and blamed them for their calls to dismantle and defund the police department for the wave of violent crime. >> sandra: garrett tenney in chicago. trace. >> trace: the controversy over defunding the police is sparking new divisions among democrats. new york congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez is defending calls to reallocate money away from police departments despite accusations from moderates that the far left policy proposal cost the party seats in the house. here is what she said at a town hall. watch. >> the path towards justice is a long arc and it happens in steps. safety is not just an officer with a badge and a gun. >> trace: david lee miller live in new york city with brand-new reaction from the police and a look at how this is affecting

crime rates nationwide. david lee, good morning. >> good morning, trace. as you mentioned the new york area congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez took part in a virtual town hall last night and she repeated her call to defund the police. ocasio-cortez is not backing down from her position despite criticism from some moderate democrats her more extreme views cost democrats seats in the house. earlier this week joe manchin from west virginia says his party rejects some crazy socialist agenda adding we do not believe in defunding the police. ocasio-cortez says police resources must be reallocated and says that's not only her view but what she is hearing from her own constituents. >> far too many people who have been killed due to police violence and when my community is coming out and saying and demanding this, it is my job to listen. >> the head of a police union here in new york responded to

ocasio-cortez remarks saying in a statement congresswoman ocasio-cortez lives in a world of raindrops and lollipops. her antics of defunding the police and too many people being killed by police is misleading. here in new york city violent crime continues to spike. today homicides are up 37%. shootings compared to a year ago has nearly doubled and the city slashed the city's nypd budget by a million dollars. despite alexandria ocasio-cortez she has no control over the police budget, defunding of local police departments is entirely up to the discretion of local leaders. trace. >> trace: david lee miller live in new york. thank you. >> sandra: president trump's campaign stepping up its legal challenges in several swing states contesting the election results by claiming it has

evidence of voting irregularities as well as some other issues. the president's team now pushing forward with lawsuits in arizona, michigan, and pennsylvania. let's bring in fox news contributor andy mccarthy, a former assistant u.s. attorney. thank you for being here. how would you characterize what the campaign has been able to show and prove so far as far as those irregularities and issues of fraud? >> i think there are a number of things that should be explored, sandra. there are some serious allegations. we should note the states involved particularly pennsylvania are pushing back heavily on these allegations. they say that some of them are just flat wrong and others are exaggerations. my big takeaway for what it's worth is you have kind of a mismatch between what they are alleging and what is very important here, the relief that they're asking for. so they want, for example, in

pennsylvania to void 680,000 votes mainly mail-in votes from pittsburgh and philadelphia. in michigan it's something like 1.2 million votes. and what you are talking about is they are able to show some voting irregularities, but what they're asking for is kind of like it would be as if you and i were in a candy store and we saw people come in and steal candy bars and walk out. if they grabbed them all, if somebody came out and said there is rampant lawlessness here you couldn't disagree with that. if somebody added we should have the death penalty for it you would say that was a little bit out there, right? so i think the problem that they will eventually have is if there has been voter irregularities then those need to be checked specifically. but if their allegation is that if you allow illegal voting it

dilutes the votes of all the legal voters out there, think about what their remedy is. if you void 680,000 votes over what turns out to be a small percentage of 680,000 votes, what you've done is disenfranchised a lot of legal voters and inflated the votes of the trump side which isn't any better, either. so the courts will hear this out. i think right now there is a mismatch between what they are asking for in the way of relief and what they will be able to prove. >> sandra: based on you saying initially, though, there are a number of points worth exploring here and some serious allegations i'll ask you in a second then if it is worth it and if the campaign should continue down that route. but first here is kayleigh mcenany last night. >> when you look at the overall number of mail-in ballots in this country that are rejected nationwide it is 1%. the data we get out of some of these states like pennsylvania and michigan rejection rate was

.4% or.6% and lower. we want to look and see what went on here. >> sandra: should the campaign continue down this route based on everything you just said suggesting there could be some adverse damage done along the way, andy? >> well, if it were my call to make i wouldn't do it. and the reason, sandra, is very simply for the president to succeed here ultimately -- i think you always have to start out with what are you trying to accomplish? he would need to flip pennsylvania and two other states. i don't see how that happens here. on the other hand i think a lot of these irregularities are important and certainly important for future elections and if there are things that went wrong we should find out what they were. i note that if you are going to look at programmatic irregularities like kayleigh mcenany talked about, we don't know necessarily whether they cut in trump's direction or biden's direction, right? so identifying them is great

because it helps us fix future elections. i don't know that it suggests that the results here is in any way illegitimate and i don't see how it gets the president to winning pennsylvania and two other states. by the way, nevada can't be one of the other states. there is not enough electoral votes. it is a very small pool of states that's left that he has to flip and i just at this moment don't see that happening. >> sandra: all really important points. thank you for being on this morning. appreciate it. >> trace: president trump is signed an executive order that bans americans from investing in some chinese firms. 31 chinese companies are owned or controlled by the chinese military and, quote, directly threaten u.s. supreme court. those companies include smartphone maker .

a member of the biden covid committee is walking about a proposal for a nation lockdown lasting 4 to 6 weeks. he now says he never discussed his idea with other members of the committee adding it would never win support in congress. but while he was reacting to the nationwide surge in cases and deaths the "wall street journal" points out the devastation of the spring recession when kids were unable to attend school and 22 million lost jobs. laura ingraham last night calling lockdowns a disaster. >> lockdowns failed miserably in europe. huge economic calamity that followed. no big deal to the elites in charge. they'll always have charges. for the millions of others, business close, jobs lost, schools remain closed. depression and suicide numbers go up plus other illnesses will be left untreated and undetected but all for the

greater good. >> trace: fox has more on all this tonight beginning with tucker carlson at 8:00 p.m. hannity at 9:00, "the ingraham angle" with laura ingraham at 10:00. >> sandra: thank you, trace. speaker nancy pelosi expected to give an update on the coronavirus relief bill negotiations in a little bit as she failed to get a deal passed before election day. no one is challenging pelosi for the job as speaker. chad pergram, where do the relief bill negotiations stand at this moment? >> none going on now. the prospects of getting something done during the lame duck cong are slim. house speaker nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell seem to be talking past one another right now. she continues to want a large bill. he wants a smaller bill. the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. >> the republicans are shamefully pretending proceeding without recognizing what our responsibility is and

making it even harder to address the massive health -- health and economic crisis that we're facing. >> it's believed pelosi lost leverage not doing a medium size bill before the election. it would have died in the united states senate. the house is not engaged in house speaker nancy pelosi with any negotiations. the secretary of the treasury and pelosi talked on an almost daily basis for months without getting a deal. >> sandra: what problems does nancy pelosi face being reelected speaker? >> it's about the math. you have to get an outright majority on the house floor. 435 members so you need to have 218 members. if the house democratic majority will be down in the low 221, 222, she can only lose a few votes. tim ryan, democratic congressman from ohio ran against pelosi in 2016.

