price that democrats don't really seem to understand why they lost this thing. you and i have been doing politics for years and it is a oblue-collar appeal of trump ad the populist movement long before trump was in politics you and i were talking about this and they still don't get it.comp real quick. >> they have no comprehensivein comprehension just how deeply donald trump has bonded with thi workingmen and women of this country. peopleo make who labor and the e who have the jobs, the veryou t.machinery of a society. they havo e no idea how much ofa bond he has built with them. anhow much those people in contempt the so called elites t disdain them.e >> laura: stephen, this has been quite a ride and a lot of fun to have you on the lastbeen couple of years. >> todd: president elect donald

trump already getting to work, laying groundwork for bigger and bolder second-term agenda and assembling the cabinet, after vice president harris finally addresses the country to concede the election. >> i spoke with president elect trump and congratulated him on his victory. i do not concede the fight that fuelled this campaign. >> carley: the fight against trump will go on, some on the left are calling for a reset saying it is time for democrats to stop the ivory tower nonsense and start listening to the american people. you are watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: i'm todd piro. get to brooke singman with new details on next steps. >> brooke: president-elect donald trump is meeting with his team about his next

administration. here are names, ben carson could be back for secretary of housing and urban development. betsy devos education secretary and mike pompeo could come back as defense secretary. opponents who have turned into allies are in the mix including north dakota governor burgum, potential pick for interior or energy secretary, marco rubio could be in running for secretary of state and r.f.k. jr. as agricult or health and human services. here are future plans, listen. >> he needs people in the senate to carry that agenda. i don't know, we just came from the victory. >> in some categories, entire department like nutrition department of fda have to go.

they are not doing their job. to eliminate agenty, i wouldn't be doing that. >> brooke: senate republicans plan to begin cob net nominee hearings before inauguration on january 20th. that i work for great companies pretty much went out of business. and due to the biden

administration, you know, cut the export of natural gas overseas, that really put a damper on everything. the economy was number one, because i see so many friends that have lost their houses or they can't buy houses. it wasn't about so much what party affiliation. it's about whether or not you love this country. and i'm watching it being torn apart, you know, and people being victimized by bullies and thugs and no respect for law enforcement. we're hurting right now. you know, and some of these people, it's all about them and not about the people they represent. yeah, i heard it over and -- -- >> carley: people want to return to normal see and it is about policy and getting prices down so the economy acknowledging borders are important to a nation. also you heard in that piece, love of country, ability to defend ourselves and stand up to our allies. >> todd: number one take away was sense of relief. that gentleman i spoke to will

make a living in fracking over next four years and beyond because of trump's win. he says last four years, he could not make a living and beyond if kamala harris won he was not confident he was going to have a job. it was sense of relief. there was sense among younger people, especially younger men, we went from brat to frat. that is a takeaway and incumbent on republicans to expand the tent further. >> carley: when it comes to economy, people were stressed out and now feel hope for the future. >> todd: president biden will address the nation after speaking with trump. vice president harris also speaking to trump hours after the race was called. >> while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fuelled this

campaign. the fight for freedom, for opportunity, for fail fairness and dignity of all people, that is a fight i will never give up. >> carley: former secretary of state for george w bush and former naval intel officer joins me now. robert, a lot of changes over the past 24 hours. donald trump is working on his cabinet with the transition team and kamala harris made her concession speech yesterday and president biden expected to speak today. where do you think things stand now and what does the future hold? >> it is morning in america, to borrow a phrase from ronald reagan, this is common sense and accountable over extreme rhetoric and behavior. this is an opportunity, i heard the word reset recently, that is

right. opportunity for average american to play a role again and for the government to be limited. that is what our constitution is all about. i listened to kamala harris speech and i thought, if you could put meaning and reality behind those words, freedom and free market mean people have individual liberty and markets are allowed to be free and modestly regulated, that is all americans want. they want a return to things they love and cherish. >> todd: we cannot ignore fact the democratic blame game has begun in full swing. new york congress dlts man torres posting there is more to lose than gain from pandering representative of tiktok than real world. working class is not buying ivory tower nonsense the far left is selling.

