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mayorkas back on capitol hill today to participate in border policy talks as the senate is postponing their holiday break to continue negotiating a possible immigration deal, which house lawmakers have demanded in exchange for additional u.s. assistance to ukraine. welcome to fox news live. i'm griff jenkins. hour two, here we go, aishah. aishah: here we go, griff. i'm aishah hasnie. u.s. border protection worning agents to be on the lookout for explosive devices after the mexican military obtained ten ieds on the border. what do we know, alexandria? reporter: this is nothing new and explosive devices housed on the mexican side of the border. as for what's going on in congress right now, emergency aid funding for aid in israel and ukraine and con ting gent on lawmakers -- contingent on u.s. border policy agreement and the senate indeed pushed back its

holiday recess. secretary mayorkas arrived back on the hill earlier to continue meetings with senate negotiators and we've learned he's since departed for the day and gnat majority leader chuck schumer plans to hold a vote to advance a funding package next week no matter what. even if a deal is reached, the gop-controlled house has gone home for the holidays and appears unlikely they'd return to take up a package before the new year. this week the white house began being involved in the negotiation and president biden indicated he's getting involved on border policy and that's become a political problem for democrats and fox news captured this video and trains in mexico bound for the u.s. and senator john fetterman said this on thursday. >> we can't pretend there's no issue here and they're not ideal to be dealing with it right now before the holidays, but here's where we're at so it's not xenophobic to have a conversation about border security. reporter: yesterday arizona's

democratic governor katie hobbs announcing she signed an executive order that sends the national guard to border communities and wrote this "i'm taking action for the federal government won't". the u.s. border patrol is warning agents to"exercise extreme caution after the mexican military seized ten explosive devices on the border". we'll continue seeing the threats and puts the lives of our agents and border patrol agents, troopers and national guardsmen and anybody across the border puts their lives at resident and can these are the threats close to the border right now. reporter: border security is national security they argue. griff, aishah. aishah: alex hoff live for us. griff: alex is right, it's national security and more on border funding, we're joined by a republican congresswoman from north carolina and community member virginia foxx. congresswoman, merry christmas early. let's dig right in. you guy haves gone home, the

house, for a holiday break. the senate still holding on possible talks and we know secretary mayorkas up on the hill and where do you see things standing with regards to a possible border deal? exchange for ukraine funding? >> well, this border deal should have been done a long time ago, griff. we passed hr12 soon after we opened the session early this year. hr2's been in the senate and they've dallied around till the polls are telling them this is a serious issue for the president. when you've got fetterman and sinema talking about it and even kate hobbs who said that the border wasn't an issue during her campaign, and now they are. it's something that we have to deal with. the american people are sick and tired of what president biden has done, what secretary mayorkas has done and they both

should be impeached for doing this, particularly mayorkas because he's been carrying out the orders of the president, but we're going down that road and we need to do something about the border, and we should have done it a long time ago. when president trump was in office, he had the strongest border policies we've ever had. we need to go back to those policies. griff: congresswoman, we're looking live now at eagle pass, texas. the border patrol processing the migrants there under the port of entry and just spent the last seven days reporting there and i understand from my sources this morning, they've had at least three chinese migrants crossing there, the entirety of the week and there are more than 15,000 congresswoman, the week before more than 17,000 and just this one del rio sector, eagle pass' total population is only 30,000. they're getting the entire population crossing every two weeks there right now. but yet your colleague, in the last hour, congressman glen ivy

says republicans, yourselves, are the ones to blame for inaction. listen here. >> they can't resolve issues with respect to the issues we were just talking about so yet house republican leadership pulling bills off the floor and you've got people like congressman chip roy going on the floor to complain about the inability of the house republican leadership to get things done. that's a big part of the problem. problem. griff: congresswoman, do you own some of the blame? >> we absolutely do not. again, hr2 is pa passed and seno the senate and it's the democrats that won't do it. griff, you've seen this and you've been around a long time. the democrats project onto republicans what their problems are. they refuse to seal the border. we need president trump back in office and when he was in office we did not have these problems and i'm endorsing his return to the presidency so we can solve