he is not running this time. listen. >> i don't anticipate speaker pelosi having any issues on the floor so i think we're going to be united. we won the presidency. >> pelosi lost 15 votes for speaker in 2019. she can only lose a few this time. here is something to keep an eye on. alisa slotkin voted present in the speaker's vote in 2019 and says that she would not support pelosi this time. >> sandra: we'll be watching all of that. chad pergram, thank you. >> trace: republicans are pinning their hopes on georgia to keep control of the senate. could a gop victory help joe biden hold back the radical left? "fox news sunday" host chris wallace is up next. >> now we take georgia and then we change the world. now we take georgia, and then we change america. .

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the chamber. chris wallace is anchor of "fox news sunday". always good to see you. what are you watching when it comes to the georgia races? >> well, obviously who wins or loses first of all. as you point out it looks now like republicans have 50 seats so democrats would have to flip two republican seats in georgia to get the 50. if they're 50/50, apparent vice president, vice president elect kamala harris would be able to break the tie in a deadlocked senate. the interesting question is whether that would be to the advantage of joe biden or not. now, obviously you would think he would like a democratic senate and there are a lot of reasons he would. it would make it easier to get his agenda through. on the other hand this is a badly split democratic party and it would give him an excuse to push back. biden a more centrist democrats on the far left of his party

when it comes to suggestions about ending the filibuster, packing the court. that wouldn't go if mitch mcconnell is the senate majority leader and give joe biden a good excuse to say i just can't do it, folks. >> sandra: i know you were talking about this with brian kilmeade. you said a democratic senate would apply enormous pressure on joe biden, as you just detailed. went on to say if the republicans hold on he could say hey, mitch mcconnell is the majority leader, get real. interesting way. >> sandra: i hate it when you quote me to myself. what i say to brian kilmeade -- look, i want to make it clear i think joe biden would be much happier with a democratic senate than republican senate. when you think of some ideas out there that we're hearing from the far left of the democratic party, i mentioned the filibuster and packing the court, some of the cabinet

suggestions, elizabeth warren for treasury secretary. maybe joe biden likes that. i suspect a lot of people around him and he himself aren't comfortable. remember, joe biden ran against the far left of his party. he was the more centrist candidate. it does give him a good excuse when pushing back on some of these cabinet appointments, some things like the green new deal or medicare for all. he doesn't have to fight with his own party. he can simply say it's impossible to do with a republican majority and mitch mcconnell as the senate majority leader. >> sandra: all of this is happening with the fact that the trump campaign continues its fight and battle in some of these key states with allegations of voter fraud, irregularities. they had brought forward some evidence of that, chris. is it enough to overturn the results? we were just talking to andy mccarthy and said i would not continue down that route. it's within the president's right to continue this fight, chris. if i could get you to weigh in

on the moment. >> well look, i think it's very much a long shot that they will be able to overturn the election. one, you have to prove there was serious fraud in court. and then you have to prove there was serious fraud of a dimension that if you threw out all those ballots it would overturn the results. in other words, take pennsylvania where biden is leading 40 or 50,000 votes. if you found there were 3,000 fraudulent ballots that's bad but it doesn't change the result of the election. so it seems unlikely at best that they will be able to switch the result and that trump will be able to gain a second term. having said that, there are reasons why the president may decide he wants to continue down this route. for instance, he has obviously got millions of supporters. he got 70 million votes. the most votes anybody ever got for president ever in this country except for joe biden in this election. but it's more than obama got in

either of his election victories. for millions of his supporters they may and he may prefer to say well, you know, he will be the president, biden, but we feel we got robbed and that allows him to maintain the loyalty to the base and a good platform. the president is talking about possibly running for election in 2024. so there are reasons where he might want to continue it even if it isn't going to overturn the result of the election. >> sandra: i always look forward to "fox news sunday". even more so this weekend not because of a political guest because of your power player, a man so loved in this country, alex trebek. tell us about what we'll see. >> well back in 2012 there you see the two of us. he was explaining something and i'm trying to understand what is going on. jeopardy came to washington and did a week of jeopardy with a bunch of reporters and

officials and whatever. i'm loving looking at these pictures. i was a contestant on the show and we did a power player. a unique look behind the scenes. how you play the game and use the all-important signaling device, strategies for the game. didn't give me any of the questions, i want to make that clear. so -- i will tell you i asked him do you dumb down the show when you have so-called celebrities on it? he turns to the camera, well, i won't tell you. you have to watch the power player. you will see what trebek says when i asked him and find out how i did on jeopardy back in 2012. he was a delightful man and we didn't want to let this moment pass from the scene. this giant, as you say, beloved in the country. i still watch it and have a ball point pen and still sit

there and i still click my ball point pen and shout out the question, not the answer, like millions of other americans. do you watch it? >> sandra: i do. i'm watching the video with you that you are seeing for the first time. i think it's a nervous chris wallace i saw at the podium. was it intimidating, chris? >> well, look, if you win it's exhilarating but you have the real potential there, you can see me, embarrassing yourself in front of a nation on a show you watch and a lot of people watch. it is a high risk, high reward. you'll have to see how it all turns out an "fox & friends." >> sandra: he was a fantastic man who managed to get people together in their living rooms for decades and we look forward to that. >> it is all about the ball point pen, sandra. >> sandra: we'll be watching.

thanks, chris. >> trace: we have to turn the volume up on that. president-elect biden's transition team and reaching across the aisle to republicans they're meeting with as they plan for the incoming administration. the coronavirus and the constitution. is the pandemic chipping away at some of our most cherished freedoms? what supreme court justice samuel alito is warning about next. >> tolerance for opposing views is disappearing in the law schools and the broader academic community. it also turns into an air fryer. bring outdoor grilling flavors indoors with the grill that grills for you.

