>> as we've been telling you, this is a big "newsweek" and while you're out and about get the news all day long on your phone. download the fox news app. go to the app store or scan the qr code right there. >> sandra: both sides pulling out all the stops ahead of georgia's crucial senate elections tomorrow. president trump heading there today boosting support for loeffler and perdue as they try to stop democrats taking control of the senate. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: i'm trace gallagher. the final days of their campaigns loeffler and perdue say they're fighting to protect the integrity of the elections. >> we're working hard to make sure it's a fair, trusted election. we have 8,000 poll watchers. georgians are fired up to vote. >> we're doing everything we can to make sure what happened

in november doesn't happen. >> more than three million voters have cast ballots. president trump will hold a rally tonight in dalton, georgia. after leaked audio of the president pressuring georgia's secretary of state to find enough votes to reverse the results in his state. >> sandra: david perdue calling the leak disgusting. more reaction from him on that in just a few moments. first fox team coverage john roberts standing by at the white house. we begin the griff jenkins in dalton, georgia, this morning. what do we expect at the big rally tonight? good morning. >> sandra and trace, happy new year and good morning. you can expect a big turnout for what could be the president's last rally here in north georgia. let me let you see the crowd already. people starting to gather. they are chanting stop the steal. the chant we've been hearing all morning long. the president comes here because early voting shows republicans need a strong turnout in north georgia. the big question is what will

the president say? firestorm over that call is causing division among republicans, georgia's g.o.p. chairman. david schaefer calling it mind-boggling. secretary of state would record and release the call and the president continues calling for kemp's resignation. he supports loeffler and perdue. watch. >> people are fired up down here. they know we're the red wall to stop socialism and hand the keys to pelosi and bernie and aoc and schumer. we just can't do that. we have to save the country. >> sandra, i'm with blake from san diego. he was first in line and how long have you been here? >> since the 1st. i've been waiting all year. >> why did you come here? >> as soon as the president announced there was another rally in georgia, i want to be here to support him. president trump hasn't stopped fighting for america and

american will not stop fighting for him. >> the election tomorrow, are you worried? >> absolutely. everybody in the nation should care about it. it is a federal issue who becomes senators and a big impact on the senate. i support senators perdue and loeffler. i hope they're elected. if somebody from california can camp out in zero degree weather on the asphalt. maybe a few more voters from georgia will find the time to get to the polls. >> since you're worried about the stop the steal, are you worried about the integrity of the election tomorrow for loeffler and perdue? >> i'm worried about it. i hope the correct actions have been taken to make sure this time around the ballot custody is safeguarded and there aren't extra cases underneath counting tables and things like that. >> thank you very much. that is a sample of how the folks feel here. now we wait to find out what the president has to say tonight. meanwhile a dueling rally, by

the way. president-elect biden will be an hour and a half south in atlanta from here. >> sandra: a lot happening on the ground already. thank you to griff and blake. >> trace: more fallout following a "washington post" report on a leaked phone call between president trump and georgia's republican secretary of state over election results. our chief white house correspondent john roberts live on the north lawn. has the president made any comment since the audio was released? >> so far no comment from the president or anybody else at the white house for that matter. on what appears to be a strategic leak of this telephone call. the georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger has been under fire from the president for weeks now. raffensperger, because there is ongoing litigation regarding the georgia election, did not think it would be a good idea to have a conversation with the president but under pressure from the white house, the two did speak on saturday for about an hour. many people are saying the president was putting pressure on raffensperger to change the

results of the election in georgia. here is part of that call. >> president trump: i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won the state. so tell me, brad, what are we going to do? we won the election and it is not fair to take it away from us like this. >> this morning raffensperger said what he has been saying for weeks the president's claim of election fraud in the peach state are not grounded in fact. listen. >> he did most of the talking. i did want to make my points. the data he had is wrongs. we found two people dead that voted. he has bad data. >> at a campaign events for democrats warnock and ossoff

and kamala harris slammed president trump. >> it was the voice of separation, most certainly that. and it was a full abuse of the power by the president of the united states. >> republican congressman adam kinzinger frequently at odds with the president ripped him on twitter and took aim at republican colleagues in the house who may challenge the results of the electoral vote on wednesday. he tweeted this is appalling to every member of congress considering objecting to the election results. you cannot in light of this do so with a clean conscious #restore our gop. there are concerns the revelations to deal with the phone call could affect georgia senate races. kemp said that's the prize republicans need to keep their eye on. listen here. >> i've supported this president and said this many times on this show.

i work very hard for his reelection campaign and supported his legal efforts post campaign. but right now the thing that we can control in georgia is sending david perdue and kelly loeffler back to the united states senate. >> republicans say the president didn't say anything to raffensperger that he hasn't said in public. other republicans slamming raffensperger for recording that phone call. it is possible we may hear from the president tonight at that rally in dalton, georgia. and also a possibility, however, trace, i think it might be slim that the president could invite the cameras in as he presents the medal of freedom to david nunes of california. that will happen later this morning. >> sandra: let's bring in the republican senate candidate david perdue. thank you for joining us this morning. the man at the center of all of this. how are you feeling this morning about the election tomorrow? >> we're winning right now,

sandra. we get our votes out tomorrow we'll show america that georgians know what is at stake in georgia. this is the last line of defense against the radical socialist agenda and our last opportunity to protect everything that president trump has accomplished over the last four years. i believe that georgia will stand up in record numbers tomorrow just like they did in november when we beat my opponent by two points and held the line then. i'm optimistic we'll do that. let me say something about the secretary of state. i did say it was disgusting. i was raised differently. my mom and dad were school teachers. to have a statewide elected official, regardless of party, tape without disclosing a private conversation with with the president of the united states and leaking it to the president is disgusting. but i didn't hear anything in that tape that the president hasn't already said for weeks now since the november election calling for some sort of investigation, some sort of resolution to the improprieties

and irregularities we see happened in november in georgia. >> sandra: you're not saying what jonathan turley saw when he said it was breathtaking to hear the president use the words i just want to find the 11,780 votes. he is a constitutional law professor, ari fleischer said everything the president said on that call is wrong. used to be the secretary for george bush. adam kinzinger called it absolutely appalling. so sir, you've reacted to the leaking of that call and the actual taping of it. got it. what about the contents of that call? >> well, however he said it, sandra, what he is saying a lot of people in georgia and 75 million americans i think align with him right now. something untoward happened here in georgia and we have not gotten to the bottom of it. right away i asked the secretary of state for some things that didn't happen. we called for his resignation. we asked for a special session of the general assembly to investigate. that didn't happen.

we went to court. they told us it it was a legislative issue. i missed this runoff by a few thousand votes myself. we beat our opponent by 2%. in any other state we'd be reelected. the probability of the low number of absentee ballots rejected is 1 in 10,000. that's a probability you would have numbers like we had in georgia in november. until somebody looks at that i've been calling for weeks to object to the elect tors. in the state of georgia i don't believe we should have certified the election yet. >> sandra: are you concerned it may discourage voters from coming out to vote for you and your republican colleague in georgia tomorrow? >> that's what the democrats want. that's what they've been talking and why it's so confusing. they keep talking about that and exactly what they want. it would give them total control if they win these two seats. if you voted in november for donald trump you need to stand

up and fight. fight with the rest of us trying to get him a fair accounting in the state and vote tomorrow. we've done everything we can outside of a general assembly special session to change the rules and we've added 8,000 poll watchers. we have all the drop boxes under observation now with cameras and people there 24/7. we're doing everything to make sure this is a totally fair and transparent election in january. >> sandra: the ballots in the presidential election were counted in your state three times including a mandatory hand count and a trump requested recount. you are asking for more than that. more should be done than that. >> sandra, i never called for a recount. that was a waste of time. a hand count and a machine recount. that's not what i've been saying. i've been saying all along there are things that went on around the signatures that we have not been given answers to. therefore, we need a full signature audit against the

registration signature alone. not an application signature. by the way, we don't know that certain counties who were given the discretion to do that when we were burdened with an ever we went from 5% to 30% absentee ballots in this race. >> sandra: are you still in quarantine. you put out a press release last thursday you and your wife tested negative and had direct contact with somebody who had covid-19. are you still quarantining right now? >> we are. my wife and i are in good health. no symptoms. we've tested negative repeatedly. i will participate hopefully tonight by virtall in the rally. president trump and vice president pence we're pulling out the stop. if they voted for trump and me in november, if they come out tomorrow we'll hold the line in georgia. make sure our kids don't live under an oppress i shall

socialist government but can enjoy the benefits and fruits of being free. >> sandra: a lot of speculation over what we may hear from the president when he makes the stop tonight. first time in that city in 28 years for a sitting u.s. president. a big deal. i'm sure you probably wish you could be there. you are following cdc guidance with the quarantine. what do you want the president to say tonight? what would be most effective? he might talk about overturning the election results, air his grievances, but when it comes to getting you voted into office and your republican colleague, what do your republican supporters need to hear from the president? >> first of all this is the last opportunity we'll have to protect everything that we've accomplished in the last four years. the second thing is the last line of defense to stop the democrats from perpetrating this radical socialist agenda. the eyes of america and i believe the eyes of the world are on the people of georgia. it is up to us, our

responsibility, not just a right to vote, it is a responsibility. if you are upset as i am about what happened in november the only alternative you have is stand up and fight. the only way you can is get out and vote tomorrow. >> sandra: appreciate you coming on the program this morning. you have a big 24 hours, 48 hours coming up. appreciate it very much. david perdue. thank you. >> thanks. >> sandra: our coverage of the georgia runoffs kontsz later this hour and talk to alyssa farah. and senator ron johnson and gabriel sterling will also be joining us next hour. reminder bret baier and martha maccallum host special coverage beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow on the fox news channel. >> trace: we'll be watching that. fox news alert. more than a dozen republican senators are planning to challenge the electoral college results wednesday calling for a commission to audit the votes. what impact could that have? plus a new warning as coronavirus cases surge across the country. why dr. fauci says a partial