this with republicans in office. it is the senate, the democrats in the senate, the democrats in the house. we passed hr2, no democrats support that had and we need to close that border down. we need -- in our funding bill, we had money for additional border patrol, not to be babysitters and not to be a welcoming party but should brinm coming in. we need to continue building the wall. we need all of president trump's policies back in place and we need to stop this. president biden's reversed the policies on his first day in office and we need president biden gone. we can't take four more years of this, griff. we have got to have president trump back in office. griff: and in the border patrol agents, that i spent so much of my time covering, they can't take much more. they need something done right now. i want to just change gears before we run out of time, congresswoman, because i want to

update -- i want your insight on where the house investigation into this widespread raging anti-semitism on college campuses is. what's being done about it? what can we expect? >> well, we have launched an investigation into the anti-semitism that exists on campus and we will follow that investigation wherever it leads us and it may cause us to bring in presidents again, we don't know. we'll have people devoted specifically to doing these investigations and it's not just going to be the campuses that we brought in before, harvard, mit, and upenn but campuses all over the country. we intend to stop this rampant anti-semitism on the campuses, griff. griff: and do you believe that it is a violation of these students' rights to particularly the jewish students on these

campuses, to not be provided safety, to not be assured confidence that they won't be both intimidated and/or physically even attacked? >> oh, absolutely it's a violation of their rights. i remember one right in the constitution is our right to religion. our second right is the right to free speech. these students have a right to practice their religion to be jewish and to not hide their jewishness or to hide their faith. this is wrong what's happened on these campuses. and the number one role of the president is safety of the students there. they need to be paying closer attention to that, griff. griff: congresswoman virginia foxx, thank you for your time and insight. have a merry christmas. >> you too, griff. aishah: gop hopefuls are

campaigning in iowa this weekend as former president trump will hold a rally today in new hampshire. mark meredith is live in durham, new hampshire, with the very latest on that campaign trail, hi, mark. reporter: hi, aishah. we've moved inside because that rally is getting ready to get started with the former president will take the stage behind he. pretty large crowd out here for today's turnout and one of the most notable events from trump in the granite state and there's been so many questions about how this contest now just a bit more than a month away will shape up. florida governor ron desantis, he was in new hampshire just yesterday. still holding multiple stops at businesses and talking about why he believes he's the only person that can offer a true alternative to the former president. obviously a lot of focus will be on the bitterness between desantis and trump going forward, but we heard from the governor who once again has the ground game that's needed to get to victory. >> people are saying that you're focusing more on iowa than new

hampshire and that haley is focusing on number. that's not thy true. there's a phenomenal group of legislatures. reporter: we need to see what the kind of reaction will be in the next few weeks after the former un ambassador nikki haley running for the republican nomination scored a big endorsement and the endorsement of the governor and chris sununu and this is an endorsement highly suggest after and everybody -- sought after and trying to get sununu's support and he backed nikki haley because he believes she's able to offer a true alternative and also a foreign policy experience for her time in the un and record when she was in the governor's mansion down in south carolina so what are we going to hear from trump today? i would imagine he's going after his opponents quite heavily like we've seen in the previous rallies and we're about to talk to one of his surrogates out here and they say they're not worried at all and they feel very good going into this primary. aishah, where the countdown is on. aishah: mark meredith live at

us. well, the president is touting a strong chicago as inflation eases and bring in the political strategist and republican strategist joe opinion and david carlouchi and, gentlemen, thank you. david, it's very fascinating moment where all the numbers and data points and all the stuff that the white house is putting out and it points to the back of the economy getting better. inflation seems to be coming down. however, the average person at home, middle america isn't feeling it. if you pull this recent fox news poll and see how bad they're not feeling it -- the fox news poll asked see any signs the economy has started to turn the corner and the worst is over? 67% of americans said no. so should the white house, david, start touting the economy

again because bidenomics didn't go so well, or do you think they need to start meeting voters in the middle and acknowledging, look, we hear you. it doesn't feel like the economy has gotten better. >> yeah, i think you're exactly right. look, every economic indicator is pointing to the fact that biden's policies are working. we just hit a record on the stock market so people unfortunately are not expressing how they're feeling, you know, in a positive way but that's not because the policies aren't working. it's the messaging isn't working. that's why you see the biden camp switching over to this instead of bidenomics, this maganomics and we all know in politics, it's easier to destroy than build. that's why negative campaigning has become so popular, and it's easy to throw bombs and throw rocks at your opponent when they're leading and making hard decisions. it's another thing to have policies that actually work so republicans are in a great position because they can attack, attack, attack and even