>> sandra: president-elect joe biden scheduled to meet with his transition team today. fox news is learning he has already met with some gop senators. peter doocy is live in delaware for us this morning. peter, which republican senators have already called biden to offer their congratulations? >> sandra, the incoming chief of staff ron klain there are some but won't say which senators have called so far. the biden team is not counting on their help come january. instead the president-elect has his staff preparing a stack of executive orders. >> he campaigned on a promise to take action starting on day one protecting the dreamers starting on day one. rejoining the paris accords for climate change. starting on day one.

reversing some of the environmental roll backs we've seen from president trump and fixing some of the flaws in the affordable care act that the trump administration has imposed. >> biden is not going to need to rely on executive orders if georgia's senate seats goes blue and chuck schumer becomes the senate majority leader. some of the most noticeable changes a president biden may make with just a pen are at the labor department like letting federal workers get raises, join unions and get diversity training and that labor department secretary is a job that bernie sanders is now out in the open campaigning for. >> sandra: what's the president telling advisors about a possible run for him in 2024? >> it's not something that the president is talking about publicly right now, sandra. that would mean that he is not going to be done with a second term by then. but "the new york times" is

reporting that on wednesday the president told advisors that if the race is certified for biden, he is going to announce a third campaign shortly afterwards. it is likely that other republicans would also compete with him in the primaries. and if he does clear the field again in a third campaign it would set up a rematch in 2024 of trump versus biden. sandra. >> sandra: peter doocy live in delaware this morning. thank you. >> we have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020. who could have imagined that? the covid crisis has served as a sort of constitutional stress test and in doing so, it has highlighted disturbing trends that were already present before the virus struck. >> trace: supreme court justice

samuel alito saying the coronavirus pandemic is taking a toll on some of our nation's most fundamental rights and free speech and religious liberty. he spoke last night at a conference of conservative lawyers. the editor of the federal lift is with us. what do you think of justice alito coming out and saying the pandemic has sparked government overreach? >> trace, i think one of the most interesting aspects of what justice alito said, he said these things, these trends were already there before the virus hit and only become worse. the whole 2020 election was really presented by the media to the american people as being a potential return to normalcy. but i think people have forgotten what that really means. under the obama-biden administration we saw increasing clashes in the culture war front when it came to areas as law as it relates to the affordable care act, obamacare which led to the

suing of a group of nuns, a number of different cases like we saw with hobby lobby related to religious freedom. what justice alito is highlighting those friends have gotten worse when using courts of law in overreach on the part of executives at the state level in particular against various religious groups who have a very deep right to not just worship but to gather and make their faith real in terms of their lived experience, which is not something that has been respected. we see a situation in california, for instance, where strip clubs can reopen but churches cannot. for a lot of religious people in america is pretty frustrated. >> trace: you talk about the culture war involving the legal aspects and it continues. when supreme court justice alito spoke last night some of the liberal attorneys and law professors went after him. harvard law professor saying poor babies, they have only five of the nine votes on the

supreme court. they'll feel aggrieved until they have all nine. as politically partisan a speech as i've ever seen from a justice. arrogant and sloppy. he condemned covid-19 restrictions, marriage equality, abortion rights, and five sitting democratic senators. even moderate jonathan turley suggested that we should only hear supreme court justices opinions in their opinions. >> jonathan turley has an old-fashioned view on this, trace, i think, which is something that i can certainly respect but we live in an era when not just justice ginsburg but scalia as well were very open about their views and spoke publicly in gatherings like this. i think we have really passed the point where justices should be silent when they believe in matters at the center of these discussions and how important

they are in a moment in which many americans, i think, still don't have an attitude towards the court of knowing what really goes on inside. >> trace: i want to switch topics now and talk about the biden administration now planning to reverse the president's immigration actions, right? he will take some of those back. he won't stop -- he won't tear down the wall but he will stop building the wall. but then you have some immigration attorneys saying he better be careful, quoting here, they are going to need to be really thoughtful about how they retreat out of some of these policies, otherwise opponents and supporters of the trump administration policies will be able to hang them up in court and i think that's a fair assessment, ben, your thoughts. >> certainly there will be court fights regarding this but this gets back to the whole return to normalcy situation. it was very frankly repeated problem during the obama administration crises along the border. that led to enormous clashes over this area of policy.

people are underestimating the effect that biden's shift on this is going to have. the southern border is ripe for another crisis, a flow of people who frankly have lost jobs, lost lives, had a terrible experience across the other side of the southern border when it comes to the coronavirus which is going to raise increased risks, i think, along the border when it comes to the pandemic. i would fully expect to see us head into a border crisis in the early days of this coming administration and it will be one that i think is going to prompt a lot of people to question how quickly they are putting -- rolling back a lot of these trump immigration proposals in ways that could have significant ramification. >> trace: good to see you, sir, thank you. >> sandra: president obama opening up about his years in the white house. what we're learning from his new book about the ups and downs of being the first black president plus republican senator james langford set the deadline for the trump administration to give joe