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>> sandra: dr. fauci saying a partial lockdown is not off the table warning the crisis is likely to get worse in the next few weeks. >> you may have to have -- they already have decided -- an some form of lockdown in specific areas of the state or specific regions of the country. so that's not out of the question. we hope we don't have to do it country wide. >> sandra: he knocked down a suggestion to space out vaccinations to cover more people saying there is no data on what happens if the second shot is not taken on schedule. >> trace: at least 13 republican senators are planning to challenge the electoral votes from several battleground states when congress meets to certify the results on wednesday. those republicans led by texas senator ted cruz are calling for an electoral commission to be appointed by congress and conduct a 10-day audit of the election results in disputed states. the last time it occurred was

during the election of 1876 giving the presidency to ruth ford hayes who beat tilden. let's bring in byron york, good morning to you, sir. i want to play what ted cruz said about that 1876 panel and talking about today. watch. >> they examined the ballots and made a determination based upon what the disputed ballots and what the outcome should be. what i argue for is congress ought to do the same thing. we ought to have a fair inquiry, a fair audit into these results. >> trace: you say what, byron? >> well, ted cruz explained this to maria bartiromo yesterday and searching for a middle ground between accepting the election results which a lot of republicans think is not

fair, and just having congress reject the election results. so he has come up with this commission idea from 1876. but it only has 10 days to do its job. we've had two months of litigation in the various states about the results and they have not changed the results and remember, it would take a change of result in not one or two but three states to change the results in the presidential election. this is not going to happen. a commission would have to be bipartisan. there is no way in the world that democrats would agree to it. >> trace: what about these calls by democrats, byron, that this is really an assault on democracy. in fact, i want to play one round if i can with you of now and then. dick durbin said this about ted cruz's thing now. he called it the political equivalent of barking at the moon. it won't be taken seriously.

back in 2004 when barbara boxer said we would like to object to those results, he said quote, i thank her for doing that. it gives members an opportunity in a bipartisan basis to look at a challenge we face in many states. senator, i meant, barbara boxer. your thoughts on that. >> well, republicans have started pointing out that every single time a republican has been elected president in this century bush the first time, bush the second time, and trump, democrats in congress, some democrats in congress have tried to stop the electoral college certification process. so it is not new. now, there is no doubt that republicans appear to be, you know, putting it on steroids this time. there is a ratchet effect that happens in the senate

especially where one side does one thing and then the next side gets them back and does it twice as hard and next time twice as hard. that's kind of what is going on here. the fact is democrats not only in 2005 but in 2017 when donald trump's victory was certified in the electoral college objected and tried to stop the process. >> trace: lastly, i just want to point out that tom cotton said you can count me out. i will not oppose the counting of certified electoral votes on january 6. objecting to certified electoral votes won't give him a second term only embolden those democrats who want the erode further our system of constitutional government. does that hurt the overall cause or does it hurt this push for people to say let's give it one last chance? >> i think there is a feeling among the republican senators, the 40 republican senators who have not signed on to this

effort that they would like to stop it right now. you have 12, 13 republicans who have said they'll take part in this effort to not certify the election results and i think cotton's releasing a statement on sunday night was an effort to maybe stop the floodgates. i think republican leaders would be very upset if that 13 turned into 25 or 30 republicans in the senate. >> trace: byron york, good to see you, sir, thank you. >> thank you, trace. >> sandra: newly reelected house speaker nancy pelosi facing criticism over her call for bold new house rules. republicans slamming the proposal. we'll explain. president trump traveling to georgia today for one last rally for republicans in those runoffs that will determine the balance of power in the senate. former white house strategic communications director alyssa farah will join us next for what's at stake.

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>> my logic is this. if you voted in november for donald trump, you need to stand up and fight. fight with the rest of us that are trying to get him a fair accounting in the state and vote tomorrow.

>> sandra: david perdue making his case for reelection for the senate earlier on this program less than a day until the election in georgia. both parties turning out huge voting numbers, over 3 million ballots already cast and 120,000 from newly registered voters. let's bring in former white house communications director alyssa farah on that. good to see you this morning and thank you for being here. a lot of excitement and anticipation this week. considering the early voting numbers, would you be concerned since obviously we typically see early voting lean democrat at what we're seeing so far? >> good to be with you. the numbers track with what we were anticipating. democrats have made a huge effort to try to enlist first-time new voters in this georgia senate runoff. they've brought out celebrities to help rally support

particularly from students and first-time voters. what i can tell your viewers the georgia republican party has an extremely strong ground game in the state and we're very enthusiastic and feeling good about the support we'll see on election day. i say we should keep our eyes on those numbers. it shows there is huge momentum on both sides. we should be able to match and beat them on actual election day. >> sandra: mark levin making it clear to his listeners how important it is they go out and vote. listen. >> you are our last line of defense when it comes to the united states senate. you are it. if you had any inclination to sit at home, you better stand the hell up. we're not asking you to go to war. we're not asking you to put your lives on the line. we have brave young men and women that do that every day. we're asking you to vote. not just for georgia, but for the rest of us. >> sandra: that was his message. what should we expect from the president's message tonight, alisa? >> well, the great one mark

levin is spot on there. this morning as you mentioned vice president mike pence is going to be in one part of georgia meeting with state leaders and he will be sharing the message that we are first amendment liberty -- freedom of religion. those of us who are pro-life, the right to life is at stake and we need to protect those values and how we get out and vote and tonight the president is going to rally support and say listen, i think the election was rigged for me but if you care about getting to the bottom of that we have to keep the senate. we have to fight to keep david and kelly in the senate. that's what you'll be hearing from him as well as a closing economic message as well. >> sandra: i'll ask you about that in a second. to that point, you are suggesting the president -- we'll hear from the president more from him on overturning his attempt to overturn the results of the election. some even within his own party have suggested that has been a major distraction for these senate runoff races and it taking away from the ability

for kelly loeffler and david perdue to get their message out and get the vote out if people think the system is rigged, aren't you in some ways discouraging voters to show up? >> what we've been saying is that republicans have to get out and vote like joe biden and kamala harris will be inaugurated in a couple of weeks. we have to operate under that reality and that the senate is our last stop against their socialist agenda. we also have to operate under the assumption that the only way we'll really get to the bottom of certain irregularities and fraud in president trump's reelection is if you do have a senate that's willing to look into it. that's been david perdue's message and kelly loeffler's. what we've been telling folks, too, we have thousands of poll watchers across the state. we have cameras on sites and polling locations. you should feel good about your vote and that it will be tabulated accurately. the best way to insure that the democrats have a victory and that again this election is rigged is if you don't get out

and vote and you let the celebrity money elect the next senator in georgia. >> sandra: quickly before we let you go as far as the president getting there on the ground, who he will be meeting with at his side unfortunately for david perdue he is in quarantine after having exposure to covid 1. they have tested negative but said earlier to us he will be joining the president virtually in some format. any further details you can give us this morning? >> nothing beyond that. we'll see some georgia house members with him and a number of different v.i.p. republican guests. the president is the whole show. all eyes on president trump tonight and he will be making the case to reelect kelly loeffler and senator perdue in georgia. >> sandra: quickly last final thought on anything the president is saying privately this morning inside of his circle about that leaked phone call? >> i think he anticipated he would be leaked. you have to expect that going into them. he said much of what he said in

that call publicly before. but listen, what he is saying he wants to do is get to the bottom of irregularities not just in georgia and other states. his focus today is on reelecting these two great senators. >> sandra: anticipated it would be leaked, what would you mean? >> we kind of assume any outgoing call not secure could be released. >> sandra: he said that knowing it could be made public? >> that would be my assumption. i have not spoken to him on the matter in my new capacity. i think usually that's what they think. >> sandra: we appreciate you coming on with us. thank you. >> thanks. >> trace: all eyes on capitol hill where gop senators plan to challenge the presidential election results. just how likely is it the results are overturned? we'll break it down for you next. with georgia's key elections tomorrow download the fox super six app and play the runoff game for a chance to win

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>> trace: it's all about getting out the vote in georgia. that's a live look at a campaign event in atlanta, georgia. kellyanne conway at the microphone trying to get voters gwynned up and kelly loeffler is there. the red sweater vest is the former governor of georgia, sunny perdue who is the cousin of senator david perdue who is also running for reelection tomorrow. the big election day is tomorrow. kellyanne conway. if she says something of interest we'll bring you back to that. >> sandra: wednesday republican senators planning to challenge the certification of joe biden's win calling for an electoral commission to audit the results from disputed

states. it hasn't happened since 1876. jonathan turley is a constitutional law professor and fox news contributor. thank you for being here. start off with what is within their constitutional rights to challenge the results of this election and move forward with this process? >> this has been a longstanding controversy as to the specific role of congress. what the 12th amendment says the president of the senate shall in the presence of the senate and house of representatives open the certificate and the votes shall then be counted. that's the exact language that describes their function. and the ambiguity in that language has led to a long series of problems and the most obvious being the one that occurred after the 1876 presidential election between hayes and tilden.

