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democrat packing, flipping a house seat red. >> john: why he says both sides need a "come to jesus" moment when it comes to spending but can he and the incoming republican majority deliver. welcome back as "america reports" rolls into our second hour. john roberts in washington, the start of a brand-new week, sandra. >> sandra: and here we go. good to get mike lawler back on and talk about the plans. picture democrats in congress as kids with mom and dad's credit card knowing it's about to be taken away, but in this analogy, it's your tax money and we are all stuck with the bill. begin at the white house with the fox news alert. >> we are expecting white house press secretary karine jean-pierre to face reporters on a number of hot topics, along them elon musk's twitter bombshell, the white house will have the first chance to respond that voices on social media have

been silenced. >> sandra: documents reportedly show how twitter covered up the hunter biden story, relied on hacked information, and other staffers express their own doubts. ultimately the new york post report on hunter biden's laptop was blocked but it's far bigger than any one scandal. >> john: twitter deciding what users were or were not allowed to see. but censorship is not spread evenly, according to a journalist, twitter's overwhelmingly liberal workforce assured conservatives were hit the hardest, many democrats got a pass. >> it's bad enough if there is a back channel between the biden campaign and twitter but the back channels likely continued

when it became the biden administration. and we know twitter did reach out and they were pleased with the action. >> john: we'll see how the white house responds now that it's looking into twitter. byron work with reaction. >> sandra: first, john, to hillary vaughn. musk says more smoking guns are on the way? >> exactly right, sandra. he gave access to these internal documents from twitter to another reporter, we expect more bombshells as soon as today. but the revelations has republicans' heads spinning. new details show to what not only led to the hunter biden laptop story censored, but some others banned in 2020. >> seeing executives not just

twitter but also facebook come forward and admit that they were influenced by people from the democrat national committee, from the fbi, and even people from the biden administration. prior to elon musk, twitter was a wholly owned sun subsidiary of the committee. >> and request twitter take action against certain accounts, saying this by 2020, requests from connected actors to delete tweets were routine. one would write to another, more to review from the biden team. the reply would come back handled. both parties had access to the tools and the trump white house put in requests but the system was not balanced because it was based on contacts and democrats had more ways to get contacts than the gop. elon musk says it's definition

of election interference. >> twitter is doing one team's bidding before election shutting down dissenting voices on a pivotal election, the very definition of election interference. twitter was acting like an arm of the democratic national committee. it was absurd. >> in terms of the hunter biden laptop story, even those people were not sure they were hacked. taibbi tweeting this, they just freelanced it, hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours pretty much everyone realized that was not going to hold, but no one had the guts to reverse it. sandra. >> sandra: hillary vaughn, thank you very much. >> john: byron york, appearance of twitter doing the bidding of one team, suppressing political

information that could be detrimental to a candidate. what do you think? >> absolutely no doubt that what twitter did benefitted one team and hurt the other team. so we just know that for a fact. i think what has been released so far has really just confirmed what we knew before,s which is that twitter suppressed the story, censored the story, and did not have a legitimate reason for doing so. published october 14, 2020, by the new york post, it was a joe biden story, it was not a hunter biden story, it was about a ukrainian business associate of hunter biden and remember, hunter biden had a really shady business deal in ukraine that got him at least $50,000 a month, ukrainian business associate is thanking hunter biden for allowing him to meet the vice president of the united states, being joe biden. so it was always about joe biden. >> john: i remember when that dump came down and then he held

the press conference the evening of the debate in nashville. here is how the wall street journal editorial sees it, the partisan forray should be deeply troubling to americans on the left and right. they have authority by date of access information not confirmable by the press, takes it as gospel. it's a form of the political corruption that needs to be exposed. 51 intelligence officials said we have seen the stuff on twitter and new york post, it wreaks of russian misinformation and it was not. >> almost an fact of disinformation itself, a lot of them saying we don't really know the facts of the story but has all the hallmarks of the russian

disinformation operation. and that gave twitter's action the authority, the veneer of authority of all of these very knowledgeable people supporting what they did. >> john: the other thing that went on, a precursor to twitter blocking the sharing of the new york post story was the fbi was giving twitter regular briefings and what andy mccarthy called a wink and nod strategy, wrote the new york post, the players know exactly what they are doing, they say enough to endorse the lie but leave themselves room to deny they did so. they think we are idiots. >> we really need to know more about what the fbi or other law enforcement or intelligence agencies were doing with the social media companies, were they setting this up and a story comes out and says wow, this must be what the fbi was talking about. let's censor it, how did that all happen. a lot of the defenders of

