she doesn't talk a lot. i can tell you from what i have seen that she -- >> the mother, who was released from captivity november 24th said she couldn't sleep after hamas took her oxygen machine. >> the trauma is terrible. it will take time. >> now he helps his mother recover and also believing he will be with his dad once again. the 79-year-old remains kidnapped in gaza. >> we hope to have a christmas miracle, hanukkah miracle will and have them back home with us. >> this is an israeli hostages whose death was announced over the weekend claiming he was killed in a botched idf attempt to free hostages. idf says he was murdered by hamas. >> bill: thanks for being on it here in studio. thank you. >> dana: harvard's embattled

president getting a big vote of confidence from the university despite major backlash over congressional testimony concerning anti-semitism on campus attracting widespread outrage. the university released a statement of support and right now we're waiting to hear from house republican conference chair elise stefanik with a couple of fiery exchanges with dr. gay at that hearing. she is scheduled to speak in moments. right now the push to impeach president biden taking a major step forward. the house rules committee is meeting this hour preparing a measure to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president biden setting up the resolution for a vote by the full house as early as tomorrow. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. we start with a bang. >> bill: yes, we do. we saw that coming, didn't we? i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. it now appears house republicans have the votes to authorize what is called an impeachment inquiry. house speaker mike johnson

saying the evidence mounting against president biden cannot be ignored as house republicans continue to follow the facts where they lead. >> dana: chad pergram is live on the hill. hi, chad. >> good morning. this is a significant step in the gop impeachment inquiry prepping the parameters of the vote in the committee. republicans believe they have the votes after months of talking impeachment but no official action. >> there is certainly enough evidence to go into an inquiry. there is so much evidence that someone might be justified in coming to a factual conclusion about whether there was bribery or not, whether there was abuse of power or not. i think we ought to get a big vote in support of it. >> formalizing the impeachment inquiry makes it easier for the house to enforce subpoenas. not impeachment of the

president. just green lights the probe and finally, many moderate gop members are on board. >> i think there has been more threads that seem to be worth pulling and in order to have an official effort going into the questions of impeachment and the reasons for it. >> hunter biden is scheduled to appear for a closed door deposition tomorrow with the oversight committee. he may not show up. it is unclear if problems with hunter cause a problem for the president. >> i don't know whether or not it is hurting him. i hope that the american people are able to see past it. but obviously the republicans have no other program and they figure this is their best shot is to create a dark cloud over the biden family and hope it affects joe. >> house investigators want interviews concluded in january. there is no timetable for an actual impeachment vote and some wonder if tomorrow's vote to

begin an inquiry may be the only vote we ever see on impeachment. dana and bill. >> dana: chad pergram. thank you so much. iranian backed houthi rebels launched an attack on the civilian ship in the red sea causing davis. the u.s.s. mason responding to the scene to give aid. the latest assault. the attacks against u.s. forces rises to 92 since mid october. ambassador volker. call for number one this is today from john kirby. >> the rockets fired back and forth are of concern to us. what we have communicated clearly to our partners in the region privately and publicly. this includes iran, we're not wanting to see additional conflict or a bigger conflict but we'll do what we have to do to protect our national security interests in the region. >> dana: all right, ambassador, what do you know about that and

how do you think the united states should be responding? >> well, what john kirby said is right but it is not actually what we're doing. 92 attacks against u.s. forces and a smattering of responses to that. we're so deterred by the risk of than escalating war that we aren't deterring that escalation, we're seeing it happen before our eyes. what we just saw with this attack on norwegian flagged vessel in international waters is quite shocking. we have to ask ourselves where did the houthis get these missiles? only from iran. so we have to really show strength and pushback on these attacks against us and against international shipping if we want them to stop. >> bill: you are exactly right about that. this administration feels otherwise. they say they don't want to spark the flame. realistically speaking, if you went after the houthis who are firing these rockets toward israel and also the shipping lanes in the red sea, what would

they do? >> i don't think they have a lot of options. they are completely dependent upon iran for what they have got. they have a very broken economy, a very broken government. they are not strong. >> bill: that is the point. you are talking about houthi rebels in yemen against the united states military. i mean, come on. >> you are exactly right, bill. you wonder how many of those people even have running water. and how is it that we are allowing them to set the terms? >> dana: the other thing i wanted to bring up with you is right now president zelenskyy of ukraine has been invited by president biden to come to washington and he will see the president later but on capitol hill right now. just the last hour, congressman michael waltz, who i think you know well, he was skeptical about the ability to get this aid done especially if the biden administration doesn't fulfill some border policy issues. let's listen to michael waltz