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black president. lawrence jones is a fox news analyst and host at fox nation and joins us now. lawrence, good to see you. i'll start out with this first excerpt from his book. it was as if my very presence in the white house had triggered a deep seated panic. a sense that the natural order had been disrupted which is exactly what donald trump understood when he started peddling assertions that i had not been born in the united states and was thus an illegitimate president. for millions of americans spooked by a black man in the white house he he promised an elixir for their racial anxiety. >> interesting. president barack obama was our first black president. i was 15 years old when i was a democrat and worked on his campaign. i'm sure there were some people that were upset him being the first black president but on the other hand, there were a lot of people that were excited

about his message about hope and change. he was reelected twice. i always had a problem with then candidate trump saying he was not born here. i didn't think there was ever any evidence of that and that was painful. but i do think that as we're having this conversation, that i feel like president obama has started to demonize some of the people that voted for him. i've been on the campaign trail and had the opportunity to spend time with trump supporters as well as biden supporters, and these are people that some of them voted for president obama and it wasn't anything -- the reason why they decided to vote for him had nothing to do with his skin color. they thought he was the best man for the job at the time. that has since changed. from the left there is this thing of demonizing those trump supporters, trying to figure out why they decided to vote for president obama and then

four years later -- eight years later decide to go for candidate trump. because they felt like washington wasn't working for them. i think that the democratic party although i respect the former president, i think that his experience was very real, i have experienced racism before but i don't like the demonization. to paint 70 million people as just these cold blooded racists. i don't think that's true. >> sandra: interesting response. i'll get your response to this as well. another excerpt. i didn't believe a president shouldn't whine by criticism from voters. i was quick to remind both reporters and friends that my white predecessors had all endured their share of vicious personal attacks. more i racial attitudes were woven into every aspect of our nation's history. offering no excuses he is in this book about criticisms he

received as president pointing to his predecessors and many people who came before him received criticism as well, lawrence. >> well, when you take the highest office in the land, you are going to receive criticism. you can't just say that it is deeply rooted in race because again, sandra, if you look at the polling he is the most popular president that's still living. there is still part of the country that like him as a man but reject the policies that he implemented. again, i feel like there is this intellectual laziness within the democratic party right now. there is no interest in trying to figure out why they lost support. again, they won this election but 70 million people still rejected what they stand for. some would argue if it were any other republican president, that he might have won because he has a different personality. still 53% of americans are still saying their life is

better under donald trump. they just don't like the way he behaves. so the fact that the democrats are unwilling to have that conversation. again, i will never rob president obama of his blackness and the experience that he had. i'm often the youngest man in the room and also the only black person in the room many times. so i understand how that feels at times. but again as someone that has been on the road speaking with the trump supporters, all i have is love from them but they're angry at their circumstance. there needs to be an evaluation of that. >> sandra: you offer such a unique perspective. i've been able to talk to you a lot through the weeks of covering the election and all that time you spent in some of those key battlegrounds on the ground talking to those voters, lawrence. it is good stuff. thanks for being here. >> thank you, my friend. >> trace: the movement to defund the police reaches a moment of reckoning in minneapolis as a city council votes whether to bring in officers from other departments.

how is all this affecting public safety here and in other major u.s. cities? that's next plus a mission to mars. just how close nasa's perseverance rover is getting to landing on the red planet. ♪ ♪ [ engines revving ] ♪ it's amazing to see them in the wild like th-- shhh. [ engine revs ] for those who were born to ride, there's progressive.

>> sandra: nasa's perseverance rover is less than 100 days from mars. once it lands its mission is to look for fossilized evidence of extraterrestrial life. the long term goal is to send a manned mission to mars sometime

in the 2030s. >> trace: we're following a developing story in the minneapolis city council is voting today on a proposal to bring in officers from other jurisdictions to help keep the community safe. it comes amid a spike in violent crime in the city. ted williams is a former homicide detective and fox news contributor. ted, always good to see you. i put the numbers on the screen yesterday and a second look. look at the crime stats this year in minneapolis. arson up 76%, assault up 24%, homicides up 87%, robberies up 37%, first they wanted police officers out, now they are thinking about bringing help in. the city has put itself in a bind, ted. your thoughts. >> it has not only put themselves in a bind meaning the city but they put the citizens of that city in danger. you know, trace, one of the first precepts of lawmakers are the protection and safety of the citizens of a community.

what has happened here in minneapolis as a result of the george floyd incident where you had a few police officers you decided to punish the citizens by moving to defund the police department and what happens when you try to make this kind of a move, trace, is that you anger the police officers. you make the police officers believe that they are nothing. their morale goes down. as a result of that they say we're leaving and they leave. under those circumstances there is this void that is left. so what you are trying to do now is to bring in other police officers to work in your community, police officers who are not really -- cannot directly relate to those communities. this is a very sad situation and unfortunately it is not only happening in minneapolis but in other cities around this country. >> trace: oh yeah, all around the country. i want the play the sound of a minneapolis business owner who is experiencing this distress

in realtime and get your thoughts. watch. >> we don't need extra help, we need the police we have and just, you know, just, you know retrain them and, you know, and keep the ones that we have. we don't need extra help. >> we don't need extra help. we want training of the ones we have. >> they're absolutely right. they want someone who is familiar with their community. they don't want to be bringing in people from other parts of another jurisdiction in to assist them. in los angeles the significant unite within a police department, the assault unit is being defunded. in new york the plain clothes unit that is needed there is being disbanded. what is happening is criminals are watching and they are winning the fight between good

and evil. >> trace: you mentioned sexual assault unit in los angeles being disbanded as well as the animal abuse unit and the police chief there saying you take away 350 of my officers from patrol, we cannot do it. ted williams. it's a problem around the country. good to see you, sir. >> sandra: fox news alert now. president trump's campaign scored a legal victory in pennsylvania. we'll have the latest on the court ruling there as the president goes another day with no public appearances. all the latest as we head into a brand-new hour. veteran homeowners: why refinance now?

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>> sandra: a catholic diocese in new york city is seeking emergency intervention from the supreme court. this in response to governor cuomo's new coronavirus restrictions on attendance in houses of worship. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," good morning, i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> trace: good day to you i'm trace gallagher. the cuomo order limits the number of people who can gather for services. essential businesses can remain open. the topic was discussed this morning on "fox & friends." >> targeted restrictions that were designed to limit the orthodox jew i shall community and catholic community is coming justice breyer at the supreme court to hear their case is just getting caught in that crossfire that governor cuomo said was meant to limit

houses of worship. >> trace: let's bring in our chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news at night shannon bream. good to see you. >> the diocese wants the court to step in saying their first amendment rights are being trampled. while this executive order effective closes church and other houses of worship all businesses deemed essential by the governor including everything from supermarkets to pet stores, hardware stores and broker's offices are permitted to remain open without any capacity limitations whatsoever. now this is an issue that justice samuel alito spoke to in a speech last night and sparked quite a reaction now while not talking about the new york case specifically he did address a similar dispute over covid restrictions in nevada talking about the fact that out there you can gamble, drink, go to shows. if you want to go to a house of worship you're out of luck. if you are a 51st person in line.