time magazine, pleasanty of blame to go around, finger p pointing has not been at harris. instead some sharpest criticism focused on president joe biden for moving forward with catastrophic reelection bid that set the stage for across the board failure. we only have a one-hour show, where did democrats go wrong? far left push, joe biden staying in the race too long? combination? what say you? >> i think honestly, they were asserting reality from beginning to end. their policies are real failure. they did not support law enforcement or public safety, they opened border, putting every state at risk. i don't know what the long-range strategy was, but it was failure. they shut down big chunks of the

energy sector. i'm in maine, my heating bill year after they came to power doubled. reality is people are not going to let arrogance and power dominate their world, they love their freedoms. america is the place the american dream can thrive. i wrote a book called "cherish america," and bottom line is there is an opportunity for people of every demographic, every age and race to do things they think god gave them the power to do and not be told by government they have to do something else or they can't do what they were born to do. >> carley: concession speech has been made. president biden invited trump to the white house, to be a fly on the wall. we officially have president-elect donald trump. thank you for joining us. have a great morning. always a pleasure to have you

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president-elect, donald trump's legal team will likely be able to delay or dismiss criminal proceedings against him. doj is looking to wind down two federal cases against him, attorneys cannot prosecute a sitting president. including the one brought by leticia james, where it is on appeal. at a press conference yesterday, ja james --

we did a really good synopsis of what's going on. let's start the fed cases. we have documents, we have election interference channels mentioned that doj longstanding policy, a sitting president, cannot be prosecuted . that phrase wind down jack smith's case. describe what wind down of jack smith's cases looks like. >> well, i think big picture, if you haven't been able to convict someone in the court of public opinion, there's really no legitimate way you can convict them in a court of law. and every prosecutor has discretion about what cases they bring forward. these cases, we call them lawfare. and that's because there are cases that have stretched the bounds of any prior precedent. there they're never before seen interpretations of criminal law. so in terms of winding down these cases, they essentially can dismiss them really at any time. or obviously, donald trump takes office, he will dismiss the cases and summarily jack smith. so there's many different ways that the cases could end. they're not practically going to trial anytime soon.

even if trump had lost. but at this point, i do agree that they need to be concluded . so the take away on the fed cases, they're done finito over . then there is the new york state court case. all four focus now goes there. this is the stormy daniels case . he's got sentencing less than three weeks from now. what happens there? well, that case also is complicated because of the supreme court's ruling regarding immunity. so essentially there is sentencing scheduled. but before that, can even proceed, judge merchan is expected to rule on whether that actually is tainted by the immunity ruling, meaning that they allowed in inadmissible evidence and that the case would essentially have be reversed and go back to trial or ultimately go back up to the supreme court to determine whether the immunity ruling impacted it. so for all intents and purposes, again, that case could also be dismissed, but it doesn't have to be if there is any adverse ruling to president trump, it's immediately appealable

that if judge merchan says the immunity case does not end that case summarily, that would be essentially appealed anyway. and then, of course, i guess he could sentence at some point to to jail time again, something that would be immediately appealable and probably stayed pending a decision by the higher court. so for all practical purposes, i don't think it's going to go anywhere. the question is how far these people will continue to push these cases. >> there's also the logic of all this. >> you find me, the nypd officer, department of corrections, or new york state police, that's going to physically put donald trump in handcuffs. there are zero of them. not one of them is going to do it because they the ramifications to that would be massive. so i think that's logic aspect of this that we need to pay attention to. let's sit down to georgia, the georgia election interference case. >> the president does not have the right to pardon themselves or have attorney general end the cases.

the georgia case has so many legal issues on appeal, even if trump would have lost that case would not head to trial any time soon. the case has a chance to be overturned, if it is not, it will have significant problems getting reviewed by supreme court anyway. it won't proceed while he's in office and it is basically dead in the water. >> todd: is lawfare dead? >> i would hope so. i think it failed and talking about lawfare, use of legal system against a political opponent. democrats claimed trump was going to be doing that and they have been doing it for years and it blew up in their faces. >> todd: to the media not taking election results so well. >> i can't help but wonder if the american people have given

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>> todd: but wait, there's more. still awaiting election results in arizona and nevada, fox has not yet called the race in arizona where president elect trump is leading harris. senate race too close to call with reuben gallego leading kari l lake. and the state senate race tied with democrat jackie rosen leading republican sam brown. control of house up for grabs, dozens of uncalled races including iowa, where it is tight.