and get your reaction. >> frustrating. i bet a lot of senate democrats up for re-election are quietly hoping we could get our border under control. this is about national security and we have to secure our own border first. >> dana: the biden administration is the one that initially put in a request in this particular bill for border policy but now they seem to be resisting the republicans are saying well, we need some changes, more changes on the border if we give aid to ukraine. what do you think the stakes are here for zelenskyy and our own country? >> well, there are so many issues here. i hope we have time to unpack them a little bit. the first thing is the consequences of not providing the aid to ukraine are dire. they are fighting for their survival, freedom. democracy, their values and their lives together with our support, they have to be supported. but it is being miscast by the administration and by the media

that somehow the republicans are the problem here. there is a majority -- vast majority of the republican party, house and senate, who support aid to ukraine and want to see it go through. they need to show their constituents that we're also protecting america's southern border, our own national security, not just ukraine's national security. and as you said, the biden administration took a step in that direction but now the impasse is over the immigration side of this. not an impasse over ukraine. frankly, by raising the stakes on this and even by having zell in town pushing on this makes it harder for republicans to come to a compromise with the democrats right now. i'm afraid that mike waltz is right. we may see this drift into january now despite the fact that there is a majority in both chambers for it. >> bill: likely. sir, thank you for your time. kurt volker, come back.

thousands of migrants pouring into the u.s. every day. you can watch it live if you are watching us. checkpoints in lukeville, arizona, eagle pass, texas overwhelmed by the constant surge. griff jenkins back at his post in eagle pass. what does it look like today now where you are, griff? >> it is a busy morning, bill. a thousand miles separates lukeville and eagle pass and they get hammered in both. i want to show you what's happening here. this is the last 50 or so migrants of the 200 to 300 coming in in the last hour. you can see these migrants being processed, talking to the agents. they are tagging their belongings. venezuela, they say most of these are from venezuela. i met a few people from nicaragua this morning and columbia as well. they are waiting for another bus to come up just as you came to us, a bus that was full took off. these folks are right here.

now, you can see from this operation they are at the top of the hill now. i want to go to our other camera we set up for you. one now yards on the river along the chain link fence you can see on rim 219 another group already arriving. this has been going on for several hours. it is almost, bill, like an am amazon line, they march up in single file orderly up here where we are. in the last 24 hours, bill, just in the del rio sector, eagle pass is a part of, they had more than 2200 migrants. not all migrants are inoh center seeking a better life. three were convicted sex offenders. they have been convicted to at least ten years in prison each. almost 30 years for the three of them. let's go out to lukeville, arizona. the other epicenter getting

hammered. wild photos there. almost apocalyptic looking haze of people coming. cameraman doing a great job and said even before the sun came up they had more than 600 migrants arriving there with those agents. that sector there in lukeville has a ratio of 200 to one in terms of migrants to agents trying to process them. many of the migrants this morning were from faraway places like senegal as well as guinea, african countries where they get hammered. this is the scenario as the senate it looks like will go home without a border deal. yet the agents and the officials in the national guard are just being overwhelmed in numbers we haven't seen. i have seen a lot, bill. i was here in eagle pass in september, in october, now in december and they are seeing numbers that they've never had. we talked with a lot of the locals from business owners.

it is a pecan farm from we are. they are outraged. it is overwhelming their operations and the mayor said he feels abandoned by washington, by leaders because not only is he not getting any special funding to supplement the strain of resources on his small police force, his small hospital, his small fire department but he is also not seeing any end in sight. that is why this is such a big deal right now. i've been trying to talk to some of the migrants. pardon me, sir. [speaking spanish] >> he is telling me basically because of the economy of his country, venezuela, he is coming here. it is opportunity. we keep seeing that. there was a tweet this morning from the cdp saying do not come.

