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arizonans, the majority of registered voters who don't believe any political party fits them. >> john: sounds a lot like the last democratic senator to jump into the independent vote, senator joe lieberman of connecticut. >> sandra: back in 2006, and the long time democratic senator made big headlines and some political enemies for that matter as running as an independent. he joins us at 2:00 to talk about sinema's path ahead and what it tells him about the tight balance of power facing chuck schumer and the president, joe biden. >> john: john roberts in washington. good to be with you. >> sandra: feels like friday, noting monday is a couple days away. thanks for that. i'm sandra smith in new york. chatter already in full gear that joe manchin could be next after his high profile fights with the biden administration. does senator lieberman see any more dominos falling?

a big question at this hour and all new coming up. begin with this fox news alert. >> we were presented with an option as you know, we have laid this out, you've heard from my colleagues as well where it was either brittney or no one. that was the option that we wer moments ago again defending negotiations to free britteny griner in a high level prisoner swap critics are calling not just a bad deal but a dangerous one. >> sandra: the swap could put the merchant of death, vicktor bout, back into putin's hands. >> john: john bolton has said the trump administration turned down a trade of viktor bout for paul whelan because he is such a dangerous threat to world order and human life. in the last hour, we asked mike pence if what bolton said was

true. here is his response. >> we were not in the business of a prisoner swaps, we were not in the business of this kind of an uneven trade, john. so i wouldn't question that at all as having been the case. >> sandra: how concerned should ukrainians be that bout is now in moscow's reach. today our british allies warned putin is seeking weapons from north korea and iran, and now the world's most notorious arms dealer back in play? former u.s. ambassador kurt volker is in deck. >> john: jeff paul on the latest fighting in ukraine, but alexandria on the latest in the griner swap. what chips do we now have to negotiate with if we want to get other americans out of russian jails? >> john, that was asked in the briefing and the white house says we cannot elaborate on tactics they will use moving forward, but this is a big

question, particularly for the family of former u.s. marine paul whelan. he has been held in russia since 2018, and the white house also says today that when they were in discussions with russia on this, whelan's freedom was never on the table. listen. >> they never said to us hey, we want bout back, you get to choose americans, whether it's brittney or paul. they are treating paul differently. paul was never in that mix in their mind with respect to mr. bout. it was just for brittney. so the president had a tough decision to make. >> and the decision was made. griner landed on u.s. soil before 6:00 a.m. today, then taken for medical evaluation. after serving nine months in a russian prison, most recently in a penal colony. griner is in the red jacket and viktor bout holding the folder coming from the other direction. bout, so-called merchant of death was convicted in 2011, on

four charges, including conspiring to kill americans and supplying resources to terrorist organizations. sentenced to 25 years in prison. here is congressman mike gallagher. >> the reality is putin took a hostage and used it to exert power over the united states. >> in terms of griner's return to the u.s., she has been reunited with her wife and officials say she was in good spirits but also that she was going to be given support to deal with her time spent in russia. >> john: alexandria hoff. >> sandra: a blood bath in ukraine, russian forces look to recapture some of the territory where they were recently forced to retreat. this as ukrainian soldiers warn the seemingly endless lines of russian soldiers are starting to overwhelm their defense. jeff paul is live in ukraine,

the capital of kyiv at this hour. are ukrainians growing concerned over the latest developments in the east, jeff? >> yeah, sandra, and hello from a very foggy kyiv as you can probably tell. temperatures for the first time got above freezing, and because of that, more and more people are getting their power restored after this latest massive strike just earlier in the week. so that is sort of giving people a chance to catch their breath, at least here in the kyiv region. but the east, it's a more dangerous and desperate situations. that's where the fighting is taking place. both sides, russian and ukraines digging in, and beyond the fighting among people in uniform, civilians are also still being impacted. homes and businesses are being shelled in donetsk, and reports of a new missile strike in kharkiv, where at least one person was killed. however, as supplies dwindle in ukraine, help is on the way. the biden administration just