twitter are saying look, it's a private company, doesn't matter, the first amendment doesn't apply to a private company. >> john: when the fbi and the white house are -- >> look i want emails, you see ro khanna says it kind of goes against the spirit of the first amendment here and if you are dedicated to free speech you done go around doing stuff like this. >> john: so we have seen matt's reporting, barry weiss has what elon musk claims is a treasure trove of documents. >> my sense after reading the tweets was i wish i knew more. you have to think these are very verbal people, they email each other a lot, there should be a lot of records. >> john: certainly don't talk to each other in person. >> who does that anymore. >> john: all done over text message and email. byron, see what the future holds.

>> sandra: democrats making a last ditch effort to ram through billions in more spending before the new republican house majority rolls in. lawmakers have just 11 days to fund the government to keep it open. republicans say congress should pass a short-term bill and let the new congress decide the funding. sorry about that, john. >> john: new york congressman mike lawler capitalized on that duri during the campaign and standing by to weigh in. peter doocy has the latest from the white house behind him, peter. >> if it winds up being a short-term spending bill that could mean that one of the republican congress's first orders of business next month is a spending fight. and so while the republicans talk amongst themselves whether they want to do that, the democrats, still in charge for a couple more weeks, are hoping to back a budget with a bunch of stuff that they can, while they can. >> we need to fund our government operations, which

includes as you mentioned covid relief dollars as well as ukraine aid. that's an important piece and time and time again we have heard where republicans now want to condition ukraine aid, we can't have that. >> roughly 10% increases in defense spending and nondefense spending according to the wall street journal, will set up a separate fight about the debt limit. >> obviously the debt limit is an issue, and times where i hope we don't get in position like we did with the failed experiment in october of 2013, in the words of the great philosopher, lebowski, did not end well. >> a lot of disagreement and the government will shut down if they do not find the way forward

after the friday after next. >> sandra: let's bring in new york republican congressman elect mike lawler. it is good to see you, sir, and you have a big task at hand, but not before democrats attempt to do something here before they leave office or i should say before they lose control in the house. so, what if they go on this spe spending spree? >> they have been on a spending spree the last few years. increased spending over $4 trillion, national debt tops over $30 trillion, and this is unsustainable, and what voters said in november, one party rule does not work, and they want balance and common sense restored to government. and so from my vantage point there should not be a long-term spending bill here, a continuing

resolution should be passed to fund the government into january, so that the new congress, myself included, can get in there and rein in this wreckless out of control spending that has driven up inflation and exploded our national debt. >> sandra: how do you do that? >> you have to prioritize what the role of the federal government is. one of the first things i know we are going to do, eliminate the 87,000 now irs agents the biden administration hired in the inflation expansion app, it should have been called, line by line through every department and that is the role of congress and that has been ceded to the white house over the last two years and we need to regain our authority as a co-equal branch

of government. >> sandra: so you are saying, and i say this as i identify you as somebody who has promised to work across the aisle and work with your democrat colleagues. you have said you believe democrats need a come to jesus moment. what did you mean by that? >> i said both parties have been responsible in recent years for the out of control spending, but democrats obviously controlled everything over the last two years and i think everybody needs to be sober and serious about our national debt. i mean, the reality is we are -- we have over $30 trillion in debt, and we have a record level of inflation, the highest in 41 years. we cannot afford to continue printing new money, and increase spending at the levels that democrats have under the biden administration, and so you know, to me, yes, this requires a bipartisan solution, it requires a willingness to work across the aisle, obviously the democrats will continue to control the

united states senate and the white house, so we need to work together. but there needs to be a serious understanding that this cannot continue down the path that it has and that's why this omnibus package needs to be dead on arrival. >> sandra: democrats who want a lame duck spending blowout, say dems want to stuck all 12 of the overdue spending bills into a giant omnibus to finance government through september 2023, according to their media note takers. failures to pass the omnibus bill will result in 1 of 2 apocalyptic scenarios, government shut down or forced to maintain spending at current levels. your response to that and whether you believe your republican congressmen are on board, congressman elect, many democrats and you hear it often in the briefing room, 15 minutes

