gifts,y which is the gift of life. thank you for spending part of your sunday with us, have a great start to the new year, you can find us on-line. or on the trey gowdy podcast, happy new year. ed if night from south carolina i am congress. any crucial decision point will he run for reelection? president biden will return this week from an island paradise to a bitterly divided capitol city. the white house already pushing back on threats of a blistering oversight hearings as republicans gear up to take the gavel in the house. >> it is time congress conducts real oversight because the supreme court says it will hear arguments on title 42, keeping the trumpet era policy in place for now amid a surge at the

border. the administration on taking heat from both sides of the crisis. >> 2023 could be her worst year yet. >> the biden administration realizes this has to come up with a real plan for the border brick works we have an exclusive exit into the texas republican we will ask about the border in donald trump's tax returns parts and ask his advice for his own party as he says goodbye. kevin brady only on "fox news sunday". then. >> and put it, and the ethics committee will launch an investigation into santos requests a controversy congressman elect george santos spiraled into a headache and a new chest helping to elect kevin mccarthy house bigger. that boat just days away. >> i think he knows he does not have 218 votes progress right now nobody a student 18 votes. >> and follow the southwest airlines debacle that turned home for the holidays into a distant dream for tens of thousands of stranded americans. >> received one bags with the

flights. but for the bags were missing records brooklyn's lesser sunday panel about mccarthy, about southwest the other battles had in 2023 all right now on "fox news sunday". ♪ held out from fox news in washington happy new year to everybody at home. president biden returned to d.c. this week there will be a new sheriff over on capitol hill. house republicans now have the majority setting them up to be a forceful check on the white house. the upbeat leader kevin mccarthy faces an uphill battle in his push to become house speaker. president biden himself a kick off the second half of his term under intense pressure to announce a run for a second term. right now the only player on the 2024 field officially his former president trump and he is blessing democrats decision this week to release his tax returns. in a moment will conduct republican congressman kevin brady's exit into the personal part washington he's been an

outspoken critic of the democrats decision to release those tax returns. we began first this morning with news from rome for the vatican says pope emeritus benedict xvi passed away saturday morning 95. catholic leaders and congregations around the world are honoring his passing today. he is most are members outside the church for his surprise resignation. we've got fox team coverage this morning for is traveling with president biden's we began first with laurent greene she is live outside of vatican city looking at the basilica. >> hey jillian pray today there are preparations in st. peter's basilica for the viewing and funeral of pope benedict the 16th. there's never been a former pope they're asking where is there a guest list of people who might be attending? we are also learning about the last moments of benedict's life the emeritus pope died yesterday as you said yesterday his first

floor apartments at the vatican gardens a source close to the vatican said the benedict's last words were said in german, his native tongue, jesus i love you. pope francis silber the new year's day mass today only mentioning a benedict in the prayers for the faithful. tributes from all over the world president biden tweeted benedict will be remembered as a renowned theologian with a lifetime of devotion to church guided by his principles of faith. may he continue to be an inspiration to all periods also be remembered as a first pope in six centuries resigned paving the way and about an hour francis is scheduled to go visit the casket and body of pope benedict for the body will be moved tomorrow morning to st. peter's basilica for the faithful to come and pay their last respects. gillian: the world may watch not lauren green reported from rome today for thank you fred let's

turn now join the u.s. virgin islands. >> good morning julian. president biden writes he and the first lady what catholics around the world. he also released a commemorative death of barbara walters. we've seen very little of president biden on his vacation before the new republican report congress agree to him in 2023. president biden keeping a light agenda on the holiday insane court where he previously said them up as reelection plans. to be talked about running for reelection sir? works or said election coming up? i didn't know that. >> no clues about his decision expected early this year for the white house is already gearing up for a fight with republicans and a second half of this term. >> the biden administration sent a signal loud and clear we are going to do everything in our ability to prevent and block your oversight. parts of the white house counsel's office rejecting oversight dimension house

republicans made over the past two years claiming they carried no weight coming from the minority will have to be resubmitted. >> were simply going to copy and paste and only change the dates for quirks of incoming oversight committee chairs at the white house installing investigations to the southern border, fenced on the energy crisis the afghanistan withdrawal, covid origins and more. while the white house claims they intend to work in good faith with the gop, an official statement also took a dig likening subpoena threats to political stunts that quote suggest house republicans might be spending more time thinking about how to get booked on hannity than preparing to work together for to help the american people. this public is also blasting in the southwest airlines meltdown stranding thousands will president biden vacations in the caribbean. >> pete moody judge does not have any idea what he is doing. he supposedly met with them already and honestly did nothing for. >> transportation secretaries vowing accountability. >> are also in a position to use