50 is the limit. then he added this. >> the size of the building doesn't matter, nor does it matter if you wear a mask and keep more than six feet away from everybody else. and it doesn't matter if the building is carefully sanitized before and after a service. the state's message is this, forget about worship and head for the slot machines or maybe a cirque du soleil show. >> from there alito he did not hold back going after the quick and sweeping covid restrictions that have been so broad and forceful a stress test on the constitution. he also lamented attacks on free speech on campus and the fact that many americans feel like they can't share their personal views without being attacked or shamed or labeled. he is getting applause in conservative quarters those aren't happy about what he had to say last night and the fact he said it fix the court is one of the court that tracks the supreme court. their director said this, last night proves once and for all

the supreme court needs a formal code of conduct. encourage them to think twice before making political speeches to partisan organizations. as for that case from the catholic diocese in brooklyn to the supreme court the energy petition justice breyer who is handling the case asked for the cuomo administration to file some sort of reply to this by 2:00 on wednesday. i would expect a pretty quick decision from there. we'll track it for you guys. >> trace: shannon bream live for us. thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in national journal of politics editor josh on that. >> a really important moment. alito's comments about religious freedom and free speech illustrated the political results from the election. republicans did better than expected because of this backlash against the cultural left. the silent majority of voters that may not have been screaming to pollsters but have some dissent from some of the

liberal orthodoxy in their leadership and worth paying attention to not just from the supreme court but from politics and the facts that democrats need to be more responsive to cultural and religious conservative voters. >> sandra: more from alito on the freedom of speech being in jeopardy. listen. >> support for freedom of speech is also in danger and covid rules have restricted speech in unprecedented ways. as i mentioned attendance at speeches, lectures, conferences, conventions, rallies, and other similar events has been banned or limited. and some of these restrictions are alleged to have included discrimination based on the viewpoint of the speaker. >> sandra: for obvious reasons it's generating a lot of discussion. >> yeah. one of the big reasons for trump's election in 2016 and for republican unexpected successes in 2020 is sort of

the underbelly of political correctness and free speech issues are a big part of that. that isn't going away. you've seen the divide within the democratic party in recent weeks since the election about we need to be more responsive to half the country. we can't stick our middle finger at people who may have different values. we need to be more respectful of the more moderate in the democratic voices are saying. alito hit on the political underbelly that's going on in the country where the polls may not have captured it fully but there is a lot of backlash against the cultural elite, the left that governs a lot of the institutions in our country. >> sandra: you transition to our second topic very nicely and that is the political divide not between republicans and democrats but within the democratic party. here is a foxnews.com piece this morning. progressive groups push biden to -- president-elect may face

a growing ideological split within the democratic party and that is why so many people are talking about just how important these races are in georgia to a joe biden presidency. potentially he wants republicans to maintain the majority in the senate. >> yeah. the beauty of divided government is that it is incentivizes moderation. even if joe biden wanted to pass the green new deal or wanted to appoint elizabeth warren to the cabinet, the reality is he doesn't have the votes in the senate to do that. and you may see some progressives and other lower level agencies like the department of labor, maybe the department of education but for the big high profile cabinet departments i think it's unlikely biden will really poke the bear. he says he wants to have a unified government and wants to work with republicans. you'll start to see this with the cabinet picks. he will pick more moderates that can work with republicans

instead of the bomb throwing ideologues in the democratic party. >> sandra: the chief of staff talking about biden and mcconnell. final thoughts on this. listen. >> he has not spoken to senator mcconnell. there will be a time and place for joe biden and senator mcconnell to talk. they need no introduction to one another. they have worked together and fought each other, worked together and fought each other over the decades. they'll have a working relationship when the time comes. >> sandra: interesting based on all the promises how and if we do see a president biden, if that happens, work across the aisle and reach across the aisle and work with republicans as he said he would. >> mcconnell is an unsentimental tactician. he will probably block a proposal that he thinks are not popular or certainly with republican voters but i think there is a lot of opportunity for compromise especially when it comes to healthcare, when it

comes to spending to help people because of the pandemic. i think joe biden realizes there are a lot of crises going on. when he takes the presidency i think there is a lot of room for non-ideological areas where they can see eye-to-eye and biden also knows the political math. he won't try to press his luck too much because of the number of senate seats republicans have. >> sandra: great to have you this morning. thank you. >> trace: this morning a judge is hearing appeals on a series of lawsuits that president trump's campaign brought against the philadelphia county board of elections. they're asking to have more than 8,000 ballots tossed for what the campaign alleges are defects. biden leads president trump by just over 60,000 votes in the state. anchor and senior correspondent eric shawn live in philadelphia. a busy morning there as the counting goes on, right? >> yeah, it is, trace. a court hearing going on right at this hour. we'll get to that in a minute.

the election here in pennsylvania is set to be certified 10 days from now but the trump campaign is trying to prevent that. the campaign wants the democratic secretary of state boockvar not to certify the election until there is a full recount and all the election lawsuits are resolved. let's look live at the courthouse. at the moment the trump campaign lawyers are inside the courthouse trying to bounce 8,329 ballots. they say those ballots have problems. they are not alleged any voter fraud with those. just a few moments ago the judge did grant permission for lawyers from the democratic national committee to also take part in this case. this after another judge declared yesterday that the secretary of state should not have extended the deadline for voters to fix mistakes in their ballots. trump team says only the state legislature can order that, not an elected official. >> the commission is clear. only the legislature may set

the time, place and manner of elections. here the secretary of state of pennsylvania decided to unlate rally extend that deadline. under the help america vote act people voting for the first time have to provide some form of identification for the records of the state and here they just extended that out. >> the trump campaign has filed a total of 15 lawsuits. election experts doubt their strategy will succeed. >> i feel like these lawsuits are distracting and what we should instead be doing is figuring out how we as a country can come together and make sure our election system works for all of us. >> in various state and federal courts here and philadelphia the trump lawyers have said there is no evidence of any voter fraud. by the way the state will certify its results finally on november 23. trace, back to you. >> trace: eric shawn live in philadelphia.