announced another $275 million aid package. and things like artillery rounds, and anti-drone defense systems. russian president vladimir putin once again blaming the west for what he calls his escalating the war. >> the potential for conflict in the world is growing and this is a direct consequence of the attempts by western to preserve their political, financial, military and ideological dominance. >> beyond the ongoing conflict, new numbers how dangerous ukraine is becoming, even long after this war. ukraine's president zelenskyy believes up to 65,000 square miles are endangered with mines, and this is something that we witnessed firsthand a few months ago. we were out with technicians as they tried to demine an area here in the kyiv region. not only dangerous work, but going on for a very long time.

sandra, they were still demining eastern parts of ukraine from the 2014 conflict and then this war started, so this is going to be going on for decades. sandra. >> sandra: jeff paul from a very foggy kyiv there. thank you very much. john. >> john: the pentagon is reportedly concerned about the freeing of the arms dealer in exchange for britteny griner, worried that viktor bout's release will allow russia to buy back arms it sold to use against ukraine. let me play if i could, mr. ambassador, the exchange between peter doocy. >> why did russia get such a better deal. >> our choices. choices, brittney or no one at all. one american or no american at all. >> professional athlete, we gave up a prolific arms dealer trying to kill americans.

>> the professional athlete is also an american citizen. let's not forget that. >> john: always good to get american citizens back home. but viktor bout? >> it's a very high price. responsible for the deaths of americans in the past, likely will go back into the business again and gives a boost to vladimir putin at a time when he is struggling to keep up his side of the war in ukraine. this is reinforcing him as a negotiating partner. that's not the image we want to create. so, i wish britteny griner and her family the best, but this is a high price. >> john: you say it gives putin a boost, he was on the ropes but now i'm the guy, i can make a deal like this, and look at the deal i got, too. >> exactly right. exactly right. only a month or six weeks ago when he tried to mobilize 300,000 people and get them to the military, caused a million people to flee the country. people know what the game is in russia, that is not going well in ukraine, and putin is to

blame for it. this gives him another lease on life to say i'm still the leader here, people are still dealing with me, i have more negotiations with me. >> general keith kellogg sat in that seat yesterday and suggested there was more to this bout deal for putin than meets the eye. the reason putin wanted bout out, to go to his sources around the world and re-stock russian forces, a problem with resupplying, even though p utin has mobilized the private sec tory. >> the irony, the sanctions are working and the russians can't get the microchips and they cannot build the munitions at the stock they are burning through, that's why they are going to north korea, going to iran to get what they can. and i think it's true, that viktor bout has -- that was his job, that's what he did was going and trading in arms in all of these murky places.

>> john: we know from previous reports this hour that things are getting pretty stressful for the ukrainians trying to beat back the russians, suffering a lot of fatigue. but take a look at this map of ingals air base, ukrainian managed to attack a couple of times using drones, and made it through russian air defenses. ukraine is able to strike russia where it leasts expects it. >> they are targeting military facilities, unlike the russians who are targeting civilian infrastructure deliberately, and going after where the bombers are coming from launching the missiles that are hitting ukrainian cities. proportional, very justified. they are sending drones in from ukraine but then have spotters on the ground. >> john: how do you think it ends and when does it end? >> ukrainians are never going to give up.

they are going to fight for their country. as long as we keep giving them the arms, they will keep pushing the rushes back. putin will keep fighting as long as the russian elites allow him to, but it's more costly for russia. i think some time next year they will rein him in because it's too costly for russia. >> sandra: one of russia's close friends and another u.s. foe that has the pentagon concerned. china. u.s. intelligence right now keeping a close eye on what that communist country is doing in outer space. analysts say china appears to be hyper focused on building military up for the final frontier and could pose a threat to our nation's assets. greg, what more are officials saying about this? >> basically they are saying the final frontier could be the new front line between the u.s. and china.