seeking work alone is not a reason to come to the united states. i leave you with this. 5,000 a day are being released into the country. that's why these migrants are coming in these numbers. send it back to you. >> bill: did something change in the last couple of weeks? we bumped up against the end of the year or were we just distracted away from this because of the war with hamas? >> this hasn't slowed down. you look at in this sector del rio last week, the chief here in this sector put out a tweet saying they had 17,500 last week. lukeville the chief put out 18,900. so that's the situation. we'll keep covering it. >> bill: the flow goes on. griff, good to have you down there. meanwhile on the hilly --

stefanik in talking. >> morale -- this is a moral failure of higher education leadership at the highest levels. the only change they have made to their code of conduct where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct is to allow a pledge rift -- i wanted to highlight the national defense authorization act. a proud member of the house armed services committee. speaker and house republican conference and committee members have done tremendous work. wanted to highlight the parents bill of rights provision which i know the speaker fought very hard for and proud to have in the bill. a provision i authored and garnered bipartisan support in the house. democrats fought hard to keep it out.

>> bill: a lot more throughout the day. she was talking about the reaction from harvard. she will keep her job, the president of harvard will. elise stefanik, giving the hearing from last week. harvard put out this statement. you worked in communications, right? we were both tweeting the statement. >> dana: very lawyered up and written by committee. what stefanik said there is still a moral failing here. it isn't the end you've heard of that. check this out here. targeting pedestrians and hitting them on purpose. then driving away. we'll tell you where this is happening as police search for suspects. >> bill: harvard university's president will keep her job. we'll get reaction from what people are saying and some are suggesting that this story is

not yet over. dana. >> dana: teachers attacking israel in the classroom all the way down to elementary school. what they are teaching our kids and the horrified reaction of parents. >> rogue teachers that want to push their political agenda despite the fear and confusion that it is causing among a lot of students.

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>> bill: here we go watching three big stories on the hill. movement on all three today. number one is the impeachment mark-up in committee. we expect that to come out of committee and we'll have a full vote in the house tomorrow. meanwhile the house republican news is ongoing. a multitude of issues they're discussing. the big one on ukraine. zelenskyy is making this appeal

to members of the senate now. he will be at the white house later today. he will have a joint press conference as we take it full of zelenskyy walking out with chuck schumer. a moment ago he was with schumer and mcconnell. the two leaders for the two parties in the senate. he will be at the white house with president biden. a news conference today. bret will have zelenskyy on special report at 6:00. all this is moving right now as the year comes to an end and quickly so. all right? you got that? meanwhile you have anti-semitism, an uptick in middle schools including a palestinian teach-in that has horrified oakland parents demanding educators be disciplined. we're just learning about this story. mike emanuel has the rundown from d.c. what's up, mike? good morning. >> good morning. oakland teachers moved forward

with an unthor ipsed teach-in with a focus on the palestinian side of the conflict. in maryland outside washington, d.c., a teacher is in hot water for writing from the river to the sea. palestine will be free as part of her email signature. another educator made reference to, quote, wealthy local jews. middle school teacher referred to the october 7th attacks as a hoax. >> i have a front row seat to parents' stories of anti-semitism in our schools. these span from hateful graffiti to instances of physical bullying. >> uninformed students of tomorrow are the same ones protesting and chanting the same anti-semitic rhetoric in college protests we see today. >> a spokesman for maryland schools says these individuals are on administrative leave. as these matters are under investigation i cannot comment further. a group of republican senators

led by louisiana bill cassidy and joni ernst wrote a letter to education secretary saying america's k-12 schools must be a safe learning environment for all students. teachers are adults in the building and setting an example for our students and insuring a safe learning environment rather than under mining it. finally manhattan beach, california. a student allegedly told jewish classmates all israelis and jews should be killed. bill. >> bill: i imagine this is the beginning of that story. mike, thanks, in washington. chuck schumer now at the microphone. let's drop in. >> we are winning this war and if we get the help that -- if he gets the help he needs, he will win. on the other hand, he made it clear and all made it clear if we lose putin wins. and this will be very, very dangerous for the united states.

