first. the man, 152. >> very nice. >> check the box now. congratulations, guys. >> you three next time. >> we didn't hear you. no, i didn't hear what you said. >> 506 felons voted illegally in georgia. >> voted in person on october 23. i was told that there was an absentee ballot already out for me. >> those paper ballots were not secure. i don't care if you're a democrat, republican. i hope you will take what these people are telling you seriously. >> sandra: whistleblowers sharing firsthand accounts of alleged voting fraud in georgia raising questions over how ballots and voting equipment were handled as the trump campaign pushes ahead with its legal battle. good morning, everyone. i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> trace: good morning everyone.

i'm trace gallagher. rudy giuliani presented surveillance video that he and others claim show workers illegally counting ballots without supervisors present. as the legal battle rages on president trump says the evidence shows there was widespread voter fraud. >> whether you go to wisconsin where we just filed a case, or michigan, or if you look at what's happening in georgia as an example or pennsylvania, if you look at nevada, which is moving along very rapidly, or arizona. you saw those numbers come out yesterday. we found massive fraud and in other states also. this is probably the most fraudulent election that anyone has ever seen. >> trace: let's get to griff jenkins live in atlanta. good morning to you. this video is causing quite a stir. >> it sure is, trace. good morning. the president's legal team bringing their fight to the state capitol in atlanta asking the legislature to overturn the

election results producing witnesses alleging widespread voter fraud and this video which they allege is new evidence of surveillance cameras capturing election workers illegally counting ballots with no supervisors present affecting 24,000 ballots. a senior source in georgia's secretary of state office tells fox news they have investigated the video and these claims, found no wrongdoing and had a designated observer in there the entire time. which has been the case since this past june. the state's election chief tweeted this saying the 90 second video of election workers in state farm arena purchase porting to show fraud was watched by secretary of state investigators and shows normal ballot processing. president trump criticized brian kemp calling him hapless tweeted this. people in georgia got caught

cold bringing in massive numbers of ballots and putting them in voting machines. great job, governor kemp. the governor had this to say. >> the president, as i said many times, is a fighter. you know, we've had a few battles but nobody worked harder for donald trump before november 3 and i've continued to support his efforts in the campaigns any way i legally could post the election and i will continue to do that. one of those was supporting the legal process to play out. >> it is not just here. out west in nevada the trump campaign filing a new lawsuit yesterday before judge alleging that they have evidence of dead people voting and thousands of double votes. the judge in that case says he will attempt to reach a decision and ruling at some point today. but here where i am it will be very busy in the peach state with vice president pence coming down in a matter of hours to rally for senators perdue and loeffler and visit cdc and on saturday you have

president trump holding a rally down south. before that, though, the march for trump bus tour will be here with folks out near the capitol later today. trace. >> trace: very busy weekend in georgia. griff jenkins live in georgia. thank you. >> sandra: let's bring in bill mcgurn. main street columnist for the "wall street journal" and former speech writer for george w. bush and fox news contributor. more and more whistleblowers continue to come forward and we hear these stories. is the american public willing to let this play out both sides of the aisle? >> that's what we'll find out. i'm afraid not because i think we've so poisoned the well by many of our pre-election moves. by moving to the mail ballots. things like pennsylvania having a court change the deadline, extend it. these are guaranteed to sew strife and so forth.

i find it very interesting what they unearthed in georgia. they produced a video and it looks like the officials have looked into it and there is an explanation. i think we should proceed. let them make their claims. this is the proper way to make a claim. let them be investigated and let's come to a resolution. >> sandra: bill, i want to play the sound of a georgia voter last night recounting this fake absentee ballot story. listen to this. >> so i went to vote in person on october 23 for early voting. i was told that there was an absentee ballot already out for me. but this was, of course, not true. i never requested an absentee ballot. i always vote in person. they found out that someone requested and submitted in the same day an absentee ballot in my name. and this was also really strange because you can't do that.

>> sandra: she never even requested one, she says. that was her story. she shared her account. now we're left wondering what the impact of all of this could be on these georgia runoff elections, bill. >> yeah, the runoff is the big case now. as far as that woman is concerned, i totally believe what she is saying. in my house i have two daughters, one -- i live in new jersey, my older daughter lives in virginia, the other one in texas. we got absentee ballots for them here. there would have been nothing to stop me or my wife from filling out the ballots, sending it in even though they voted in the other states. as the "wall street journal" pointed out many times the mail-in ballots create a lot of opportunities for mischief and acrimony. we're on to the senate races and we have an editorial this morning confirming that no one has a bigger interest than donald trump in seeing the two

republicans, kelly loeffler and david perdue, win their seats because the first thing the democrats want to do is undo everything donald trump did. so his legacy is at stake. right now the democrats have the house and they have the white house. for their legislative agenda and these broad big spending things there is nothing to stop them except for republican senate. so that's why people are rightly saying this race is like a second presidential election because it is going to determine the scope of the biden administration. how free they are to just run the table. >> sandra: really laying out what is at stake there. dig in deeper to this story as that women shared her account on hannity last night. here is sean talking about that surveillance video that would show some of those observers were asked to walk away from the vote counting. here is sean last night. >> what you are looking at, the

video showing observers being asked to leave the vote counting location. that shouldn't happen as a matter of law. look at the right-hand corner of this video. it shows certain poll workers just hanging out staying behind. now look at the spot shadow on that video. look at it right there. the same workers who stayed behind are now wheeling out suitcases that were under that rectangular table there. so the obvious question is well, why were the suitcases hidden under the table. if there were ballots why did they kick people out of the room? >> sandra: what did you take away from that? >> well look, i think sean is right in the sense that it raises real concerns. even brian kemp, the governor, said it raises concerns and should be investigated. now i believe the georgia officials say they have investigated and they didn't find anything untoward. let's hear their explanation for it.

that's what happens. people present claims and then they have to be investigated and the other people reach conclusions based on what they've learned. so let's hear the explanation for it. >> sandra: bill mcgurn from the "wall street journal" on where things stand this morning. thank you for that. reminder we will have the president's rally live in georgia at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. on sunday martha maccallum will be here for special coverage of the senate runoff debate happening in atlanta. our coverage begins at 6:45 eastern time followed by the debate at 7:00 right here on the fox news channel. >> we're announcing and introducing a regional stay at home order in the state of california. fundamentally predicated on the need to stop gathering with

people outside your household and keep your activities outside. >> trace: sparts of the state will be under new lockdown orders. the new rules will force many shops to close. restrict retail shopping and limit restaurants to take-out or delivery. the los angeles county sheriff says he won't enforce it because businesses have already been through enough. our senior correspondent william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. what's behind this new lockdown warning exactly? >> it's all about hospital beds, trace. recall california was first to impose the statewide lockdown back in march. other states followed. governor newsom says it worked then and he is trying it again with some changes. this stay at home order is triggered whenever i icu bed capacity falls below 15%. the first could be sunday in northern california. 18% of beds are available currently in l.a. 20%.

sacramento 22. orange county 17%. the thanksgiving surge has yet to hit hospitals. what does it mean for residents? no indoor or outdoor dining. retail capped 20% capacity. expect long lines everywhere even grocery stores. theaters, bars, amusement parks closed. hotels, medical and essential workers only. businesses, barber shops, nail salons all closed. >> we've already been not working for half a year. very little money coming in. more money coming out than coming in, you know? >> frustrated because it is really hard to keep a business going when big changes are happening constantly. >> cases in california tripled in the last 30 days despite ineffectiveness of current restrict shuns. new some says it's the best

worst option. >> bottom line is if we don't act now, our hospital system will be overwhelmed. if we don't act now we'll continue to see a death rate climb, more lives lost. >> continue the same trajectory. we're scheduled to run out of the intenive care unit beds that keep people alive. we're scheduled to run out of those december 26th. >> asked directly at that presser about his trip to the french laundry where he ate indoors newsom said kurtly i'm doing my job. >> trace: william, thank you. >> sandra: meanwhile the "new york post" with this headline on the front page today. do as they say, not as they do. who made the list for their covid hypocrisy hall of fame? bill bennett joins us on that. a small business owner goes viral on live tv.