china launching rockets, building capabilities that could put much of what the u.s. has in space at risk, so says the head of the space command in comments earlier today, general james dickinson voted they say outer space as a very important piece of its military environment. the u.s. is concerned about is china testing of anti-satellite capabilities, that is their ability to shoot down u.s. spacecraft. not only a strategic danger but a lot of hazardous debris floating above. china is now the only other country to launch its own citizens into space, just this week they established their own manned space station, slated to stay in orbit, keeping an eye on things from above for the next 15 years. president xi's secret space program is run by the military, people's liberation army. that rules out cooperation with nasa and undercores the

offensive threat. one way, sandra, to counter this threat, according to general dickinson, space command partnering with commercial launch operations that demonstrate a fast turn around, even in outer space, the u.s. tried to stay quick on the draw. back to you. >> sandra: greg, thank you. >> john: the border patrol warns about drug cartels stepping things up at our southern border. a vicious drug lord and hit man nicknamed barbie for his appearance just disappeared from the u.s. prisons listings. mexico's president says he wants to know why. fox reporting digging into that. >> sandra: plus the latest twitter dump confirms that conservatives were correct in their suspicions that the social media giant was censoring opinions. miranda devine will join us next. >> elon musk is doing a great

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>> john: shocking revelations uncovered in the second edition of the twitter files, including evidence showing how the social media platform has been censoring conservative accounts for years despite repeatedly claiming otherwise. fox business's kelly o'grady has more from los angeles. idea of shadow bans, many conservatives believe are in full effect at twitter, at least were, but what are twitter executives calling them? >> john, they are calling it visibility filtering, i guess is

their way of getting around saying shadow banning. because you know, from the twitter files last night we learned they used this tool to actively suppress not just accounts but ideas from trending, and you had dan, charlie, the files revealed had been visibly filtered. but directly contradicts how previous management always maintained no shadow banning happened. i want to share a tweet from founder jack dorsey, dug back to 2018 and he said this. we don't shadow ban, and we certainly don't shadow ban based on political viewpoints. what last night's drop reveals, though, twitter was deciding what important discussions were allowed wide reach. these decisions were happening at the highest level. the platform actually having a secret council, including dorsey. one filtered individuals was a

stanford health policy professor who argued that covid lockdowns would harm children, there is evidence it did from mental health and educational perspective. i spoke to him last night. his reaction on learning he was black listed. >> science is actually a process and that process requires open discussion among people. nobody has monopoly of truth. you have this regime which says we have decided what's true and what's false, even before the scientific debate has happened, you'll have terrible results. >> elon musk did share the company is developing a solution tweeting they are working on a software update that will show your true account status so you know if you've been shadow banned. the reason why and how to appeal. but beyond keeping us engaged on twitter, the twitter files are causing people to say what about other social media platforms, have they been engaging in this? i'm sure lawmakers will have a lot to dig into there, john. >> john: facebook has certainly

done its share of censoring information, no question about that. thank you so much, appreciate it. >> sandra: miranda devine, new york post columnnist and fox news contributor, and also author of the book "laptop from hell," and wrote the book about this story. first up, what is your reaction to musk appearing to expose even more censorship that happened at twitter and these black lists? >> well, its certainly illuminating and helpful to see what was going on behind the scenes at twitter, no one took their assurances they were not shadow banning seriously, but shows the extent of the censorship regime and really how concerted it was. what we don't yet know is the involvement of the federal government, particularly the

fbi. i don't know if we'll ever get that from elon musk and i kind of don't blame him. he's, all his businesses, tesla, spacex, twitter, are under threat from the federal government. joe biden himself in his first press conference after the midterms took aim at elon musk. janet yellen also made a threat to elon musk. the e.u. has threatened him and also biden, or democrat donor allies in wall street could also do his businesses a lot of damage. so i would see this as he's showing the people making threats that he has a lot of information, he has the channels through these two independent journalist, bari weiss and matt taibbi to get them out to the public and get publicity for them, so back off or i'll let out the mother of all bombs. so, i'm not sure that he's going

