that question, by text or on a white board, the doctors said old school, pen and paper. they were so proud of the fact that his neurological function is intact. it is so rare, dana. it doesn't happen this way. begot it. >> dana: very good outcome. we are right now as you can imagine january 6th are seeing the two-year anniversary since the january 6th riot. a moment of silence on the house steps coming up. >> bill: it's been two years to the day. see how it goes as it unfolds on the hill. 10:00 here in new york. >> dana: fox news alert top of the hour topping the news showing new details into the timeline of idaho slayings, court documents show the murder suspect came face-to-face with the victim's surviving roommate. we have the minute by minute details. new covid strain spreading like

wild fair fire -- fire across the u.s. president biden set to make his first trip to the southern border this sunday. the visit comes after two years in office and more than 4 million migrant encounters. is it too little too late? more on those stories throughout the hour. first a fight for the speaker's gavel enters day four. republicans remain divided after 11 rounds of voting. the most since 1859 as lawmakers hint negotiations could last through the weekend. i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. kevin mccarthy still not able to strike a deal with 20 conservative hold-outs. 12th vote set for noon eastern time and see whether or not it goes down at that time. mccarthy and allies remain confident a deal is said to be on the table after yet another set of late night concessions.

indiana republican elect jim banks with us last hour. a supporter of mccarthy talked to us about the latest. >> i don't know if i see light at the end of the tunnel yet but i'm hearing about it. a lot of progress made overnight. negotiations continue with the hold-outs as you just mentioned. a number of healthy concessions have been made. >> dana: "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream is standing by but first to aishah hosni live on capitol hill. good morning. >> good morning to you both, bill and dana. in just about 15 minutes we're expecting an all-member gop conference call. significant move after the significant movement and discussions we saw late last night. let's look together at the new concessions that are now being discussed among these members. so the first is the house freedom caucus more representation. they want more representation on

the powerful rules committee. they also want a vote on term limits. a stand alone votes on appropriation bills and lowering the threshold on the motion to vacate the speaker chair from five people to now a single member. these are significant. there is concern, guys, that mccarthy may lose some moderates who think he is giving away way too much. matt gaetz says nothing will be good enough for him to ever vote for mccarthy and he is taking shots at the new concessions. >> the construct of these rules concessions functionally turn the speakership into a ceremonial position. matter of fact if my colleagues get what they want from mccarthy the chairman of the freedom caucus will be more important than the speaker of the house. >> so mccarthy has actually pushed back on that idea and the idea that he might lose support. in fact, he told reporters last night that this is a new way of

thinking. that they will have to have. it is not just a five-seat majority. that everyone has to work together and the entire conference has to learn how to do that. we could see, guys, remember, fewer members here in person today and that would definitely change that magic 218 number to a lower threshold. we'll see what happens today. >> dana: thank you so much. let's bring in shannon bream. anchor of "fox news sunday." we love the new prom owe. we want answers from you. 10:15 a house republican member-only call. then the vote starts at noon. reports from mccarthy's camp he thinks that they are making progress. maybe there will be a change today. what have you heard? >> i talked to some of the folks about these overnight negotiations and they do think there will be movement. i think mccarthy can't stand to go through several more votes that show 20 or 21 voting against him. even if he can show he has made

progress will be made today, he has to have that to build momentum. the handful that says no matter what concessions he gives them they aren't ever going to vote for him. it leaves him almost no margin. the negotiations continue. guys, remember, the worst-case scenario was 44 ballots. there is no end in sight. there is real conversation in washington now about what plan b or c is. who are the names, who else could possibly get this done? >> bill: you wonder of the 7 or 8 who will give in. so far they're hard nose. shannon, here is kellyanne last night with sean. starting to get into the nitty-gritty of the reality for these members when they hear from others who represent them. what she talked about is i'm not getting high level security clearances, getting calls from constituents saying help me out and they cannot. we'll hold that thought. dana mentioned a moment ago on the steps of the capitol they

are doing a moment of silence marking two years since january 6th. stand by and we'll pop in on this. >> the hundred of officers who defended us at the citadel of democracy that fateful day. as a result of the events on january 6th, the lives of five heroic officers were lost. another brave capitol police officer lost his life defending the capitol on april 2, 2021. 140 officers were seriously injured that day. many more will forever be scarred by the blood thirsty violence of the insurrectionist mob. we stand here today with our democracy intact because of those officers. [applause]