thank you. >> sandra: a manhunt has ended in the murder of an arkansas police officer where the suspect and accomplice were captured. we'll have that for you next. as new lawsuits are filed by the trump campaign in battleground states why one columnist believes the issues with election security began with democratic leadership. >> this is truly about the control of the senate with having chuck schumer in charge. for somebody like myself who has fought against the left and democrats for years that's not ten able. veterans, if you could lower your

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>> trace: an arrest in the killing of an arkansas police officer. according to fox affiliate in memphis 29-year-old latarius howard and accomplice were captured in mississippi. the shooting happened when officers stopped howard's vehicle near a hotel yesterday. he got out and opened fire. an officer was hit and died at the hospital. the police department hasn't released the officer's name. howard is also wanted in connection with another shooting on november 1. >> sandra: two senate runoff elections in georgia will determine the power in washington campaigns striking a more

combative tone. all eyes on georgia. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta for more on all that. good morning. >> good morning to you, sandra. with the balance of power in the u.s. senate in play the attack ads from both sides in these two senate races here in georgia are really focusing on national partisan themes. georgia's republican senate incumbents are tying their challengers to radical elements of the democrat party while democrats accuse the incumbents of gutting healthcare during a pandemic. both parties are spending -- sending politicians and volunteers to georgia to help with the campaigns but the gop is raising concerns that out of state democrats may try to register to vote in georgia's january 5 senate runoffs. in a letter to the secretary of state the chairman of the georgia gop writes these unlawful attempts by outsiders to influence our elections are potentially criminal, offend fundamental notions of a fair election process and must be

stopped. georgia elections officials issued this warning to out of state residents on both sides. >> come here, campaign. go door-to-door. your first amendment right but don't try to game our system. >> this morning the georgia secretary of state's office launched a statewide hand count of every ballot cast in the presidential race in georgia to verify the accuracy of the state's new voting machines. state officials expect the manual tally to be slightly different because of human error but not enough to change the outcome of the election. and sandra, whatever result comes out of this hand retally will become georgia's official and final result in the presidential race. doesn't affect the two senate races which are heading to a january runoff. sandra. >> sandra: jonathan serrie, thank you. >> trace: president trump pushing forward with his claims of voter fraud and a new piece from the "wall street journal" suggests that issues with voter integrity began with the

democratic party. harvesting the 2020 election was written by our next guest kimberly strassel and she joins us now. great to have you as always. you believe that speaker nancy pelosi began laying the ground work to kind of sway the votes a couple of years ago. if you can explain that in a nutshell for us and we'll move on to the rest of your piece. >> yeah, hi, trace. my point here is that this is actually you have to look at this in the broader context, the fight going on a long time in which republicans have cared very much about ballot integrity with things like voter identification laws. democrats have worked very hard to water down a lot of voting rules. that really hit a crest early last year when nancy pelosi put forward as her party's top priority an election reform bill that demanded all these things like same day voter registration, online voter registration, mass mail balloting and lots of other

things designed and basically signed off anibaliot harvesting where paid operatives go and collect ballots. so this -- under the guise of the virus a lot got made into law in states in the run-up to the election. this is how to view what we're dealing with now. >> trace: that's interesting. you say the law didn't pass but nancy pelosi didn't need it. then you go on to say quoting here using the virus as an excuse democratic and liberal groups forced states to adopt its provisions. many democratic politicians and courts happily agreed. states mailed out ballots to everyone, judges disregarded statutory deadlines for receipt of votes, scrapped absentee ballot witness requirements. states set up curbside voting and drove drop-off boxes and signed off on ballot harvesting and you end by saying the fix was in. >> right. my point being is look at the democratic strategy all along. first you have this legislation that she put forward. she by the way also tried to

cram some of those provisions into coronavirus bills different ones that came out this year. she didn't succeed. going back months now you have democratic lawyers and outside interest groups this launched a legal onslaught to get some of these provisions adopted. all that was strategy to flood the zones with additional ballots. when you water them down it's difficult to prove fraud. you don't know how the ballots were collected and these recounts are one thing but i think this has to be part of a bigger national discussion we have about ballot integrity and if we want to continue these kinds of systems going forward because they do sew so much doubt. >> trace: you make a good point. look, this is almost impossible to prove but you know the critics are going to say we want the proof. like they've been saying now you have to show us the proof. what do you say to the skeptics

out there, kimberly? >> look, these are recounts will be what they are. we'll need to accept the results of state certifications but the bigger debate has to be we have an election expert who gave testimony if front of congress. one thing you noted when you have mail-in voting it's the worst kind of system. it removes everything from the oversight of elected officials. the ability to make sure that votes are actually legitimate. you've got ballot harvesters out there. were they paying people to do their votes? were they filling them out for them? you don't know because when they show up it is just a vote. so we need to talk about actually voting on election day. maybe curtailing early voting. definitely cutting back on mail-in voting so we can believe in this system again. >> trace: you end on a warning for the future. republicans fought the worst changes but up against the virus excuse.

whether they now understand the stakes. the election was a system mrs. pelosi wants nationwide and suggested election reform might be her first priority in 2021. a few seconds for your last thoughts, kimberly. >> this is the long game. focus on what we're doing with this election and these recounts. the long game democrats want this new system to become the law of the land and republicans have to decide if they will rise to that level and do battle on that issue. >> trace: member of the "wall street journal" editorial board, kimberly strassel. good to see you. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: the iranian president predicting the era of maximum pressure will come to an end when joe biden takes office. but the trump administration is working to make sure the president's measures that he put in will stay in place long after president trump leaves the white house. plus democrats fighting democrats over policing in america. so who has the upper hand? the old guard or the new

upstarts? >> far too many people who have been killed due to police violence. when my community is coming out and demanding this, it is my job to listen.