to show us the fbi interventions, but we do know a lot about that from the lawsuit that's being brought by the state attorney generals of louisiana and missouri, and so there will be more information from that. but i think we are seeing the censorship of the new york post over the hunter biden stories back before the election in october of 2020, that is just one part of the censorship regime that was going on. any kind of dissent against the biden administration, whether it was over covid mandate, vaccines, lockdowns, masks, the cdc, and even criticism of the biden administration over their botched withdrawal from afghanistan. all of those dissenting voices were suppressed and silenced. >> sandra: with the time that we have left, i just got reaction from james comer, obviously he is the man in the house who is

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>> removing myself from the partisan structure, not only true to who i am and how i operate, i also think it will provide a place of belonging for many folks across the state and the country who also are tired of the partisanship. >> sandra: senator kyrsten sinema making a big switch, announced she is ditching the democratic party to become an independent. all of this after days that her party secured the senate. and joe lieberman served for 18 years as a democrat before his last term as independent. great to see you and great to have you back on "america reports." >> thanks, sandra, great to be with you. >> sandra: why did you do it then and how does it parallel with what kyrsten sinema is doing today?

>> well, i would say that kyrsten sinema and i are similar in our backgrounds in the sense that we always have been independent-minded, and democrats more than republicans, but really independent-minded, and so just what she just said, she's doing what is right for her, but she's also doing, i think, what will give hope to the largest group of voters and the fastest growing political party in america, which is independents. 42% of the voters in the country said they were independent and 30%, give or take, were republicans or democrats. so, it's also a statement against the lock step that too many members of the senate and house are in with their party and their parties become obstacles to solving problems. my situation was different because though i was an independent-minded democrat, i was challenged by a left wing

democrat in the 2006 primary, all about the iraq war and i lost. but i had the right under connecticut law to run as independent and with a lot of support from republicans, independents and i won. i think kyrsten may be saying here to some of the people on the left, to the democratic party talking about challenging her in a primary next year, hey, come on, i'm ready, and not only that, you want to toss me out of the democratic party, i'll run as an independent which is probably where most people are in arizona today. so i think it's a great move, and good for political system. two major parties have to be shaken up. >> sandra: to your point where arizonans are today, this was the statement from the democratic party in that state after that big announcement, saying sinema may not be registered as independent but has shown she answers to corporations and billionaires, not arizonans.

senator sinema's registration means nothing if she does not listen to constituents. reaction to chuck schumer on the switch, interesting one, he said she asked me to keep her committee assignments and i agreed. kyrsten is independent, how she's always been, similar to what you just said, senator. i believe she's a good and effective senator. i'm looking forward to a productive session in the new democratic majority senate. we will maintain the committees, xer sighs subpoena power and clear nominees. she asked to keep her complete assignments, my next question, what really is going to change in the senate as a result of this, senator? >> it honestly depends on senator sinema, but you are right. here is the dilemma. even though two major political parties are not ordained in the constitution, not required by law, but they have established what one political scientist

calls a duopoly, two-party duopoly as our politics. and as independent as sinema is and i was, if you want to be helpful to your state and be on committees that matter in senior positions, you got to work through one of the parties. so she did what she did, but i think she's even freer to do what she wants to do on given issues since she was before, and i think this is also kind of a message to mitch mcconnell and her republican colleagues. you know, you think i want to -- i might support something you are interested in, talk to me. i'm not -- i'm not a robot democrat, i'm willing to support stuff that i think is right and as she keeps saying, she's right. good for her state. >> sandra: really interesting to get your reaction to that, senator. appreciate you joining us. >> thanks, sandra.