. >> the violent insurrectionists stormed the capitol and tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power, a cornerstone of our republic. they failed. they failed because of the bravery and valor of the united states capitol police and the metropolitan police department officers who fought heroicly to defend our democracy. we will never forget their sacrifice and we will never forget this day. it is now my honor to yield to our speaker who led the house of representatives on that fateful day with strength, courage, and resilience, nancy pelosi. [applause] >> thank you very much, mr.

leader. thank you for having your first official public act be one to be a moment of reflection, a time of reflection and gratitude to our heroes. i associate myself as i'm sure all of our colleagues gathered here with your remarks in singing their praises. the january 6th insurrection shook our republic to the core. for many in the congress and across our country the physical. psychological and emotional scars are still raw. yet from the unspeakable horror sprang extraordinary heroism, law enforcement heroes confronted the insurrectionists to protect the capitol, the congress and our constitution. and it's with great respect and admiration that we are joined by the families this morning. thank you to the families for considering us worthy to share your grief, to honor your loss.

when we had the gold medal ceremony, the highest honor the congress can bestow, i said at that time your acceptance of that gold medal in honor of your family member's courage brought luster to the medal. we always pray for god to bless america and he certainly did with the heroism of these heroes. as we mark this solemn day, let us draw strength and inspiration from the timeless words of president lincoln. in his message to congress he offered in the heat of the civil war, he said we cannot escape history and he called upon congress to honor our sacred duty to nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope on earth, which he believed was american democracy. that is our task today, too, so

help us god. now we will in short order hear from the families of our heroes and we thank them for their sacrifice, for their patriotism. we will always carry the memory of their family members in our hearts and our tribute is also to those who suffered psychologically and otherwise protecting our democracy. i thank all of our colleagues for joining us here on the steps of the capitol. but we always carry this memory in our hearts. thank you. [applause] >> would you pray with me? god is our refuge and our strength. an ever present help in trouble. though the earth should move, the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, we will not

fear. thief as waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with surging there is a river whose streams make glad the city of god. almighty god, we know that we are called to be still and to know that you are god and that you have hallowed this place with those who serve in both elected positions and those who have chosen to serve to defend the people, the building, and the purpose of this capitol. holy god, you have anointed this land with the blood of the fallen and the wounded and we ask now that as we honor those sacrifices, that we would recognize that you surround us, uphold us in all these things that seek to threaten us, in all these things may we always call

on you, knowing that you are our god, an ever present and ever present in our times of trouble. we pray these things in your most holy name, amen. >> now invite the families and loved ones of the officers who are no longer with us to read their names. >> brian david sitnik. >> howard charles --

>> metropolitan police department officers. >> officer billy evans. >> please join me now in the 142nd moment of silence. an acknowledgement of the 142 officers who were seriously injured defending the capitol on january 6, 2021.

[moment of silence]

>> may god continue to bless america. >> amen. >> dana: that was the moment of silence, is 40 -- 140 minutes. they read the officers who died two years ago when members gathered there on the east side of the capitol in order to pay their respects and can see everybody filing back in and they have other business to get into because they don't have a speaker yet. that vote happens in about an hour 45 minutes right now. the republicans are also on a phone call, members-only call trying to get to a resolution

today. >> bill: we'll see how that goes. we have some breaking news. again it is very good news from the hospital in cincinnati, ohio. the bills damar hamlin is now breathing on his own and he is able to talk after the breathing tube was just removed from his throat. this is extraordinary stuff. all great news in cincinnati, back to buffalo, throughout the nfl. really great news for everybody to hear. >> dana: incredible medical care and a healthy young man who looks like he will be all right. >> bill: we can debate the postseason and how the nfl manages that but we'll save it for another day. >> dana: also police published new data on new york city's crime wave. who they say is behind a growing portion of the big apple's violent crime. >> bill: idaho, leading police to arrest bryan kohberger. what else do we know about him and the case?