so we cannot let putin influence through any surrogate what we need to do for ukraine. he also made one other point. he needs the aid quickly. if we don't give the aid quickly, several things will happen. first the military needs, but second europe and many other allies will say what is going on here? they aren't giving them the aid. thank you. >> bill: so that's the latest pitch. we'll see where it goes. >> dana: he didn't want to take any questions. zelenskyy goes to the white house. the president and zelenskyy will give some remarks later today around 4:15 p.m. if they're on time. >> bill: remember the rub now, republicans are saying you have to give us something on the border. so far that's not happening. >> dana: the biden administration opened the door saying we wanted some money for the border in this bill. republicans said okay, but now the white house is balking on that. see if they can get to something today. zelenskyy has a tough row to hoe there. the house homeland security

committee is getting ready to hold a hearing on the surge of smash and grab robberies and effect on retailers. it is being felt on the chicago magnificent mile. we're there. >> this is a big focus around the country. now lawmakers and executives are hoping to come up with solutions for it during the house homeland subcommittee hearing today. we're expecting to hear from both national retail federation executives as well as home deep owe executives. asset protection for home depot said the company has lost billions of dollars to organized retail crime and his employees have had violent attacks. a witness in today's hearing, what type of things thieves are stealing. >> wire is something that we've seen a lot of. power tools is something we've seen a lot of. many products what we would call connected devices, home

automation. anything connects to wifi or internet is hot at this time. so but the commoninality between all those things are you can convert it to cash relatively quickly. >> he says the tactic isn't just targeting big cities. the company is pointing to three reasons for the rise in crime. the increased presence of fentanyl and opioid use in u.s. communities and need for fast cash and the rise in third party market places where the thieves are reselling the items. an increasing lack of resources for law enforcement. just last week thieves used a crash and grab method to go after this neiman marcus store on the magnificent mile in chicago. they crashed a sedan at 5:00 a.m. before jumping into separate getaway cars. they didn't steal anything. we're told there was a 16% increase in retail crime for the first half of the year.

>> dana: thank you so much. want to get to speaker johnson talking about impeachment of president biden. >> i think it may be the heaviest power we have. the impeachment inquiry is necessary now because we have come to this impasse where following the facts where they lead is hitting a stone wall because the white house is impeding that investigation now. not allowing witnesses to come forward and thousands of pages of documents. we have no choice to fulfill our constitutional responsibility. we have to take the next step. we're not making a political decision. it is not. it is a legal decision. people have feelings about it one way or the other. we can't pre-judge the outcome. the constitution does not permit us to do so. we have to follow the truth where it takes us. that's exactly what we'll do. i will note, too. i know that people are frustrated sometimes with the time that's being invested in this. but this is the way the founders anticipated this would go.

there shouldn't be any such thing as a snap or sham impeachment like the democrats did against president trump. this is the opposite of that and why people are getting restless. they want things to happen quickly. if you follow the constitution and do the right thing you can't rush it. you have to follow the facts. >> you don't think there is an expectation by the base that you guys are -- again, i know all the predicates and carve whets here. not an expectation your side will impeach the president because that's what they were elected. >> people have a lot of opinions and expectations on all sides. what we're bound to do because of our oath to the constitution is to follow. that's what we'll do. next question. >> thank you, mr. speaker. if you get into the spring and decide not to impeach the president based on the inquiry you would be comfortable with that decision ab solving him months before the presidential election? >> we won't pre-judge the outcome of this. we can't. it is not a political calculation. we're following the law. we're the rule of law. i will hold to that.

that's my commitment. >> mr. speaker, you talked a bit about the negotiations around spending top lines. one of the biggest roadblocks around that and are you concerned about the upcoming deadline in a few weeks? >> listen, we're all hands on deck on the appropriations bills. we have looming deadlines and we all agreed on that. we also agreed to what is written in the law, the fra numbers on top line. the senate has been projecting and writing well above that. billions of dollars. that's not what the law says and so i came in as the new speaker and i said again as the rule of law team we will follow the law. that's where negotiation stands. we await a volley from the other side. should there be one. the house has done its job. we passed seven of the 12 bills, 80% of federal fundings. 11 of the 12 have made it through the process if not all the way to the floor. we are in a position where we can go to conference committee and negotiate it. our cardinals, the chairmen of the subcommittees and

appropriations are ready to do the work. we are oh awaiting the other chamber to come forward with a number we can agree upon that we write to. that's the impasse and what we're waiting on. the law is the law. >> on fisa, go into our thought process. you changed your mind. >> bill: there we go, folks, a lot of topics to be covered. they will do it. at least they will try to go forward on that. republicans if it's not full speed it is close to it right now on this inquiry. want to bring in a gentleman who house armed services committee don bacon, republican from nebraska. how are you doing and good morning to you and thank you for your time. are you a yes on this vote for the inquiry, sir? >> i am. i changed my position from this summer because the president was providing all the documents. in the last two weeks when he has said he was not going to provide documents or the white house lawyers were saying this because we had not passed a formal impeachment inquiry, i