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>> trace: a number of democrats caught ignoring their own coronavirus guidelines feeding public outrage or increasingly harsh restrictions. "new york post" front page, do as they say, not as they do. dr. bill been it et is the former secretary of education. i learn a lot every time i listen to you. i want to put up this covid hypocrisy democratic hall of fame if i can. newsom, pelosi's haircut. my hall of fame goes to steve adler, the mayor of austin who went to cabo and recorded his stay at home video in his time share in cabo. what do you make of these politicians? what do you think? >> two things.

one the obvious thing commented on already, trace. the degree of hypocrisy is astonishing. i would add a couple other things to that. one it's a loss of credibility. it hurts credibility of leadership. say what you want about donald trump, tough, rough, brutal but tends to tell the truth. he tells it like he sees it. the second thing is, i think kind of a subtlety, when these people are seen at the french laundry or cabo or go to the hairdresser or out to dinner like the l.a. supervisor was, another thing is clear. it's clear they don't believe their own message. they don't believe it. they don't think they are in danger. so we're supposed to change our lives, shut down our businesses, keep our kids out of school, and they are behaving in such a way that makes it plain they don't think they'll get sick at the french laundry sitting shoulder to shoulder. that's the other point that has been missed. this raises the whole question

of credibility and who people can believe. one other point to this. earlier segment showing the videos there of georgia. well, some georgia officials since we have looked into it everything is fine. it brings to mind an old line of groucho marx, who will you believe? me or your own eyes? i go with my eyes. >> trace: the "new york post" wrote this and i want to get your take on the other side. the hypocrisy was bad enough cracking down on religious gatherings even giving a pass to black lives matter and getting together with family on thanksgiving but not marching with hundreds of strangers to smash windows and set dumpsters on fire. all the hypocrites are democrat and proud progressives. everybody gets the whole hypocrisy when you go to a $1,000 dinner at the french laundry. harder to get the nuance

hypocrisy protests and religious gatherings. why we have had so much pushback. fair assessment? >> sure it is a fair assessment. again, this is why people become cynical about politics, cynical about leadership and why i'm sorry to say some people in georgia are discouraged about voting again, although this is a very critical and important election. because it becomes plain in the enforcement situation in new york. it is not motivated by the truth or science, it is motivated by politics. but the american people, a lot of them, are very resolute. they know what they know and they know what they see. in the early 17th century, trace, galileo said the earth goes around the sun. the church, my church said no it doesn't, no, it doesn't. earth doesn't move and pounded him and pounded him and pounded him. when it was all over he said

yet, it moves, referring to the earth. he knows what he sees. the american people know what they see and they don't like it. this discontent will be with us for a long time. there are a lot of questions remaining unanswered, officials saying don't worry about it, nothing here, no problem. it's not going to do it. people won't be satisfied with that. i'm not. >> trace: people know you are the former secretary of education. i want to get your take on this horrifying story out of california. 11-year-old buy was on the zoom class meeting. took a gun and took his own life. we don't know really the back story but we do know that mental health has been brought up, right, in the case of this homeschool learning and learning remotely. and one psychologist said quoting here, all they need talking about kids, is one meaningful adult to talk to that needs to be maybe a teacher or coach and if children don't have that person now, and it really brings up an important point here. again not pointing fingers at

the background on this child who took his own life but there is a deep seated problem going on in this country with education at home. >> and it's connected to what we're talking about. look, the evidence is clear that kids can be in school and should be in school. the quote is good. i remember a quote from a psychiatrist at yale who said all that's needed for a child's success, the fundamental thing is for one more adult in his life to be crazy about that child. and that is a necessary condition. other conditions have to be satisfied as well. look, this kid no doubt had problems. i don't want to be accused of hypocrisy here. i help found lined indication company but it is not for everybody and certainly shouldn't be for everybody for all courses. it doesn't work as successfully. again, there is no good scientific reason that kids should not be in school. this child no doubt had other serious problems. it wasn't online education that

was the principle cause but it leads to alienation, separation, academic failure, it just doesn't work in most cases. we need to get on the stick based on the scientific evidence again the truth. please, the truth. >> trace: bill bennett. thank you for coming on. >> sandra: so is the swamp making a comeback? going to a biden-linked firm instead. will president-elect biden raise your taxes? why he may have undercut one of his big campaign promises.

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shipping out only half of the covid vaccine doses it had initially planned for after running into supply chain problems. they aimed to ship out 100 million doses worldwide by the end of the year. >> trace: the california secretary of state's office is accused of misusing taxpayer funds. house republicans say he allowed the office to give grant money from the cares act to a consulting firm linked to the biden campaign. peter doocy is live in wilmington. how much urgency is there for house republicans to get answers about this? >> trace, these house republicans think there is a lot of urgency. the california secretary of state has already been endorsed to replace kamala harris in the senate once she is sworn in as the v.p. by california's senior senator dianne feinstein. a handful of house republicans are writing to him saying because he may become a member

of the united states senate in a matter of days or weeks it is critical that he provide answers about his decision to award a contract to a partisan firm that appears to be both the misuse of taxpayer money and a violation of the law. the firm the lawmakers are so concerned about is skdk nicker backer, communications firm who thanks everyone who fought for the soul of the nation next to a photo of joe biden and kamala harris listing a 2020 client as biden for president and where one of biden's closest advisors during the campaign anita dunn is a partner and founding member. dunn has indicated she is not going to go to the biden white house. she will stay on the outside. republicans are accusing california secretary of state using $35 million dollars from the help american vote act to fund voter contact by this company which is they say a misuse of taxpayer money and violation of the law.

they fear democratic operatives contacting voters give democratic operatives access to sensitive voter data. the next thing these republicans want from the secretary of state is a member-level briefing in washington, d.c. to explain himself. trace. >> trace: peter doocy live in wilmington. thank you. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in former wisconsin congressman sean duffy, fox news contributor and robert wall and former economic advisor to president obama. sean, shouldn't the secretary of state answer some of these questions of california? >> he absolutely should. sandra, this $35 million was money supposed to be used to stop the spread of the coronavirus and here it went to a left wing democrat consulting firm that knows nothing about how to stop the spread of the coronavirus? by the way, you know california with a spike in covid cases and the response is that we're shutting down restaurants,

bars, and small businesses? this is absolute aoutrageous and do democrats really believe the coronavirus is that serious? if they did they would spend the money to stop the spread. this is hands down straight-up corruption. by the way, coming from joe biden, hunter biden side of the democrat party doesn't surprise me as he has taken money from countries all over the world including china. >> sandra: robert, isn't it reasonable to just say answer questions about this money and how it was used? the firm is skd nicker balker employs obama communication officials and others who worked with democrats tht past. on their website it reads all our clients who fought for the soul of the nation thank you. of its clients it lists biden and biden for president, other democratic candidates for public office. aren't these reasonable questions that should be answered? >> so let's take a step back. the cares act was fast

forwarded because it was needed by the country. there is no question there should be a forensic done on all recipients including supposedly last week a lot came out about trump and kushner affiliates receiving money. with respect to nicker balker they are a great public relations firm. they just don't do political stuff. i know tons of firms around the country that are using them and my guess is in a crisis environment like covid they were doing very important work. so i think listen, everyone should make sure we do a forensic where the money went but equally we should do it on those republican leaning companies that got it. we need to make sure it went to the right people. >> sandra: well, considering -- i think that's what republicans are saying that should he become a member of the u.s. senate in a matter of weeks it is of the utmost importance to know for the american people to

know if we're indeed seeing the return of the swamp. so -- >> sandra, the he monthly youments clauses, they turned a complete blind eye the -- we should do a real forensic for all of the recipients. >> sandra: that's fair. you're agreeing to that. sean, to say it's not political i would continue to point out biden's senior campaign advisor anita dunn is a partner and founding member of the company. she returned to the firm after election day. >> nice of robert to try to divert to president trump. this is $35 million all democrats in the firm. obama-era folks, biden folks and a firm that works for democrats. they're political consultants. they're not scientists and don't know how to stop the

spread. 35 million was given to them to squander and pad their pocket books. it's outrageous. >> sandra: robert, a minute left here. we know joe biden intends to raise taxes on some americans. his proposed tax rates according to our sister network top income tax rate is 39.6%. corporate tax rate expected to go up to 28%. this was a huge issue during the election during the campaign season, robert. will americans pay more in taxes under a biden administration? >> we don't know what will be passed because it all depends whether there is a gop senate or democratic senate. one thing is clear. after every war we pay for that war with taxes. we're in a war right now in this pandemic. we need to do the patriotic thing and people like all of us on this call have to pay a little more to make sure we can get small businesses open and hard working americans literally can get the skills and get back to work the right

way. so literally if those people -- >> sandra: i know you have an economists mind to talk about people paying more in the middle of a pandemic when millions are out of work. sean, final thoughts to you. >> donald trump lowered taxes. raising taxes might be good politics but it is bad economics. you want a growing economy, more money comes into the federal coffers. if we raise taxes and new environmental regulations you'll drive more businesses and jobs overseas. it affects workers where i come from in wisconsin. they lose jobs and incomes. the wrong policy and robert knows that. >> by the way if you make over $800,000 your taxes go from 25 to 25 1/2%. i think those people that are making north of receive infigures can afford it. >> sandra: sounds like there is a lot of uncertainty still and a lot of clarity still needed on what the biden tax plan looks like. robert and sean. great to have you this morning. thanks to both of you.

we'll have more on the demand for a probe into the biden-linked firm and the california secretary of state later in the show speaking to ranking member of the house oversight committee james comer. he will be our guest next hour. another member of that committee jody hice. both calling for an investigation into just that. >> trace: georgia senate candidates loeffler and warnock facing off on the debate stage this weekend. what's the one big thing we should be looking for with control of the senate hanging in the balance? chris wallace joins us for that. a restaurant owner goes viral after crashing a live news report. we'll talk to dave morris about what can be done to save america's small businesses. >> after months and months of watching us they put me in a position where you can only be backed into a corner so far. we have to come out fighting here a little bit.