when the economic indicators are pointing to the fact that biden has righted the ship. the fed just said this week that they're not going to be increasing interest rates. in fact, they're going to lower interest rates. we've never seen this, when inflation has hit this high, the only way to rebuke is slow growth and what often happens is recession. jerome powell said it looks like we can avoid recession because of the economic policies biden put in place. this is politics of dislike sos it's got to be about attacking unfortunately instead of talking about positive things you're doing. aishah: joe, i hear that, david, but, joe, for some people out there, they feel like it's messaging, messaging, messaging from this white house and they're talking about things but not listening to the voters. how do republicans seize this opportunity as david said? they seem to be talking about how bad things are but not talking as much about solutions. how do republicans take advantage of this?

>> republicans take advantage by telling people they should believe their own eyes and there's that old saying, pride come ethn -- cometh before the l and the peak cometh before the valley. they want to teach about macroeconomics and i spent my entire life telling us that gdp was not a pleasure of the health of people living on main street and they don't seem to realize that while they're touting the christmas shopping sprees of most people. we've got 25% of americans who are still paying for christmas of 2022. at the same time where we have a 20% interest rate on average on that credit card debt that has now eclipsed a trillion dollars, the highest we've seen at the highest rate of average interest in the history of tracking the statistic and no, all is not well on main street usa. and the longer the biden administration keeps telling people that their bank account is a mirage, the economic woes they're seeing is to the real

and the electric bills that have gone through the roof because they've declared war on natural gas and nuclear energy at a time we need @ most is somehow just a right strategy for them to lower your bill 40 years from now. republicans have to sit back and tell people they're lying to you time and time again. aishah: let me get one where are topic in here because we're running out of time. 50% of black voters and 70% of hispanic voters disapprove of the way president biden is handling the economy and this white house is trying to attack it and sent cp harris down to howard university, her alma mater this weekend and doing a bunch of other things getting on radio and these minority radio stations are trying to push ads out there. but let me ask you, david, there's a concern that the black and hispanic voter is not going to be able to be convinced in a year and rather than moving over to a trump vote, they won't show

up to vote. you'll have apathetic voters. are you concerned about that? >> yeah, we should all be concerned about that and that's why the polls are something we don't have to take as the holy grail and we need to be concerned about and that's why the biden camp is taking this extremely seriously and making sure that they're reaching out to the voters that have traditionally been the base of the democratic party and make sure they're listening to all the voters and particularly the certain demographics and showing a lack of enthusiasm and enthusiasm is one thing and showing up to the ballot box is another and being scout there's many indicators and about frustration overall and we're in a very tough situation both internationally and domestically and biden is making hard decisions and any time i say when you want to make an omelet, crack a few eggs. if you're going to move forward, you're always going to be making some enemies along the way or some problems. but overall this is a blessing for the biden campaign because

they know, hey, these are where some potential problems are, but this is how we can fix it and a year out, this is really a blessing for biden and harris to be able to know, hey, these are some of the concerns and like you said, i'm very doubtful this will translate to votes for republicans. aishah: let me get to joe for the final word here. >> a dream defer second-degree d is a dream denied and the black community doesn't have that many eggs left to break. yes, they're going to try to scare black voters into submission as democrats have done time and time again. they're going to try and do what gavin newsom did on this network and try to say we're going to bring people back to the 1960s, the president has suggest that had republicans will put them back in chains. but the actual chains that are destroying our communities and schools not educating our children from new york to california, 70%+ of black children not being able to do math at grade level over 60% nationwide not being able to read at grade level and democrats keep telling us we're not allowed to have that

conversation because it's much more important for democrats to hold onto power so that those dreams and eggs can be broken once again. that's my perspective, and i love david, we love these debates but at the end of the day, we have to confront the facts, not the rhetoric. aishah: joe, david, we ran out of time. thank you so much for joining us. come back soon. thanks, guys. >> great to be with you. griff: an investigation is now underway after the idf mistakenly killed three israeli hostages in the gaza strip. this comes as u.s. tries persuading israel's strategy in gaza. greg pee li pelcot joining us lm southern israel. reporter: hey, griff, it was this time yesterday we first reported about that deadly incident involving hostages and israeli forces. since then, we've gotten a few more details. the three hostages involved were