translate that to say we better pass an impeachment inquiry to get the information. once they started stonewalling the information we need to have an inquiry. >> bill: just so the audience knows, just because you are doing an inquiry doesn't mean it is necessarily leading to an impeachment vote. what i hear from members like you. that is if the white house isn't going to cooperate you will have to force their hand. so in essence an inquiry would do that, correct? >> that's correct. you said it perfectly. once they said they weren't going to provide documents they forced our hand. we need to do an inquiry. it is not an impeachment. it is an investigation. >> majority is super thin at three. ken buck said he is not going to do this. so i think you need every republican to vote yes in the full vote of the house. do you think you can do that, a, and will any democrats vote with you? >> i don't think we'll get a

democrat vote on this. i also would say i think ken buck is the only republican who is officially a no. i think we'll probably get everybody else. >> bill: okay. all right. so we'll see how that goes. want to talk about ukraine. are you a yes or a no on giving more aid to help zelenskyy fund the war? >> it is in our national security interest that ukraine remain independent. putin has made it clear he wants to restore his old border. not just ukraine, he has called the baltic states renegade states from russia. we need to keep ukraine independent and help them but need to force chuck schumer and president biden to secure our border. it is not a money problem. it is a policy problem. we need to get the asylum rules modified. i want to do both. i want to secure or border but i also know an independent ukraine is better for our world and better for our national security. i know what happens after

ukraine falls. >> and that is? >> russians will move in somewhere else. putin has already said that. not just about ukraine. also i want to point out the -- what we have done with approximately 10% of our defense budget going back two years total. we've taken 300,000 russian soldiers off the battlefield. 130,000 were killed and destroyed half their tanks. we have done that with not a single american serviceman or woman in ukraine. so what we're doing is very effective and serves our national security needs. >> bill: okay. you said a couple of things there. let me play this sound bite from the republican senator j.d. vance out of ohio, okay? this is what he said about the pressure on republicans, ukraine and then specifically the border. roll it. >> this is purely designed to apply pressure on republicans to give up their fight on the border and write another blank check to ukraine. i'm not doing it and i don't

think republicans should go for it. people in ohio can't afford food. young people can't afford to buy homes. we have to focus on our own problems. >> bill: listening to that and then what you just said about modifying the asylum rules, what does that mean, what policy would you support? what could you get this president to go with? >> well, the way the president has doing now we've had 9 million people claiming asylum and released into our country. i come from nebraska. we have 2 million people. over four times our population have come in. it is hurting cities and schools. we have to stop it. what's going on here an interpretation of the asylum rules primarily that's leading to this. so we have to raise the bar for what it takes to claim asylum to come into our country. i like the remain in mexico policy where you have to come in with asylum already agreed to by

the consulate of the country you came from. we have to do something different. he have iranians coming across the border, pakistanis, chinese. hundreds of people on the terrorist list that we have found. that don't account the ones we haven't found or captured. we have to fix this. it is really all about policy on asylum that needs to be fixed. >> bill: thank you for your time. >> thank you. >> bill: a lot to get through and the plate is full. don bacon, the republican from nebraska. thank you for coming on. dana. >> dana: former president trump's 2020 election interference case is headed to the nation's highest court. special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to quickly decide whether trump is immune from prosecution in the case. mark meredith is live in washington with the latest. mark. >> good to see you. special counsel jack smith wants the supreme court to decide once and for all if the former president can be prosecuted on charges he tried to overturn the 2020 election. and smith wants this decided quickly. trump's trial on this matter set

to begin in under three months. a court filing monday the special counsel's office urged the supreme court to step in nullifying an appeals process that trump could use to delay the trial. in the filing his office writes it is of imperative public importance that respondent's claims of immunity be resolved by this court and the trial proceed as promptly as possible if his claim of immunity is rejected. the supreme court has agreed to quickly consider whether or not they will hear the case. the court has ordered trump's lawyers to respond to them within the next eight days. trump's legal team and campaign are outraged over all this. still calling the case a political witch hunt. his campaign wrote there is no reason to rush this witch hunt to trial except to injure president trump and the 150 million supporters. trump will continue to fight for justice and oppose those authoritarian take particulars. we have learned through a