enforcement powers and vines to hold airlines to the things i have now committed to us, pledged to us in writing. ask the white house has kept quiet for me house speaker race. leader kevin mccarthy still short of the votes he would need to leave the chamber. mccarthy previously met with biden congressional leaders to discuss the lame-duck session. but if this point it is unclear who biden will have to work with in the new congress, gillian. gillian: jacqui heinrich reporting from st. croix for us this morning. how should republicans appear to have leadership and swear new members there also saying goodbye to some longtime colleagues. this endless texas republican kevin brady. he is stepping down after 26 years in office. he has a long time leading member of the house ways and means committee. he is also a major force in past the 2017 trump tax cuts. he is known inside washington for working across the aisle democrats. here's how ways and means chairman richard neal puts it quote kevin brady during the

trump years was kevin brady during the biden years. i trusted him. congressman brady joins me now for a bit of an exit interview. sir, welcome back to "fox news sunday" and happy new year to you. it's. >> new year to you gillian. gillian: let's kick off at the house leadership struggle. a handful of republicans have already committed to not backing mccarthy. others say it is mccarthy or bust. take a look at what rep david says. there is no plan b of the plans to get them elected as speaker but at the end of the day we could be the two or three days, doesn't really matter. politicos are important group of house republicans have approached steve scalise quietly and told him you've got to be ready to take up the gavel, is that true, should he be ready? >> so look at my hope is kevin mccarthy's elected speaker. he has led us into the majority but he has united us behind an agenda of the commitment to america. frankly he has worked so hard to get us in this place and he is ready to lead. i'm hopeful we can unite as a

conference. we have a big battle ahead to try to get the country back on the right track. she was in the relative the mouse as you well know he can only afford to lose four votes five republicans at least five have vowed not to vote for him. what would you advise in terms of concessions to make happen what you just laid out? folks will look, i think kevin mccarthy understands the conference and a way. he has worked with these with folks across the whole spectrum. he had ended frankly many of these races to make sure they are back to represent their district and we are back to stop this radical agenda. i am confident he can pull his finalist together it's not an easy job speaker pelosi if you may recall two years ago had to bring in sort of sneak in several covid appositive quarantine that members of her conference to try to cobble the boats together. it is not easy being speakers these days. but kevin currently i believe

can unite us. gillian: is not easy; an enviable test racer, sequential order sanchez the congress collective spacing a slew of investigations, multiple accusations. he lied about everything from where he wants her graceful to where he went to college. his religion, his employment history, so far republican leadership though no condemnation. largely silent altogether on the issue. you think kevin mccarthy should condemn him? >> so look, this is troubling in so many ways. certainly he has lied repeatedly. at the end of the day that this is a decision whether he resigns or stays that needs to be made between he and the voters who elected him. he certainly going to have to consider resigning. he's got two choices i don't know the show and he doesn't need my advice surely. one he can try to politically ride it out. we've seen that happen in washington d.c. or he can take the tougher choice which is i think almost

every lie he has made. apologize to everyone and anyone for as long as it takes. secondly you've got to change your life here. there is a real problem here. we are country of second chances. when people are willing to turn her life around can own up to this, then do it takes to earn trust and respect again. we are willing to do that. i am hopeful he chooses the right path here pretty quick. gillian: with reaction of ants on this are pretty chaired committees in the past of your insurance committee he was slated to serve and would you feel comfortable having him as a member? >> well, right now he would not be on a committee that i lead. and frankly he's got to take some huge if he wants to regain trust and respect in his district. at the end of the day he has got to make that decision. gillian: talk but the former president's tax returns now, you railed against the democrats decision is made to release those let's play a quick look

back. parks over our objections and opposition democrats on the ways and means committee unleashed a dangerous and political weapon that overturns decades of privacy protections for average taxpayers. the air of political targeting of congresses enemies list is back. as you well know servicemen tradition in american politics dating back to the late 60s the presence of voluntary or candidates release her tax returns. why is it that president trump in your estimation should be an exception history? >> this is not whether about president trump should have release if that's not the law it's a tradition. it's not what is in the tax returns frankly that's between the taxpayer and the irs. this is a dangerous new precedent. overturns 50 years of protections for american taxpayers that began in the watergate era. now that is all change.