a 28-year-old, a 25-year-old, and a 26-year-old, all males and mistakenly identified by troops on the ground as the enemy and killed. it happened in a tough neighborhood and the three came out of a building shirtless and one waving a makeshift white flag and one yelling help in had he hebrew and the troops realizd something had gone badly wrong and they took the bodies back for identification. this triggered massive new protests and gatherings by the families and supporters as the 130 hostages remaining in gaza and calling on the government to bring the hostages back home. let's hear from the father of a 19-year-old son and hostage. >> israeli government is to be active, they need to put an

offer on the table including prisoners with blood on their hands, and put the best offer on the table to get the hostages back. reporter: in fact right now, griff, those families are meeting with the so-called war cabinet that includes israeli prime minister benjamin net netanyahu and got to believe there's a lot of tough words being said across the table and there's sad news about another individual thought to be alive, held hostage by ha mass now confirmed -- hamas held hostage and confirmed dead. she was kidnapped by hamas at the music festival on october 7 and described as a gifted, creative person, full of love, selflessness with a joy of life. she leaves behind her two parents and a brother. yes, griff, just a make things even worse, her body remains inside the darkenened and war tn

gaza strip behind us. tough stuff. back to you. griff: devastating news for that family indeed. greg palkot live for us in southern israel. greg, thank you. aishah. aishah: griff, still to come, what the unprecedented new homelessness numbers reveal about post-pandemic policies. do they work? that's next. ♪ sleep more deeply. and wake up rejuvenated. purple mattresses exclusive gel flex grid draws away heat relieves pressure and instantly adapts. sleep better. live purple. right now, get the purple or purple plus mattress starting at just $599. visit purple.com or a store near you today. my name's dan and i live here in san antonio, texas. i ran my own hvac business and now i'm retired. i'm not good being retired. i'm a pain in the neck. i like to be able to have a purpose.

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decision shocking new numbers reveal a 12% invest in american homelessness making it the highest level ever reported. brian is here with the latest. >> hey, griff this. is the highest number of homeless reported since the federal government started the survey in 2007 primarily driven by people that game became homeless for the first time. just over 653,000 people were experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2023. 24 thanksgiving thanksgiving is up 12% -- that is up 20% from 2022. half of homeless family withs children in america this. is the first time in a decade that family homelessness increased in the u.s., there are 186,000 people in families with children experiencing hopelessness and that's an increase of 16%.

now, the top five major cities with the largest homeless populations are new york city, o los angeles, seattle, san diego and denver. new york city saw the largest year over year increase in hopelessness. more than half of the country's homelessness is in four states, california with 28% oaf the hopeless population, more than 181,000 people followed by new york, florida, and washington. california also has the largest population of unsheltered homeless people and 123,000 people living on the streets and on the sidewalks in the golden state. that's nearly eight times higher than the next highest state with unsheltered homeless people, florida. experts say all of this is primarily due to the ex-frank siller ordinary rent increases in 2022. >> i think it's a disturbing trend going on for a long time and as i said, the main driver

of this relevant touchdown pass modern policy and rent going up faster than wages in a modest job. that's what's driving it. >> department of housing blames the winding down of covid-19 processions like eviction moratoriums and rental assistance and stimulus payments and, griff, we do not know what percentage of the numbers are from migrants. a lot of cities have been overwhelmed from migrants in their shelter system. griff: that's a great point and a disturbing trend there. brian yunis live for us in the news room. aishah: a dramatic escalation in the middle east and uss care year in the red sea rushed to a cargo ship under fire. more on that, next.

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with little effect. reporter: they were provided air and space magazines a target list and u.s. forces could strike radar, gun, and missile sites along the coastline and you have the strike group to do it and pulled from the persian gulf and off the coast of yemen steaming west in position to take strike ifs so ordered against yemen. could launch super hornets on board and also cruise missiles from the destroyers in the group and the first strikes into afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks and not just attacks on international shipping, griff. there's been nearly 100 drone and rocket attacks in iraq and syria since the middle of october and the u.s. responded about once for every 17 attacks attacksand jake sullivan spoke yesterday from israel. >> the houthis are pulling the trigger but they're being handed

the gun by iran and iran has a responsibility to take steps themselves to sees these att attacks. >> our military will not hesitate to take action where we deem it necessary and appropriate. reporter: the white house has been hesitant to take action on a third country after a handful of strikes in iraq and syria. that could soon change, griff. griff: live at the white house. lucas, thank you. aishah. aishah: former ambassador at large and nonresident fellow gnat than sails to talk about why the white house, i guess, is seemingly on the defensive here. why are we not attacking the launch sites? >> it's a great question.

