to make sure. >> dana: how does the process of homeless veterans work? >> they are there on the street. it is simple. we work with the v.a. v.a. is helping and we have such a network of volunteers all throughout america. so i want you to know we just rolled out one in houston. we reramped an apartment house. it is beautiful. amazing. this is where we're doing it now. georgia, alabama, florida, pennsylvania, california, oregon, new jersey, washington, d.c. washington, d.c., nevada, oklahoma, tennessee, washington state, colorado, south carolina. >> bill: soon pub 50 states. >> we're buying these hotels and making them housing for these veterans to live with some dignity. >> bill: it's the season of giving. thank you for mentioning what we do with you along your journey. but we do it because of you. >> dana: good leadership.

thanks, frank. >> god bless all of you. >> bill: $1one a month. there he is. >> dana: new allegations of plagiarism from harvard as there are calls for action. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: how are you doing? >> dana: great. >> bill: frank, thanks, merry christmas. i'm bill hemmer, good morning at home. harvard has a big problem as new reporting reveals mounting evidence of academic miscon tepidity by claudine gay. she managed to keep her job despite previous claims of pledge orism and calling out jewish genocide saying it depends on context and said it repeatedly. >> dana: this is why i was looking ahead. yesterday the school received a complaint containing dozens of examples like this that claim

gay quoted or paraphrased authors which could force the school to at least open an investigation. >> bill: something tells me it is not over. molly line is on that this morning. >> these additional allegations of pledge orism by claudine gay are coming from a professor at another university who, quote, requested anonymity for fear of retaliation. according to the washington free beacon. harvard university received the complaint on tuesday. detailing over 40 alleged cases in which gay quoted or paraphrased authors without proper attribution. examples are described as, quote, missing quotation marks around a few phrases or sentences to entire paragraphs lifted verbatim. we reached out to harvard for comment and not heard back. she survived the calls to resign after failing to state during a congressional hearing that calling for the genocide of jews

on campus would be against school rules. after her follow-up apology the harvard corporation, university's governing body, stood by her affirming confidence in her leadership last week while acknowledging, quote, a if you instances of inadequate citation in her work. the harvard crimson reported extensively on the allegations against her included noting harvard's guidelines on plagiarism and the "boston globe" writes did claudine gay -- they join the list added freshly to the updated list of more than two dozen universities being investigated by the u.s. department of education for discrimination in the wake of hamas' october 7th attack on israel. >> bill: thank you, molly line there in massachusetts. i said the story is not over for a reason because we keep on finding more stuff.

>> dana: jason riley of the "wall street journal" had a piece that said why harvard can't fire claudine gay. he makes some interesting points. the new allegations keep coming forward, new evidence and maybe they will have to revisit. >> bill: the "boston globe" is pulling in this professor from the university of kentucky. apparently that's where some of the writings were lifted, i guess we could say, right? the globe says quote, if a harvard student were to turn in a paper with the same missing citations and quotation marks what would the university call that and how would it respond? i imagine that student application would be turned away. we have martha coming up later this hour to talk about it then. >> dana: we have another top story for you today. four unelected all democrat appointed justices on the colorado supreme court have barred former president trump from appearing on the state's republican primary ballot. >> bill: they based its decision on section three of the 14th

amendment, the insurrection clause ruling he is not eligible to run for a second term because of the alleged role in the riot of january 6th. law professor jonathan turley calling that decision strikingly undemocratic. >> this country is a powder keg and this court is throwing matches at it. this is a time where we need democracy. we need to allow the voters to vote and hear their decision. and the court here just said you aren't going to get that in colorado. we're not going to let you vote for donald trump. >> dana: president trump himself for the first time this morning calling this a sad day for america. let's bring in former deputy assistant attorney general tom dupree. you heard it last night at 6:30. things were bubbling up. what is your reaction? >> my reaction it will be a short-lived ruling. i'm extremely confident the united states supreme court is going to come in in fairly short order or stay and ultimately

reverse the decision of the colorado supreme court. the real irony here is in the name of protecting democracy, the colorado supreme court basically extinguished one of the citizens rights in our democracy. the right to vote for the candidate of their choice. i suspect the supreme court will step in before too long. >> bill: i ask you to read minds. apologize about that. this has come up in other states and those courts rejected it. why would colorado take it on? >> that's right. this decision comes as you said against a tide of other decisions from other states squarely rejecting this theory. the colorado vote was spelt as you reported, a 4-three vote. it passed by one single justice's vote. the fact that there is now disagreement among the states does make it far more likely that the united states supreme court will step in. that's one of their big rules. when you have issues that split the lower courts where you have different state supreme courts