that was a momentous controversy over the validity of electoral votes. it led to the passage of a little-known act which tried to create a system to deal with controversy. that act has come up a few times in history. every time it does, it creates its own controversy. >> sandra: is this a fair challenge from your view, jonathan? >> well, it is a fair challenge in the sense it is a challenge that is being made under federal law. the challenge that has been made repeatedly by democratic members of congress in prior elections. that's why i took some -- i had some concern about cnn's post by jake tapper referring to this as an attempted bloodless coup. it is not a coup of any kind.

it is the very same law used in the same way as democrats in past elections. now, that doesn't mean this is right. i don't support this challenge. i don't think there is a basis for it. but it is being done under the federal law. now, there is a separate issue as to whether that law is itself constitutional. that debate has raged for decades. >> sandra: that's what the "wall street journal" editorial board takes on in their piece this morning. the election rejectionist. the gop sent over -- it will hurt the country and party. senators like marsha blackburn is one who supports this challenge. watch. >> what we said we would do in our statement in putting in place a commission that would conduct a review of what transpired, investigate the allegations and then come back to the electoral college, which i will say is a vital part of

our process. that is the appropriate, respectful step to take. >> sandra: it's my understanding from listening to you, you support the commission, jonathan, but the timing is another question. >> right. i don't see the value of having a 10-day period of auditing. we've had -- we have had dozens of courts looking at these issues. i agree there is a reason to have a commission. but that commission will take a long time. these are comprehensive issues. i don't understand why people would oppose such a commission. this has been a unique election in its reliance on mail-in voting and the use of different systems. why would we not want to review that? isn't this important enough for us to look at the problems that did occur, and there were problems, and resolve them? it has nothing to do with who the next president is. the next president will be joe biden.

>> sandra: really important question and really interesting perspective. >> trace: president trump making one final push in georgia ahayed of the runoff races tomorrow. he will hold a rally for loeffler and perdue in dalton tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi unveiling new house rules for this session. why some of the changes are causing an uproar. our panel on deck with that. alright, i brought in ensure max protein to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. [grunting noise]

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congress eliminating pontius pilate's visionary move that reflects the values of her diverse caucus. the 45 page document is set to go to the floor for a vote later today. let's bring in our panel david avella is the chairman of gopac. mary anne marsh a former senior advisor to john kerry. happy new year to both of you and welcome. the house rules, this proposal is to make gender-specific pronounce out. i'll put them on the screen if i can. father, mother would be parent, daughter, son. child, brother, sister sibling. aunt, uncle. parent's sibling. kevin mccarthy calls it stupid and loeffler said the far left's priorities, everyone, if you would like to call yourself a father, daughter, mother or son, vote for me and perdue said it on tuesday sincerely a proud daughter. your thoughts on this proposed rule change, mary anne. >> well, it may be a new year but the republicans are going back to an old playbook trying to start a culture war to

distract everyone from the fact that they lost the white house, they lost the house, they're on the verge of losing the senate perhaps tomorrow. not dealing with covid and not dealing with an economic collapse. that's what's going on here. no one is stopping anybody from saying anything they want on the floor. the hypocrisy here shockingly is the provision i thought they would be most upset about is pay-go. you can bring omnibus efforts like the green new deal or infrastructure packages without having to identify how to pay for it in existing revenues. that tells you everything about the republican party today. why they are in the minority. they aren't addressing the needs and wants of the majority in this country. >> trace: to you, david. it is a big issue, pay-go. things like the green new deal. idea of these big budget things going through without knowing how to pay for them. weigh in on that if you would what mary anne said and also the whole gender-specific

pronounce being out. >> pay-go is one more gimmick that will come out of speaker pelosi in her final two years as the speaker, as republicans will take the majority in 2022. mary anne has to help us out here, trace. is madam speaker a good or bad term? do now she has to -- does she follow the same rules as rank and file or do we call her the individual who sits in the high chair in the front of the room? one of the other rule changes that got made is that they can now increase the subpoena power over former presidents and former vice presidents and their staff. so we know adam schiff and his merry band of friends will continue trying to subpoena and harass the trump administration. and sadly, we didn't have a rule added that says if you have sex with a chinese spy you can't be on the intelligence committee. that must be the eric swalwell

exception. >> trace: you say the republicans have other things to worry about like pay-go. isn't the shoe on the other foot the same? congresswoman nicole said. there are millions of americans suffering. our economy is hurting, vaccine distribution is lagging and nancy pelosi and the house democrats are worried about this nonsense speaking about the gender-specific pronoun. don't they have bigger fish to fry, mary anne? >> it's a about choice. you can do all those things. you don't go to parent teacher meetings and mother, father meetings, is that it? this is silly. the country is burning down. covid has consumed us. donald trump is dissecting our democracy with the help of mccarthy and republicans in the house and senate. the economy in freefall and everybody wants the talk about this. there is no there there. you can talk about what you want on the floor. david, you can call nancy pelosi whatever you want. she is speaker of the house.

kevin mccarthy isn't. >> trace: i also want to point out the rules on covid, nancy pelosi you might want to comment on that as well. nancy pelosi tossed out the rules on covid allowing members who tested positive to get there to vote for her. >> the most damage change is the getting rid of the motion to reconsider. it is completely silences the minority party and the last couple of years has been how conservatives and far progressives have teamed up to take care of bad legislation that pelosi has presented. >> trace: david and mary anne, good to see you both. thank you. >> sandra: a serious new concern as covid patients overwhelm hospitals across the country. a group of republican senators wants to block the certification of joe biden's electoral college victory. so how will that play out and could the last ditch effort backfire? ustomizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? really? i didn't-- aah! ok. i'm on vibrate. aaah!

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>> sandra: covid cases rising across the country. half a million americans could be dead from the virus by the end of january despite the distribution of over 13 million vaccines across the country. that's only 4 million doses have been administered so far. jeff paul is live from santa monica, california with more on all that. good morning. >> the hope was to have 20 million people vaccinated by now. that number is far lower and of

the millions and millions of vaccinations that have been delivered only a third used leading a lot of people to go to desperate lengths to get the vaccine. in florida where seniors are lining up for hours just to get a chance to roll up their sleeves. some camping out overnight and even though there has been a sluggish roll-out to the vaccine dr. fauci thinks that things will start to pick up and that gives him some optimism. >> but some little glimmer of hope is that in the last 72 hours, they've gotten 1.5 million doses into people's arms, which is an average of about 500,000 a day, which is much better than the beginning when it was much, much less than that. >> now in los angeles county it remains the nation's hot spot for the coronavirus. officials say a person is dying every 10 minutes, city of los

angeles mayor eric garcetti a new case is reported every six seconds. so many patients are needing care that ambulances have to wait 7 to 8 hours at hospitals like this and the big concern is people are now returning from the holidays. >> sandra: jeff, thanks. president trump and president-elect biden both heading to georgia today for a final day of campaigning ahead of tomorrow's high stakes senate runoff elections. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom," happy new year, everyone. i'm sandra smith. >> trace: tomorrow's runoff elections are nail biters with more than 3 million votes already cast and both races too close to call. trump and biden both holding rallies in georgia working to get out the vote for control of the u.s. senate. one republican senator defending his seat, david perdue, earlier on "america's newsroom," watch. >> we're winning right now, sandra. if we get our vote out tomorrow we'll show america that

georgians know what is at stake in georgia. i believe that georgia will stand up in record numbers tomorrow. >> sandra: peter doocy is live in atlanta for us this morning. peter, what do we expect to hear from president-elect biden today? good morning. >> good morning, sandra. democrats are treating it like an opportunity to repeat. reminding voters already that joe biden won here in november. so john ossoff and raphael warnock can win here tomorrow. >> the new year really 2020 is not over until we get through the end of tuesday, january 5th. then we can really celebrate the new year. >> kamala harris becomes the senate's tiebreaking vote if both democrats win tomorrow. biden's multi-trillion dollar progressive agenda might be easier to push through with a democratically controlled senate. biden is coming here to try to make that happen later today. donald trump is coming down to try to play defense to maybe

leave a republican-controlled senate after his time in office. so maybe some of his key achievements are tougher to undo. we don't expect to see david perdue show up at the trump rally. his schedule remains virtual because he is quarantining in the few hours left after close contact with a covid-19-infected staffer. it has been kelly loeffler out there by herself. >> look, he would be a rubber stamp for chuck schumer. chuck schumer has been very clear. he wants to abolish the electoral college, add d.c. as a state. adding two democrat senators. making it impossible to have a republican majority in the senate again. >> we have a live picture of jon ossoff in augusta. they've been trying to get georgian's -- sending

volunteers out to voters socially distanced outside homes and tomorrow we'll find out how successful those efforts have been. later on today, though, we expect to see president trump north of atlanta in dalton where republicans are trying to run up the score to offset what democrats are able to do here in atlanta. joe biden is going to be here a few hours from now for a drive-in event outside the old turner field. back to you. >> sandra: we'll watch all of it. thank you. fox news is your election source for the georgia senate runoff. bret baier and martha maccallum will have special coverage. watch here on the fox news channel starting at 6:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow. >> trace: the 117th congress has officially been sworn in and one of the first acts by lawmakers will happen wednesday when the house and senate will certify the results of the 2020 presidential election in a joint session. now a group of republican