have a good weekend. >> sandra: good to see you, sir. >> john: to a developing story, they call him la barbie, but now a mexican cartel leader is missing. >> the president of mexico asked where is the barbie. got his nickname, notorious mexican-american drug lord from the resemblance to the barbie doll. fair complexion and blue-green eyes. removed from the bureau of prisons website. it does not mean he is out of u.s. custody. he was captured by mexican police in 2010, notorious drug lord who not only tortured his enemies, but decapitated them and filmed it, setting a precedent for other drug lords to follow. there is widespread speculation at this point that the barbie may be preparing to testify,

either against other druglords or perhaps even mexican government officials. >> my informed guess here is that he is prepared to testify against other individuals who are either under indictment or soon will be indicted. he had a lot of connections. he was the guy in the room at a lot of these meetings. from the perspective of the justice department, potentially very useful witness. >> valdez is the highest ranking american ever in mexico's drug cartels. he had a pretty normal childhood from the outside laredo, texas, linebacker on the football time. began dealing drugs, somehow rose up to be a hit man and bringing in two tons of cocaine into the u.s. each month. john, back to you. >> john: all very intriguing. steve, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: score one for the grinch. inflation is hitting christmas

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>> john: time for "america reports" to go off script, a back stage look at life at fox news. this week, off to the d.c. newsroom to discuss one of the hardest reporting jobs in the business, covering congress, we check in with aishah hasnie. >> in the fabulous high-tech newsroom in the washington d.c. bureau, here to catch up with aishah hasnie. >> hi, mentor. >> nice to see you in person. >> john: i don't know if i've been doing too much mentoring lately. >> you were born in pakistan but moved to the u.s. at a young age. midwest gal. >> i'm from indiana, southern indiana, you can get sweet tea and peach cobbler. i feel i'm a midwest gal, i shoot trap, soccer for my high

school team and grew up with southern values i take seriously. >> john: first real job in broadcasting. fort wayne. >> fort wayne, i stayed there seven years and then you scooped me up to new york city. i was terrified as a midwest gal but got into it. >> john: and then you moved down here to washington, d.c., took on one of the hardest jobs in journalism, and that's covering capitol hill. >> you have to have patience. and you have to know everyone. so many topics to cover, like covering the white house but with so many more people, you have to know their aides and their teams, and so it does take a while. i think the best thing that happened for me and honestly, the worst thing for the world was the fall of kabul, that happened the weekend that i moved here, so i thought that i would have to know all this legislative language and processes and things like that, and really honestly threw that

out the window and went into it heart first, it was such a human story and that helped me kind of, you know, squeeze into the capitol hill job. >> john: i know this has led to some lifestyle changes for you. let's go over to your office and see how it has changed. >> amazing. >> i want to show you something, john, this illustrates how much my life has changed. you see all the heels down here, the pumps? they are cute, right? never wear them. so, aring this now -- this is now my shoe closet. >> john: you never wear them? >> no, i'm on the road, in my nikes. i was in studio with "fox & friends," you saw my feet, i had to look cute. so now i'm in what you are wearing, sneakers. >> john: nobody sees me from the waist down, i wear my jeans. one thing people may not know

about you and not too much about itself is the u.n. high commission for refugees and you are on the board. >> i am -- i just started earlier this year. i'm on the board for u.s.a. for unhcr, the non-profit arm of the refugee agency, this i would say is the greatest crisis unour lifetime, about 100 million people around the world displaced. >> and personal connection to this. >> i do. my grandparents left india to what is now pakistan, and they left everything. they were living this aristocrat life, and then overnight had nothing. and my dad is 1 of 11, so instilled that everything can be taken away from you, so all you truly have are your skills, talents, intelligence, the

things that you have in your own self and so value those the most in life. >> john: that's good food for thought. good thing to think about. great spending time with you. >> you too, absolutely. >> john: aishah also, sandra, has a rich family history in journalism. her parents, or mother at least was, a big family, it was into newspapers and television as well and she's brought all of that here to the united states. and she's doing a terrific job covering congress. >> sandra: aishah hasnie is a topnotch journalist and we are lucky to have her here. great off script, john. >> john: how about the pumps. >> sandra: she can wear them around the holiday season. and holiday season is draining our wallets. christmas trees are getting more expensive. jeff flock, i don't think of you as the grinch, but how much are they going to cost? >> no, i'll pay whatever it takes, sandra. you are looking at them just