simply the ways and means chairman senate finance chairman of either party has nearly unlimited power to target private citizens were not just public officials, not just political enemies not just supreme court justices were private americans to seize their tax returns and make them publ public. usually in an effort to embarrass or destroy them politically. so every american ought to be frightened by this precedent. as he said the enemies list is back. you may will find yourself on it. gillian: take a listen to the former president and his own words and look at your reaction. >> but one under order i won't do it if i wasn't under him i wouldn't do it for them that one under audit i would not give my taxes i would love to give them but i am not going to do it while it's very simple. >> in the release, there is no evidence that the president was under audit during the years he told the american people multiple times that he was in

use that as a justification to not release his returns voluntarily. >> in the returns we saw he is under audit for all six of those tax return years plus a number eight of his business ventures that are affiliated as well for those audits are not yet complete. but that's not the point here gillian. to enter onto the second thousand 13 he told the american people for office. so coming to my point all of the six years that have been released are still under audit. the truth and the matter is that it isn't about whether he should release it or not. but it is whether americans should be targeted by members of congress for political purposes and having a plain text released and made public. this is a reality. this is a dangerous new precedent and every american

ought to be frightened. as an answer i do not want to belabor the point of clarification use any of seen evidence the president was in fact under audit between 2015 and 2020 is that right? >> in the six years every transit have been released he is undergone by the irs and all six years. i want to transcend this now. but give you an opportunity to show reflecting time in washington. when you look back, what do you think americans will remember most about them from peers? >> well, i think you sound very pro- growth agenda. i'm very proud of the work i did with the president and reforming the tax code. we saw 6 million americans out of poverty. we sat household income more in one year end 2019 and in all eight years under president obama and vice president biden prince resolve income equality shrink in the first time in half a second century.

it was hot manufacturing jobs come back from overseas. american leapfrog economy and the one with the people of color, blue-collar workers people who had been old tax co code. listen up. check their were growing twice as fast as inflation. so different than santa president biden. the progrowth pro security agenda pro- military agenda think is a very strong one. i think that is what he will be remembered for preterm on the policy side of it. gillian: you say are optimistic as she looked forward to the countries of the houston chronicle ellison and wish i could introduce americans in the middle class in congress. i think they would have more confidence in the institution. right now sorry as you democrats are problems on plaintiff and the new congress and a slew of investigations biden and his family. do you worry looking backwards will take time and attention and energy away from solving for problems like inflation?

>> guess that is only one element of the very strong agenda. house republicans made it clear in the commitment to america that we want a nation that is safe. an economy that is strong. we want a washington that is accountable. what a future built on freedom. america has been in the dark the last two years about what their government is doing. there was one of waste, fraud and abuse in east vandross forgiveness economy no contract is job number one for republicans, creating a nation that is safe in our communities along the border. basically a priority for us. i would not be misled by one element holds washington accountable. this is an agenda that is sourced sorely lacking in america today. i am excited about republicans in the majority. and as i said i'm optimistic about the future. i know who i work with in congress for there is a middle class. you do not see them or hear them

much. like that middle class they are serious about their jobs, gillian, they work very hard and i'm trying to the right thing. i think people can see more about working-class i think he would have more confidence as i do. >> we can only hope will hear from them more. congressman brady, thank you so much for taking time for us today. thank you for your service and best of luck. folks thank you ma'am, take ca care. gillian: you better at coming up next americans can since administration officials grilled on capitol hill program ascending up to debate what 2020 they will bring some back half of his term.

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>> pope benedict serve jesus and his church very, very well. as a principal would have been to get a very radiant example of the beautiful alliance and reason. >> cardinal timothy dolan on the contributions of pope a merit while pope emeritus benedict xvi. pass with the vatican yesterday morning but let's bring our sunday panel, opinion editor for the washington times and fox news contributor charlie hurt. white house report for the wall street journal catherine and forbes contribute writer and fox news contributor richard fowler. happy new year to all of you. thank you for getting up early to be with me this morning. >> good morning. >> richard and going to come to you first. the pope leaves in a lustrous legacy behind as leader of the catholic church. outside the church he also let his life by example.