senators led by ted cruz plans to object to certifying electors from disputed states. chad pergram live on capitol hill with more. good morning. >> good morning. republicans are divided over how to handle this. you need senators and house members to contest the slate of electors from individual states. now we're told they intend to challenge elector y'all ballots from arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, nevada and wisconsin. this triggered on internal conflict among republicans. mo brooks is critical of his gop colleagues who oppose challenging the electoral results. >> i choose to fight and i would add further that the statement from those members of the surrender caucus directly conflicts with over 200 years of conduct by the united states congress with respect to the election of the president of the united states. >> a group of house republicans led by ken buck of colorado

opposes brook's gamut saying it's unconstitutional to insert congress into the presidential process and replaces the electoral process with congress. tim ryan says it's about the future of the gop. >> it is pretty obvious and cynical, quite frankly. i think a lot of the members in there are talking about running for president in 2024. they don't want to cross president trump in any way. >> each challenge to a state's electoral votes requires two hours of debate in both of house and senate and why this process could go all night and well into thursday. it takes both the house and senate to reject a state slate of electoral votes. some republicans are worried going on the record through roll call votes to accept or reject the electoral college. trace. >> trace: we'll have congressman ken buck coming up. >> sandra: chris, where does

this go next? >> good morning. i think congressman tim ryan was pretty spot on with that. a lot of it is about the future of the republican party. a huge amount of conservative base out there in the country. i was on the phone last night for over an hour with a guy knocking on doors in georgia, who feel they've been disenfranchised they can't trust the electoral system and feel like something went on in the last election. this is not going to be a successful attempt to overturn the election. but if there is any ability to actually bring in debate in the national stage for a lot of americans who aren't exposed to the channels they watch or to have any kind of light shed on this it would be helpful. the problem for the republicans if they don't hold the senate tuesday they won't get any kind of investigation outside of the states. their chances are shot on this. >> sandra: more from ted cruz who supports the challenge. watch. >> we went into this election

with the country deeply divided and polarized and have seen in the last two months unprecedented allegations of voter fraud. and that's produced a deep, deep distrust of our democratic process across the country. i think we in congress have an obligation to do something about that. >> sandra: but the balance of power in the senate it all comes down to these georgia senate runoff elections. based on what you heard from senator ted cruz and others who support this challenge, what impact do you think all this could have on those runoffs down in georgia? >> it could have a massive impact. unfortunately for the republicans in this case this is an election where 20,000 votes will make a massive difference. a lot of republicans, this is not just the whackos, a lot of normal people who haven't been following this very closely, they're not sitting on conspiracy theories. they're seriously concerned they have been disenfranchised

about it. they see a stark difference in how governors act and states responding to covid. there is an anger that i haven't seen since 2010. it will make a big difference. hopefully for republicans president trump will be able to get them out there. an election this tight will be really -- it will make a big difference what they feel like. >> sandra: the full screen we have of the senators where they stand on questioning the challenging -- we're not going to show it. we had inhoff on the screen. he is not part of the group challenging those election results. want to make sure we're clear on that. finally here is lindsey graham. he is saying this is not the time and this is not the best thing for their party. he says proposing a commission at this late date which has zero chance of becoming reality is not effectively fighting for president trump. it appears to be more of a political dodge than an effective remedy.

to that you say what? >> it's certainly true. this fight for the president was over on election day. if you have problems with the ability of states to commit fraud or lack of oversight you need to be in there on election day and actually watching and overseeing and have the right legal mechanisms and fallbacks to get back to it. this isn't going to change the election results but it is an important debate to have considering how many americans feel like they've been disenfranchised by this. >> sandra: constitutional law professor turley backed up a similar point making clear it's an important question to be asked and looked into. the timing, of course, is another thing. chris, good to see you this morning. thank you. one of those republicans who plans to challenge the electoral results is wisconsin senator ron johnson and he will join us live 20 minutes if now at 10:30 a.m. eastern. >> trace: it appears social distancing went out the window during yesterday's swearing in of house members. many wore masks. despite rules limiting the

number of members in the chamber at one time hundreds of them were walking around the house floor speaking closely with each other and shaking hands. nancy pelosi, who was reelected as speaker tweeted after the ceremony that congress is quote most urgent priority will continue to be defeating the coronavirus. defeating the coronavirus with a little pause, sandra, to just kind of get together and welcome each other. >> sandra: our eyes are trained when you look into a room or watch a movie. they're not distanced. fair to point out. trace, thank you. nancy pelosi hanging onto the speaker's gavel by a razor thin margin. we'll talk to just sworn in republican congresswoman lisa mcclain about pelosi's plans for the new congress and her ability to maintain control. voters casting a record number of early ballotss in georgia. does that strong turnout bode well for either side? what does it tell us. >> georgians are fired up to

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>> sandra: fox news alert. new lockdown measures to cut the covid variant in the united

kingdom. boris johnson announced moments ago that later today he will be announcing new protocols. they reportedly include closing schools and no team sports outdoors. cases have spiked in the u.k. since the variant was discovered there. health experts say it is more trance miss able than the original covid strain. >> the last opportunity to protect everything we've accomplished in the last four years. the second thing is the last line of defense to stop the democrats from perpetrating this radical socialist agenda. it's as simple as that. >> trace: that's georgia senator david perdue last hour as president trump and president-elect biden head to georgia where more than 3 million people have cast early ballots. 2 million in person. let's bring in a political reporter for the atlanta journal constitution. greg, thank you for joining us. i want to put up the rcp averages to show you where we

stand now. you can see jon ossoff is leading david perdue by less than a point there. .8% and warnock leading loeffler by 1.8%. you look at those numbers and 3 million georgians have cast early ballots and what does it tell you? >> it will be so tight. the races will be coin flips. those polls show what every poll in georgia shows, this is within the margin of error. might as well be a deadlock. it all comes down for republicans to election day turnout on tuesday. they know every republican operative i've talked to knows there is a deficit there. democrats have about a 200,000 or so vote advantage. maybe that's high or low. no one is for sure. democrats definitely have a early vote advantage that republicans need to make up. >> trace: the president still casting doubt on the election results in georgia. how does that play into those who might show up and might not

show up, the overall race? >> that's the frustration of the campaigns and operatives and analysts of republican elected officials here that the president continues to talk about his own election grievances and not about the senate runoffs. it is sending conflicting messages to a lot of republican voters. telling them to go vote in a rigged election. many of them will, most will. but if there is a few -- tens of thousands who decide not to it could be the difference in a race that's this close. >> trace: i want to play the sound bite from alabama congressman mo brooks. i will get your response on the other side. watch. >> there was easily enough illegal votes counted, voter fraud conducted in the state of georgia to have made the difference between senator perdue winning without a runoff. >> trace: there are a lot of people propagating this saying there is messy stuff going on in georgia.

>> three separate counts of the voters who cast ballots in november. audit on signatures that found no cases of voter fraud. state republican electeds have all said these grievances and claims are unfounded. what they're saying is move on. focus on tuesday and not look behind you. >> trace: what about specifically tomorrow's election, greg? is there still concern about illegal out of state voting that's happening there or has that been put down by some critics? >> state elections officials say there are concerns about isolated incidents of voter fraud and there are hundreds of investigations or so throughout the year that the state election officials have conducted into isolated incidents. they say there is no proof of systemic fraud or systemic

irregularities that would overturn the results of an elect -- election. >> trace: we look at the real clear politics polls, very close. what are we not seeing? what should we be looking for tomorrow or as the results start coming in? >> maybe the foremost thing for republicans that i'm looking at is turnout in north georgia. northwest georgia in particular. that's where president trump is going tonight. going to the city of dalton, the carpet capital of the world. going there because voter participation has far lagged behind other districts including republican-controlled districts. if republicans can't get turnout rate up there, they are in for a long night tuesday. >> trace: greg, good insight. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: washington days after officials ordered the u.s.s. nimitz out of the middle east. why it's being told to remain in place. that's coming up. a group of republican senators say they plan to reject

electors from states at the center of president trump's election fraud claims this week. one of those republicans is wisconsin senator ron johnson. he will join us live next. >> we're not asking to thwart the dem cat -democratic process. we're asking to protect it.