seems to be open season on americans in the region and not just americans but the shipping containers on the ships as well. i think the white house is afraid of its own shadow and afraid of provoking iran, which is the puppet master here. we talk about the houthis and talk about the militia groups in iraq and acting on orders from teheran and using weapons provided by teheran and trained by teheran and if you want to stop the attacks, you've got to crush the head of the snake and the head of the snake is iran republic and long-term goal of driving the united states out of the region and destroying a state of israel f. we simply sit back as though we were a spectator, iran will keep doing it. aishah: we've done it before and gone out into the administration and there's a lot of panic that would set off world war iii and that didn't happen. you mentioned one of the allies does not want us to do this. >> yeah, it's not just during the trump administration and

tool soleimani off the battle force and ronald reagan did something in the 1980s and sank half the iranian navy in one day and we did not find ours ourseln world war iii and the lesson we need to draw from history is iran backs down when confronts with displays of american strength. it's american weakness that is provocative. now, there's also some countries in the region that are telling us like maybe don't take out the houthis because that's going to disrupt the very uneasy ceasefire that exists. the houthis have been waging war on saudi arabia, on the united arab arab emirates for a numberf years and there's concern about what it means for the united states to take out houthi terrorists, but that's what we have to do. that's the price we have to pay for being a super power. at a minimum. we've got to be able to protect our own troops and to protect

our diplomats and simply hoping for the best and hoping the houthis ceasefiring is not a recipe for success. aishah: at the end of the day, this is all about israel and trying to blockade israel and creating chaos in the waters but let me ask you, should we expect other european countries get involved and uk was involved with us today. should there be some sort of coalition in the waters to protect the ships? >> i don't think that would hurt and as you said, the european countries that have robust military capabilities are taking the steps that we are to try and protect the shipping in this region. problem is once you go through the threats and french, we're not talking about a long list of european military partners and that's a big problem and a separate problem. the basic problem here is the united states has all the authority we need and we have all the tools we need to protect our people and to protect ships that are bringing goods and oil

around the world and if you think inflation is out of control now, wait till ewe see what happen when is the houthis shut down the red sea. we don't need more partners to prevent that from happening and we need will and we need the president and white house to make the decision that this matters that we're going to use the capabilities we have to protect americans and to protect commerce. aishah: going back to that, what happen ifs they shut down the red sea. they're able to and we don't do anything about it. what happens to an average american? >> prices go up dramatically. i mean, we already heard that 10% of the world's oil comes through the red sea. so many goods and services -- goods that we are purchasing for christmas probably came through the red sea. if you take those shipping quarters offline and that's what the houthis are trying to do, if you take that offline, that's going to hit americans in the pocketbook. at a time when they're going to be paying off credit card bills from a christmas blowout and

again, the white house needs to take this seriously and we have all the tools we need and we've got two carrier groups right now on station. these aren't there for show and they're there to take action. aishah: do you think we could see something over the holidays? some kind of -- they're not saying anything right now and they wouldn't. it would be a surprise attack and are you confident that we could see something a bit more aggressive from the white house? >> i wouldn't hold my breath. we've seen since october, mid october and almost 100 attacks from u.s. soldiers and sit back and wait for another half does and ratio about 20-1. after about 20 attacks, you'll see the american response and the responses have been underwhelming blowing up an md and the message isn't getting across. >> or the message is open season on attack with american imp