>> sandra: top stories making headlines at the bottom of the hour. the spread of coronavirus is shattering previous records now with more than 153,000 new cases in the u.s. yesterday

alone. the surge in cases happening in almost every state as researchers say more people are going indoors for social gatherings. >> at least two people died in a steam explosion at a veterans hospital in westhaven, connecticut. a rep for the hospital says the victims were fixing a leak when the steam boiler blew up. >> sandra: twitter reporting it will keep some of the changes it made before election day designed to slow down the spread of misinformation and labeling information the company calls misleading. some on the right accuse others in big tech of censoring conservatives. >> trace: new sanctions may be coming to iran. a senior state department official tells fox news there will be more restrictions imposed in the final days of the trump administration. rich edson live for us at the state department. >> good morning, trace. a senior state department official tells us to expect a

steady stream of sanctions all the way through the end of this administration. officials are also warning the incoming biden team against yielding that pressure. the state department special representative for iran says quote if the pressure is utilized to demand changes from iran we think it will work. if the pressure is not utilized, if it is really discarded, that would be, i think, very foolish, even tragic. it is also unclear whether the biden administration will successfully rejoin the 2015 iran nuclear agreement. president trump withdrew the u.s. from the deal. democrats criticized that. the former national security advisor is warning the next administration to keep the u.s. out of that deal. >> it would be a really big mistake, bret, to try to turn the clock back to 2016 and resurrect iran nuclear deal. that was a political disaster masquerading as a diplomatic triumph. >> the iran president is

demanding compensation for the united states for leaving the nuclear deal if the biden team tried to bring the u.s. back into the agreement. like the u.s., i ran is violating the terms of the deal. while offices say many of these sanctions the next president could lift them they are saying it could be difficult for the next administration especially as many of the measures this administration has put in place have dealt with counter terrorism. officials on sanctions dealing with human rights violations. trace. >> trace: rich edson live at the state department. thank you. >> i believe that the path toward justice is a long arc. >> sandra: alexandria ocasio-cortez doubling down on calls for police reform despite some moderate democrats blaming the defund the police movement for the party's lost house seats. ocasio-cortez tweeting this picture of her staring down

senator joe manchin in response to the west virginia democrat tweeting defund the police? defund my butt. here to talk about it is fox news contributor and former white house press secretary ari fleischer. that's what he said. what did it mean? >> i didn't know it was funded. look, i think it's a perfect sign of the deep splits inside the democratic party and how this notion of defund the police, which is ardently felt by many not just as a slogan but what they want to do. they've been successful in cutting police budgets across the united states how it splits them from the mainstream and most americans. we'll watch it play out as a split. when aoc really advocates for it and pushes it she puts her colleagues in a very bad spot. >> sandra: what do you think we're seeing as far as this divide within the democratic

party, this push of joe biden to the left, what we may see happen in the senate, all that has a big impact on how this plays out? how far left do you think that this younger generation is going to try to push the incoming president? >> we'll really find out who joe biden is. he may have been in politics for 47 years but he is about to face his biggest test as the new president. the test is going to be what type of democrat is he? we all know the left wing of the democrat party is on the ascendence. they have the energy, the bernie's, the aocs. they didn't win the primary. joe biden did. how much standing up will he do in reality? what will he do if they send him legislation that he doesn't like? will he veto it or will he sign it because he has no choice? these are the fascinating tests we have to watch about joe biden. his instincts will be to fight

the left extremes but it all has to play out. none of us know how joe biden will actually conduct himself. >> sandra: some are saying it's the right picking the fight between joe biden and the alexandria ocasio-cortez and the other members of the squad. but it seems like they're doing that just fine themselves especially with that tweet aoc put out staring at joe manchin. >> the right is picking the fight. no question. every time you have an avowed socialist you should pick a fight. it's a good fight for mainstream americans to make against a socialist in the halls of the united states congress as part of a growing socialist movement in the congress i should point out. the four of the socialists are now seven with the election of new democrats in missouri and new york state. it is a growing movement. but it is a legitimate split inside the democratic party. i'm from new york and i just saw this morning that the

democrat socialists of america are trying to field candidates to run for the city council elections. this is not just drawing in the margins of academic paper. this is actual political victories they are achieving and seeking more of and it should be fought. it should be stopped and there is nothing wrong with engaging aoc on it. she is good at engaging herself. >> sandra: i want to ask you about the ongoing debate whether or not joe biden should be getting the intel briefings. president trump continues to get them. here is kevin mccarthy on that. >> one president at a time. he will be president until january 20th. it would be nice to have it but it is not critical. >> sandra: some republicans including lindsey graham say i think he should begin getting them. where do you stand on this issue whether or not he should start receiving them? >> he should be receiving them. it is just a proper right thing to development our transitions are important. signals we send are important. part of the glue that largely

holds us together. he should get the funding for the transition offices as well. but having said all that sandra i do want to point out there is very little joe biden really needs or is going to do with that intelligence information at this point. in fact, his bigger fish to fry right now are getting organized and ready to run the white house. the intelligence briefings, there is nothing actionable that he is going to do. he will be able to catch up with any information at a later date. so it is not as if the country is hurting because he is not getting them. it certainly is not. but he should get them as the proper thing. >> sandra: good to get your thoughts on that. thank you. >> trace: millions of americans now working from home in the pandemic one is asking a 5% daily tax from the arrangement. experts say the tax could raise tens of billions of dollars for governments saying the money could be used to help low income essential workers who take on greater risks and more

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>> sandra: this just in. speaker nancy pelosi facing questions about election losses in the house during her weekly news conference a few moments ago pointing out a democrat in the white house gives them extra leverage and she is urging cooperation to keep those relief funds flowing

during the pandemic. chad pergram is live on capitol hill with what we just heard. >> good morning, sandra. you know, the question here is whether or not house speaker nancy pelosi has the votes to return to the speakership because she has such a narrow majority. she often talks about and says this is a quote of hers that she uses over and over again quote, know your power. i asked the speaker this morning i said what is your power? listen. >> is there any way by having a smaller majority and what that means to both the caucus, control of the house and your speakership >> we have a president of the united states, we have a president of the united states that is so very important. >> house speaker nancy pelosi seems to be saying we have joe biden here, that's not going to affect me in my leadership race here. as i always say on capitol hill, her numbers in terms of the democratic caucus at the