unloading here in the main line in philadelphia, pulling trees off the truck. they come in from oregon, come in from north carolina, you name it. that's trev right there, by the way, he's on tv, how about that. they cost maybe 5 to 10% more, input cost for the growers, a quick look. walk with me this way, josh this way quick, take them through the forest here. plenty of trees, you have a lot of trees, right? >> good selection of trees right now, still have, you know, a couple hundred more at this location in particular. >> ok, i'm going to get out of your way, i know you have to unload trees. >> yes, sir. >> plenty, you just have to pay a little more for them. >> sandra: in the buffalo plaid, looking good out there, jeff flock. merry christmas. >> appreciate that, i try. >> sandra: ok, so, put some money aside for that, and now this. christmas is just around the corner, and steve and peter doocy have some recipes to put

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♪ ♪ >> john: we are gearing up here for the holidays at the fox news channel that means lots of food. who other than to cook beside the peter doocy family. peter doocy, white house correspondent, you can see tonight 7:00 fox nation cooking up a storm. right now, they will be cooking a special dish for us plt pasta, which is right out of the simply happy cookbook. what is that all about, steve?

>> here is the whole idea and peter is perfect to be here with me to describe it. in our "simply happy" cookbook everything is simple. so we make this dish around christmas time because it takes literally 3 minutes to put together. and this is, sandra, i think you have the cookbook and it is page 249. >> sandra: hold on. >> what you do in a baking dish, two points of tomatoes and you shake this diced bruschetta in it. this is a flavor bomb. it is called boys on cheese, all the flavors and you put it in the middle and you bake that ine oven for 30 minutes and then you drain, smash the tomatoes, stir it up and throw in a half a pound of pasta, blend it, serve it over arugula. it taste like one of the nicest dinners from a fancy restaurant

in new york city and the key is it only takes about 3 minutes to make but then, you have a half an hour. >> sandra: and raising it up, steve, here is the picture. now you are talking. i was showing the picture for you. >> it does taste good but the 3 minutes thing is the selling point. because you know, i can prepare 6:00 and get home at 6:30 and i only have 3 minutes to cook. >> and so come after he prepares it and put it in the oven, he has an half an hour when it bakes an fox nation stream live, by the way a thousand people have stream to be cooking this all across the country. a half an hour to do things. one of the things we do as the doocy family is we decorate gingerbread cookies. >> this is a very good recipe. it is my mom's recipe. there were ten of these a couple

of minutes ago. some got broken. >> john: that was the best indication that it taste good appear to have to ask you this question, peter. your dad says your mom kathy has the best recipes he knows and you been eating 19 years. i think you are in late 20s. >> 35 years. >> john: you are 35 already? what happened? >> i credit my mom's cooking with my enormous height. >> john: we know you are 6'4" but why don't you weigh 300 pounds? >> just a lot of walking. i do know what the white house you have to park a long wait with a lot of steps to come in. after the date it adds up. >> sandra: you blame bret baier for not having enough time to cook, is that it? >> can you believe it? >> don't have me blooming bret baier likely will have some kind of a beef. no, it is just -- everybody has

a really busy schedule. and it's just a real easy thing. we will have fun doing it tonight. >> john: a lot of happiness. >> if i can do it, anybody can do it. >> john: a lot of happiness in the doocy house, happy cookbook, merry christmas to you. >> sandra: congratulation doocy, thank you very much. >> john: happy holidays. >> see at 7:00. >> sandra: thank you for joining us, everybody i'm sandra smith. >> john: have a good weekend. john roberts. "the story." >> martha: be there martha maccallum in new york. so blacklisting and limiting, those are the words that go a long way in the story as twitter treats its users this weight in secret. that is the new claim from the twitter piles part 2 from of the world's richest man in new owner twitter elon musk said these

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