jared golden leading austin tario, either party needs 218 seats to reach majority. >> carley: president's trump agenda when he returns to the white house. >> i will govern by promises made, promises kept, we'll keep our promises. nothing will stop me from ep cooing my word to you, the people. we will make america safe, strong, powerful and free again. >> carley: trump 2024 campaign senior adviser danielle alvarez joins me now. good morning to you. donald trump not one to take a day off, he is working on top appointments. what is first order of business? >> well, just as the president said throughout the campaign trail, he will unleash american energy, unleashing american worker, securing the border like

he did in his first term and he said before he is sworn into office, he'll work on brokering peace through strength and restoring our position on the global stage. >> carley: he is likely to get fought by democrats. leticia james and governor kathy hochul held a very adverse aerial press conference where they are preparing to fight him legally and kathy hochul said you try to harm new yorkers or roll back their rights, i will fight you every step of the way. what is your response to that? >> president trump's victory was overwhelming and a mandate of where this country wants to go. he won every battleground state, yet to call arizona and nevada. we have taken republican majority, president trump won

the popular vote, we are competing for a majority in the house and president overperformed with young voters, females, black voters, hispanics, they want to head in president trump's direction of america first and making america great again. >> carley: compared to 2020, president trump saw major gains among key voting blocks, particularly latino and minority voters. he is up two points with women, three with men, up six with noncollege educated voters, up six with -- up seven with black voters and up 10 with young voters. these numbers, star county, texas, population 97% hispanic went nine for trump. plus four for trump. new jersey is 45% hispanic with

plus nine for trump. and down in florida, population 56% hispanic and trump up seven points. how do you explain these gains? democrats have repeatedly said they were shocked by these results. >> well, i'll tell you, our campaign was not shocked by the results. president trump put in the hard work and we know that was inflation, in my community, hispanic community, it was inflation, securing border and the economy. president trump's plan to secure the border and bring down crime and safety and restoring our position on the world stage. president trump treated voters like whole voters and he had a record to run on. you were better off when i was

in the white house and kamala harris broke it. i can return and fix it. voters supported president trump, we saw historic gains throughout the counter regardless of the voting block. in deerborn, michigan, president winning majority of that vote. incredibly impressive day. impressive night. we saw the president unite the country and that is his mission going forward. >> carley: before we let you go, president biden invited trump to the white house yesterday, what is that meeting going to be like and when will that take place? >> well, as we heard yesterday, not only did kamala harris call and talk about unity, so did president biden. i think that will happen in short order. president trump is ready to get

back to work and tackle core issues for the american people. i know that linda mcmann, co-chair of the president's transition team are putting proposals today and individuals today for the president to select to so we can get to work. we are excited and ready to honor the vote of the american people. >> carley: no rest for the weary. danielle alvarez, thank you for joining us. congratulations to you. harris' supporters and members of liberal media are shattered and in disbelief, here is some of that reaction. >> i'm profoundly disturbed, worried about mass deportation. we did not have white women who voted about 52% for donald trump, uneducated white women is my understanding. >> these guys start picking off

individual news organization and journalists to turn us into rt. >> have the american people given up on democracy? >> i'd like to know what that says about us as a country. >> todd: joe concha joins me now. i spent my five-hour car ride back watching the live-based media meltdown from start to finish. on twitter and x and everything i could find. your response to what you heard from the main-stream media? >> joe: this has been the bestest week ever to watch television, especially "the view" talking about how donald trump will put people in in interment camps and have people arrested. look, he's never been president, we don't know what is coming, oh, wait, he was president and none of this happened.

it did not happen. legacy media is dead. i don't talk in those terms, but look what happened. you saw donald trump go in places like joe rogan's podcast and that interview that went on for three hours has been viewed 90 million times and kamala harris refused to go on place like that. she will go to cnn or msnbc and that did not help her very much. this reaction, we'll see for four years, no one is listening anymore. you call a guy fascist, hitler, garbage, last nine or 10 years and after a while, boy who cried wolf, people stop listening. >> i had to laugh at the pbs reporter who said people have given up on democracy and decided decisive ly with both president biden and kamala

harris have said as much. it is also, have you not learned anything from what trans pyred? if members of media criticize american people, people want donald trump as president, they will not support your side. >> joe: like "the view" going off on uneducated white women, you are insulting so many of your potential viewers or people sitting there. 37% of people in this country have a college degree, meaning other 63% don't. when you talk about uneducated people voted for donald trump, you will see viewership, numbers year, nonelection year, drop 30 or 40%. you will see a lot of job loss and consolidation as rublt of this coverage. no one is listening. >> carley: moderate democrat

richie torres, talking about the ivory tower, that is what they are continuing to do today. >> todd: what happens next? november 7 is today, somebody's birthday. from now until inauguration day, what does the media do? >> joe: exactly what we've seen over the last 24 hours, talk about how donald trump tariffs will cause economic collapse, how donald trump will end democracy and american public will shrug their shoulders and laugh about it. >> todd: did i just joe biden whisper? >> joe: it is joe biden's birthday today? >> todd: no, somebody i sit next to. >> joe: 29. >> todd: i shouldn't have done the joe biden whisper. joe concha, thank you. "wall street journal" editorial board saying, bye-bye, bidenomics as trump economy boom arrives early.