disagreeing with one another on a question of constitutional law. that's a situation where the supreme court steps in to set the law right. >> dana: one of the things i saw last night from a liberal commentator if conservatives claim to believe in state's rights they will say colorado made a good decision here. how did conservatives push back against that? >> sure. states rights are very important but states rights like everything are bounded by the limitations of the united states constitution. and so even if a state says this is how we interpret our law and what we think our law requires they are still subject to the requirements of the constitution of the united states. so i think states rights is a good argument but not sure it carries the day in this case. >> bill: number three, guys, here is what it reads in part. no person shall be a senator, representative in congress or elected for president or vice president taken an oath and on it goes have engaged in insurrection or given aid or

comfort to the enemies. what i hear from smart guys like you is that the constitution did not address the presidents. do you buy that argument? does that apply here, tom? >> yeah, i think there is certainly a debatable question as to whether or not this applies to the president of the united states. i think the other thing that the amendment is silent on and this is where i think the colorado supreme court and united states supreme court will say they went awry saying it's the process by which you determine whether someone engaged in insurrection. in other words, this is not a case where there has been a criminal charge against former president trump for engaging in insurrection. he was convicted of that and therefore disqualified. instead this is a situation where the colorado supreme court basically took it onto itself in the context of this proceeding being litigated by the former president's political opponent to decide that he had done this. therefore he was disqualified. therefore colorado people didn't

have a right to vote for him for president. >> dana: the supreme court doesn't always like to get involved with things but this will come their way. most decisions are 9-0, 8-one. do you expect the same with this or do you think it will break down on ideological grounds? >> you know, call me overly optimistic. there is a decent chance the supreme court may muster a unanimous opinion in this case. it wouldn't surprise me if some of the more liberal justices agreed the colorado supreme court overstepped their bounds. liberals understand that even though politically oppose former president trump, that this isn't exactly the way the constitution envisioned it playing out. in that amendment it also says you can disqualify people for having given aid or comfort to an enemy. of course, i would tell my liberal friends what if the tables were turned and you had conservative clerks and courts in other jurisdictions finding that various democratic

officials gave comfort to an enemy and ineligible to serve in office. you can see how things could break down pretty quickly if this were the law. >> bill: the context of that comes out of the civil war, which was something else. tom, thank you, sir. nice to have you and we'll call on you again. on the heels of that conversation and colorado's ruling ron desantis this hour talking with voters in iowa. he was in urban dale, iowa. here is what he said moments ago about this topic. >> if somebody is convicted of some of these things. there was no trial on any of this. they basically said you can't be on the ballot. how does that work? what's the limiting principle for that? could we just say that biden can't be on the ballot because he let in 8 million illegals into the country and violated the constitution? or they have money coming to hunter, whatever? so i think the u.s. supreme court will reverse that. here is the larger thing of what the left and the media and

democrats are doing. they are doing all this stuff to basically solidify support in the primary. >> dana: so you have all of the republican candidates running against president trump in that primary in agreement that the supreme court should push this back. >> bill: they came out quickly, too. that's desantis from today and now we move to this today on president biden. the economy not sitting well with many americans. that's not stopping the president, though. he is on the trail to tout the economy to wisconsin voters in his third trip to the battleground state this year as the campaign picks up. peter doocy is live at the white house with more on that now. nice to see you, peter. hello. >> there is no course correction happening at the biden white house. the president plans to double down on bidenomics as his economic policy when he visits battleground wisconsin. >> he will talk about bidenomics. he will talk about how small businesses are the pillar of bite nom ickx and how important it is. we have seen record application,

more than 14 million applications for people wanting to start a small business and that's because bidenomics is indeed working. >> is it? fox news poll finds 14% of registered voters feel like they have been helped by president biden's economic policies. a number that has declined since december of 2021. activists have also been warning president biden to stop being so supportive of israel's campaign in gaza or they will withhold support in 2024. >> i can't speak for every american citizen. i can tell you a couple of things. the president doesn't make national security decisions based on polls. he makes them based on principles. >> another headache the daily mail is reporting president biden's brother is also caught up in hunter biden's latest indictment for allegations of tax crimes. however, the first son was spotted on marine one at the white house yesterday. he was not listed on the flight manifest and moving forward he won't be.