for humans for all walks of life to learn. >> i think that's absolutely right, gillian. i think we think about pope benedict you think about what he's best known for is he resigned present first pope to do so since the 15th century which we heard lauren green talk about at the top of the show here. that will be his legacy. he resigned understand that this point in time he was not the right person to lead the church into this new era and gave it over too pope francis. and at the same time while he resigned he remained quiet for the rest of his time on this earth but he will be remembered for that. the leadership of staying quiet and resigning and knowing i am not the strongest person to lead to something that's very powerful. >> certainly a complex legacy. let's turn now to politics. catherine, we talked about incoming representative elect george santos a moment ago with kevin brady. how does this type of thing make it pass all of the political

operatives whose job it is to vet candidates. and specifically how did democrats dropped the ball twi twice? >> it is pretty stunning. the scale of the falsehoods and the deceptions and the statements and i think we are still unpacking all of it, correct? i think there's a lot more we need to know about what happened in terms of the candidate of vetting and review from democrats. there was some reporting from a local newspaper raising some questions before the election but that did not really get picked up for whatever reason. and now you are in this situation for all of this has been revealed after he has been elected. which creates problems for your hearing calls from both sides for investigations for questions about what to do, questions parts of his bio we're still trying to figure out where his finances are coming on for example. and it really puts kevin mccarthy in a difficult position as he heads into this vote on

tuesday over the speakership. he has been very careful so far not to say anything critical about santos because this is a vote he might need. gillian: charlie, house republicans handling this? not only is santos is taking a seat as he is insisting he will do but they as a welcome into committee assignments? >> well, it truly is a remarkable example of a failure on the part of the media i thi think. to have not smoked more of this out before now. but, i think it is also important to remember the guy does represent seven or 50000 new yorkers. but he did not just when he won by six points which is pretty extraordinary considering all we are learning now. he sounds like a real nut job. but it is not the first example of where that media has dropped the ball on these things. when you look around at other members of congress, other politicians who have done very well for themselves not the

least of which is joe biden himself, who has spent his entire career at lying about his biography. lying about his accomplishments. lying about where he went to school. and so it's kind of interesting how much attention is suddenly being given to this guy while he does represent seven and 50000 new yorkers and that is a very important position, it is not like he is the leader of the party or anything like that. but i think it's probably good we are digging into all of it. i wish we would've done it before the election that might've been a little more helpful. >> certainly for voters. richard comment democrats of slammed house republicans plans for oversight and the new congress specifically they laser in on the investigation surrounding hunter bidens born in business dealings but they say straight up the american people do not care. >> listen, this is going to be the question we're going to have to ask ourselves the next couple of days.

what did the american people actually care about? do they want to see more blockbuster investigations in front of all the cameras are to the action want to see a congress that gets things done for the working people? sitting in the middle of all is is a fact right now as we speak kevin mccarthy does not have enough votes to be the speaker of the house. so as he makes it more concessions to the far right to members of the freedom carcass of his party and give them things like select committees that are catchall to investigate everything from anthony fauci to the fbi to how generate six rioters were treated and they were incarcerated. this will be the question the american people ask themselves, as this congress serving us as well as they thought they were when we decide to elect them? and on top of all that they too have to do with representative elect george santos and his resume. and the lie after lie after lie that comes out. while we have seen some tried to make comparisons between him and other elected officials the difference is we know where those officials went to college

should we note that in the previous career. with george santos will even affect his real name. >> interesting points. questions to to be clear though joe biden got hounded out of one of his presidential campaigns for lying, for making up stuff about his biography. >> is a big difference in saying you worked at goldman sach's and you didn't. >> i don't know how those lies are somehow worse than the lies joe biden continues to tell today or. >> or your mother was a survivor of 9/11 or that you have employees that work at the pulse nightclub, that is not true. the lies just to keep coming. >> have even heard of george santos over this came up question cuts even lied about his own religion and its religious heritage. with natalie that there for a second break catherine what's going to be like in the new congress to watch nancy pelosi kind of relegated to the sidelines? >> it is a new congress, right gillian? will seat new leadership however

it unfolds on the republican side. and see some new leaders rise in the democratic side. the big think we need to be watching us we have been talking about his how they're going to work together or not work together across the aisle. the white house obviously we are not expecting to see the legislative collaboration was seen in the last two years and have been sitting significant bipartisan legislation but on things like infrastructure, on guns over the summer. there are some things are going to have to work on like the debt ceiling for example. we are going to have to see how they will work together while house republicans have been very clear about a series of investigations and oversight that they want to do and how that will define the next two years. gillian: panel we've got to take a break right here. we come back the supreme court case that is putting a pragmatist justice against a purist and tearing up washington and the progress. we will be right