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>> carley: markets are set to open in a few hours after the

do dow had a major surge. >> todd: cheryl casone has details. this was wild to watch in realtime. >> cheryl: i've said so many times over the last two years, follow the money. investors and businesses spoke out in our election on tuesday. knew and saw in realtime higher taxes, more regulation is small business problem. also, higher interest rates, your auto loan higher, mortgages doubled. a lot is covered in this lengthy "wall street journal" editorial, this is editorial board, here is what they write. investors bid bye-bye to bidenomics. look, overall wages have been lower, continually week to week lower, inflation had jumped and

wages did not keep up. really quick, the bottom 40% of income earners, only 8% bought new vehicles. dow jumped 1500 points, record high and stocks we watch, this was interesting. this is donald trump, djt and trump meeting technology group, which owns truth social, jumped 6% yesterday. see how regulatory issue hits, his ownership mights have to change when he's president. look at bitcoin, record high after his victory. talk about how much spent on this campaign, multi billion dollar election season. 15.9 billion was spent on the general election. 5.5 billion on presidential

race, congressional race 10.3 billion. it was one i have never seen money like this spent. it was not just boots on the ground, it was also money on social media advertising and influencers on the harris side. i will have more about this on fox business. >> carley: a lot of people are living in swing states saying, if you sent money on text messages i got, that is money not well spent. things that impacted president-elect trump in a positive way did not cost anything, like goings on podcast. there will be a major look at where money was spent and take

lessons from it. >> cheryl: too also, todd, you join us on fox business, i think that democrats did not listen to what was be be being said was w are struggling, businesses are struggling, eggs are higher, they did not address that. >> todd: i will make this point when i join you on fox business, crazy plug, i talk to people yesterday, real people. we talk about the media side, the real people had a sense of relief and they'll have a job in pennsylvania, in fracking because trump won. it is a binary decision. i will have a job and will be able to support my family or i won't. when you go into the voting booth and faced with threat to

survival, you are going to vote one way that says i will protect your way of life and not vote for the person who is not. >> cheryl: i saw this play out in down ballot races, look at california in san francisco. so many lower down ballot stories. people have said enough is enough, we want to be safe. >> carley: that is perfect transition, thank you so much. republicans flipping key house races in pennsylvania and could be what keeps them in the majority. ryan mackenzie won one of the races and will tell us what he hopes to achieve on capitol hill. let's go to steve doocy, hi, steve. >> steve: good morning to you. we have a big thursday on "fox and friends" live from studio m. donald trump solidifying his concrete victory with another battleground and wasting no time getting to work. we'll talk to his son, donald

trump jr. about the win and dramatic red shift seen across the country. looks like he will pick up all the battleground states. and pennsylvania congressman elect will join the show after flipping a key district. and montana senator elect sheehy on what future of america looks like under donald trump. on the west coast, california voters reject progressive soft on crime policies, ousting day george gascon. screen left, we'll speak to the guy who replaces him, screen right. busy three hours kicks off on the channel you trust for morning news. you are ucwatch watching "fox a friends first" live from new

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>> todd: the biden administration reportedly bracing for a migrant surge at our southern border before trump takes office in january. according to nbc, smugglers are warning would be migrants they have until january to get into the u.s. before trump locks down the border with, quote: extreme security. even before the election, senior border patrol and ice officials reportedly raised concerns to dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas

whether the agency could say handle a potential surge if trump won. trump is promising to reverse biden's open border policies and continue building the border wall started in his first administration. all right. flipping pennsylvania red. one of the biggest pickups for president-elect trump. i spent yesterday talking to pennsylvania voters about why they rejected kamala harris' agenda. listen. >> do you think kamala's flip-flopping on fracking in part cost her the state of pennsylvania? >> yeah, oh, yeah, no doubt. no doubt. you can't say you are going to ban it one day and realize that you have got a lot of people swing the votes and yeah, we saw through that lie. >> todd: what does trump's win mean for the economy here in central pennsylvania. >> it's going to boom. three words for you drill baby drill. >> carley: being blamed for dragging down incumbent democrats in house race. susan wiles just conceded.