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gotlieb predicts the new strain of covid will make up the majority of coronavirus cases in the united states by march. colorado, california and florida have confirmed cases of the new strain which was first discovered in the u.k. >> sandra: the number of confirmed deaths from covid in the u.s. has surpassed 350,000. 4 million infections have been reported. >> trace: defense department will keep the u.s.s. nimitz and strike group in the middle east after iran made threats against president trump and other u.s. government officials. >> >> we have a vote on january 6th on certification. two lousy choices. one we can vote to certify not consider any objections. if we do that, that will be heard by a lot of americans as

saying we don't think voter fraud is a real concern. >> sandra: senator ted cruz why he wants a commission to audit the results of the 2020 presidential election joined by several other republican senators who plan to object to electoral college votes from some states that declared biden the winner. the new congress is set to meet wednesday to formally count those votes. one of those lawmakers joins us now, wisconsin senator ron johnson. good morning and welcome. why do you plan to object to the certification of the election? >> good morning, sandra. happy new year. from my standpoint we can't dismiss the concerns of tens of millions of americans that have suspicions. let's face it from the standpoint you hear all these people there is no evidence. there is all kinds of evidence and it starts with the fact that republican observers were not granted access to actually observe the count. the lack of chain of custody of so many of these absentee

ballots. we can't simply dismiss those concerns. we are an unsustainable state of affairs in america. we have come off four years where the other side never acknowledged the legitimacy of president trump and here we are again because of this surge. 60 to 70 million absentee ballots in this election by states that didn't institute controls. democrats continued to push the relaxing of controls over absentee ballots which created allegations of wrongdoing and potentially fraudulent votes. we can't ignore that. we fled to investigate this and that's what we're calling for, a commission to be set up immediately to at least organize these, acknowledge these problems so we certainly moving forward we can correct them. >> sandra: senator, you got into it with a tv anchor over the weekend on just that and to your quoting of others who say there is no evidence, why would you move forward in this way you had a back and forth that made a lot of news. watch this. >> the fact of the matter is

that we have an unsis tainable state of affairs in this country where we have tens of millions of people who don't view this election result as legitimate. >> you made an allegation there was widespread fraud and failed to offer specific evidence of that fraud but demanding an investigation on the grounds that there are allegations of widespread fraud. so essentially you are the arsonist here. >> this fire was started when you completely ignored our investigation of hunter biden where republicans and conservatives don't trust the mainstream media and that's what has destroyed the credibility of the media. the media -- >> sandra: he called you an arsonist and said he had enough of hearing what you had to say there. we talked to jonathan turley earlier on this program, senator, who said completely reasonable to ask these questions but what he is questioning is the timing of the commission. why do this now? why not look at this bigger picture down the road to make

sure that we insure the integrity of our elections for the knew tour considering we're days away from that certification? >> we should probably do both. right now we have this issue in front of us as to whether or not certify electors for certain states that really did not follow the election rules laid down by their state legislators and constitutional issue as well. what we're saying is let's delay accepting a particular state's electors until we actually investigate what the issues are in that particular state. every state is completely different. it is pretty offensive and unprofessional of a broadcaster chuck todd to be accusing me of being an arsonist when the fact of the matter is it's the news media that carried the democrats' water. they're the ones that listen to the false reports of russian collusion with trump campaign, carried the democrat waters for a couple years. never heard them apologize and call it an assault on our

democracy dangerous. when conservatives have legitimate concerns about the surge in absentee ballots and the type of fraudulent activity that we have witnessed. again, why would you not allow republican observers to observe the vote count? why would you be opposed to, for example, voter identification? there is only one logical answer, you want to create fraud in the election process which creates suspicions and reduces the legitimacy of that type of voting system. this is not sustainable as i've said repeatedly in our democratic republic. >> sandra: tom cotton won't join it who plan to challenge the certification process. tom cotton said the founders entrusted elections to the state not congress. to the people asking through the electoral college not congress. and they entrusted the ajudd indication of election disputes to the courts, not congress.

sir, president trump a few moments ago tweeted about tom cotton because it is an interesting twist. he has been a staunch supporter of the president saying that republicans -- he is warning tom cotton in a tweet that republicans have pluses and minuses. one thing is sure, they never forget. seems like it is a warning to tom cotton for not jumping onto the commission with you and your other colleagues. >> i think we're all sensitive to the fact we want elections to be run by states and we respect states rights. but again we can't turn a blind eye to the electoral college when some of these electors were chosen and certified over the objection of their own state legislatures. this is a mess. we knew it would be a mess. i agreed with president trump when he talked about his concern about this vast increase in absentee ballots. and now we're living the

results. democrats are the ones who reduced the controls on this and we need to have controls to make sure every legitimate vote counts and every vote is legitimate. democrats are concerned about the last point. >> sandra: are you surprised tom cotton didn't join you and your colleagues on this? >> i share the concern of my republican colleagues that we don't want congress coming in here and overturning the election or disenfranchising voters. we understand that. we also can't dismiss the legitimate concerns, this unprecedented level of allegations of voter fraud and either violations of or lax enforcement of election laws. unelected people writing the rules for elections. there are so many issues in such a short period of time. one of the reasons voter fraud might grow. it is rarely investigated and prosecuted and it will grow.

we can't allow it to grow and be able to maintain our constitutional republic. >> sandra: with the few seconds i have left do you worry it could take away from the ability of those republicans to win those seats down in georgia knowing how crucial that is to the future of this country? >> absolutely. the fact that we must win those senate seats should be certainly a high priority here. people need to understand democrats get total power we won't recognize this country in six months to a year. the seats are crucial. i urge every legitimate georgia voter to vote for kelly loeffler and david perdue. >> sandra: thank you for joining us. >> have a good day. >> trace: for more on the media blowback over the gop effort to challenge the electoral vote let's bring in joe concha, columnist for the hill. happy new year. a lot of the media outlets you

see and read the headlines are framing this as an assault on democracy. some call it an assault on states rights. how do you see it? >> we just saw it with senator ron johnson and his exchange with chuck todd on nbc yesterday. todd called him an arsonist for this effort. what you don't hear mentioned very much, trace, is that the last three times a republican has won a presidential election democrats challenged the results including after the 2004 election where 31 house members and senator barbara boxer challenged the results saying that there was numerous serious election irregularities. sounds a lot like what i'm hearing here. if you report on this stuff, make sure that you present the precedent as i just did and particularly after 2016 which was marred by reports of russia hacked the election and hillary clinton the loser on multiple occasions on national television issues calling president trump illegitimate without any pushback whatsoever.

the same journalists are screaming about burning down -- >> trace: last time you mentioned barbara boxer in 2004 contesting results in ohio and at the time dick durbin said it was a great thing. now, of course, he says it's a bad thing. assault on democracy. lindsey graham said this and i want to get your response on the other side. he says proposing a commission at this late date with zero chance of becoming a reality is not effectively fighting for president trump. it appears to be more of a political dodge than an effective remedy. this is from a pretty staunch ally of the president for the past three or four years. >> zero chance of becoming reality is exactly right in that statement. it reminds me a lot this effort symbolic, right? all those times house

republicans when obamacare was passed voted to repeal and replace knowing it would never become a reality but they could say we tried. we did it 50, 60 some odd times and couldn't get done. that's what's going on here. it shows an effort. you saw that cnbc poll last month following the election that found that 3% of trump supporters feel that joe biden is legitimate. that's scary stuff. republicans know that. they have to act like they are doing something but they know it is hopefully not going to go anywhere. >> trace: ron johnson said look, we're dismissing millions of people in this country who are suspicious. your last thoughts, joe >> suspicious indeed and to that georgia runoff there may be enough people that stay home the georgia presidential race was decided by 10,000 votes. the same case here. if enough people are disenfranchised and may not show up and then you have democrat, the country will change as a result, trace. >> trace: good to see you.

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>> sandra: there is a shadow over tomorrow's senate runoff races in georgia. gabriel sterling joins us now. thanks for your time close to the key and important elections for the country. good morning and welcome. >> sandra: thank you for having me. what can you tell us as far as the integrity of the elections to insure the american public that these will be fair? >> we've introduced all kinds of security measures before the november election. most of the claims are

ridiculous, misinformation, disinformation. we have a driver's license as part of the identification process for absentee balance. 75%. voter i.d. when you check in. 3 million votes cast so far. my big concern is that the president's claims and continuing disinformation surrounding the fact that there were i shall news this election. there will be illegal votes. we haven't found anything approaching what the president is claiming. the votes have turned out so far you can see that. >> sandra: what have you been able to determine so far from what you've seen in the early voting? >> what we've seen is i am a republican but -- what we've seen so far democrat districts you see in the 5th, 4th, 13th and 2*7bd districts they're at 82% of their 2020 november 3

turnout. 14th and 11th. republican districts over 70%. we want to see a big turnout on election day. we've gotten a record number of votes cast in the runoff. the most was in 2004 for 2.1 million votes turned off in the runoff. we're already over 3 million in the state now. we saw in the general election that republicans tended to vote in person. they took 60% for the vote. 30% for the democrats. our intent is to give everybody the ability to vote the way they choose. we see millions of georgians taking advantage of that. many republicans may have been discouraged by the actions and discussions around the president. >> sandra: senator perdue shared a similar concern to not just those claims but the most recent leaked call that the

president is heard telling the georgia secretary of state to go find those votes. here is perdue earlier. >> what he is saying a lot of people in georgia and 75 million americans align with him now. something untoward happened in georgia and haven't gotten to what happened to it. we've tried to get the right accounting. i missed the runoff by a few thousand votes myself. >> sandra: i agrees with asking the questions and investigating further he is concerned that all of this could distract from the ability for those republicans to carry out victory in that state. final thoughts. >> it is a distraction unfortunately and unforced error on the part of the president and the candidates in this particular case. a lot of people are focused november 3 when they should focus on january 5. i want to encourage every person in georgia who wants a vote in georgia to have it counted to get out and vote tomorrow. bring your i.d. the last day you can vote.

we have a voter i.d. for the in-person election. >> sandra: you had your political hat on. what do you see as the future of the republican party? >> i think every party goes through shifts and they have to have the voters within that party to make the decisions the direction it is going to go. we're looking at a post trump future for a period of time. he could intend to run for president again. senators and congressmen different ways. there used to be a party called the wig party. we have had parties since the beginning of this nation that washington didn't want to see and adams didn't want to see but it's there. it is up to the voters to decide and leaders to give a vision for the future of any party. we can see a future, small government, constitutional republican kind of party that is about following the law, the process and defending individual rights like we always have.