>> that's something that we've never done. this is the family. the family gets to travel with the president and that's been the case with every other president and so it's not something that we have done or we would be doing moving forward. >> president biden could probably set the record straight on a lot of this stuff a few minutes ago walking off to marine one he chose not to answer any shouted questions. >> bill: i don't think you will stop trying, however. good luck. thank you, peter. nice to see you, brother, north lawn. >> if hamas would begin releasing hostages again, i'm sure we could obtain humanitarian pause. >> dana: a potential temporary truce in israel/hamas war. talks swirling of a humanitarian pause between the two arch enemies because of the recent pressure israel has put on that country. >> bill: you have the fight against retail theft.

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>> israel is ready for another humanitarian pause and humanitarian aid in order to enable the release of hostages. >> dana: israeli's openness in pause in fighting to allow for

more hostages to be released. axios scooped details on what the deal could look like, including securing the release of roughly 40 hostages. the group would include the remaining women that hamas is holding. men older than 60 and other hostages wounded or ill. many of them since they've been underground for so long. >> bill: border talks in d.c. pushed until next year after days of back and forth. congress will not reach a deal. the latest surge at the border is concerning a lot of voters. moments ago screen left we showed you that last hour. bill melugin says a group of 500 came through the wall earlier today. they're moving toward a processing center. very few border agents there. we saw them with clean clothes, nice backpacks and iphones that had a charge. former border patrol chief chris clem stands by. aishah hosni on the hill to explain whether they'll ever get

a deal. >> good morning to you. they are all headed home today. while they're home, bill, they are likely to hear from a lot of voters pretty angry about the border situation. according to a new fox news poll just released this week eight out of ten voters describe the southern border as a major problem or an emergency. and this is really, really bad here for president biden. 63% of voters now believe that he has not done a good job on the border. that's the kind of polling, bill, that vulnerable democrats in red or swing states cannot ignore. even lead gop negotiator james langford has noticed the pressure is convincing more and more democrats to want to find a solution even if they won't love it in the end. here is what democrat senator peter welch said political ramifications of not getting a deal done. >> it's vulnerable democrats in these toss-up states like

montana, john tester will get something addressed at the border that will hurt them. >> the border is a real issue. what we're doing is whatever the outcome showing there is a really determined effort on the part of democrats to be part of a solution here. >> so negotiators will continue working over the holidays. we're told this could last for weeks trying to figure out a deal and that is setting up for a major messy january when we're also looking at a government funding shutdown. that deadline is looming as well. a lot to consider. >> bill: don't call in sick. thank you, live on the hill there. i want to bring in chris clem, retired border patrol chief of the yuma sector. welcome back to our program. we call on you a lot. we were observing the group that came over an hour ago. chris, is it ridiculous to offer the following suggestion? you have the cartels follow american politics and american

polling. and the reason why you are getting part of this rush right now is because what they may be seeing ten, 11 months from now? do you buy that? >> no, no, i actually think it's a fair statement. the rhetoric that goes on in the political world is being watched by all the bad actors across not only the cartels south of border but around the world. you look at the shot behind me. there are a couple thousand people here. that's $3 million to $15 million worth of profit there that came over the last 24 hours right here in eagle pass. they are absolutely looking at our politics. they are looking at our policies and exploiting the heck out of it what we're doing here and exploiting the people. >> dana: we have bill melugin in lukeville, arizona. within the last hour 500 came through and very few border patrol agents to help them. help each other in order to try to deal with this. what is it like for a border patrol agent to be out there knowing that they are so outnumbered?

>> it's frustrating. they want to go out and do their job and the best thing for the american people but their hands are tied. this is exactly what has been happening for the last three years under this administration is the numbers are being through the roof. you guys reported the numbers for years. agents have an obligation to respond to take these people into custody and that's when the cartel is pushing large groups through there so the minimum resources we have are going to respond to that. it does leave the border very vulnerable and that's why we have to secure this border. it is what's getting all the dangerous drugs and people into our country. the overwhelming flow of people is making this border vulnerable and we're seeing it play in day in and day out. >> bill: so here is the white house just yesterday on what texas is doing. >> you know, this is something that governor abbott has done over and over again whether it's leaving migrants in the side of the road in the middle of