will president-elect from pennsylvania's seventh district joined us before the race and joins us after his victory. ryan, congratulation to us. tell us what wednesday was like for you seeing donald trump win the state and also seeing yourself win tightly watched congressional race? >> yeah. thank you for having me back on and it feels great to be after election day. can i breathe a little bit easier. it was a long arduous campaign hard fought on both sides. but, ultimately, the message that we were talking about for the past year and a half about change, improving our economy, securing our border, bringing peace back to the world. that resonated with people in your community. they were tired of the failed policies coming out of washington, d.c. i'm grateful they awarded me with their votes. >> carley: how closely are you watching these other tight races

because the majority is a jump ball. >> the maps drawn across the country make the u.s. house very evenly divided. even in wave years like this where we had a president winning across the board, all of the swing states, there are still these competitive is seats in blue states like new york and california that maybe don't follow the national trends. and so it's going to be extremely close. the republican also have the u.s. house majority when all is said and done. but it's going to be a shift of, you know, just a couple seats one way or the other. i'm looking forward to getting there, actually having the house, the senate and the presidency lined up. we have an agenda in place and now we actually need to go and pass real results to help the american people. >> carley: we're watching it all and looking forward to seeing all the official results roll. in. >> carley: what do you think the next four years are r. going to be like. donald trump has a lot of day one agendas, democrats are already preparing to fight back

tooth and nell. >> which is unfortunate because the american people have spoken. means ending the massive spending coming out of washington, d.c. to help them right now we need to provide real tax relief. that's going it be something on the very early agenda. the other thing that was a big issue in this campaign was border security. and democrats were called out. my opponent was called out. we took her to task for it for border funding 10 times. she realized that was a problem. oh no she was in favor of the bipartisan border bill. she didn't mention all of the terrible things that were in that bill including allowing illegal immigrants to come into the country for a year with no procedures and vetting. what i look at though on the campaign trail, republicans and

democrats i believe we should go out and do those things that the american people voted for. for me it's the art of the possible. that's where the agreement is. let's get that done. help america secure our country and move forward from there. >> carley: how do you think dave mccormick is shaping up in the senate. >> that's an extremely close race. he ran a great campaign here in e. pa. i know that there are roughly maybe 20 or 30,000 votes separating the two of them. i have heard conflicting opinions on if there are enough outstanding ballots to actually change that outcome he ran a great campaign and if in a great position to win. make sure only legal ballots are counted. nothing going on behind the scenes. i'm confident they have the operation in place to actually execute on that. to say make sure that the campaign is fair and free. i think hopefully we will see a senator elect in dave mccormick here it would be great for pennsylvania. >> carley: in case of your constituents are watching why

hope they are. you are going to be a freshman going into washington, d.c. there is going to be a learning curve. how do you deal with that? any committees you are hoping to be on? >> as a state representative that was one thing i talked about on the campaign i do have legislative experience. obviously it's a whole different world in a number of ways in washington, d.c. i'm going to rely and focus on the things that i was on the state house of representatives. things like workforce development and financial services reform and i actually passed legislation through the house here in pennsylvania to expand everify and crack down on the hiring of illegal immigrants in some industries. a lot of these issues are both state and federal nowadays. that gives me a great set of knowledge and experiences that i can go to and start hitting the ground running on day one on all those topics. looking forward to the committees that i get assigned to in a couple weeks. we actually have freshman orientation as they call it. >> carley: like college all over

again. >> we're going to be back to school. yeah got a couple weeks of that coming up. >> carley: state representative to a congressman-elect. ryan mackenzie thank you very much and congratulation to us. >> thank you again for having me. >> carley: you are very welcome. >> todd: shimkus and i have been so busy almost forgot it was carley's birthday. you know who didn't forget in the producers? singing happy birthday] >> carley: all right. thank you for singing. what do i do? tethered to the chair. ♪ happy birthday to you. >> carley: thank you. i almost dropped the cake is it selfish for me to demand that everybody goes to the voting booth on my birthday every four years? thank you guys so much for the birthday wishes. we appreciate you. >> todd: "fox & friends" right now. >> carley: bye, guys, thank you. ♪ ♪