from now, they often tell republicans to look back at the last administration that also contributed to the rising level of debt we are seeing in this country. >> i think it's a bunch of hog wash to say government will shut down unless we passed a bloated spending bill through september of next year. obviously, you know, it will be a change come january and democrats won't just be able to get their way by passing anything they want through the house. but that is what the voters demanded. that is what they wanted. they want a balanced approach, and they did not want one party rule to continue and i think it would be irresponsible to pass a bloated spending budget that would run through september of this year. so, my objective is to get to work, january 3rd, and really focus in on what we need to do to rein in spending,

reindigenous inflation and tackle national debt once and for all. >> sandra: i know it is a big job, you are say you are up to the task. thanks for joining us. and he was a big part of the conversation of the midterm elections, republicans went into some very blue territories in this country and able to flip his district blue to red with a prominent democrat who was holding that seat because he said voters were sending a strong message. >> john: take out the chairman of the dccc, you will gain notoriety in your party. and the volcano, if the lava does not change course soon, it could divide the big island in half. >> sandra: unbelievable video there. but the hard fought georgia senate race we have been

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>> governor kemp has gone all out, very impressed, clearly the most popular politician in the state. i think his ground game has been working for herschel and that's part of why i think it's still up in the air, if the governor's people all deliver tomorrow, i suspect herschel will win. >> sandra: former house speaker newt gingrinch talking about the race in georgia, new importance for the entire nation.

dive into some key counties we'll be watching as the results come in, take you back into the midterm election mode as we watch the election results come in. obviously the state we are looking at is georgia. midterm election results, you'll see some of the key counties for candidates, warnock, when you set this up obviously as an urban versus rural picture, warnock focusing in the urban areas, fulton county, atlanta georgia, 10% of the state's vote will be coming from. atlanta, georgia, fulton county. go back to the midterm elections, 48.9% was the margin of victory for warnock then. that was end greater than back in 2021 for the run-off election, he won 45.1% of the margin, it was 45.1%. so, any turnout as far as vote for warnock in some of these urban areas in the high 40s, he starts to look pretty good, and pretty good shape.

dekalb county a big focus, gwinnett county, key to bring home victory. herschel walker, he's going to want to remain competitive in some areas, like cobb county, show he is at least competitive there. and chatham county in the eastern part of the state. go to some of the deep red areas in the state, that's where herschel walker will have to really bring home some big margins of victory to show he's starting to look good in this state. so, john, a snapshot of the concentration of the blue areas around atlanta, where warnock early on if he's having a good turnout and starts to pull off high 40s, margin of victory over herschel walker, looking good for him and walker comes down to the rural areas, the deep red

areas in that state. >> john: in so many of the swing states we see similar maps, little islands of blue and then a big sea of red. the problem is in the sea of red there are not a lot of people who live there. >> sandra: to point out one of those many deep red county, white county, you look tamar gin of victory for him in the midterm elections, 81% of the vote, a lot of those out there, but again, 10% of the population coming from fulton county, atlanta, georgia. so, this what this race is all about, john. >> john: the big urban areas, that's always been the way. let's go to charles watson, he's live on the campaign trail. fulton county, in atlanta for us with the latest. charles. >> good afternoon, john and sandra. rafael warnock and herschel walker are wrapping up the campaigns on the trail with the

supporters. warnock just finished a rally a few minutes ago with the students on the campus of georgia tech where he was joined by fellow georgia senator john ossoff as well as maxwell frost, the first gen-zer elected to congress. he focused on his accomplishments in the senate, he helped expand the child tax credit, that he helped cap insulin costs and decreased the costs of prescription drugs. he told students if they are impatient about change, and tomorrow is their opportunity to make it happen. >> i want you to vote like it's an emergency. i want you to vote like democracy depends on it. vote like healthcare depends on it. vote like a woman's right to choose depends on it because it

does. >> meantime walker has been busy himself today, he's got five stops scheduled on the evict warnock bus tour he's hitting more rural areas across the state where his campaign is hoping to energize reliable republicans and get them out to the polls on tuesday. he'll have the help of former ambassador nikki haley will join walker at an event in kenesaw, georgia, and president trump will hold a rally for walker as well. and he is focusing on meet and greets, but kept his message to the folks out there simple, that is to go vote. >> so get people out to vote, tomorrow, tell them to get out and vote, vote, vote, if you have not voted, tell them to get out and vote. the -- >> you can see both candidates are focussed on getting out the votes, certainly in areas they

believe there is vote left for them to get out as polls open tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. here in georgia, it's expected to be a dog fight, a close one, we'll keep an eye on it, guys. >> it's a test to see how big the coat tails are that brian kemp has got, a lot of ticket splitters in the general election. keep a close eye on it. charles watson, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: russia unleashing a massive missile strike in ukraine, the worst in weeks, and brutal reality before winter has begun. >> john: police in idaho not saying a whole lot about the mysterious murders of four college roommates. the parents are wanting to be heard, including a father who has a whole lot to say. phil holloway is standing by. what he makes of the latest that