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>> our government leaders have abandoned me. >> are you the owner? >> 4 trillion of stimulus money. they gave it to who? special interest groups and campaign donors. wake up, stand up. this is america. be free. give us the america to shut this thing down and calm the virus but don't take it out on a select few. >> sandra: that michigan restaurant owner crashing a news report slamming the government for failing to help struggling small businesses during the pandemic. he joins us now in grand rapids, michigan. dave morris, the owner of the daily grind coffee. welcome and thank you for being here. i think we all watched that and we hear your struggle. we hear your passion. what is your message? what were you trying to get out? >> good morning, to you. my message is this. as an american and as i watch

my american people crumble down here at the ground level, i'm upset and i think a lot of americans are with me at the fact my government, i have a two-party controlling system that just can't get along and they want to fight like little kindergartners. when they got $2 trillion and helping the people get through this pandemic i want to know where the money went. a lot of us want to know where the money went. i hope in a time when we just witnessed the most expensive presidential campaign process in the history of the world, man, please tell me that money didn't go to the campaign coffers. we're upset that they have abandoned the small businesses at a time we may be witnessing the worst pandemic in my lifetime and gave us no help. the help went everywhere but where it should have been. we have to come together america. we have to love each other and

quit letting the two parties divide us like this. in michigan they say i have a smart governor. she refused to follow the constitution after the first 30 days. it upsets me it had to go to the supreme court because she has judges in her pocket that didn't want to make the right decision. it took six months to get it to the supreme court, okay? we have a constitution in this state that says you have to work with the legislative branch. how dare you try to just a 1945 law right after world war ii that says if you can't reach out and make contact with the legislative branch you have the right as a governor to make a decision in the state of emergency. sure, when pearl harbor got bombed the governor has the right to step up. but in today's technology we could reach out to the legislative branch. now i watch she moves on to -- >> sandra: a little bit of a delay there. we've been showing pictures of

your establishment, you are a small business owner. you are the engine of america as i say daily. we need our small businesses to survive. >> yes, we do. >> sandra: what do you need? first talk about how this pandemic, what the effect has been on your business and your ability to employ workers and serve your customers. >> this has been devastating. it has gone on for too long and they keep telling me wear a mask and it will go away. i walk all over the state of michigan everybody is wearing masks, okay? the virus is still spreading. i watch the airports and train stations, the department stores, the sports shops, everybody is packed with people and i look at my cafe and it is empty. i have a few to gos going. we were at the point of going broke. they have taking away my savings. i showed up this monday. i got a letter a week ago from the health department.

the same department shutting me down with a director by the name of robert gordon with no medical experience he is following his governor. his friend and she appointed him in january of 2019. he came from mr. obama's administration as a financial guy. so they sent me a letter a week ago saying if you don't pay your $610 or something similar to that by the 30th of november we'll shut you down. for my health department license. the same establishment that's shutting me down. talk about frustration. then i watch people going through the same thing. >> sandra: we understand this is just brutal. it is hard for so many of us to hear the struggle that you are going through. we wish you the absolute best. you certainly got your message out when you got into that live shot. >> that came from the heart. i didn't have time to think about that. we both caught each other by surprise. >> sandra: you sure did. it has gone viral since.

thank you for being with us. >> have a great day. >> trace: after four years of president trump saying we need to get tough with china joe biden is being called on to keep the pressure on. is he up to the challenge? plus former national security advisor michael flynn claiming he faced political persecution of the highest order. k.t. mcfarland joins us on that next. >> this was a setup from the beginning and it really -- where accountability lies, it lies in the previous administration. gas in town and which supermarket gives you the most bang for your buck. something else that's good to know? if you have medicare and medicaid, you may be able to get more healthcare benefits through a humana medicare advantage plan. call the number on your screen now and speak to a licensed humana sales agent to see if you qualify. learn about plans that

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>> trace: director of national intelligence john ratcliffe is urging the incoming administration to acknowledge china is the greatest national security threat that we face.

k.t. mcfarland is a former national security advisor for president trump and the author of a we the people book. great to see you. is ratcliffe correct? is china our greatest national security threat? >> absolutely. i think even underestimated what a great strategic threat this is because the timeline has been accelerated. china makes no bones about it. they are completely open about their intention to dominate the world at the united states's expense, rewrite the order of the rules of the world. as they have been in their own mind for thousands of years, they will be the major power in the world and everybody else does their bidding. how will they do it? economically through trade wars and through their economic trade routes. the land-based one belt, one road in the maritime trade routes. the second way they'll do it is through cyber technology. they are stealing or buying or acquiring or somehow the ten technologies of the future that they intend to dominate and control who uses it.

finally through the internet infrastructure. the 5g internet of the future which they'll dominate and they will control and they're in charge of everything. technology, economy, communications and that's not even to mention the military build-up they're doing. >> trace: military build-up. what about militarizing the islands in the south china sea? >> the south china sea. the islands. a couple of years ago the chinese told the obama administration we're building up these islands in the south china sea. we have no intention of militarizing them. they will be to help our fishermen. what happens? they militarized them. that's my concern, trace. the incoming biden administration, a lot of the same people don't get it. they are still living in the world well, if you have some meetings, do a little diplomacy and everything will work out. the chinese are open that they don't intend to do that. >> trace: you are very close to michael flynn and know him very well.

he said this on fox business and i want to get your opinion on the other side. watch. >> made the decision this is the direction we wanted to go and good enough for president donald trump for coming through and we're certainly grateful to him but at the same time we also know that this was a political persecution of the highest order and not something that any american should ever have to go through. >> trace: political persecution of the highest order, k.t. your final thoughts on michael flynn? >> absolutely. if it hadn't been for the pardon. if a biden administration decides to i think they were planning to persecute flynn even further. that's one of the reasons they were stringing it on and on and on. they weren't going to let him out of the crosshairs. ist was essential that president pardon him. let the nightmare be over. he shouldn't have been charged with anything in the first place. the only reason he pled guilty is they blackmailed him and

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trooper two weeks ago in massachusetts has been killed in new york. it happened in a shoot-out in the bronx this morning. two marshals and a police officers were hurt while facing off with the suspect. >> the timeline here. new york city police showed up at the scene 5:30 this morning in the bronx. two u.s. marshals were shot. non-life threatening injuries. the fugitive they were looking for was shot and killed identified as 35-year-old andre sterling wanted for shooting a massachusetts state trooper back november 20th. he had been charged with armed assault and intent to murder. now authorities believe that he was hiding out here in the bronx. they acted on a tip. that's when at 5:30 this morning u.s. marshals nypd and state police showed up at a home to make an arrest. shots were fired. the two deputy marshals were injured and shot in an arm and

leg. nypd officer hurt his leg not because of a gunshot. there are unconfirmed reports this morning a second suspect is in custody. he could be charged with harboring a fugitive, sandra. >> sandra: all right, david lee miller on that. thank you. top of the hour this is a fox news alert on the legal showdown over election results in key battleground states. we're waiting for a ruling from a nevada judge expected today after he ended a hearing yesterday saying he wanted to look at the trump campaign's evidence claiming widespread fraud in the state's vote count. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom" on this friday morning. welcome, i'm sandra smith. hi, trace. >> trace: good morning to you. i'm trace gallagher. a high stakes hearing yesterday in nevada's capital of carson city trump campaign asking that judge to nullify biden's victory in the silver state. >> donald trump won the state

of nevada after you account for the fraud and irregularities that occurred in the election. we are asking the court to recognize the fact that president trump was victorious in this election. >> sandra: live for us in carson city where the judge is expected to issue his ruling today, jeff. >> sandra, the judge here in carson city giving no hints as to which way he is leaning. he did tell both sides if they have anything else to get in, to help make his decision, to get it to him by 10:00 a.m. local time. after that deadline we could probably get a decision from the judge and will likely see trump supporters outside the courthouse here in carson city. they are hoping there is enough evidence to convince the judge to either declare trump the winner of the state or toss out the results entirely. republicans say they haven't been able to properly inspect

voting machines, they say the campaign has evidence that tens of thousands of votes were cast illegally such as by people not in nevada or people double voting. that evidence has been sealed. the lists aren't public. >> this case is about the failure of the electoral system that we're watching. no one ever wants to say that but it is true. the evidence proves it. >> democrats, however, say all of this is just the work of a desperate campaign working to overturn the will of the people. they believe the filing is too broad and lacking specifics or any credible evidence. they say the machines are lawful and there isn't any evidence of widespread fraud. >> without support and without names or without proof of any

specific illegal ballot being cast, not one. none of this is remotely sufficient to justify this contest. >> even if the judge sides with republicans on this matter, that decision will likely be appealed to the nevada supreme court which you might remember last week already sealed and certified the election results here in nevada. trace. >> sandra: i'll take it back. thank you, jeff. trace. >> we know what's at stake. this is the last line of defense against their radical and liberal agenda that once they do this we won't get it back. >> senator david perdue sending a message to georgia voters ahead of the runoff there. mike pence heads to the peach state today to campaign for perdue and loeffler and president trump will hold a

rally for them in georgia tomorrow. and as you might imagine, a lot at stake these runoffs will decide control of the senate. let's get to steve harrigan live in atlanta. steve, good morning to you. both parties really pretty much going all out on these races. >> hundreds of staffers coming in, hundreds of millions of dollars being spent. already even though it's a month out the battle is red hot. vice president pence will be at the cdc and head to savannah to campaign for the two republican candidates. you also have former president obama here. he will hold a virtual rally for the two democrats. now among republicans who are dissatisfied with the way the electoral process worked out here in georgia, there are some encouraging other republicans not to vote january 5th in the two senate runoff primaries. that according to kemp is a big mistake. >> wood urging people not to go

vote in this election. all that will do is give the democrats everything they want. it will give the radicals everything they want. this is literally the firewall. so i think we all have to pull together and figure out what have we got to do to assure people their vote is going to count? >> the presidential vote is expected to be certified today. it has been counted three times. joe biden with the lead of roughly 11,000 votes. president trump himself coming to georgia on saturday to campaign for those two republican senate runoff candidates in georgia. back to you. >> trace: steve harrigan live in atlanta. steve, thank you. >> sandra: and as we know, georgia republican senator kelly loeffler faced raphael warnock in their first and only scheduled debate. let's bring in chris wallace, "fox news sunday" host. familiar with debate structure. good morning and good to see you. what do you expect from sunday night's debate? this is obviously a big one.