>> sandra: a lot depends what will happen in your state in the next 24 to 48 hours. appreciate you. >> get out and vote, everybody. >> trace: the house narrowly reelected nancy pelosi as house speaker in a party line vote against her and defections within the democratic party. why the lack of support? newly elected republican michigan congresswoman mcclain joins us next. >> they'll change the rules only to cheat the minority. they're trying to silence our vote. they're trying to silence our seats. our car insurance so you only pay for what you need. wow. that will save me lots of money. this game's boring. only pay for what you need. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. if ththen i'm not a real potato reciidaho potato farmer.shes, genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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democratic party that grew was the squad. >> trace: kevin mccarthy saying democrats are going too far left for america as the 117th congress takes its place and reelects nancy pelosi as house speaker by a razor thin margin. with us now is newly elected michigan republican congresswoman lisa mcclain. thank you for your time. we appreciate you coming on. one of the five democrats who voted against nancy pelosi was michigan democratic congresswoman slot nick who said the following. it is not personal, not malicious, it just represents a feeling in my district. we need a different crop of leaders that represents a broader swath of the country. what do you think? >> well said. america spoke during the last election cycle. we want representatives and we want leaders with traditional american values. america has always been a

beacon of democracy. we're getting back to the middle and back to that. >> trace: it is amazing. even alexandria ocasio-cortez has been on outspoken critic saying leadership needs to change. at the end of the day she came back if line and quoted here, we are an extremely slim amount of votes away from risking the speakership to the republican party. it is bigger than any one of us. she voted for nancy pelosi because she worries that if she doesn't, that there is a chance that maybe this thing goes the wrong way. >> she should be worried. i think the republican agenda and leader mccarthy as a leader has done a good job in rallying republicans together and i think america's voice is being heard. it is interesting we were out on the steps this morning to do our freshman class picture and i think we took up about 15

steps, which is quite a few steps. i don't know if the democrats, the new democrats took up 15 steps. so it's a big class. >> trace: it is a big class. going the other way, you know, you see some of these rules, right, the house rules being proposed by nancy pelosi. one of those to get rid of gender-specific pronouns. what do you think about that? is that in your estimation are they catering to the progressive wing of the party? >> i think it's a joke. we're going to be tip toeing around him and her when we have real issues like the economy, getting america's economy back up and running. national security issues. the healthcare issues that we have in america today. this is ridiculous. if you look at the opening prayer last night from the

117th congress, you have leadership that talks about amen. that's not a gender specific term. they don't even have command of the language. they are manufacturing issues when we need to get back to the real issues of economics, national security, real issues that the american people need to talk about. >> trace: amen was followed by awoman and in latin it just means so be it. congresswoman, best of luck to you. thank you. >> thank you, have a great day and happy new year. >> trace: you, too. >> sandra: thank you. a big city exodus that started in 2020 continues in the new year. folks are packing their bags and leaving democratic-led cities and heading for greener pastures. so where are they headed? th mord lows just one call to newday can lower your payment

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california seeing the largest number of people moving out between july of 2019 and july of 2020. illinois has seen its population shrink by a greater amount each of the last seven years. the only state out of all 50 with that unfortunate distinction. the question is why is this happening? high taxes certainly play a part but during the pandemic people are also looking to live in areas where they can afford a bigger house with more space and with work from home continuing into the new year, it is likely people have moved, will stay put where they are. here are the top three states people are moving to. texas, florida, and arizona. you will notice that two of those three states texas and florida, they have no state income tax and something you'll notice about all three of those states, sandra, as i stand here on a foggy and snowy chicago day, they are a lot warmer. people are speaking those lower taxes and warmth. >> sandra: really interesting to watch as it continues in the

new year. grady, good to see you. thank you. fox news alert on the battle for georgia. we are now just hours away from election day and those senate runoff elections there. the races both within the margin of error will decide which political path the nation will follow for years to come as today both parties bring out the big guns to campaign. welcome back to "america's newsroom," i'm sand are smith. good morning, trace. >> trace: good morning. i'm trace gallagher. president trump and president-elect biden will both be in georgia. already more than 3 million people in georgia have cast ballots as part of early voting and voting will be key. david perdue on "america's newsroom" earlier. >> we get our vote out tomorrow. georgians know what is at stake in georgia.

the last line of defense against the radical socialist agenda and our last opportunity to protect everything that president trump has accomplished over the last four years. i believe that georgia will stand up in record numbers tomorrow just like they did in november when we beat my opponent by two points and held the line then. >> trace: bret baier live in atlanta with analysis. john roberts at the white house. first to griff jenkins live in dalton, georgia. griff, good morning. >> good morning. the stakes couldn't be higher and they're feeling it and fired up in dalton, georgia in northwestern georgia. look, we're 10 hours right now away from the president coming here at 9:00 tonight and you can see hundreds of people already coming in. this is the outer area, trace, where they check people through the first line of security and they're doing temperature checks. we see some people with masks, some people not. you see this woman getting her temperature taken right now and they'll go down to the larger line back there where they are

queuing them up. they've been here for days. we have people from across the country, from california, washington state, michigan, philadelphia, pennsylvania, from all over the place and, of course, from here in georgia. the president coming here because the republicans need a strong turnout in north georgia. to offset the urban areas like atlanta which will go for -- for the biden visit. he is coming here later. the firestorm over the call from the secretary of state is causing division among republicans. georgia's gop chairman calling it mind-boggling and the president attacking governor kemp. kemp tries to afford conflict and support loeffler and perdue. >> people are fired up down here and know we're the red wall to stop socialism and hand the keys to pelosi, bernie, aoc and schumer. we can't do that. we have to save the country.

>> now we talked to the whittfield county where we're are in dalton chairwoman and she says she is confident of the turnout but worried about the division. listen. >> there always is a concern whenever there is a divide in the party. but no, the base is strong. the republican base is strong. and we want to keep it that way. that's why i feel like the republicans will turn out tomorrow and we will keep the senate. >> trace, another concern is that many georgian voters to are wary of the election integrity and the president's allegation of voter fraud. that waryness comes despite election officials and secretary of state assuring

voters it will be accurate and honest. we may not know the results on election night because it is so close. >> sandra: let's bring in bret baier anchor of special report. what sense are you getting of things ahead of these two key races? >> i think it will be tight. i think -- good morning. you talked to david perdue earlier. it does all come to turnout. probably in those northwest georgia areas where the president is visiting where you just heard griff jenkins talk about. how much the president talks about the two candidates, the two senators and how much he talks about his own grievances about the presidential election in his words being stolen i think that calculation about how much he spends firing up the crowd to get out and vote is really what republicans in that area are worried about. democrats feel a little confident, if not cocky in atlanta. they look at the numbers of

75,000 people registering to vote after the election. a lot of them young people. they look at the 100,000 voters who have voted who did not vote in the november 3 election and they think the percentages for them are good. so i think it will be extremely tight here in georgia. >> sandra: we have the president arriving there tonight. you've got david perdue in quarantine as he sent out the release last thursday, right, he would not be able to be on the campaign trail. he would quarantine testing positive three times this morning still has days -- during precious hours of the campaign season for him. i want to ask you about the back and forth with ossoff and perdue. he seems to now be hitting ossoff over his alleged ties to china. here is perdue making that point yesterday. >> this evolving scandal with jon ossoff is becoming more clear that the chinese communist party as you called

out identified young, ambitious young people in america the try to influence. you see the eric swalwell crisis now and the hunter biden scandal. we have see the evolving jon ossoff problem. he has been paid by them for two people. encouraging people to follow the chinese propaganda. >> he seemed to stay away from it about concerns of china's infiltration to america's politics. he seems to be avoiding that. is that going to hurt ossoff, bret? >> not if he is not asked about it. it is only peter doocy asking those questions. so i think listen, he has addressed it a couple of times saying he had a company that was doing a documentary about isis and there was chinese investment. he disclosed it late in july. but there are still questions especially because of the eric swalwell situation and the fact

that intelligence does believe that china is trying to influence democrats in particular, young democrats as they kind of move along the chain into increasing power. that's what you heard about the swalwell concern from officials and i think that david perdue is using this to raise questions about ossoff. he is not asked about it a lot on the trail. obviously ossoff saying it is a distraction. >> sandra: i will leave you with what is at stake continuing to hear from the republicans, last line of defense. you hear that line a lot. we have to protect the trump agenda and accomplishments of his administration and stop socialism. something we continue to hear from them on the campaign trail. final thoughts, bret. >> i do think they've made that pitch really clear in every ad. you cannot watch a television down here sandra without seeing ad after ad after ad.