separate court filing smith east team will rely on a witness that can comb through trump's twitter and cell phone account to determine what was happening behind the scenes. >> dana: thank you. ♪ >> bill: you have this downloaded? >> dana: not yet. that could change. >> bill: i got news for you. travis kelce number 87, kansas city chiefs is pulling out all the stops for taylor swift's birthday. she turns 34 tomorrow and her boyfriend is reportedly planning the best party possible. >> dana: that's high pressure. >> bill: us weekly revealing that money is no object when it comes to the shin dig. it will be in new york city. >> dana: you don't know where? >> bill: not yet. but i think there might be two extra tickets for this party.

>> dana: i would go. >> bill: i think dana and hemmer would love to go, right? >> dana: we'll keep it completely off the record and never say a word. never get it out of me. >> bill: we could still go? you like t-swift. i'm a t-swifty fan. i've been to a concert. >> dana: is she is in your spotify? >> did not make the top five. i'm dubious about that. >> dana: we'll talk about that in a little bit. >> bill: did we sell it? >> dana: i don't know if we got tickets yet. travis, call us. pedestrians being run down in seattle. police in the city say they aren't accidents. the latest on the search for a suspect that's next. "saturday night live" stoking controversy looking for laughs in a skit about that congressional hearing on anti-semitism. how did that go? >> now i'm going to start screaming questions at these women like i am billy eichner.

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>> i'll ask you straight up do you think genocide is bad? >> could i submit an answer in writing at a later date. >> am i winning this hearing? >> bill: that was just one of

the more tamer moments there. more coming out about the controversial snl skit. mocking congresswoman elise stefanik. reports saying that a comedy show alum was set to play the republican, pulled out last minute after feeling uncomfortable. tom shillue and tom pyro. saturday night lies? then the headline tone deaf snn opener proves how little cultural capital the show has now, suggesting perhaps it's irrelevant. >> it is completely irrelevant. they missed on the comedy and shouldn't have been included in the comedy in the first place. i feel bad. i was harsh to the person who did the stefanik impression. she was a last-minute replacement it explains why it was so horrible. but all this comes from the top.

loren michaels was born in a kibbutz. a jewish canadian and american as well. how did he let this be in the cold open in the first place? the reason is obviously they are trying to get that 18 to 22-year-old that everybody loves because of the cultural relevancy. well, you lost everybody else. it will send your showdown to oblivion. >> dana: it was completely unfunny. >> that's the barometer for it. elise stefanik, i love her. they treated her unfairly in the sketch. she called for an apology. no apologies for comedy. the punishment is the fact that the sketch bombed. that's what you do. when you do comedy, you get rewarded with laughter or if people don't like it, that's your punishment. this thing about apologies i think is ridiculous. the sketch was definitely tone deaf but only because they were writing the sketch and i think i can only assume some of the writers were like look, we can't not make fun of the republicans

in the sketch, too. when the thing started out it was all about elise stefanik and rather shrill and off putting and went into the sketch and tried to make fun of these college deans and presidents. but by that time there was a bad taste in your mouth for the whole thing. >> bill: the post says the opening sketch is the last sketch to be written. they wanted to be contemporary and a reflection of the news. you guys have not seen a show. i have. they do a rehearsal show earlier in the night and make amendments and edits and do the show live later at 11:30 eastern time. maybe they bumped the sketch up. what we really need to know is who was present at the rehearsal and then how did it come out later on the real show that we all saw? >> i saw that sketch. can you believe anybody in a rehearsal would laugh at that? >> strong said i'm out of here and you are right about loren

michaels. assuming he was present that night, how could he say this is okay? >> maybe he has lost control of that show. i don't mean to be pre-suppose but maybe somebody like chuck schumer who last week spoke out against the horrificness went six or seven weeks, maybe he was sort of made to be silent a little bit? it makes no sense somebody who has gone through the experience that loren michaels had would allow that to appear on his show. he is not just the head of it, he is the king of it. >> dana: do shows like snl care about criticism like this? >> the thing i disagree with about the post. it shows that this -- the cultural significance of the show is in the past. i don't think so. we're still talking about it. they put a sketch on there, the sketch bombs and everyone is talking about it for days and people are asking for apologies and politicians are quoting it? it has cultural power.