winter, installed razor wire near the border, making it more dangerous for border patrol to do their jobs. this is what we see from particular republicans, trying to dehumanize a group of people who are coming here putting them in harm's way. >> bill: makes it more dangerous for border patrol to do their jobs. chris, we thought things were going to change two years ago and they haven't. we thought things were going to change a year ago and they haven't. now we're moving into a new year of 2024. it doesn't look like they'll change, either. do you think that there is anything that would get this president to move on the issue of border security in the new year? >> well, i think when he looks at those numbers you all reported and how eight out of ten people are saying enough is enough. what we just heard from the press secretary is classic, deflect and push it to somebody else. look, the arizona governor has said there is a problem and

begging the white house to help. governor abbott has been begging the white house for help. this is something that he has got to take and can fix right now. we need congress to act. we don't notified a government shutdown but funding to keep the government open and support the born. this is policy. the president owns this. he has created this and we have to get him to realize this is a problem. these communities down here have been dealing with this for the last three years. the only thing i can think of the polling numbers are going to impact him and there will be some kind of miraculous change. something they can turn around and say look, we've decreased the number of illegal entries over the last 12 months. they'll do something. the numbers are showing that. right now they need help right now on the border. we need to shut this down and talking about it for the last few years. this is a live shot behind me. we aren't making this up. this is impacting the communities and like we said every town in a border town and every state is a border state if we're not securing the border. >> bill: look at that screen right. arrests in december are more

than 190,000. that's three football stadiums. >> dana: i don't think that the poll numbers going down aren't going to move them. if that were the case they would have doing it. they could have had a deal with the republicans you want ukraine and israel aid. we want a little bit on the border and they wouldn't make the deal. maybe they make it in january. until then they suggest it is dehumanizing what the republicans are doing? this is their policy and what's happening. anyway. i could talk to you all day. >> behind me is dehumanizing what they are doing right now. we have to get this right. they want to fix the humanitarian crisis change the policies and they can do it tomorrow. >> bill: thanks for being here, chris clem we'll talk again. thanks. >> you got it. >> dana: emboldened iran executing a record number of prisoners last month. what is behind that? the family of a navy lieutenant to bring him home for christmas.

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>> dana: an update on lieutenant ridge, a navy officer who spent a year and a half in a japanese prison for his role in a fatal car crash happened when mountain sickness caused him to pass out behind the wheel. japan transferred him to an american prison and now his family is asking president biden to release him. this is what his wife told us yesterday. >> it is a lot harder being imprisoned by his own country when everybody knows there was no crime committed. no one has told me why but i don't believe it has anything to do with ridge. i think as we have done for the past 2 1/2 years, we're still more concerned about appeasing japan than actually providing justice in returning my husband

back to his children. there is nothing difficult about this case. he could be home. he could be home in time for christmas. when i was driving my kids home from their grand parents' house last night they sat in the back seat commiserating over repeated nightmares that they have and they all have to do with ridge not coming home. with their dad dying in prison before he comes home and it is unacceptable and unnecessary. >> dana: it is not clear how much more of hives three-year sentence he will be firelessed to serve. frankly, i took a look at the japanese press. they aren't concerned about it. the president is the leader of the free world. he got him back. he has the power to commute the sentence and pardon him. i think he should do it before christmas. >> bill: a 4-hour drive from home now. >> dana: get it done. iran showing no mercy to its own people. it carried out 170 executions

last month. iranian proxies are fueling tensions across the middle east putting pressure on biden to take action. gillian turner at the state department. what's the buzz there? >> iran has one of the highest death penalty rates in the world. it appears now that they have been ratcheting that up month over month. these killing sprees taking place we learn even targeting teenagers. take a listen. >> we have seen iran take a number of steps to crack down on its public. we have raised questions about iran's judicial system a number of times and why we continue to both call those out publicly and to take actions to hold them accountable. >> the u.n.'s human rights office is condemning the regime's fall skilling spree where 117 people were executing including two political prisoners. they write we deplore that of a 17-year-old child and

22-year-old man on november 24th. state department officials are facing pressure to counter tehran after its proxy groups car eft out attacks on forces in the middle east in the past two months as tehran continues to violate the terms of the nuclear deal and enriching uranium and new intelligence reports finds iran tried to meddle in the 2020 mid-terms. a spokeman says it's preposterous for western countries to criticize iran. he says they have gross human rights violations against other nations and openly engaged in violating the rights of the citizens in their own country. so experts now, iranian experts say it is mounting evidence that the regime is growing emboldened by no military response on the ground and calling for biden administrations officials to reimplement sanctions on