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forces. after a 12-day period of relative couple, that has changed. and as you mentioned, this was common site throughout the country. people hunkered down wherever they could to find shelter, they were warned of a massive missile attack, and that's what happened. in all, ukrainian authorities believe as many as 70 miss else were fired. ukraine claims to have shot down roughly 60 of them. most coming from ships in the caspian sea, but others fired from russia's black sea fleet. officials report, civilians were killed, homes destroyed and many without power. >> attempts to explain any logic when they do it or what time gap irritate me. the psychopath, they are psychopaths, that's it. >> just prior to the latest

attack, reports started surfacing of two different explosions at air bases deep in russia. three russian service members were reportedly killed and several others injured. russia claims it was all caused by debris from russia shooting down ukrainian drones attacking. ukraine has yet to comment. we'll likely learn more about the exact damage from the latest attack by russian forces throughout the country once the sun comes up. with 40% of the population here in the kyiv region without power right now because of this attack, it's going to be a long and very cold night for many people here in ukraine. sandra. >> sandra: a tough reality for so many and for so long. jeff paul, thank you, john. >> john: it's going to get harder and harder. more than three weeks after his daughter and three roommates were murdered in idaho, father steven goncalves is making some potentially bombshell revelations. tells fox although the coroner says all four victims were

stabbed, he does not think his daughter kaylee and best friend died in the same way. he believes both of them were targeted. police have not named a suspect or announced a motive or a murder weapon. phil holloway, criminal defense attorney and former district attorney, and former police officer. clearly he knows a lot about this and well qualified to speak to all of this. phil, steve goncalves, he thinks kaylee and madison were targeted because the killer entered the home through a second floor sliding glass door and went upstairs. >> this is heartbreaking. and no grief like the grief of a parent who has lost a child, certainly lost a child in this horrible passion, and it's natural for victims' families to get very frustrated, those of us in the media, we are all frustrated because the police are not releasing a lot, but we

have to consider that this young woman's father doesn't have really the picture of everything that the police have. they have to keep a lot of their information close to the vest. they have to protect the integrity of the investigation and that means they cannot release information like what somebody's alibi might have been or what exactly they might have found inside the house. if you fast forward to next week or next month or next year when they have a suspect and you are interrogating that suspect and the person divulges information that has not been discussed here on television or out in the media, then they know that they are on the right track, and they have the right person potentially in custody. so they have to play this close to the vest. >> john: steve goncalves acknowledged the police were not telling him a whole lot but a combination of what he knew and gut feeling as well, he said the deaths of his daughter and madison mogen did not match.

>> points of damage don't match, i'm going to say, it was not leaked to me, i earned that, i paid for that funeral. sent my daughter to get an education, came back in a box, i can speak on that. >> john: sent my daughter to get education and came back in a box. and the families of the other three victims are hurting as well. but what he said there, points of damage don't match. sounds like he may have some information about the nature of the wounds. >> he might. he might have knowledge from a mortician or even showed him, but you have to consider when you have four people that were involved in a vicious knife attack like this, and that died, we wouldn't expect all of their injuries to be the same. so, what he said while it's very interesting, we have to know the

rest of the context to figure out what exactly it might mean. when you have four people that receive stab wounds they will have different injuries. if a killer comes in that side door and starts attacking one person and maybe that first person doesn't fight back, but it awakens the second person and the second person does fight back, you will have very different injuries. so the fact the points of damage, to use his words don't match up, it's interesting and heartbreaking how he must come across that information but i don't think it tells us much about what the police might know here, john. >> john: i can't wrap my head around the idea you can fill four people with a knife in a house in such a brutal fashion and two other people in the house at the time don't somehow get alerted to it. as an investigator, as a former prosecutor, are you surprised that the police have not identified a suspect yet? >> well, i don't know that they

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done. >> john: early christmas greeting from wall street. our money panel, steve moore and robert wolf will explain where all of this is headed coming up next.