it's all politics. not any other product. the pitch republicans are making it is it will be chuck schumer and bernie sanders and a control of a legislative agenda that they believe will take the country down a dangerous road. i think it will sell if places like north georgia. the real question is how many of them are really angry about the november 3 election and just are fed up and not going to turn out in this election? that's the question. >> sandra: absolutely. it will be interesting to watch and we'll watch you, bret. thank you. "special report" tonight and you can join bret and martha for complete coverage of the georgia senate runoff races beginning here at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. so we'll be watching. >> trace: president trump flying to georgia today for one last rally ahead of tomorrow's senate runoffs. new reaction to the "washington post" report on a leaked phone call between the president and georgia's secretary of state brad raffensperger. the president lashing out over

the election results. raffensperger responding this morning. >> i did want to make my points. the data that he has is just plain wrong. he had hundreds of people he said that were dead that voted. we found two. that's an example of his bad data. >> trace: john roberts live at the white house. what's the reaction to the leaked audio? >> so far from the white house nothing. but we're likely to hear more from president trump about that call tonight and the results of the presidential election in georgia when he does that campaign appearance in dalton, georgia tonight. the carpet capital of america south of the state of tennessee. an event for senators kelly loeffler and david perdue. if his previous event is any indication he will weigh deeply into the presidential election. the president's critics accusing him of putting pressure on the georgia secretary of state raffensperger to change the

results of the election. the president had an hour-long call with raffensperger on the right-hand side of your screen on saturday which raffensperger recorded. the audio later strategically leaked. here is part of that call. listen here. >> president trump: i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state. tell me, what are we going to do? we won the election and it is not fair to take it away from us like this. >> this morning raffensperger repeating what he has said for weeks, the president's claims of election fraud are not grounded in fact and he also responded to criticism that what the president was asking for may have crossed a legal line. listen here. >> did you consider it a lawful request when the president asked you to find the votes? >> i'm not a lawyer. i know we'll follow the law and

follow the process. we've been fighting these rumors the last two months. >> jon ossoff and warnock yesterday kamala harris slammed president trump. >> a voice of desperation. most certainly that. and it was a bold abuse of power by the president of the united states. >> there are concerns the revelations of that phone call could affect the georgia senate races tomorrow. the incumbent republican senator david perdue playing down that possibility at the same time slamming raffensperger for recording the call. >> i don't think it will affect our election. i'm still shocked that a member of the republican party would tape a sitting president and then leak it. it is disgusting in my view. what the president said is what he has been saying the last few months.

the last two months we've had some irregularities in the election in november and he wants answers. he hasn't gotten them yet from our secretary of state and one reason why i asked for him to resign. >> the president yet to comment on that phone call. the president is tweeting this morning talking about senator tom cotton saying he is not going to oppose certification of the elect tors when it comes up for a vote in congress on wednesday. the president tweeted how can you certify an election when the numbers being certified are verifyably wrong? you'll see the real numbers tonight during my speech but especially january 6. senator tom cotton republicans have pluses and minuses. one thing is sure they never forget. he also referred to those not opposed. the count as the surrender caucus. it is possible we could hear from the president this hour. he is presenting the medal of freedom to congressman devin nunes of california. so far the event is closed. if the president decides to let

in the cameras, we'll let you know. >> trace: you'll want to keep it to catch the president's rally in georgia tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern time and friends our fox bet download the app and play the georgia senate runoff game for a chance to win $10,000. pick six possible outcomes and watch fox news tomorrow to see how it all unfolds. download the fox bet super now to get started. >> sandra: could giving one injection of the coronavirus vaccine get more people -- more senators gear up to contest the election. a handful of house republicans are pushing back against their colleagues. we'll speak to the congressman leading that effort next. >> you know, when there are allegations of fraud and when there is all this conversation

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>> sandra: a surge in violent crime sparks a rise in gun sales and applications. we're on that live from new york for us. why are we seeing such a spike in sales of guns? >> you have this unprecedented convergence of a summer of national unrest, a pandemic, and of course a presidential election. a massive line of people waiting to get in because of covid restrictions. however, some gun shop owners including the owner of this store says the approval process to get a permit in new york city is slow. >> i believe it's because of unprecedented demand, lack of manpower due to the covid restrictions, and new york city has always been on the slow side to issue pistol licenses. >> it could be a year to get a permit? >> that's a good number to think about to get a permit. >> not just about new york city

but gun sales have be soaring across the country. within the first seven months of 2020 we saw americans buy 15.1 million guns. an increase of 91%. with that increase in gun sales there has also been an increase in gun-related deaths in 2020. deaths are up 25%. however, you can see here sales continue to soar. he says he believes sales will continue to be strong as people are concerned about stricter gun controls under the biden administration. back to you. >> sandra: interesting observation. thank you. >> i think everyone needs to calm down. we need to tone down the rhetoric. this is already a volatile situation like a tinderbox and throwing lit matches into it. when i released my statement with 10 other senators i had

multiple democrats urging that i should be arrested and tried for the crimes of sedition and treason. >> trace: he responded to critics as they plan to contest the electoral results wednesday. seven house republicans led by ken buck are opposing that effort saying congress must respect the state's authority. joining us now is the congressman ken buck. thank you so much for coming on, sir. you heard senator ted cruz says people need to calm down. you and your fellow caucus members write the following, the text of the constitution is clear. states select electors, congress does not. accordingly our path forward is also clear, we must respect the states' authority here. what do you say, sir, to those calling you and your caucus members the surrender caucus? >> it's ridiculous. i agree with senator cruz that

people should calm down. we have a disagreement over constitutional interpretation. i respect senator cruz and i respect those that are disagreeing with me on this issue. however, the constitution i believe is clear that 12th amendment says that on the 6th the vice president will open an envelope and congress will count the votes. a body that has created 30 trillion dollars of debt should be able to count a few hundred electors and come up with the right results. i don't think we have the discretion to decide if we believe it was altered or fraudulent in some way in a state. >> trace: you cite is constitution and your opponents cite the constitution in their argument. as a representative sworn to defend the u.s. constitution it is my responsibility to object to the electoral college

results that were recorded. under these circumstances the american people deserve secure and fair elections. the 2020 election was neither of those things. i will be voicing my objection on january 6th and to her you would say, sir. >> i would tell my colleague in colorado that i disagree with her constitutional analysis. the states determine a fair election and they send us an envelope with the electors. our job is not to supersede the judgment of the states. our job is to count votes. and when we decide that we want to supersede the judgment of the states be careful. the next republican president that gets elected with a democrat house and democrat senate will be under the unfortunate precedent of democrats being able to reverse that election. we don't like the folks of kentucky or new mexico, we disagree with the result that they have. that's not our job. our job is to take the ballots

that are given to us and to count them. if the secretary of state certifies, the governor certifies, if the legislature doesn't send us new electors we don't have discretion. we have a ministerial duty. >> trace: curious because a short time ago ron johnson the senator from wisconsin said he is worried that millions of americans are being dismissed who have legitimate concerns here. what would you say to the senator? >> i would say that is not what the courts found in the appeals to the courts. and certainly there are rumors and innuendo and various degrees of hearsay that have suggested we have a fraudulent election in some states. let me tell you this, i think it is essential that we closely examine this election and that we have a commission, congressional commission that looks at how we can do things better and makes recommendations to the states. but the states are responsible for conducting these elections

and i don't like the fact that many of the rules were changed towards the end. i think it's really suspect. but we have to respect the constitution. >> trace: ken buck, gop congressman, thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> sandra: with the senate control up for grabs in tomorrow's big georgia runoff the future of america's small businesses is on the ballot. what else is at stake? president trump returns to the peach state in a final push to get out the vote. will his visit boost turnout? karl rove on those key elections coming up. >> his job tonight is to remind his supporters, which republican party has a huge base, that they need to get out and vote tomorrow. joint pain, swelling, tenderness.

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>> trace: we're hours away from the big finale of the most expensive senate races in u.s. history as president trump and president-elect biden are set to stump tonight in georgia. our top stories at the bottom of the hour. indeed all eyes are georgia ahead of tomorrow's senate elections. if both democrats win the party gets the majority needed to pass a biden agenda in congress. so what would that mean for the economy and for the taxpayers funding it all? fox business network's hillary vaughn has more on that. good morning. >> good morning, trace. president-elect biden has a very expensive agenda but he has always said he will pay for that by repealing president trump's tax cuts. to do that he has to do it through congress. so these two senate seats up for grabs here in georgia give him an opportunity to flip the senate in his favor and clinch control of congress that would

allow him to do that and made it clear that's exactly what he would wants to happen tomorrow. >> i need two senators from this state. i want to get something done. not two senators who are just going to get in the way. >> his agenda could cost $5 trillion in new government spending funded by taxpayers. one estimate says additional taxes for some people could go up in total 3 trillion over the next 10 years. democrats on the ticket in georgia, warnock and ossoff, don't necessarily disagree that taxes need to go up for some but they are pointing off the pay-out is they can deliver on progressive priorities. republicans running here senator david perdue and kelly loeffler are pitching themselves as the ones that are going to stand in the way from passing biden's expensive agenda. >> making georgia the number one producer of clean energy in the american south.