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southwest is not going to only have to make them financially whole but find a way to really rebuild trust and confidence. again they pledged to me they're going to do that pretty want to see exactly what that means. click southwest airlines received $7 billion from taxpayers during covid and the need to be an accounting of it. i want to hear people to judge that he is going to audit that $7 billion. twenty-seven transportation secretary pete buddha just till pressure southwest airlines to make amends with tens of thousands of customers who are left stranded over christmas. publican nancy met mesa said the secretary is going to need to do a hot hole up more than that to keep airlines accountable. we are back in with panel. catherine, buttigieg insists the airlines make amends here. they both pointed out this week he tried to pressure the airlines already earlier this year end some pretty important issues and walked away

empty-handed. >> certainly the secretary is saying he is going to push to make sure people are made whole it was a disastrous holiday weekend, holiday travel season for so many people stranded across the country people who miss celebrations of the family paid people who lost baggage et cetera. he is saying he will address this. he is facing pressure from both the left and the right on how this is going to unfold. what kind of measures need to be put in place. what kind of checks to bug you on airlines going forward. and how will people be made whole? there's a lot more to this we will have to see how it will unfold and how it will be resolved. she said let's talk title 42 now. richard, neil garces blessed they held the white house this week in his dissent over the ruling. he writes quote should not be perpetuating administrative edicts designed for one emergency only because elected officials failed to address a

different emergency. we are a court of law not policymakers of last resort. each of the white house to more? i have to agree with the justice parties actually write herself a job the night state supreme court such a responsibility that falls united states congress the spent 535 people to congress to do this work. to regulate what happens at the border to update the immigration laws which originate in the early 80s. and here's the thing is a lot of blame put the foot of the by the administration for what's happening on the southern border there is a crisis there. do the question we should be asking yourself what is congress going to do about it? we cannot have old public health order as a remedy to the problem. what we see the white house currently doing in this moment as we are going to try to work with these countries weatherby venezuela, weatherby cuba, weatherby haiti to try to allow

folks to apply for asylum in their home countries. especially pre-existing relationships are in the united states. a decrease event is wednesday border crossing by 70% into the united states but that's not enough. what needs to happen is a new congress to pass legislation into, create a legal pathway for those folks living in this country in the shadows to come out of the shadows i'm a part of our society. so far look ahead at 2023 this a lot of hope but no chance congress will do anything about immigration. charlie, what responsibilities do elected republican officials in the border states have here? >> i think unfortunately because obviously immigration is a federal issue. the court several on them. it should be and i agree with richard this to be a situation handled responsibly by the federal government and congress has failed to do it. the one bright spot of the last

several years is president trump solve the immediate crisis at the border. he did not fix the larger immigration crisis members of both parties in congress have sort of ignored since 1986. donald trump did solve the immediate crisis at the border by doing exactly what richard just said. to go down talk to and work with mexico and other countries to keep the migrants from coming to our border in the first place. president biden because of trumper because he cares more about foreigners and he does about americans he does not like the united states he hates our borders i do not know why has made this decision to undo all the things trump put in place that solve the crisis at the border and created this humanitarian and national crisis of millions of people pouring across our border. that is a 1% created by joe biden.

by the way i think neil gorsuch i also agree with him for the court is not supposed to be that legislative body of last resort. but what is interesting here i do think the court did biden a bit of a favor by keeping title 42 in place. it is going to keep this horrible problem from getting even worse. gillian: cap and i want to make sure he turned to the former president's tax returns. those returns are being held up people are seeing in them what they want to see republicans either beautiful, perfect, exemplary tax returns. democrats say they offer direct proof of the former presidents corruption. >> that's often the way in washington, right? everyone seeing what they want to see. certainly knew ahead of them coming out they would have different views the democrats were arguing this was necessary for oversight reasons