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>> penalty for that offense if you plead guilty or found guilty is up to death and/or imprisonment for life. do you understand? >> yes. >> bill: bryan kohberger first court appearance yesterday as court documents show how investigators set their sights on the suspected killer. there is nothing but continued anguish for the victims' families.

>> what i go with is i can make this man feel like he picked the very worst family to do that to. and i want this case to get stronger and stronger to the point where he realizes that he is not going to be able to be on the planet that long. >> bill: first cross-country host lawrence jones back at his post in moscow, idaho with the news. lawrence. >> good morning, bill and dana. we have been combing through the probable cause affidavit. it is not enough to convict someone but meets the legal standard that is required to make an arrest. four points in the probable cause affidavit that we think is important for the public. that is the leather sheath. something they believe he left at the crime scene. they were able to swab and match his father's dna. they now have a warrant out, of course -- to be able to get his dna to match up with that dna.

the second thing he left at the crime scene was his shoe. they feel it is consistent with a shoe he wore out there. the third thing that is also important to this investigation is when he arrived at the scene, they put him at the scene between 3:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. and then it goes cold. that means he turned his cell phone off at the scene. another critical moment is at 9:12 a, when he went back to the crime scene. he was probably there to retrieve the sheath. the final thing and new information, the eyewitness account to provide a description of the suspect, his height, his bushy eyebrows and she said she came face-to-face with that suspect. i have to be honest with you, we got a tip about this in the investigation. we decided not to bring it to

air for two reasons. first of all we weren't able to corroborate the incident and the second reason is if we went to air with information like that, it could have put the victim at risk there. she was now a witness. send it back to you guys. >> bill: a lot to get to there. thank you so much in moscow. bring in nancy grace right now, host of crime stories on fox nation. waiting to hear your reaction to all this. affidavit is 19 pages long, a lot of detail and there might be some detail that has been left out. what is your view of this after reading what the investigators put forward yesterday? >> well, i could not agree -- disagree more with lawrence because if they can lay out only what is in this probable cause affidavit, they got a conviction because look at the dna. the dna found on the knife sheath on the snap part of the knife sheath on the bed beside a victim up on the third floor,

which would suggest that the knife was unsheathed on the third floor and first murders occurred on the third floor, not the second floor. that dna is matched back to that man, bryan kohberger's father to a 99.9998% likelihood. one in 300 trillion match. a fantastic number. how do you explain that? pull an o.j. and say the police planted it there? not going to work. another thing in that probable cause affidavit, they watch him at his parents' house. that team had two jobs. ca cache -- cache eyes on the defendant and get dna. they watched him come out of his parents house at 4:00 in the morning. do you empty your trash at 4:00 a.m. and take it to your neighbor's dumpster? that's what he did.

they went over there and got it and got something abandoned by the father like a kleenex maybe and matched it back. you can't fight with that number, people. 99.9998. it is his father. >> dana: people have been seeing this. we can find out what happened at 2:00 a.m. when residents arrive home until the murders taking place between 4:00 a.m. and 4:25 a.m. there is question about why then the one eyewitness waited 7 to 8 hours before making a call to 911. do you make anything out of that? >> well, yes, i do. i make a lot out of that. that's a big question. remember, this probable cause affidavit. think of a skeleton. that's all it is. no skin, no teeth, no eyes, no hair, no emotions. we'll hear all of that at trial. this is just enough facts in order to get that arrest warrant

and remember, dm is practically a child. this is probably the first time she has ever lived away from home and she hears one roommate crying, whimpering and freakly you hear what we believe to be the defendant say it's okay, i'm going to help you. you know what? that will move any jury. she says she was frozen in shock and went into her room and locked the door. another interesting thing in this warrant, it states she was in her bedroom on the second floor. here before we thought she was on the bottom floor. this changes a lot about what we know about these killings. but regarding that time of the day, i want to point out he was around that home in the early morning hours all the way back to june stalking them, peeping, probably masturbating watching them, finding his victims. >> bill: nancy, more to come on this.