>> it's a big one and i think it is going to be worth watching. maybe better than the sunday night football game. these two are really going to go at it with each other. they certainly have in the campaign. loeffler attacking warnock as a far left radical anti-police, anti-military, harkening back to a speech he gave, a sermon he gave in 2011 where he said you cannot serve god and the military at the same time. warnock going at loeffler for some stock trades she made in january of this year after getting a briefing on covid. although she was cleared by an investigation in the senate. to give you a flavor probably the wrong word for what i'm about to say of these two, at one point last month warnock did an ad where he was holding a bag of dog poop and said he is getting smear campaigns and he throws it in the trash.

that gives you a flavor again wrong word, i can't keep saying this for what you'll see on sunday night between warnock and loeffler. >> sandra: chris, how would you lay out what is at stake with these georgia runoffs? >> it's enormous. by all accounts we think we'll have president biden in the white house, we'll have a slim -- much slimmer than she expected nancy pelosi but a slim democratic majority in the house. is it going to be all democrat washington or a republican senate to be a check and balance. the republicans have 50 seats. if the democrats were to pick up both it would be 50/50 and you would have vice president harris, kamala harris who could break the tie. so if the republicans can win one of those seats then mitch mcconnell remains the senate

majority leader and is a check and balance as i say on biden and pelosi. if the democrats pick up both seats then they have got senate majority leader chuck schumer. i don't think you need to say more than that to give you a sense of what the stakes are. >> sandra: as we now know the president will be heading down there himself. the republican party sees the importance of his presence there. chris, he will arrive there in the middle of this election battle where he is challenging the results of the 2020 election. so what can president trump and vice president mike pence say and do down in georgia to make sure that they have their party and have republicans show up? >> well it's an interesting issue as you were saying it i was thinking for president trump because he is continuing to say that he won the election. and that he is going to end up in the white house. and that blunts the republican argument you've got to elect

these two to block joe biden as the president. so it will be interesting to see how he finesses that. in the steve harrigan's piece you have some republicans in georgia like the famous lawyer lynn wood saying don't vote in this primary because the election was stolen in the last he -- the victory was stolen from donald trump on november 3. that is getting republicans in georgia to pull their hair out because they are saying look, we don't want to depress the turnout. we want every republican to vote so we can hold onto these two seats and hold onto the senate. it will be interesting to see how the president raises this issue about these senate races being all important to hold onto the senate. i suppose he will say i need partners in the senate to help me with supreme court picks and things like that. i suspect he won't concede but he is going to still say it's very important for republicans to have a majority in the senate. >> sandra: that makes this sunday's show a big one for you, chris. you have the president heading down to georgia, the big debate

happening sunday night. who do you have coming up this weekend, chris? >> we'll be talking first of all to a top public health official in the white house. so that will be interesting. obviously this week you will have the fda this coming week the fda considering what they'll do about the pfizer emergency use authorization effort. so we'll be talking about that and we'll also be talking to republican senator bill cassidy. part of the gang of eight. the four republicans, four democrats who are trying to come together and put out a compromise plan for covid relief. we'll be talking to him about whether or not they've hit that mark. more than republicans want, less than democrats want. maybe that's the sweet spot. we'll also be be talking to john brennan, former c.i.a. director, about the new foreign policy challenges for president biden and i was going to say he and donald trump have said some tough things to say about each

other. we'll talk about that all on "fox news sunday". >> sandra: we'll be watching. great to see you this morning, chris. thank you. >> you bet. thank you. >> sandra: okay. tune in this sunday for our special coverage of the georgia senate runoff debate hosted by martha maccallum. that will begin 6:45 p.m. eastern time right here on the fox news channel. and be sure as well to tune in tomorrow 7:00 p.m. when president trump is set to rally georgia voters ahead of those crucial runoffs. we'll bring it to you live once it begins. busy weekend. >> trace: it is. fox news alert. questions surrounding california's democratic secretary of state and a firm linked to the joe biden campaign. is the swamp making a comeback? the top republican on the house oversight committee will tell us what he wants to know next. plus a democratic governor issues one of the most extensive stay at home orders yet. why one sheriff says he will not enforce it. >> stop gathering with people

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yeah, but i'm just like warming up to those speeds. you've lived here two years. the personal attacks aren't helping, karly. don't you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something? [ muffled scream ] stop living with at&t. xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. >> trace: california set to go through its you have toest

lockdown restrictions in much. the governor announcing a regional stay at home order. one l.a. county sheriff says he won't enforce it. meantime l.a. mayor eric garcetti issued an emergency order saying it's time to cancel everything. with us now to tell us how one of california's biggest cities plans on dealing with all this, san diego mayor kevin falconer. what happens for those who don't know will kick in once hospital's icu capacity gets below 15%. it could affect the city of san diego, county of san diego. are you in favor of this policy, mayor? and how do you handle it? >> not at all. i think what you've seen is the continued growing frustration out here in california. we get new executive orders with no science behind it. and so when you see this new order that says, for example, we'll shut down outdoor dining, which has been working very

successfully. when it says we'll shut down playgrounds for families and kids. no science behind it. why you see the growing anger and frustration. i think rightfully so in california. particularly here in san diego folks are doing the right thing. following all of the protocols and once again to get this new order with no science behind it really has people at their witt's end. >> trace: the baffling part. you talk about no science behind it. when the l.a. counter supervisors voted to actually shut down outdoor dining they acknowledged at the meeting they don't have the science to back this up, which is why you have cities like beverly hills saying they'll start their own health department to make their own rules and pasadena saying we won't abide by this at all. l.a. county sheriff said the following quoting here. i want to stay away from businesses that are trying to comply. they bent over backwards to modify their operations to

conform to these orders and then they have the rug yanked out from underneath them. that's a disservice. i don't want to make them more miserable. so you've got this policy in place and even the sheriff doesn't want to enforce it. what do you make of all that pushback? >> i make what i said before, that growing frustration is because people are losing confidence. if you do not actually conflate doing the right thing based on science and you roll out new regulations, new color codes and in the case of what happened yesterday in california i don't know if you were aware they carved up the states into new regions. from santa barbara to san diego. that's the exact opposite of what we've been arguing for in terms of our own ability, local control to do what's based on the facts here on the ground in san diego not what is happening in los angeles or santa barbara as an example. people want to do the right thing. they are working hard to keep everyone safe. that's our goal. yet when you have orders like this that come out not based on

any data or science, people begin to lose the trust and faith of our public health officials. that's not something we want. >> trace: you make a valid point. clearly orange county, san diego county have done much better and fared much better in the covid crisis than los angeles county has for example. a lot of talk of 2022. mr. mayor you possibly running for governor. the "l. a. times" came out with this op-ed. on the positive side for governor newsom he carries california's political brand, democrat. he has a clean aim knowledge. gifted with good looks and seems to always trying newsom's positives. should be enough to win him reelection in 2022 especially since his ability to raise campaign money is practically unlimited. but he is starting to look vulnerable after the french laundry and unemployment scam embarrassment. that's the high-end french restaurant he went to and broke all covid violations. is he vulnerable, mayor?

>> absolutely, yes. i'll tell you, people want a competition of ideas. one party rule hasn't been working for california. particularly over the past 10 years. so when i think we look at all the issues that matter to californians, it is not about partisanship but leadership. we need new leadership at the top in california. >> trace: san diego mayor kevin falconer, thank you. >> thanks for having me back. >> sandra: so is the d.c. swamp about to make a comeback? top republicans want to know why taxpayer money went to a firm linked to the biden campaign. and no more service horses or peacocks or ferrets on change. big changes coming to airline rules when it comes to those service animals. ♪ come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away ♪