officials immediately. >> bill: you have tiger woods back in the news doing something cool. stole the show as santa. check out taylor made's christmas commercial. he had a group of elves. they were some good golfers. they make a lot of money and play really good. rory mcilroy, scheffler and the mac daddy is one of the clubs for children. it's what it was all about. >> dana: i like a jack-in-the-box. >> bill: that's good. he is working it. there is not a lot of santas that wear sunglasses. i think he pulled it off. >> dana: it is good for your eyes and prevents macular degeneration. >> bill: new scathing allegations over alleged pledge

plagiarism by harvard's president. vivek ramaswamy is talking with voters about the decision from the colorado supreme court last night. we're watching it for headlines and bring them to you as they happen. happen. and if you've made the deployments and you've been the wife at home, or you've been the spouse at home, you understand what i'm talking about. your spouse has earned the right to apply for a va home loan. the newday 100 loan allows you to borrow up to 100% of your home's value. pl pl>> bill: the story now that

keeps on going. teachers and students at a school in maryland now protesting after several educators were suspended for sharing pro-palestinian content on social media. that's a theme we're seeing across the country where protestors say it's the first amendment issue involves free speech. with the rise of anti-semitism some are calling it to restrict speech even further. martha maccallum host of the

"the story" at 3:00 eastern with us now. she was online writing from the river to the sea. palestinian will be free. got suspended. a lot of kids weren't happy about that. >> here is the problem. she was doing it as the goodbye underneath her name on her work email, okay? and the other issue here is that the screen shots showed that a bethesda teacher was falsely stating that the attack ton music festival on october 7th was a hoax. this to me is a church and state issue. you do not bring these kind of things into the public classroom. if you want to talk about these things or meet with people or join a protest on the weekend on your own time that's a separate issue. but this is, i think, a question of leadership and there is a real fear, i think, on the part of a lot of associations to stand up and say we don't allow anti-semitism or plagiarism and you apply it to everyone across the board you don't run into the problems. >> dana: if you have principles

decision making is so much easier in your person life and business. it makes things easier. plagiarism, this is more examples who came in of alleged plagiarism by claudine gay, the president of harvard. but jason riley wrote yesterday why harvard can't fire claudine gay. to admit she performed poorly is to raise questions about the entire diversity enterprise. i feel like this is an easy question. if plagiarism is wrong and they believe that and there is evidence that points to this and at least they should investigate it and do something about it. >> some pretty famous people in our country who have been kicked out of ivy league schools for plagiarism and also the president of the united states, joe biden, who had to exit a presidential race in the 80s for exactly this kind of issue. and as you say, if you have principles and you stick to them. it is not to say you can't ever make an exception but you look

at this and this same piece jason riley goes through it. both presidents talked about mcgill from penn were guilty of indulging anti-semitism on campus and equivocating on a response to the terrorists of israel. ms. mcgill is white and gay is not. we need to start getting back to principles and the way you make decisions. >> bill: you have the mayor, right, who had the invite-only party in boston and now you have the "boston globe" coming out and saying she copied it from this professor in lexington, kentucky, the globe concludes if a harvard student would have turned in the paper with the same missing citations what would the university call it and how would it respond? we knew this two weeks ago. if you are caught doing this, and you apply to that college,

you don't get in. it doesn't happen. >> how else is the lesson learned, right? not to mention that fact that these days you can run your paper through a plagiarism test and make sure there is nothing in there that will be a red flag. everyone understands you go through a lot of citations and quoting and doing footnotes as you write research papers. there are ways to make sure you aren't making a violation. i just think it is such a lack of leadership across the board of people who are afraid to stand up and say this is what we stand for and this is what is okay and what's not okay and educating young people in these environments. so stand up and show some leadership and teach respect for each other. when it comes to protests, they should be teaching kids bring in a rabbi, bring in a muslim leader. let's have a conversation in the classroom about the different faiths and what they mean from a historical perspective. use it as an education moment

and encourage people to respect each other's faith and don't bring it into the classroom. >> dana: i hope she hopes winter break goes on long enough and she won't have to pay consequences. >> if it's that easy to get past some of this they have a big problem. >> bill: her days could be numbered. we'll see. see you at 3:00. >> dana: we're awaiting now the year end news conference from the secretary of state antony blinken. they have a lot on their plate. we are going to see what he has to say. he could make some news especially on the middle east perhaps. the red sea perhaps, maybe even the southern border. so lots to come here. of course i'm sure he will talk about ukraine and russia as well. and it is that time of year where fact checking our 2023 predictions and tell you how we think this year went for us and what we think is in store for 2024. >> bill: this is good, too.