>> dana: how do they come back this week? >> it would be great if they did a writer's room thing and made fun of the writers. >> here is the way to gain good attention. be funny. you are a comedy show. try it. >> dana: great to see you boat. thank you so much. there is a major legal defeat for google. fortnight maker won. what it means for android users and other app developers. ♪ the all-in-one and done symptom relief of mucinex is delivered fast with doordash, so you don't have to leave the couch. oof! that was fast. mucinex. available on doordash. it's comeback season. ( ♪ )

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>> dana: fox news alert. house rules committee is marking up hr resolution 918, a resolution directing the framework for continued impeachment inquiry investigations and upholding the house's constitutional

authorities. it means the house republicans are likely to push through right here an official inquiry to impeach joe biden. >> bill: watching that now. watching this, too. from seattle police there hunting for some drivers who appear to be hitting pedestrians on purpose recording videos like this as they speed away and sometimes laugh about it. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep]. >> bill: that was at nighttime. we've seen some videos in daytime and they are horrific. dan springer live in seattle with a story from there. what did you find out? >> bill, as you just showed the video of these crimes is disgusting and absolutely frightening. [bleep] [bleep] [bleep] [laughter] >> a back seat passenger records on her phone as the driver

swerves. it happened before 2:00 a.m. from a security camera across the street you can see other people run to help the woman just hit. a half mile away a different vehicle mows down a person in the bus lane. victim tumbled over the top of the car as people inside the car laugh. police think that they happened on the same night. right now don't have any suspects or even the victims. they would not confirm how they got the videos. >> our detectives obtained videos of the crimes that occurred and in each video the driver targets and strikes random pedestrians. i'm asking with anymore with information to please come forward. >> it's similar to the murder of a former police chief as he rode his bike in las vegas in august. that video got posted on social media. the driver and passenger were arrested and are being tried as

adults. crimenologist at seattle university who wrote a book titled copycat crime too many people are detaching from reality and losing empathy as they seek likes. >> an evidence of a rise of performance crimes of all kinds whether we're talking about performance crimes that are mass shootings or performance crimes where people are mimicking tiktok challenges. >> an 82% increase in fatalities from hit and run accidents. we don't have stats on these sickening targeted attacks. >> bill: it is sickening. stay on it. thank you, dan. dana. >> dana: google taking a hit loses an antitrust lawsuit filed by epic games. a fierce battle over whether the tech giants app store is a monopoly. kelly o'grady explains it. here she is from los angeles.

hi, kelly. >> that's right. putting a lot of pressure on google. in four hours the jury decided the tech giant is guilty of maintaining using its might to get excess fees from developers. epic said it's a within for all app developers and consumers around the world proves google use their monopoly to reduce innovation and stifle competition. google will fight it. they provide more choice and openness than any other major mobile platform. we compete fiercely. one of the trial's biggest revelations were the special privilege google afforded companies. allowed spotify to use payment system without taking a cut. what comes next could be messy? the judge won't pronounce a sentence until next month. google facing gives the app store customers leverage to sue or negotiate a better deal and

dana, analysts warn pandora's box is open and this could -- [ >> bill: we told you about this yesterday. prince william and kate middleton's christmas card. some others were -- royal fans were underwhelmed. here is what we said. roll that first and watch. >> dana: it looks like an american family shot. a lot of that. maybe people were looking for a little bit more, you know, pizzazz. let's find out what martha maccallum thinks. >> bill: she answered. >> i heard you were talking about the royal family christmas portrait. i just thought i would weigh in.

i don't know where you stand on this bust i thought really? it looks like it was shot, reminded me of getting my high school portrait done with a weird back drop. how about the palace and a lot of castles and rock walls there ought to be a better place to take a portrait. i would go back to that. >> dana: i agree with her. i wonder if they were trying to be like more of the people. even though they are royal. people like to have a little romance and pomp and circumstance. >> bill: it's not like they are short of ideas. >> dana: it was a definite choice. i read something about the photo shop fail or something and i have to look into that a little bit more. i'll get to that before "the five." we'll see you there. sandra smith is in for harris. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> sandra: thank you very much. she is not going anywhere. harvard governing