>> trace: bottom of the hour. time for top stories. pfizer is cutting its vaccine distribution in half for 2020 because of supply chain issues. the company says it will ship 50 million doses of its vaccine instead of 100 million. >> sandra: covid relief talks gaining momentum on capitol hill after speaker pelosi and mitch mcconnell spoke on the

phone about a bill for the first time since election day. >> joe biden said on inauguration day he will call for all americans to wear masks during his 100 days in office. hospitalizations topped 100,000 for the first time this week for covid. >> sandra: house republicans are demanding answers from california secretary of state's state over a $35 million contract that his office gave a company that worked for or with the biden campaign. the gop lawmakers wrote to a watchdog saying this contract was apparently intended to provide a partisan firm the opportunity to use taxpayer money to influence the federal election. one of the lawmakers joins us now. ranking republican on the oversight committee. welcome and good morning. what questions do you have, sir? >> this is an investigation house republicans on the oversight committee launched two months ago. i announced this investigation

on the tucker carlson show. it involves secretary of state padilla awarding a no-bid $35 million contract to skd knickerbocker, joe biden's firm he used in the presidential campaign. they awarded the money to target voters to get out the vote. it's a no-bid contract. illegal. you aren't allowed to use taxpayer dollar to microtarget voters to get out the vote. thirdly, the firm is a partisan firm. there are three instances of major violations here. we've asked secretary padilla to further explain his actions and thus far he has refused to do so. >> sandra: we were speaking to robert wolf earlier. he was an economic advisor to the obama administration and he said it is not a political firm. we just did some digging on the website to get at some sort of

idea of where the company stands and the history of the company. on the front of the website if we put it up on the screen there you will see that post election day it has this message. joe biden, kamala harris and all of our clients who fought for the soul of the nation. some of the things that we do know about the firm that it was awarded this $35 million contract in august, congressman. the website claims it is proud to be a part of the team biden and it employs many former obama communications officials. so important to point these things out and ask you what is happening here? is this the return of the swamp that many are calling it? >> this is the return of the swamp. it is unethical, improper and it is probably illegal. what we have done is ask the inspector general from the election assistance commission to investigate this. she has been dragging her feet on that. because we've been vocal and messaged this instance of

taxpayer abuse, the sacramento bee and other publications in california have been writing about this. legislators in the california assembly have been debating about this and the california comp troller refused to pay the $34 1/2 million bill that knickerbocker sent to secretary of state padilla. i'm asking for not only answers but a return of that $35 million in taxpayer funds back to the treasury because somebody has to get it back to the taxpayers. that's what the house oversight republicans are trying to do. we've clearly caught the secretary of state violating the taxpayer trust. it's a partisan firm, you showed that. those taxpayer dollars should not be sent to the joe biden partisan firm. they should be sent back to washington >> sandra: many democrats are saying it's not a partisan firm. we can tell you what they have on their website and what they claim to be. this is part of your letter. i'll put this on the screen.

secretary padilla may become a member of the united states senate in a matter of days or weeks you write. it is critical he provide answers about his decision to award a contract to a partisan firm that appears to be both a misuse of taxpayer money and violation of law. where do you expect the investigation to go considering the timing of it? that you point out in your letter. >> he needs to answer this question now if he is, in fact, the person that governor newsom selects to replace kamala harris in the senate. he will have to answer this probably before the senate ethics committee. he might as well answer these questions now. this is clearly improper use of taxpayer dollars and that's proven by the fact the california comptroller is refusing to pay this bill. he has a lot of questions that need to be answered and we won't let up on this investigation. >> sandra: we'll see where it all goes next. appreciate you coming on to talk about it. thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> trace: the u.s. is tightening its definition of

service animals allowed on flights. you might remember the miniature horse that flew earlier this year as a service animal. that is no longer going to be allowed. claudia cowan is live at san francisco international airport with more on the new restrictions. good morning. >> good morning, trace. airplanes have become no noah as arc with emotional supp pigs, peacocks, monkeys and more. their flying days for free are numbered. the department of transportation reviewed some 15,000 complaints ranging from the size and species some people were carting on board because of medical necessity so how folks were trying to save money to pass them off as support animals. they provided fodder for social media, some untrained animals misbehaved and posed a threat not only to other passengers and crew but also to legitimate service animals which the government now defines as dogs

and only dogs that have been trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability. what's more an emotional support animal is no longer considered a service animal and they'll have to travel as pets in crates or other carriers. however, it will be up to each individual airline to decide what flies for free and what doesn't. passenger advocates say that may only ruffle more feathers. >> you won't know if you are going to be charged or not. you won't know if the animal has to be in a crate or on a special leash. you won't know necessarily what kind of paperwork you need and it will be very confusing for a lot of people. >> advocates for the disabled say it is high time they crack down on pet owners trying to game the system. you can't blame the animals for this. >> trace: sometimes they're all over the plane. good to see you, thank you.

>> sandra: four americans who were detained in the british virgin islands for two weeks are now free. custom officials took them into custody last month after they say they accidentally sailed into the territory's waters and then placed under mandatory coronavirus quarantine at a hotel. the four americans pleaded guilty to illegal entry and each paid a $1,000 fine. >> trace: the investigation continues into the death of an instagram influencer. why authorities have yet to rule out foul play in her death. that's next. as democrats continue to defy their own stay at home orders, how their actions could hold up the fight against covid-19.

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>> trace: democratic leaders across the country are coming under fire covid hypocrisy. the "new york post" putting together a hall of fame of some of the latest offenders from california governor gavin newsom who ate at a fancy restaurants and the mayor of austin. the cover of today's "new york post" reads do as they say, not

as they do. karol markowitz is a reporter. the hall of fame that your paper dubbed the covid hypocrites hall of fame. gavin newsom, nancy pelosi and others. the post writes and i'm quoting here, these politicians are certain they not only know better than the little people but that they have a moral right to dictate detailed choices to struggling business owners desperate single moms and everyone else facing dire dilemmas and balance safety and keeping life together. what do you think of this? i think we're having a little sound problem with karol. the idea behind this is not only do you have what the "new york post" dubbed as the

hypocrites' hall of fame. she is back. sandra, back to you. let's bring karol back in quickly. >> it has been months of these covid hypocrites enjoying their lives while the rest of us are suffering and small businesses are closing and told not to see our families on thanksgiving. we're doing remote learning with kindergartners and going out to restaurants, kids are going to school and flying around the country doing what they want. it has been a real bad time for a lot of americans. this has really shown elected officials just don't get it. >> trace: what's interesting karol, not only does the mayor of austin talking about politicians who don't get it. he says from his time share in cabo, he says you have to stay at home, right? he records the message at his time share in cabo. the only thing worse is this apology where he says quoting here, why i violated no orders or guidelines i regret this

travel. i wouldn't travel now. didn't over thanksgiving and won't over christmas. but my fear is this travel even having happened during a safer period could be used by some as justification for risky behavior. in hindsight it set a bad example for which i apologize. he is saying i didn't do anything wrong but certainly wouldn't do it again. >> the thing is the guidelines are ever shifting. a lot of them aren't based on any science whatsoever. california has playgrounds closed again. that's not based on science. that's somebody's whim. the idea the politicians are following some guidelines that they themselves set really exposes their hypocrisy more than anything else. it is not about science of it. >> trace: you bring up science. we talked about this with the mayor of san diego. the truth is even when they are making these things like shutting down restaurants, outside dining they are acknowledging he we don't have science but we don't know what else to do to stop or slow this virus.

>> yeah, that's absolutely right. the thing is it's not their restaurant, right? they don't care. the person who actually had to close the restaurant and spent all this money meeting all the guidelines and the regulations that were set for them, the person who installed the heaters, the person that put in all the kind of air filtration systems that they were supposed to put in, they now have to just shut down and take it. the politicians again are living their lives. they are having a great old time and the rest of us are suffering. >> trace: speaking of restaurants i want to put this on the screen outside austin, texas. it says politicians be like stay home unless you have a private jet, which pretty much sums it up. great to see you as always. >> thank you. >> sandra: thank you. a pair of states taking a softer approach to hard drugs. basically making many of them legal despite an increase in overdoses. so will these policies expand to the rest of the country?

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operate. the push to reform the police took hold during protests over the deaths of george floyd and taylor. >> sandra: the new laws in oregon and washington encourage drug abusers to get treatment rather than go to jail. one is jason rantz host of the jason rantz show in seattle. jason welcome. this is something you are passionately writing b. i'll put on the screen the oregon measure, the drug decriminalization and addiction treatment initiative. folks know what it is that you are so passionately writing about. a yes vote supported making personal non-commercial possession of a controlled substance no more than a class e violation, max fine of $100 and establishing a drug addiction treatment and recovery program funded by the state's marijuana tax revenue

and state prison savings. you are writing about how this is effectively legalizing drugs, jason. >> it does effectively legalize drugs. they do it under the idea that they are going towards a harm reduction model. they are moving away from criminalizing addiction but unfortunately it is causing more harm than good. we've seen in the pacific northwest more generally a permissive attitude toward illicit hard drugs, heroin, meth, opioids that are actually killing people. what we end up doing by saying hey, you are not going to see any jail time whatsoever if you are caught with heroin or meth. what ends up happening is the addicts know there are no consequences so they don't hit rock bottom which means they stay on that pathway towards an inevitable overdose death. we've seen a record high in king county where seattle is of overdose deaths if recent years. in oregon they are seeing an

increase in toxic drugs and fentanyl being put into the neighborhoods. then, of course, there is the crime element. when you decide you won't go after personal possession, drug dealers while they are degenerates they aren't stupid. they carry less product on them knowing if they were to get caught by a police officer weather in washington state or oregon they won't see jail time. they carry less, reup their supply throughout the day and continuously selling the product into the street. >> sandra: you mentioned the overdoses in king county. we'll put the number on the screen because it is staggering. in that county alone 1,071 fatal overdoses in 2020. you go on to write a warning to americans that this movement could be coming to your town next. what is your message? >> it is certainly coming to your town next. when you look at the

presidential election. pete buttigieg, andrew yang, they adopted the policy of decriminalizing drugs under this idea it will actually do less harm and will actually save lives when we know it won't do that. you have fringe voices on the left treating a fringe policy now as mainstream. we have seen some of this happening in california. the decriminalization movement. seeing it in vermont and seeing it take hold across the country. it is driven by the activists. if people don't start to speak up and wake up now it will come to your neighborhoods before you know it. a lot of people right now probably in the pacific northwest woke up and realized this is happening in seattle where we're funding heroin injection sites and now the entire state of oregon is dealing with it. >> sandra: a very complicated problem affecting so many american families. thank you for coming on this morning. >> thank you so much, sandra.