trial starts in october, we do believe, based on what the judge said yesterday. nancy grace, thank you for your time today. 10:30 in new york. now this. >> do you think now is finally the right time to visit the southern border? republicans have been calling on you to do it. >> president biden: republicans haven't been serious about this at all. come on. they haven't been serious about this at all. i wanted to make sure that -- that i knew what the outcome, at least the near outcome was on title 42 before i went down. >> bill: president biden defending of his first ever visit on sunday. the white house rolling out new measures to try, they say, to discourage illegal immigration. will it work? greg abbott is my guest. he is blaming republicans in a lot of ways yesterday. will it work simply, the new program, the app for those from

haiti, cuba, nicaragua, missing one other country, sir. good morning. >> good morning. listen, for one it is about time joe biden went down to the border to receive the chaos that he himself created. stunning it took him two years to do this and do nothing more than a photo op there. when it comes to the plan that he was talking about yesterday, you saw no details whatsoever about what the biden administration is going to do to stop people from coming across the border illegally. candidly what his proposal will do is to entice even more people to come here illegally. biden talked about the republicans having no plan. republicans do have a plan to secure the border. biden has no plan to secure the border. americans are angry and frustrated and time for biden to lay out details about how he will stop illegal immigration coming across our border. >> bill: democrats argue he took the trump policies a step

further. listen and go back to the president from yesterday at the white house. >> president biden: do not -- do not just show up at the border. stay where you are and apply legally from there. starting today, if you don't apply through the legal process you will not be eligible for this new parole program. >> bill: you have an app, supposed to apply, if you walk across the border and it is not through the app, you go home. we've been watching this for years. >> right. we have. the years part of it is important because remember this. he is not taking it further than the trump administration. under the trump administration we had the lowest border crossings in decades. it took only a year under the biden administration to have the most illegal border crossings ever. and what biden is laying out right now is not going to reduce that. what trump did was four simple things. title 42, the remain in mexico policy, and catch and release

which biden has not done and then building the border wall which biden is not doing. very importantly i have to emphasize what joe biden is doing is violating existing federal law through his catch and release program and not enforcing the laws to detain people who come across illegally. he is letting them loose. that is promoting and enticing more people to come to our country illegally. >> bill: secretary mayokas repeats this. i don't know many people who believe it. listen. >> at the outset, let me be clear. title 42 or not, the border is not open. we will continue to fully enforce our immigration laws in a safe, orderly, and humane manner. >> bill: i know you disagree with that and you've been fighting it for some time. "wall street journal." biden discovers the u.s./mexico

border. he is finally noticing there is a problem at the u.s. mexico border, not that he intends to do much about it. i sense you don't have much disagreement there. what happens after sunday and you go to monday in mexico city? did you expect much from those 48 hours? >> nothing whatsoever. i hope that joe biden goes down to the location where i have the national guard that has cordoned off this area where people were entering into el paso illegally so he can see firsthand exactly what the state of texas is having to do because joe biden was not doing it. but i have to go back and clarify what mayokas was saying because he knows he is lying to americans and americans know that he is lying because under joe biden just in the past year alone, we've had a record number of people cross the border illegally. that border is open because of the biden administration. we have had about as many people cross the border illegally in the past year alone as we have

residents of houston, texas. this is outrageous that joe biden is not doing more. not fooling anybody. there is a reason why he is trying to step up now. most americans disagree with joe biden's open border policies and lay the fault directly at joe biden's feet. >> bill: okay so on tuesday we're in the same spot. that's what i hear from you, right? and maybe in a month from now we're still in the same spot. in two years from now where will we be? >> well, let me tell you something. between now and two years from now we can be in a much stronger position. i know that the policies that the republicans in the u.s. house have articulated about what they want to do to secure the border. if the republicans live up to what they are promising about border security as well as holding the biden administration accountable you will see multiple investigations and funding packages not passed for the united states of america unless and until the biden

administration for one, starts funding border security and then starts enforcing the laws that already exist on the books. >> bill: governor, thank you for your time and we'll follow the movements into sunday and monday and next week. greg abbott live in austin. >> dana: northern california reeling from storms. massive waves sweeping away a historic pier and washed out roads and downed trees. we're live in sausalito, california. getting bad weather out there, claudia. >> right now we're getting a small break in the rain to dry out and clean up from that bomb cyclone and atmospheric river that caused a lot of damage especially along the coast. look at this down near santa cruz. giant surf cut the pier in half and the waves breached a sea wall. several businesses are red tagged and months to repair the