end of the day will be 221, 222. the house, the entire house of representatives votes, 435 members january 3. she has to get to 218. she lost 15 votes last time. so how does she resolve that math? the approach here of house speaker nancy pelosi seems to be saying look, we'll have joe biden, that will make everything work out. she also talked about was asked whether or not she would try to compromise on legislation because she has that more narrow majority and she said no, not at all. she is saying look, we have the white house, we have the house of representatives. she said we have 132 gavels and she is saying they're going full speed ahead and not saying that they'll compromise whatsoever. >> sandra: chad pergram, thank you. >> trace: a member of president-elect biden's covid committee clarifying his remarks about locking down the country to control the virus. the doctor saying it was not a recommendation he made to the board. here is a look at what he said

on wednesday. >> we could lock down for 4 to 6 weeks. if we did that, we could drive the numbers down and then we could really watch ourselves cruising into the vaccine availability in the first and second quarter of next year and bringing back the economy long before that. >> sandra: dr. celine gounder is a member of biden's board. masks are effective, staying away from big crowds and social distancing but a robust debate on lockdowns in this country. where do you stand on lock down? >> it is important to understand that individuals on the biden-harris advisory board may have individual differences of opinion. we have been selected for diversity in many respects. in terms of areas of expertise and diversity in terms of

gender and race and diversity in terms of opinion. i would say that the consensus on the advisory board is that we really don't want to be talking about lockdowns and shutdowns. that's far too draconian and non-specific of a measure here. we have learned a lot over the last several months. so i think the more appropriate way to frame it is instead of on an off light switch we're using a dimmer switch. dialing up and down in a much more targeted way. what are the places likely to cause transmission and keep the rest of the economy functioning in the meantime. >> trace: where are the places? we talked about this a lot. the top two or three places that we need to avoid in your estimation. >> the studies have shown over the last several months that indoor dining, bars, gyms that

are indoors, nail salons and private social gatherings. those are really the biggest drivers of transmission. those are the things we really need to focus on if we want to curb the coronavirus. >> trace: is there contact tracing? we hear a lot about this and you have people in the restaurant industry pushing back and bar industry saying do we have the science that backs that up now? for a long time we didn't. we just supposed that that was one of the contributing factors. do we have the science now to back that up, doctor? >> we do have the contact tracing data and also intuitively it makes sense, right? you cannot eat and drink with a mask on. so those are going to be places where the transmission is going to be more likely. people are crowded around the table and places like gyms. people may not want to wear masks because sweating and breathing heavily. it makes not just scientific and intuitive sense those would be the places that would be high risk. >> trace: president-elect's

would be chief of staff ron klain says this about mask mandates. >> the vice president will require a masking mandate. where the federal ex tore tee extends and encouraging governors and others to impose mask mandates. we're moving to get this virus under control from day one. >> trace: the key phrase is urging governors. we have 16 states with no mask mandates and getting governors on board with a national mask mandate is going to be a very tall order. your thoughts. >> i think unfortunately masks have been overly politicized. like poll iticizing the use of toilet paper. it is highly effective, chief and doesn't get in the way of the economy functioning. it is one of our very best tools right now to control the

virus. i think this talk of mandates, whether there is a mandate passed in a particular state or not i think the critical message here is this is something every single american can do. they can take personal responsibility for their own health, the health of their family and their communities by wearing a mask. >> trace: the mississippi governor said the pressure from the biden administration will have zero impact on him. i assume you would give him the toilet paper analogy. your final thoughts. >> yeah, i just hope that americans i think we're resilient and strong and smart. i just hope that we can unite in this moment. it is really us against the coronavirus, not us against each other. >> trace: i have to go. is the mask science also conclusive or is there still some wiggle room and whether or not they are as effective as we've been told? >> they're highly effective both for protecting yourself and others.

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are coming. orlando talking about building the first flying car. the city is granting a german aviation company $800,000 in potential tax rebates to build and operate it. the 56,000 square foot port resembles an airport terminal. expected to be completed by 2025. >> sandra: the future of the keystone xl pipeline could be in jeopardy. jackie deangelis in live on that. >> now president-elect biden did say i would transition from the oil industry, yes. now biden could reverse the permit that trump granted last year to allow the 1200 mile pipeline. that was his last action on it. but president trump prioritized the energy industry all along and all the way back in january

of 2017 in the first days of his term. one of his executive orders was to expedite environmental review for infrastructure projects. also the dakota access pipelines. blocking pipelines biden could shift toward renewable energy and through executive action. the question is what cost? thousands of jobs in the oil patch just not from the pipelines itself but less oil output. keystone xl is an $8 billion project. a wedge issue for democrats. many who count on support from unions. no keystone or dakota access. less oil from canada and more reliance on opec oil. the u.s. is now the top

producer. you could see prices go up, sandra. >> sandra: jackie deangelis, thank you. >> trace: president trump set to meet with campaign advisors today as the trump team faces legal challenges in battleground states. the "outnumbered" team will break it all down. he may want to purchase, we can help them and provide that financial solution for they and their families. it's a great rewarding feeling. everybody in the company, they have that deference and that respect and that love for the veteran that makes this company so unique.

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generated a lot of attention on the internet. first, the video of the comments i made off-air in the special election coverage on saturday. that was spliced together with our on-air segment. for the record, i was not editorializing. i was pointing out to the producers that we in addition to other out lets already called the presidential race. in a separate instance a screen grab of this program was taken, edited and distributed to fit a completely false narrative. it was not real. i anchor three hours of straight news daily. i report facts and i report them fairly. we have many different voices and opinions in the segments of our show. all are welcome. i am proud to work with an amazing team on "america's newsroom" and the fox news channel and i lean on this team of talented producers and journalists to cut through the noise and present the news accurately and fairly. thank you for making us your choice for news from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. eastern weekdays. i will see you back here tuesday. taking that day off.

it's great to be with you through all of this. have a wonderful weekend. see you next week. >> harris: fox news alert now. president trump is expected to meet with his campaign advisers today. a hand recount has begun in georgia, where joe biden currently has a narrow lead. that recount must be completed by next wednesday. ahead of georgia's goal of certifying the race two days later. this all as the trump campaign files a new lawsuit in arizona. to force a hand count by precinct there. and a judge in pennsylvania has sided with the trump campaign ordering that state not to count certain ballots over i.d. requirements. however, that decision won't impact the overall results as it currently stands there based on the vote count. meanwhile, former president obama has ripped the trump campaign's legal challenges. while also taking aim at the president's republican