republicans say sets a bad precedent. certainly these returns show us more about how the president use the tax code, used business losses to his advantage where they show more detail about charitable giving and that she gave a lot in the years he did not give any money to charity at all. there's a lot to unpack here. certainly one thing to look at moving ahead as the political opponents from both parties could try and use information of these tax returns as he runs for president to try and make arguments about the successes of his businesses or failures. gillian: charlie what did you make about the point it's a new political weapon that's being unleashed. forget the fact trump did not voluntarily release them, congress should not be the ones making that call. >> certainly donald trump broke a lot of norms. that's not a newsflash exactly. it is a dangerous precedent. we have seen in the past mitt

romney releases tax returns that did not stop senate majority leader harry reid at the time from lying about on the senate floor and claimant mitt romney never paid any taxes which is a light. he never apologized for onset it works. mitt romney destroyed his campaign for the big take away for me from trump's taxes are two things. one is donald trump.poor by serving in public office. people like joe biden and nancy pelosi have made a fortune on government salaries working in public office. that is a big difference. to me that the most important take away. all his hoople squalling about trump's tax return put in place all the irs rules. all of the tax loopholes that donald trump took advantage of. i really do not know why they're so upset about all of this. alicia: rigid and going to be 15 seconds of a button on it.

>> of this tax return shows me an aha moment for all americans they have the ability to lobby congress connect tax returns it look like donald trump. teachers, firefighters, nurses, paraprofessionals all across this country pay more percentage whites in taxes and millionaires and billionaires like mitt romney and donald trump do. that's very sad thing in the united states. >> panel all three of you happy new year. thank you for taking time with me this morning i appreciate it. >> happy new year. >> good to see you julian. >> was soon extended for coming cap next protesters across iran have captured the world's attention caption questions about the future of the regime and about the vines administration efforts to stop its nuclear program. next offering and former bush ministration national security official details for the nuclear deal is really finally dead, that's coming up nex

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alicia: ukrainian president zelenskyy 2020 will usher in victory for his troops with russia for that optimism comes as russia were cherry bombarded ukrainian cities are new year's eve. russian president vladimir putin lashed out about the west in ukraine in his new year's address. both the leader's comments come as a prospector highly anticipated peace talks appear to be falling through. drumming up former special assistant for national security to president bush, michael allen. welcome to "fox news sunday" happy new year. >> happy new year. gillian: in ukraine dismissal bombarded assuring the new year of the same time this week put in a flat rejected president-elect's appeal for some kind of peace summit, when you make of rer? ask the russians are trying to wear down the morale of the ukrainian people. and of course say to the

europeans that we are in this for the longer fight. what ukrainians want more of is more assistance from the united states that they can grow their leverage to enable a future peace negotiation. i do not think it's right right now. i think russia still feels like it has cards to play. they are buying new weapons from the iranians are putting more troops on the field. ukrainians it was like they've a long way to go. after all they are winning and making progress. especially in the south. while zelenskyy can put out a peace plan to here's what i get to eventually no one is in the mood to really compromise yet. talk to that point zelenskyy is pursuing and asking for peace summit at the same time he when he was in here in washington a few weeks ago he asked congress for a full slate of offensive weapons per what does that tie what he sees the end game on? >> think zelenskyy knows he has

to keep his foot on the gas in order to get russian out of his territory before the west gets tired of funding his campaign. i think that is a big rub here frequency signal especially to the europeans he is willing to do peace talks eventually. zelenskyy came here and i'm glad he did to thank the american people for the generosity for finding and transferring weapons to the ukrainian people. i think ukraine's defense in their war with russia is in the actual interest of the united states. they are also able to degrade the material and manpower of the russian army so we might be able to eventually pivot to asia and not worry so much about russia if they are degraded.

your money is not charity. it is an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle and the most responsible way. gillian: what would you say to those republicans who have criticized u.s. support of the ukrainians as a blank check? >> i think there is a lot of oversight the republicans in the house of representatives can do. the republicans of course will be in the majority here this week. they ought to launch a very aggressive oversight campaign. they ought to insist the administration of the secretary of defense and state come to the hill, testify what is the plan. what is the endgame. and how's of the money being funded. i think at the same time we can support ukraine putin's

relationship with in the u.s. adversary short range ballistic missiles to the russians biden administration iranian personnel on the ground in crimea. >> it is alarming is short range ballistic missiles of what we are going to see increasingly more of it. it is important for russia more evidence of that just as we have been able to see the kamikaze drum so far. hi iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. for them to be on the ground in crimea assisting the russians with their weaponry is certainly a sight to behold. >> americans of all watching for weeks now as the protest have