damage to make sure everything is structurally sound. a local state of emergency is dec declared. up the coast in marin county. stenson beach. it pushed water down streets turning them into rivers of mud and debris and 18,000 people across the bay area are still without power this morning. tragically the storm killed two people. a 19-year-old woman driving on a flooded road and a child, 2-year-old who was crushed wednesday night after a redwood tree fell onto his family's mobile home. awful. more rain is on the way. starting tonight and going off and on through next week and the next few weeks. flooding, falling trees, power outages and mudslides will continue to pose a risk up and down the state. the national weather service predicting many areas could see 2 to 4 inches of rain. points north of san francisco up

to seven inches. it's dumping in the mountains. they could see another foot of fresh snow. most evacuation orders have been lifted for now, dana. no one is putting away their umbrella anytime soon. >> dana: video is incredible. thank you so much. for the latest on this storm and the forecast in your neighborhood download the fox weather app for free. >> bill: we've another update from cincinnati. the news only gets better. the buffalo bills have tweeted out the following. damar hamlin face timed into our team meeting today to talk with players and coaches. he said to the team love you boys. wow. they got a game on sunday. they are home to new england. patriots come to town. you watch these games starting on saturday at 4:30 is the first kickoff for the saturday/sunday games and tributes throughout the country and see the jersey number three all over your screens on saturday and sunday and after that, too. great news out of cincinnati.

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>> dana: vladimir putin ordering a 36 hour cease-fire in ukraine to mark eastern orthodox christmas. the first pause in fighting.

ukraine's president says there won't be truce until russia withdraws all its forces. ian bremmer joins us now. what do you make of putin saying there is a 36 hour cease-fire. >> you occupy somebody's house and say time-out, i have to use the bathroom. they are occupying ukrainian territory. ukrainians are trying to develop a counter offensive and they have more military capabilities. additional being announced by the u.s., france and germany in the last 36 hours. that's what the ukrainians are focused on. >> bill: they are looking for tanks in done >> i don't think anyone was injured late in the night but the ukrainians launched a rocket and hit a russian barrbarracks

wiped out hundreds of soldiers. it was made in america. without it ukrainians can't hit the way they did. how does putin in the big picture respond to incidents like that? >> he is not responding very strongly to those incidents so far. because in fact he is arguing the russians in the last big massacre they had he is blaming russian troops for using cell phones that they aren't spoofsed to and it allows the ukrainians to target them. the thing you say in the n weakness. if the ukrainians can break the land bridge and retake some of the territory on the coast on the black sea. which is what they want to accomplish. that would be hugely important. then the system would be able to directly target the bridge to crimea and directly target military bases in crimea. that's a red line for putin, right? >> bill: a question of time before that happens. >> it may well be.

>> dana: your company the eurasia group look ahead and look at risks. you do the top risks and you have the top risks of 2023. put them on the screen. start with russia, rogue russia going through including number four was inflation shock waves, the divided states of america being number eight and tiktok boom being number nine. a bunch, i encourage everyone to take a look at this. >> the ranking is on the basis of the impact, the likelihood and im nonce. the fact that the united states divided u.s. is towards the bottom given how powerful the u.s. is don't panic about the state of the u.s. democracy. a lot of people are over egged about that today on january 6th you hear a lot of that stuff. the big theme that runs through this report is that a small group of individuals, really powerful individuals that don't have checks and balances on their power, not like the

american president but like the russian president and the chinese president with his third term. like the iranian supreme leader and a small group of technology billionaires can make decisions that are massively disruptive to the global economy and national security and they are likely to make mistakes because they don't have experts advising them. yes men around them. that's a serious problem. not only does putin reflect a great risk on the global stage because he made a massive misjudgment with the invasion of ukraine but xi. no covid and now maximum covid. the fact they can make that decision on a dime and not provide transparency is a danger to the world. >> dana: happy new year. >> bill: speaking of covid we have a new strain out there sweeping across america. they say like wildfire, really? what you knowed to know coming up next with the good doctor in the house. america's oldest person dead at the age of 115. what a life.