>> sandra: fox news alert, a live look at the dow this hour, slipping further into negative

territory. down 570 points to start a brand-new week. ba hum bug. robert wolf is here, and steve moore, former trump adviser and freedom works economyist, and both highly qualified to weigh in on why this market is going down to begin a brand-new week, robert. >> this down market does not surprise me, although inflation peaked, the last week we have seen very strong economic markets, tight labor market, wages going up. this is a risk-off trade. we are going to see fed funds closer to 5% if they still want inflation around 2.5%. so, this is not about the recession, this is about a tight labor market with wage inflation. and so i'm not surprised and i think we are going to go into some real volatile times, sell equities. >> robert saying. >> sell equities. >> sandra: in your own words.

>> sell equities, buy treasuries. >> sandra: robert is saying it's an inflation play, he previous because we have the tight labor markets that inflation is not going away any time soon, there are others, a lot of the headlines are suggesting this is fear that the fed who is trying to tackle inflation is going to drive us into a recession or for those who believe we are in one, a deeper recession. >> yeah, so sandra, this is the rock and this is the hard place. and that's where we are between those two right now, and the question is which direction do we go. so, on the one hand, this is a result of the build-up almost 9% a few months ago. trying to drain that inflation out of the system, what the fed is trying to do. what robert is saying, if he's right the rate goes up to 5%, it's going to take a lot of the wind out of the sails of the

economy. are we headed towards, you know, continued 5, 6, 7, 8% inflation or headed to a crash landing with the economy in 2023. i don't think we have any really good choices, and i would simply say this is the hangover effect of all that spending, the $4 trillion we could not afford under biden. >> sandra: i was going to ask robert, he's saying no, no's not inflationary fears, but which is worse. axios is running this headline, a ceo survey done because ceos are growing more pessimistic about what is happening with the economy. in fact, the headline says ceo optimism is fading as the economy teeters and in there is mary barra, general motors ceo, with continued supply chain

challenges and uncertainty, many are cautious about domestic plans and expectations the next six months. we listen to the ceos, they have access to a lot of information and saying things don't look great, robert. >> yeah, i mean, i think she's accurate. remember, we had a huge shift from durable inflation during covid, people buying furniture, gym equipment, buying computers. now shifting to wage inflation, and the service sector is much bigger than the durable sector. so, yeah, i think there is a reason to be concerned and i still think it's because of the tail of inflation, you know, steve and i both thought this was never transitory, and it's just a question whether the fed can get it, you know, under their control. i think this is going to be a long tail and i think it's going to be a long time before we go to 2, 2.5%, their benchmark. >> sandra, the fed does have to rate some interest rates to pull some of the money out. but you know, i think job number

one is for congress to start pulling back on these trillions and trillions of dollars we have been borrowing. it started under covid, a trillion dollars of excess spending, then 4 trillion on top of that. recession next year, what do we do, borrow another trillion? and debtnation, too much debt in the country and we have to start living not beyond our means. >> sandra: republicans who flipped seats said they are going to get it as well. appreciate the debate and the discussion, gentlemen. thank you. john. >> john: sandra, the world's largest active volcano erupting, so far no real damage to infrastructure but that could change and could cause some headaches on the big island. the brand-new threat coming up next.

>> john: lava still flowing from the world's largest active volcano and sparking serious concerns that it could cut off a major highway. max gordon has more. looks spectacular but it's dangerous. >> yeah, the lava is showing down and spreading out as it hits flatter terrain. it's inching its way closer to the east west highway. officials say it's more than two miles away and moving at a rate of 25 feet per hour. officials don't know when or if it will hit the highway at this point. right now the highway still remains open. no evacuation orders have been issued. no homes or communities are threatened. the volcano is spewing potentially hazardous gasses that has created vog, volcanic smog. there's lava tubes that are open

and the molten lava itself. we're close to a military training air and there's unexpected ordinances that could be dangerous to the public. john? >> john: a great front row seat. thanks, max. for continuing coverage, download the fox weather app. it's pretty spectacular, sandra. >> sandra: i love it. i use it. great to start the week with you. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i was talking about the volcano, not just the app. i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha starts right now. >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. a exclusive story with the woman at the case before the high court right now that involves gay rights versus free speech. first, we are waiting to see what they'll say at the white house after a very eventful weekend after elon musk's document dump that has folks that worked at twitter and in the fbi in the spotlight right now. it has been a tense couple o