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sweatshirt for the high price of $58. she responds to the criticism by quoting here republicans are freaking out because we don't use slave wage labor for mer chan dice. what's the difference between trumps and ours, ours is made in the u.s. we actually give shirts for free. just volunteer. carley shimkus, member of the fox news headlines 24/7 crew joins us now. carley, great to see you and talk to you. aoc didn't swear the sweatshirt into the french laundry in napa valley. >> am i the only person who didn't know what the french laundry was until this week? it has its own store. she is a business owner and the official oac shop. working under a purely socialist system she would take the profits from her store and distribute them evenly to everyone, even members of

congress she doesn't like. because this is america and under a capitalist system she and her team got together, they brainstormed and thought of gear that her supporters would like and because every purchase is a campaign donation, she gets to benefit from the hard work. sounds like a great system. a system that would create the most prosperous country in the world and it is ironic she created a $58 -- the original price was $65 tax the rich sweatshirt. i could see it on a bunch of college students having their parents be surprised and horrified by the sweatshirt that their young children are wearing. >> trace: she is getting pushback. aoc sealing $65 sweatshirts that say tax the rich that only rich people can afford. should just say tax me when you are aiming for socialism but hit capitalism. this from the daily caller foundation.

i can't afford this sweatshirt right now. you have a coupon code for the non-rich? she have is getting some heat for this. >> you know what? it's really difficult. this is the theme of the week for these elected leaders to live up to their own high standards. and aoc falls into this trap from time to time. it is very difficult to live under her worldview. last year the "new york post" came out with a story how she and her campaign spent $30,000 on uber rides when the subway was a few feet away from her office. going against the green new deal. there was also a story how she spent all this money on amazon and then she drove amazon out of new york and all the jobs with it. you could add this sort of tax the rich sweatshirt to that list. >> trace: it's a matter of reading the room. one of those things where she also got pushback last year a couple of years ago when she went on the cover of "vanity

fair" wearing some $14,000 outfit. it wasn't her outfit. but it is the whole idea just reading and the optics and when you are fighting for socialism and you want to rich to give everything back, there is a way to kind of gauge the temperature and i'm not sure that she has quite done that as of yet. >> you said it so well. to be fair to her, the tax the rich sweatshirt although it is receiving criticism is now sold out in all sizes from small to xxx. the green new deal sweatshirt she is selling is sold out. there are other items that haven't sold out just yet like drink water and don't be racist. a bumper sticker. not so popular. still available on her website. because she is now a business woman i'm sure she will look at those numbers and try to figure out how to prosper using her online store even more. >> trace: just to educate you on the french laundry, $350 average per person, right?

several courses, all very small. it's wonderful i hear. and the average bill is like $1,000 without wine. >> that's why i've never heard of it. i hate restaurants that serve plates with foam on them also. that's not for me. >> sandra: okay. top of a new hour. surveillance video throwing into question the ballot counting process in georgia the trump team claiming it proves election fraud. it is friday morning, trace, good morning to you, i'm sandra smith. >> trace: good friday to you as well. i'm trace gallagher. georgia's lawmakers hearing from whistleblowers yesterday and seeing video for the first time presented by president trump's attorney rudy giuliani appearing to show supervisors telling poll workers and observers to leave the room. boxes of ballots are then

counted. this morning georgia election officials are pushing back on the video saying it has been investigated and debunked. meantime georgia governor brian kemp says the new testimony has raised additional questions and a signature audit should be conducted. >> i called early on for a signature audit. the secretary of state per the laws and the constitution would have to order that. he has not done that. i think it should be done. i have think especially with what we saw today it raises more questions. there needs to be transparency on that. >> trace: we're expecting a decision today from a judge in nevada on fraud claims by the trump legal team in that state. griff jenkins is live with the latest on georgia. griff, you are at the state capitol where supporters of the president are expected to gather. >> trace, that's right. at noon we'll hear from about 100 or so trump supporters on a two-week march for trump bus tour that start evidence in

florida. a few are here on the capitol grounds. they won't be happy about news just breaking moments ago. the fulton county board of elections voted 3-2 to re-certify its election results for the third time. that is significant because the video in question that rudy giuliani presented at the state capitol behind me that alleges to show fulton county workers illegally county ballots, that is just not the case if you talk to the officials here. the secretary of state's office telling fox news they've investigated the video, these claims, found no wrongdoing. they had a designated observer the entire time in that location since june. the state's election chief tweeted this a little after 6:00 a.m. this morning saying the 90 second video of leelection workers was watched by investigators and shows

normal ballot processing. now, meanwhile president trump who has heavily criticized the republican governor brian kemp calling him hapless tweeted say people in georgia brought in massive numbers of ballots. great job, governor kemp. the governor who supports the president had this to say. listen. >> the president as i said many times is a fighter. you know, we've had a few battles but nobody worked harder for donald trump before november 3 and i've continued to support his efforts in the campaigns any way i legally could post election and i'll continue to do that. one of thoefs was supporting the legal process to play out. >> trace, the v.i.p. visits coming here we have trump supporter here trying to talk to us and the folks here are going to be chanting stop the steal because they're worried about election integrity.

some of this directed at us but the v.i.p. visit, vice president pence will be here rallying for senators perdue and loeffler. >> trace: griff, good to see you. >> sandra: for more on this let's bring in ben domenech a pub -- publisher at the federalist. the trump legal team claims they have the smoking gun particularly when this surveillance video. is it is smoking gun they claim? >> it raises questions and should be investigated. i hate to break it to a lot of people who denied this, including most of the big tech companies out in silicon valley but fraud happens in every election particularly every american election. the question is the degree to which it happens. oftentimes that fraud is unintentional. people voting in places where they ought not to be voting or

voting based on addresses that are illegal to vote from in georgia like p.o. boxes or sometimes it's boxes that appear or disappear or are counted without being supervised by an election supervisor. those are all different aspects of fraud and should be investigated. i don't think we've seen near the degree to which fraud needed to overturn the results in any of the states that president trump would need in order to to change the results of the election and consistent from the moment we had the full numbers and had the thing get started. it doesn't mean that the fraud should be ignored. it is not the only thing this matters this one election. every election matters. going forward for the mid-terms in 2022 and presidential election in 2024 everyone should be mindful of the fraud and the questions raised during this election and they should be fully investigated. >> sandra: here is a woman who

went on hannity last night and claimed she received an absentee ballot and she never requested one. listen. >> i never requested an absentee ballot. i always vote in person. i sign an affidavit saying this was not me, someone requested and submitted in the same day an absentee ballot in my name. and this was also really strange because you can't do that. >> sandra: so there are stories like hers then and then there is kayleigh mcenany who went on "fox & friends" this morning and made this case as well. listen to her. >> another individual who said i left the room. i saw the vote tally. when i came back the next day the vote tally had changed despite the fact no more votes had been counted. another person said they saw in front of a biden-harris bus

they saw people signing ballots and the attorneys were not able to disprove any of those individual's testimony. those depositions should push that judge to rule on our side. >> sandra: ben, we continue to take in so many stories like this and based on what you just said and told our audience based on what you've seen there is not enough here to overturn the results of the election. how should the trump team proceed? we're not seeing the president concede yet. >> look, i don't think the president is going to concede until it's completely over. the fat lady has to sing before he will do anything approaching that and he will still claim and expect him to claim going forward that this was an election where he got jobed either by the jobs that did so in public or the activists who did so in private. i do think this is something that is worth getting to the bottom of. i hate to say this, sandra, i

have received a number of absentee ballots in the past myself based on where i've lived for names of people who lived at the address previously based on experiences i had. it doesn't seem all that secure. i also think this is a situation where the american people need to have confidence in the process. going forward mail-in ballots will be something that is going to be here in a more permanent way in the american system either in the mid-term or 2024 regardless of what happens with the coronavirus and i think that because of this, all of this experience has to be put into the category of we need to get to the bottom of it. we can't turn it into a trump phenomenon thing. that would be irresponsible and wouldn't serve the citizens. >> sandra: based on all that americans want to know heading into the crucial georgia runoffs that that election will be fair and we can have confidence in the system. ben, great to have you this morning. thank you. >> good to be with you.

>> trace: small businesses now fighting for survival and a desperate restaurant owner in michigan going viral after making sure his voice is heard on live television. >> our government leaders have abandoned me. $4 trillion of stimulus money and gave it to who? special interest groups and campaign donors. stand up. this is america, be free. give us the money to shut this virus down but don't take it out on a select few. >> trace: he toldous earlier on america's newsroom her lockdown orders are crushing small businesses. >> my cafe is empty. i have a few to gos. we at the point of going broke. they sent me a letter a week ago saying if you don't pay your $610 or something similar to that by the 30th of november we'll shut you down. >> the cafe owner blasting leaders in washington for failing to help saying they

have abandoned the little guy. >> as an american and i watch my american people crumble down here at the ground level, i'm upset. i have a two-party controlling system that just can't get along. they want to fight like little kindergartners. when they got $2 trillion and supposed to be helping the people get through this pandemic, i want to know where the money went. >> trace: he is tired of all the arbitrary restrictions and encouraging other businesses to open up. there is a little bit of frustration. they've been hearing for nine months that all these politicians are following the science. now the politicians acknowledge there is no science but they're still shutting businesses down. frustrating. >> sandra: just talking today my heart was going out to him. it is all these small businesses that are struggling right now, trace. you just felt from him the frustration with the system. it wasn't a targeted attack on

any one party or any particular side. he is saying this is not my fault that i had to close my doors and he needs to feed his family and so he stepped out in that live microphone moment talking to that reporter on the ground there. that went viral. he spoke to us this morning and he says help us, help us. we're out here on our own. it's tough. >> trace: it is indeed, yeah. >> sandra: this is a fox news alert. flames taking over a marina in michigan. live pictures from la salle and the shores of lake erie. we're watching as the boats burned into sinking debris. we'll continue to monitor this ongoing situation. those are live pictures happening in michigan. plus republicans are demanding answers after the california secretary of state awards a $35 million contract to a firm linked to the biden campaign. the money allegedly coming from the cares act.