wrapped across iran with a been characterized as a battle between a young modern population and an aging ruling class. these protests could be a real tipping point. do they threaten the regime? we have protest ongoing. second, i think there have been more broad-based than just the students. i think you needed to be more broad-based in order to have some success. on the one hand it will be great if the parents of the students were out there protesting as well. recently you had oil workers who went on strike in solidarity with the students. i think you need to see more of that to get the regime really, really worried. after all they have secret police, they have security services they are brutal and fierce. they've already killed hundreds of iranian students and many

more they will put to death by execution. i think they are firmly in control right now. but eventually they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction. >> what about the nuclear deal? do you think the protest and affect public opinion there and iran is now so firmly against the deal could mean it is dead once and for all really? >> i know biden keep saying it's dead. his administration said something like it's not on the agenda right now. i think they want to revive it is soon it would be decent in their mind to do so i don't think they can do it right now and the protesters are on the streets getting killed and the rest by the regime. i think they want to keep it warm and return to it one day. i think they have the sort of religious zeal they believe this is the best way for them to tackle the wrong program, the eye ron issue. even if the deal was struck with them is not that great on nonproliferation issues.

>> may be like a cat that is live seven of its nine lives something like that. michael think it's much for joining us. great talking to you. up next the cia opens its doors for a very rare glimpse inside the agency's headquarters but will get an inside look at some of america's top secret missions in history

the central intelligence agency celebrated by opening up just a little for a day. allowed in its newly renovated museum to hear about the cia's most prized possessions. >> at cia headquarters you don't need a clearance to see its new renovated museums. >> filled with the classified gadgets like this powder compact with coded messages embedded in its mere.

the dragonfly that served as the first uav or drone or this pipe. >> biting down on the pipe and it would be able to send signals through right here. >> the deputy director of the new cia museum. >> they've never been on display here before. >> i need you to help me make a fake movie. >> the 2012 ben affleck movie was based. six americans rescued in tehran. one of the most daring missions. >> we had studio six. we went so far as having a script reading. this artwork is one of my favorite artifacts in the whole museum. >> jack kirby had no idea he was working for the cia when he drew it. >> very possible that he had no idea. >> newly declassified items. the famous mission which his

millionaire howard hughes company to recover a sunken k-1 29 russian sub. >> they had to create a counter vessel to go to the bottom of the ocean. grab a multi- salve and bring it back up. >> examples of real live dead drops. >> make it something that blends in with its surrounding or is disgusting and no one would ever pick up. >> like this rats. >> you could put a camera in there, micro.reeder, you can come pick it up. problem during testing was had started stealing the dead drops. anything that was an animal deterrent you would rub it with. >> this is the actual model that was used to brief president biden on this mission. >> this case honors our first team's admission into afghanistan after 9/11.

>> these stars like the 139 currently on the memorial wall hung at the cia base in afghanistan to honor the seven officers killed by a suicide bomber. >> when we left afghanistan we made sure to bring this memorial back with us. author of need to know what's a cia museum historian until 2013. >> i like the outliers. i like the people that stood up for themselves. did not necessarily have the stamp of approval of the establishment. >> world war ii spies shown here receiving the intelligence cross at a secret white house ceremony from the first head of the oss. her amputated leg cost her job at the state department so she volunteered to drive an ambulance in france. eventually running 1500 french resistant forces becoming the first paramilitary officer

hired. >> she lasted in france behind enemy lines. she was getting down to pilots back into the uk. she got people out of prison that were very important to the resistance without a single shot being fired. >> her favorite piece are these boots worn by an actual cia officer dave. the first u.s. casualty on the ground in afghanistan. killed during a prison riot. >> while getting to mike he completely ran out of ammunition. he was firing getting to mike to try to save him. he took mike's weapon, used it to get to safety. >> they started calling them daddies lucky boots. realizing for the first time how dangerous his dad's jobless not really knowing where his father worked. >> we are very small, we are very agile. we are very good with very

little. >> jennifer griffin reporting from the cia langley headquarters in virginia. that is it for us today. thank you for joining us on this inaugural day of 2023. we will see you next time. ♪ levin." >> cap the near welcome to a live special edition of "the next revolution" i and jason chaffetz in first he thought it is a new year bring you 118 congress nancy pelosi will be back without a gavel in this will go to but we don't know yet. so much for the new congress but first who will be the new speaker? i have