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history of the department of justice. where do things stand today? david spunt has a look at d.o.j. for us today. >> d.o.j. and f.b.i. officials are hoping money talks, specifically half a million dollars. let's show you a new wanted poster put out by the f.b.i. this week all to help find out who was behind laying pipe bombs down outside the headquarters for the republican national committee and the democratic national committee. this was on january 5th, the evening before the attack on the capitol. the f.b.i. and partners have done more than 1,000 interviews on this specific pipe bomb case. agents visited 1200 residences and collected 39,000 video files while vetting 500 tips and still no luck. authorities have yet to find the pipe bomber but touting 1,000 people arrested with many more to go. according to the latest stats from the justice department 950 defendants have been arrested

and nearly all 50 states and in d.c. 351 have had cases in front of a judge and received sentences. 192 sentenced to periods of incarceration. this number when i say approximately about it can change based on a daily basis. there are still many more people, bill and dana, that need to go before judges. you have to remember thousands of people were outside and inside the capitol and right now d.o.j. two years in has taken care of around 1,000 of them. this investigation will go on for at least another few years. >> bill: you're right about that. thank you, david spunt. >> dana: covid back with a vengeance. a new and highly contagious strain is sweeping across the u.s. let's bring in dr. marc siegel to tell us what it is, what we need to know about and how to protect ourselves. hi, doctor. >> dana, they call it the xp

b-1.5. it sounds like sci-fi but the good news is it's within the omicron family. a lot of us have immunity built up to it from previous sub variants that will be helpful. if you've had covid within the past six months or a recent vaccine over the past few months you have immunity on board. we're starting to build up resistance. what's new about this is it's more contagious. it binds more closely to the cells and 1 1/2 times more contagious than the last variant. it is spreading rapidly. so many people are home testing and doesn't get reported. hospitalizations are up and unfortunately deaths are up slightly. we have 44,000 people in the hospital right now. we have to keep an eye on it. >> dana: we go to call for number two. the rate of infection is 40.5% of u.s. cases versus 21% a week ago. doctor, i will ask you a

question because i don't know the answer. maybe a stupid question. does this have anything to do with the variant that might be circulating now in china as they have opened back up? >> well, first of all you only ask smart questions. that is another one. yes, this was first seen in china. i think that's what it is. i think it's a -- if people are undervaccinated like in china, the more mutations you see. the more sub variants spin out. this one came from there and we're concerned others might. we aren't getting the information out of china. they aren't being completely transparent. even over two years into this thing. >> dana: last question for you. what do you recommend we do, if anything? >> i think that we've obviously shown there has been a public consensus it has to be elective. mandates haven't worked. i would urge everybody to make

sure you had some immunity over the last few months. did you recently have covid? if not seriously consider getting the shot. if you're in close quarters i would consider wearing a max. i do. they don't have to be mandated. i like the idea of testing if you have upper respiratory symptoms. i can tell a lot as a physician if you got a negative covid test or a few negative covid tests if you get sick. i want to know what virus you have. do that. also speak to your physician about your symptoms and stay home if you're sick, of course. >> dana: all right. thank you, dr. siegel. >> bill: i think he gave you an a for your question. >> dana: i was surprised by the answer it was a good question. sometimes you think you have a dumb question and i actually had a good one. that's why we ask the questions. before we go, check this out. >> bill: ready? oldest living american passed

away at the age of 115. besse hendricks who lived in iowa. what a life. a few years ago she shared the secret to her longevity. know what it was? it was hard work. >> dana: oh my, she said hard work. that's amazing. >> bill: she also loved sweets. it's okay, sugar is okay. hard work. >> dana: good for her. also she made -- i wish she would have said red wine. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: right now an all-republican conference call is underway on capitol hill. we don't know what, if any, progress is being made to choose a house speaker now that republicans are in the majority of the they're set to reconvene shortly on the house floor. republican house speaker nominee kevin mccarthy got a break overnight as they voted to adjourn until noon today. the wrangling could be continuing between mccarthy and his opponents on that call that i just reported.