we will raise the minimum wage to $15. expand the pell grant program so that young people in this state don't have to take on debt to get a degree. >> biden would be here campaigning for two of the most radically liberal candidates that have ever run for senate why this country. these candidates would be a rubber stamp for chuck schumer to change america. >> trace, all candidates are making it clear taxes are on the ballot tomorrow. >> trace: hillary, thank you. >> sandra: both parties bringing out the big guns ahead of tomorrow's runoff. trump and biden will campaign in georgia today rallying voters for control of the u.s. senate. for more on what's at stake in georgia let's bring in karl rove. good morning and happy new year to you, by the way. >> same to you. >> sandra: what is at stake with these races as we watch them so closely with hours to go? >> control of the u.s. senate

and the ability of the democrats to run through a -- their agenda. without any guardrails, with no governor, with no checks and balances, with no restraint they can just decide to do it and jam it through. much of what can be done can be done under the budget rules so for example a tax increase doesn't require a change in the filibuster. expanding the number of appellate judgeships could be treated as a budget matter. takeover of the healthcare system could be treated under budget rules doesn't require a change in the rules. if the democrats grab control there will be big changes they can push through and push through the senate and house and send to the president. >> sandra: early voter turnout totals. and what we've seen so far and what it might indicate as far as republicans' chances of victory, karl. >> well look, over 3 million votes have been cast in the

early vote and it has been heavy in particularly the mail-in ballots at the places you would expect. heavily democrat congressional districts. 70% turnout compared to what it was in november for the mail-in ballots. 78% for the early voting which the republicans do better. republicans took the in-person early voting in november. and the question will come down to election day. 977,000 people voted on election day. 4 million had cast votes early by mail or early in-person voting. 977,000 voted on election day. republicans took 62% of the two-party vote that day and they'll have to do the same on tuesday. it will come down to the in-person election day voting and election night will be odd. the first votes to be reported are likely to be the mail-in ballots that the democrats won

overwhelmingly in november and will win in this. the next are in-person early voteings that republicans narrowly won and the last votes to be reported in many instances will be the in-person voting which is where the republicans hope to take the victory. >> sandra: we'll hear from trump and biden later today. i want to ask you about this. pelosi secured her fourth term as house speaker. rodney davis is slamming from illinois is slamming democrats over what he is calling shameful plexiglas structure put in place to protect the pelosi votes that happened in the dark of nights. 100% political. put the structure in the chambers to allow members exposed to covid-19 to vote for the speaker of the house. he said to build a structure like that to only protect the votes that speaker pelosi needs to be elected speaker is shameful calling them out for

doing exactly what she and other democrats said should not happen during the voting process before this happened. >> well, she needed the votes so she had to do everything she could to get them there. she had one member who was still supposedly on quarantine show up to vote. then she had two democrats and one republican who availed themselves of the plexiglas structure because they were all tested positive and it allowed them to come and vote. she only has a 222 to 213 margin. two of the republicans, one of them was sick with covid and one of them her election in new york is still up for question, two months after the election was held, so the republicans had 211 votes. so nancy pelosi had a couple of people vote against her and several others vote present. to get the number of votes --

she didn't get to 18. she got 216 only because a couple of people who opposed her didn't vote for somebody else. they voted present lowering the number of votes she needed in order to win. she needed those two votes. 214 to 211. >> sandra: it made a difference. great to talk with you, thank you. happy new year. >> thank you. >> trace: early voting in georgia providing some clues to the runoff races at karl mentioned more than 3 million people in georgia have cast ballots already. the races are neck-and-neck with the real clear politics average showing ossoff with a slight edge over perdue and warnock with a small advantage over loeffler. joining us now jack kingston former republican congressman in georgia. we appreciate you joining us. real clear politics average very close race. the fact that three million people have cast early ballots. usually democrats in early

voting seem to trend better. are you concerned for republicans at all? >> i am concerned. i was on the campaign trail in sugar hill, georgia yesterday with ted cruz, corey louwerse, kelly conway. we were down there to say you have to make sure that not just you vote but your neighbors vote and friends vote, your family, everybody you know go home, get on your text message and emails and land line and tell people they have got to vote. right now if the election were held today without whatever may happen tomorrow we might not win. and these are two extremely radical candidates. the democrat party probably the most radical candidates that have ever been nominated by the democrat party in the state of georgia. the stakes are way too high for us to stay at home tomorrow. >> trace: we had former white house communications director alyssa farah on a short time

ago and she said this. watch. >> democrats have made a huge effort to try to enlist first-time new voters in this georgia senate runoff. they've been bringing out celebrities. what i can tell our viewers is that the georgia republican party has an extremely strong ground game in the state and very enthusiast particular and feeling good about the support we'll see on election day. >> trace: extremely strong ground game, sir. are you confident in how robust the gop ground game is in georgia? >> i would say we're a lot better off than we used to be. i was with the club for growth effort. we knocked on two million doors. the republican party knocked on four million doors. the democrat party will pick you up and hand deliver your absentee ballot application and pick it up and put it in the drop box for you. they spoon feed their voters.

george soros has been -- they are got to get democrat voters registered and to the polls. we're in a position where we have had a decade or two but now we have to have a new and improved republican party. i'm scared to death. i've been on the ballot in the legislature and congress for 30 years and never seen a democrat party like the one we're facing today. >> trace: former congressman jack kingston good to see you. thanks. >> sandra: iran threatening to retaliate for the killing of its top general one year ago. how the pentagon is now responding. general jack keane on that next. t record lows. which is great news for veterans with va loans. that's me. now's the time to use your va streamline refi benefit you earned with your service one call to newday usa can save you $3,000 a year.

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iran's foreign minister said iran will start 20% uranium enrichment. the pentagon reverses a decision to bring home an aircraft carrier after 10 months in the persian gulf. jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. always good to talk with you, general. how exactly is iran threatening revenge on the united states? >> well first of all they did attack the united states our troops on the base right after we killed soleimani last year. they warned that an attack was imminent and gave us plenty of opportunity to get our troops into bunkers. while some injured none killed. i think what the rhetoric surrounding this issue is largely a quid pro quo. they are seeking an opportunity if it presents itself. hopefully it does not.

for them to kill a u.s. government official similar to what we did in terms of killing soleimani who was a u.s. -- an iranian government official. a lot of this rhetoric is just that. they know there is a transition coming in the united states. a lot of what is happening here is messages to the biden administration, not so much to the trump administration. they want to negotiate with the biden administration and get the sanctions removed that president trump imposed on them because they are back on their heels, sandra, in a way i haven't seen in 41 years. economically and also a huge amount of civil unrest in the country as a result of it. >> sandra: the iranian foreign minister sent this tweet out on january 2. new intelligence from iraq indicate israeli agents are plotting attacks against americans putting an outgoing trump in a bind. be careful of a trap.

warning the president any fireworks will backfire badly. how is the united states responding to this? >> the united states certainly has our forces on alert because of the rhetoric. clearly we were going to bring an aircraft carrier home. we haven't redeployed it for this reason. we brought b-52s into the theater to show the iranians, remind them of the huge capability the united states military has. so the united states military and the national security team isn't ignoring it. we don't take these things lightly. i also don't believe the iranians will do anything. why is that? one, they don't want to deal with president trump over the next couple of weeks in terms of what his response would be if americans are killed. and two, most significantly, they don't want to deal with -- interfere with the potential to have a negotiation with president biden who they are

hoping will remove the sanctions in return for the united states returning to the nuclear deal. that really i think is uppermost on the iranian's mind. not seeking revenge for soleimani. they want removal of those sanctions because it is crippling them. >> sandra: interesting analysis and perspective. always great to talk with you. thank you. >> good talking to you, have a great week. >> sandra: you, too. >> trace: democrats pushing a woke agenda as progressives make new demands putting extra pressure on speaker pelosi. the push for diversity and the battle over gender next. start the year smiling at aspen dental where new starts happen, every day. get exceptional care every step, unparalleled safety at evervisit, and flexible payment options for every budget. now, during the everyday smiles event new patients get a full exam & set of x-rays with no obligation. no insurance? no worries, it's free.

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known by many names by many different faiths. amen and awoman. >> trace: missouri congressman emanuel cleaver raising eyebrows as he delivered a woke sermon as speaker nancy pelosi tries to ban any words referring to gender like man, mother, grandfather. kat timpf is a fox news contributor. we should point out amen has nothing to do with gender at all. it means so be it or so shall it be in latin. maybe a little over the top for the end of the woke sermon. >> right. that's why i wouldn't call it woke so much as nonsense. you are right. it has nothing to do with gender whatsoever and, you know, i am a woman, right? and so i have certainly throughout my life faced sexism, faced things that men don't have to face just because i am a woman. i have to admit the word amen

is not among those things. so i know they're trying to appear tolerant and woke but if anything i feel they're making a mockery of issues that women do face because we are women. none of us are worried about that. >> trace: nancy pelosi very concerned about gender-specific terms. i want to put up her twitter bioto highlight it. mother and grandmother. if you go forward to the house rules to remove gender-specific pronouns, father, mother, parent, daughter, son, child, brother, sister, sibling. aunt, uncle. parent's sibling. >> two offenses in the twitter file. it blows my mind this is what congress is spending time on right now with everything that's going on? but then again i suppose that they do have a lot of time on their hands because apparently you don't have to read the bills before you vote on them. the omnibus bill they voted on

and was passed. they got that bill six hours before they actually voted on it. it was more than 5,500 pages. nobody reads that fast. they didn't read it. they voted and patted themselves on the back. i could think of a million better things they could be spending their time on than this. >> trace: i want to play this mccarthy bite quickly and get your response. >> they can't say amen to a prayer? you cannot say are you a father, a son, a mother or a daughter? they aren't coming closer to what the american people want. they go further away to protect their extreme radical views. >> final thoughts, 10 seconds? >> i agree nothing to do with tolerance. it is trying to appear like you are smarter and more woke. all about self-obsession and it is not altruistic whatsoever. >> trace: great to see you. happy new year. >> sandra: president trump preparing for a big rally in georgia tonight on the eve of

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they have since come off of there. big sell-off for the dow. >> trace: we should note that david pretty was going to be at the rally tonight, but he will be around much. see you again tomorrow. >> sandra: you too. "outnumbered" starts now. >> harris: fox news alert now. vice president mike pence is on the ground in georgia where he has had to rally voters that is our ahead of tomorrow's all-important senate runoff race, as you know. they will determine if republicans can maintain their senate majority and the check on the biden administration or the democrats will have a much easier time passing their most radical policy items. with so much riding on the outcome, the vice president is not the only big name we will see in georgia today. president trump and president-elect joe biden holding dueling rallies tonight in a final push to turn out voters. the candidates he