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consulting firm linked to the biden campaign using taxpayer money from the cares act. the grant money was handed out by the office of california's secretary of state who is said to be on the governor's short list to replace kamala harris in the senate. georgia congressman jody hice is a republican on the house oversight committee. thank you for joining us. i want to put this home page up of the skdk website. consulting firm we're talking about. the website goes over how proud they are to be on team biden. it is interesting because you have those on the left say this consulting firm is not just for democrats. they have a lot of clients. they have clients in both parties and the question here is would you want your consulting firm to be bragging about being on joe biden's team if it was bipartisan? >> that's the point. this is supposed to be a bipartisan to begin with. but this organization is anything but bipartisan.

their website clearly communicates that they are part of team trump, he is fighting for the soul of america and the leadership of knickerbocker are part of the advisory team of joe biden. this is nothing but corruption to the core and this is precisely the type of things that make americans sick of what is happening in washington, d.c. and other corrupt states. >> trace: the question here is congressman, really the basic fundamental question is how in the world does $35 million of coronavirus money end up at a consulting firm? >> yeah. it was not supposed to. that's the whole issue and why we're trying to get an investigation and find out exactly the answer to that question. how in the world does this happen? this money was supposed to go in relationship to easing the pandemic, specifically as it relates to the elections coming up. none of that happened. instead this goes to a firm, the whole purpose of which is to influence voters and to have

voter outreach, which is not allowed to take place with taxpayer money. >> trace: you and your colleagues wrote a letter. quoting here because secretary padilla may become a member, he is the secretary of state of state in california. he may become a member of the united states senate in a matter of days or weeks. it is critical he provide answers about his decision to award a contract to a partisan firm that appears to be both a misuse of taxpayer money and a violation of the law. so you have padilla, who is likely about to go to the senate, and you would like some answers from him before he does that. >> and not just would i like answers and those of us on the committee. we aren't the only ones that want answers. the american public deserve answers to this. america wants and desperately needs men and women representing them in various levels of government who have integrity. people of some degree of moral standard and a moral compass.

here you have someone who himself has proven himself to be untrustworthy when it comes to taxpayer money using funds from hard working taxpayers across this country for the specific purpose and intent of utilizing it to help through the pandemic. instead he uses it for political purposes which is against the law. if he cannot be trusted with that he can't be entrusted with that kind money and decisions that a country would require for a u.s. senator. america needs and deserves answers. i believe this situation disqualifies him from being a senator. >> trace: you bring up a good point. the idea being politically, optically there are a lot of questions. what about legally? is this illegal or no? >> we'll let the lawyers and so forth decide that.

just from a 30,000 foot perspective yeah, this is illegal. you cannot use taxpayer money for political purposes like this. there are a host of issues with this and it just appears to me someone who is not a lawyer that yes, the activities that have taken place here certainly have -- smell at least of criminal activity. >> trace: i have to go here congressman. how did you learn about this? how did this come into play for you? >> we're part of the oversight committee which is the primary investigation and the committee that has oversight over all these types of things. we have a number of sources and different people who we are communicating with and our staff communicates with on a regular basis. just from those channels that we have as the committee in charge of this type of investigation and oversight we've been able to get this information. >> trace: sounds like you'll keep that information close to the vest. congressman, thank you for

joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> sandra: okay, a day after the mayor of los angeles told people to cancel everything because of covid, the governor is joining those calls but governor newsom is getting criticism for his last round of restrictions and getting caught breaking his own rules. one of the many lawmakers hypocrisy caught in action. now the criticism coming from corners you may never have expected. also some in the media give away air time for free but only one party is cashing in. one of the nation's most watched morning shows letting a star of the democratic convention stump for the democrats running in georgia.

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>> everyone has given up their lives and you have politics hypocrites. it has the president of the united states. it won't be star struck by a governor. these democrats are even worse than the -- the hypocrisy. at least when those dudes break the rules they're open about it. >> sandra: that was the daily show host saying he has had enough of the hypocrisy from

the left. noah blasting democrat leaders yesterday for ignoring their own covid rules. the list growing longer this week after we learned of the mayor of austin, texas, urging others to stay home last month while he was vacationing in mexico. joe concha. trevor noah really gave it to them. >> that austin mayor didn't just drive to mexico, he took a private jet down there. a climate change hypocrisy and covid hypocrisy all in one package. look, sandra, these stories of democratic leaders on the state and local levels engaging in the most patent, repulsive hypocrisy one can imagine. dropping on a daily basis. you do this show for three hours a day. a story every day of its happening. rules for thee, not for me part 27. governor newsom in terms of going to a restaurant that had

-- sitting with 12 people with six different house olds. bad idea. nancy pelosi hair salon when appointments are are supposed to be happening in san francisco. governor cuomo going to georgia and hugging attendees at a particular conference without a mask on. bad idea. so whether it's san jose's mayor, the l.a. county supervisor, is there anybody on the left at this point who hasn't broken their own rules? that's the big question right now. >> sandra: meanwhile, joe, the atlanta journal is writing about the celebrity fundraisers. here is the headline for georgia senate races now to feature such celebrities as eva longoria, justin timberlake, kevin pollic. julia dreyfuss appearing on "good morning america" this

morning. she was asked about reuniting the cast for a virtual cable to benefit america votes. she was asked to tell them about that and was given a lot of room to do so. is this unfair? >> oh yeah, it is so 2020 that a national broadcast network would allow a trump critic like her to go on national tv, gma, millions of viewers and do a get out the vote campaign for democrats in georgia. i'm just waiting now for that invitation since i would imagine abc wants to be fair and balanced to jimmie woods or john voigt or kristy swanson. when will they go on there and do a speech imploring republicans to go and vote in that georgia senate runoff? it reminds me of tom friedman from "the new york times" who went on cnn last month and implored people to pick up their stuff and move to georgia and vote in the election which at last check is a felony to do

so. here we have theisms shifting. bias in broad daylight. >> sandra: i'm reading through the exact words of her response when she was teed up on that question. she said we're all getting together to read a particular episode of zeep that we made in 2016 but has uncanny resemblance to the most recent presidential election all to benefit america votes in georgia, which is the most marvelous organization about educating voters, informing voters, helping people remind you if you are under the age of 65 you have to reregister to get your mail-in ballot. if you wrap it together you wonder going back to the hypocrisy of some of those democratic lawmakers not following their own rules if they get the message or do we continue to see this? >> i don't think they are getting the message. the people we saw over

thanksgiving who witnessed this sort of behavior and said screw it. if they will break their own rules i am, too. that's not a good idea. two wrongs don't make a right and you'll see the huge spike over a spike in covid. in that georgia senate race i'm old enough to remember mitch mcconnell versus amy mcgrath last month where $100 million came in from outside groups to benefit mcgrath in terms of her campaign and she lost by something like 20 points. in other words, georgians like anybody in kentucky or any state don't like it when outsiders come in and tell them how to think and how to vote and all the money in the world and all the celebrities in the world ain't going to change too much in georgia based on that premise, i believe, sandra. >> sandra: joe concha telling us what he really thinks this morning, joe. good to see you. thank you. >> you have a good weekend. >> trace: bottom of the hour. tomorrow stories making headlines. the hunt for a man who shot a police officer in massachusetts ending with two u.s. marshals

and a police officer shot in the bronx. the gunman died in the shoot-out. the marshals and officers are expected to be okay as well as the officer in massachusetts who was shot in the hand. >> sandra: first the companies making covid vaccines that reported attempted hack attacks. now the company set to score and shift the shots are the target. ibm cybersecurity looking at attempted hack attacks still underway at this moment. >> trace: another round of restrictions because of the virus here in california. now the majority of the state ordered to stay home for several weeks. william la jeunesse is live for us in los angeles with more. william. >> trace, these restrictions kick in on sunday at the earliest but it is how long they go, right? through christmas, likely new year's which will kill brick and mortar retail is when they make bank. here is what it means for residents. no indoor or outdoor dining,

playgrounds, museum, campgrounds, theaters, bars, closed. hotels only medical and essential workers are allowed. businesses generally shut down. retail is capped at 20% of capacity. which means long lines. anywhere you will go including grocery stores. of course no barber shops or nail salons. if any particular region around the state falls below 15% capacity of icu beds then these restrictions kick in. likely again probably on sunday in some areas of the state, later in the month elsewhere. now the state is also opening about 11 malls, colleges and arenas for overflow capacity they expect to handle covid patients and others as well. yesterday governor newsom spoended about the french laundry dinner. all he literally said is i'm doing my job. trace. >> trace: william la jeunesse live in los angeles.