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>> harris: legal experts say what just happened to donald trump is very, very dangerous. the democrat majority colorado supreme court in a key swing state just kicked him off the ballot. attorney leo terrell is with me. plus president biden's age is now late night talk show fodder and a new report on what biden says over and over that has his staffers rolling their eyes. mike pompeo and will cain, "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. >> dana: west coast cities are putting a stop to rampant theft. officials reducing shaft lifting numbers to pre-pandemic levels. can they spread nationally? is there good news in the future, dan? >> yeah, they definitely can.

seattle and san francisco are both attacking this problem in different ways but both are showing positive results this year. as you know, both were poster children for retail crime theft. retailers complained that defunded police departments were overwhelmed by all kinds of crime and they were a low priority. in seattle a big response was a big jump in the number of private security guards. downtown target has three armed security guards. many retailers have followed suit with armed and unarmed guards. the downtown seattle association is spending $2 million a year on private security. >> our businesses big and small should never have been put in this position but the policies of the last couple of years in certain cities to reduce the police force and to stop addressing some of these crimes have put companies and businesses in that position. >> in san francisco, police are getting more aggressive against organized retail theft doing what they call blitz operations.

they've made 300 arrests during 40 operations. theft was down 35% the first six months of this year compared to 2019. it is harder to grab the stuff to steal because many stores are locking up their maryland. every item in this t-mobile store was locked down. washington state also now has an organized retail theft task force led by the attorney general. this progress is not being seen by every city in the country. we are seeing that in new york city and in los angeles and even in dallas retail theft is still climbing. dana. >> dana: thank you so much. we hope everything gets better for people across the country. >> bill: before we go, all right, we're cooking something up here. we like to chat a lot during the commercial breaks. most of the stuff is good we write down. last december we gave you predictions for what we thought 2023 would hold, right?

here is our crystal ball from last year. >> dana: i don't quite remember. >> bill: you first, right? check it out. >> dana: this is a little safe bust i do think, number one, i believe that joe biden will visit the border in 2023. i think it's untenable for him not to. i think the bengals will win the super bowl and i do believe the usa will ban tiktok and not just on government phones. >> dana: wow, one out of three, joe biden visited the border. okay. the bengals didn't win. >> bill: i'm sorry. >> dana: tiktok is thriving in america amongst our youth. that was wrong. >> bill: hemmer went. let's go back 12 months, roll it. >> my predictions are no peace agreement in ukraine. next year we talk about 601st day of war in ukraine is what i believe. by definition, dana, the u.s.

will not have a recession. by definition. no conclusion to the hunter biden case no matter what we hear from house republicans next year and tom brady will play one more season after this one. >> bill: oh, okay. ukraine what happened? >> dana: no peace agreement. >> bill: recession? what happened? >> dana: no recession. >> bill: hunter biden, what's doing? >> dana: no conclusion. >> bill: tom brady, what is he up to? >> dana: having fun. >> bill: went on a limb for that one. we move into a new year. ladies first. >> dana: the predictions. wait, there will be a royal wedding taylor swift and travis kelce. they will at least get en gablgd. aaron rodgers comes back and wins one game this season.

niad, friends of mine were directors and producers of. somebody will win an oscar from that movie. >> bill: i should see that movie. >> dana: of course. watch it with your mom. >> why mom? >> dana: she will love it. >> bill: i'm writing it down right now. okay. my predictions are, taylor and travis break up. i predict republicans take the house and the senate. i have no clue who wins the white house. i don't think there will be a peace deal in ukraine. and hemmer and per perino will not be replaced by a.i. >> dana: i love this time of year looking back and being content but i love the year ahead as well. we have plans for 2024. we have the billboard so you will be up to speed on all the politics. we'll be in iowa and new hampshire. you will have firsthand accounts from us on all that. >> bill: as we roll through it

we'll bring you along with us. thank you for a great year. we aren't going anywhere just yet, by the way, because in iowa and in new hampshire you have ramaswamy on the stump right now, chris christie in new hampshire and who knows how it goes? the polling suggests strongly that donald trump could roll in both states and maybe that deal in colorado last night helps him. >> dana: david axelrod said all the legal challenges have been able to help president trump and thinks it will be the case this time as well. he was obama's strategist so he is looking at this thinking it doesn't help democrats. the supreme court rules quickly, decisively and it will be the end of some of this conversation and we're off to the races. >> bill: good to be with you, see you tomorrow. >> dana: yes. now off to the races is harris faulkner of "the faulkner focus." here she is. >> harris: the colorado state supreme court had better get re