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obsolete and need to re-invis rate america without it. prisons create problems and not solve them. we've been warehousing our people for a generation and time to free america. joining us now is fox news contributor ted williams. ted, i'm confused, the district attorney in california has just named his chief of staff to be a woman who is openly just assailing the police. there's images of her on her own social media wearing t-shirts that say police have been trained to kill us. how has this happened? >> you know, that's an excellent question, griff. let me say merry christmas to you first. i got to tell you, it's an insult and it's outrageous that the prosecutor in la would name someone who made these kind of

person as his chief of staff. the prosecutors and law enforcement have to be joined at the hip. when you do this kind of thing, you cause a schism between the prosecutors and the law enforcement officers and the sad commentary, griff, is this is when the citizens of los angeles suffer. griff: what's striking to me, ted, is that one of the take aways in the wake of george floyd, riots that you and i covered together. the wake of that, there was a lessen for cities across the country, new york, washington, dc and all the way to la and elsewhere that the defund the police rhetoric got so hot that it really debilitated police forces and we saw crime rise. but yet it would appear gascon

hasn't learn that had lesson. >> i whole heartedly agree with you. the citizens especially in los angeles have to be wondering what is going on in their communities where they're watching crime rise and a district attorney who apparently has little or no respect for the community and that's a dangerous concoction. the criminals out there are watching, griff, and as a result of that, crime is on the rise because of the schism between gascon's office and law enforcement. griff: you were a former cop in dc. if you were a young man today looking to possible join the lapd, would this influence your decision on whether or not to do it? >> griff, i would not be a police officer in la when i know that the district attorney there does not have my back. you have to have law enforcement and the district attorney on the

same page or you're going to find that the criminals will always win. griff: ted, i want to turn quickly before we run out of time here to what's happening in dc and this youth rehabilitation law allowing judges to give lighter sentences to individuals 24 and under, which i don't know where they got that number from because if you're over 18, you should be charged as an adult. you've got carjackings spiraling out of control in washington dc, mostly by young individuals in at least more than 60% of the cases, not sure exactly what the numbers are now. here, you've got what would essentially be the prosecutor in dc, matt graves weighing in on saying he was sounding the alarm about things just like this. listen here. >> i have been sounding the alarm that the criminal justice system that dc has built does not meet the moment that we are in.

the mayor has correctly flagged that the laws have gone too far over the last seven years. griff: ted, the last word on what we're seeing there in washington and whether they can get this under control. >> they need to get it under control and the district attorney is accurate that dc laws are lacking and what is happening and i say hooray to the department of justice and over 900 carjackings in the district of columbia alone and many are juveniles and given a pat on the wrist and let to go free. what they're now doing is they're charging some of these juveniles as adults and that is what is necessary. there was a mandatory maximum minimum penalty but if you were under the age of tarik it gave judges discretionary -- discretion as to how they were going to be charged, i'm saying

hooray, what we need to do is send a signal to the juveniles in the district of columbia that if you commit a carjacking, you're going to be charged as an adult. you need to be because unfortunately we've had a lot of people killed and murdered as a result of carjackings in the district of columbia. griff: we've got to leave it there, but you're quite right about that and it's only getting worse. ted williams, thank you for taking time and merry christmas to you sir. >> my pleasure, my friend. griff: aishah. aishah: still to come, many airline pilots afraid to seek mental healthcare till now. what changed, that's next. ♪ life, diabetes, there's no slowing down. each day is a unique blend of people to see and things to do. that's why you choose glucerna to help manage blood sugar response. uniquely designed with carbsteady. glucerna. bring on the day!

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system that shames and silences people can lead to unacceptable safety risks". one example comes as recently as october. an off duty alaskaen airline pilot pleaded not guilty after officials say he tried to turn off both plane engines mid flight and claims he was having a nervous breakdown and the committee is a panel of aviation and medical experts that will give recommendations to the faa. the hope is to break down any barriers for pilots or air traffic controllers to get mental health help. the faa says it's committed to prioritizing mental health. the new rule making committee is an extension of the efforts. the faa also says it encourages pilots to seek help for mental health issues because if most if treated do not qualify a pilot from applying. most say the committee is useless unless solid changes are made. >> if you don't address this, it's just going to fester, it's going to grow so we've got to

make sure that when the faa gets these recommend daises, they actually institute them. don't cherry pick. reporter: the faa plans to name the committee members by the end of this year. aishah. aishah: madison, thank you and a big welcome to fox news nor first day. welcome. griff: welcome, madison. great to have you on the team. r that's allin for us. fox news live continues. - it's okay, we're here to help you. (piano music begins) - hi, little guys. - [man] settle in. (van door closing) - time to meet your families! (puppies barking) (puppies sniffing) - hi there! - what should we name him? - buster! shingles. some describe it as pulsing electric shocks or sharp, stabbing pains. ♪

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