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costs. radio disney and radio disney country will go off the air in the first quarter. the station has helped launch the careers of pop stars like miley cyrus and others. pigs don't live and leave your pony at home. the department of transportation is redefining what a service animal can be. passengers have tried to fly with all kinds of animals over the years like emotional support peacocks back in 2018 and mini horses in january. now both are banned. the rule which the feds say protects the disabled will only allow for a dog trained to work or perform tasks with a person with a disability. brian kelly is the founder and ceo of the points guy. he joins us now. brian, i love dogs and pigs and peacocks and that kind of stuff. you get on a plane sometimes. the dog under the seat going after the food and that kind of stuff and you think it's not helping the person on there. which the probably why the

department of transportation wrote the following. the department found persuasive information provided by airlines and other stakeholders indicating that emotional support animals or animals being presented to the airline as emotional support animals are responsible for a significant percentage of animal miss behavior on board aircraft. >> over the last five years people have really taken advantage of this emotional support animal industry. you can buy these certifications online. the dogs or animals, peacocks are not usually trained, which creates problems especially for those who have real service dogs. the airlines have been bound by dot rules saying you can't ask anyone any questions about their support animal. now the rules are a little bit clearer. i don't think we're out of the woods. >> trace: you mention the peacock. so did i. we're not making this stuff up. here is the pilot and the direct quote from jim schilling.

he writes it was newark we saw an emotional support peacock and it was a problem. we understand many people need emotional support bust need to figure out how it is not distracting to the rest of the aircraft and passengers. do you have to pay for look it's not an emotional support dog, do you pay for it? does it have to sit in a kennel? what do they do here? how are they going to police this? >> the big thing is the airlines have jammed in more and more seats on airplanes over the years. as things got tighter having large animals in a middle seat in economy is not practical. i envision the airlines are down for revenue. i anticipate some entrepreneurial airlines to come up with safer cargo holds where you can maybe see your animal live during the flight. or right now you aren't allowed to buy even a first class seat for your pet. certain planes have private

pods. i foresee the airlines taking an opportunity. i will pay whatever to keep my dog safe. there is a business opportunity for the airlines to do it correctly. >> trace: this is from the airlines for americans estimates from support animals. 2016, 481,000 -- we'll go to the next one. this is for support animals. 481,000 in 2016. by 2017, 751,000. the last years that numbers are available. can you imagine what it is now? if it almost doubled in one year. we have to be up over a million animals taking the flights. business opportunity is probably a pretty fair assessment, brian. >> those were free. if the airlines can charge several hundred bucks. i think less people will take them on the planes but there is a business opportunity. the airlines love to charge

fees. >> trace: i guess the last point that you would want to make is how do you tell somebody you just can't bring your dog, it's not emotional. a lot of people will have to leave dogs home. it will be an issue and someone will force the issue and want to bring their dog on board. >> we've seen a big uptick in private jet travel. a lot of pet owners who have the means will take less trips but splurge to take their furry ones along. that's better than taking your german shepard in economy on a packed flight. >> trace: good to see you, sir. >> sandra: the investigation into the abuse of fisa warrants in the russia probe continues with john durham and attorney general bill barr zeroing in on jail time for one person's involvement. trey gowdy will join us to break that one down next. ber tht

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>> trace: the house of representatives is set to vote on a bill to decriminalize marijuana use at the federal level for the first time in history. passage is a long shot, congressman matt gaetz says congress should revisit the issue. >> after this bill dies in the senate that we'll come back and pass the states act. that acknowledges that we have screwed this up in the federal government. while we've screwed it up states have taken action, designed programs in the way our great federal system promises. >> trace: marijuana use is legal in 14 states across america with several more passing laws decriminalizing it this past election day. >> sandra: one person already

facing possible prison time in the fisa controversy, kevin clinesmith, f.b.i. lawyer who pled guilty to altering an email to bolster the case for fisa warrants on a trump campaign advisor. the investigation by john durham is set to continue into the administration. we'll get to john durham in a moment. first to kevin clinesmith and what might be happening with him, trey. >> well sandra, let's focus on what he did. this is an f.b.i. lawyer. we give them these amazing powers. these powers that you and i don't have. they are investigating an american citizen to decide whether or not he is an agent of russia. he learns he is not an agent of russia, he is an agent of the c.i.a. and you manufacture, you alter, you in essence destroy evidence because that's how much you hate president trump.

let's don't forget kevin clinesmith with a an anti-trumper. i was a prosecutor for a long time. i want a justice system we respect. when i see cities burning because people want police reform, if you want police reform don't let f.b.i. lawyers alter evidence. then to have bob mueller, one of his prosecutors, one of the special counsel prosecutors write a letter asking for leniency for this f.b.i. lawyer who altered evidence? you are going to ask for leniency even though you put other people in prison for doing less than that? look, if you like police reform, then you ought to be really upset about what this f.b.i. lawyer did. >> sandra: easy to see you are fired up about this, trey. i'll put up the prosecutors' statement on what they saw happening here. it is plausible, f.b.i. lawyer, that his strong political views or personal dislike of the current president made him more willing to engage in the

fraudulent and unethical conduct which he has pled guilty. the defendant plainly has shown denot discharge his important responsibilities at the f.b.i. with the professionalism, integrity and objectivity required of such a sensitive job position. the defense has responded, trey, only fair to put that up on the screen as well. this is how the former f.b.i. lawyer is defending himself. when kevin altered that email in june 2017 he was spread thin and exhausted at work in his personal life. that is no excuse but it does help explain how kevin came to do something so out of character. trey, what did you think when you saw and heard that? >> just how outrageous it is. spread thin, are you kidding me? i'm married to a first grade school teacher. if anybody is spread thin it is folks in that line of work not some government lawyer. the easy thing to do, sandra, if you are really spread thin is how about you accurately

relay the content of that email? it takes a lot more effort to change it than it does just to let it go through. and the notion that you have a pregnant wife, okay, so did one of the people that andrew weissmann put in prison and ruined his career. he had a pregnant wife, too. where was the sympathy for these special counsel prosecutors when it was someone not working for the f.b.i. facing the exact same music? >> sandra: trey, what do you say to some on the left who say this is a non-story especially now we know bill barr has appointed john durham to continue investigating the origins of all this under a biden administration. final thoughts. >> a non-story? we watch cities burn because of police misconduct. you want to ignore an f.b.i. lawyer manufacturing and altering evidence? do not lecture me about police reform in our criminal justice

system if you aren't willing to take this seriously. that's my message to democrats. >> sandra: great to have you on this morning, sir. thank you. >> yes ma'am, thank you. >> trace: new jersey governor murphy says more than 60% of people are not cooperating with coronavirus contact tracers. so why aren't people on board? we'll explain that next.

>> sandra: this is fox news alert. house speaker nancy pelosi signaling congress could combine a relief bill with a measure to fund the government. saying "there is momentum on a bill" and that she and mitch mcconnell are in agreement. pelosi here on a possible coronavirus bill. >> excited about the prospects that there is a bipartisan bill because i told members i'm not bringing any more bills that are not bipartisan. we wanted to show what needs to be done in the interest of negotiation. they are negotiating. it's a good product. it's not everything we want. don't get me wrong. i don't want the republicans to think that this is a dream come true. >> sandra: nancy pelosi in the news conference, why she is now willing to settle for a smaller bill. her response.

"it's okay now because we have a new president." says nancy pelosi. ♪ >> trace: new jersey saying that families are failing to cooperate with coronavirus contact tracing. his daughter is being cyber bullied. live in new york city with more. >> hey, good morning. some folks believe that this all may be starting at home with parents. over in new jersey, just this week, they just banned indoor sports after governor bill murphy called out ice hockey parents for not complying with the state contact raisers. listen to this. >> we are seeing a failure to cooperate in more than 60% of cases. again, it's anecdotal, but a lot of that is with hockey. we are sick and tired of hearing this. speak out in new york, the numbers are a little bit better. some of those could be terrified parents.

she tested positive last week, and she quickly became a victim of cyberbullying. students and parents scolding her for putting others at risk. he was told by contact raisers there that parents of teenagers don't often cooperate with them, and he said it's because of covid shaming. families feel comfortable speaking up and saving lives. >> harris: they are afraid of backlash. they are afraid of their kids having a letter on their chest. to me, that's unbelievable. we are all in this together. we are not enemies of each other. we are battling this virus. >> feeling a lot better, and kids might be going through the same kind of pressure. the cyberbullying. reach out to her for support. >> trace: thank you. sandra, great to see you. i will be filling in for

martha maccallum tonight on "the story" looking forward to that. sandra, feel free to drop by if you're not doing anything. [laughs] >> sandra: enjoy. go get them. great to be together this morning. we'll see you back here monday morning. "outnumbered" starts right now. >> harris: and a lot of news to get to this hour. the battle for control of the u.s. senate is in full swing in georgia today. in fact, you can see it with your own eyes. a bus tour has rolled in and is kicking off this hour. just balled up here that is the georgia state capital. vice president mike pence is also in atlanta right now. he is due to speak today at a rally for kelly loeffler and david perdue. the two of them facing runoff elections which will decide which party controls the senate. president trump is also headed to georgia for a rally tomorrow.