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. ♪ ♪

>> steve: i hope she brings some cake. >> lawrence: just a little bit. 6:00 a.m. on the east coast. thursday, november the 7th. and this is "fox & friends." >> ainsley: president-elect trump already getting to work as reports are swirling of who could be on his cabinet. we're going to ask his son, don jr. about that. >> brian: i think barron if he could drop out of school could join his cabinet. >> steve: democrats immediately start the blame game. bernie sanders say the party, the democrats left the working class behind and that's why she lost. >> brian: okay, good. the accused mastermind of 9/11, other terrorists too have plea deals reinstated. families of the victims sound off. >> lawrence: "fox & friends" start right now. >> brian: president-elect donald trump securing another battleground victory as the blue

wall state of michigan goes red. >> lawrence: trump is wasting no time mapping out plans for his second term. >> ainsley: and bill melugin is in west palm beach this morning with a look at who is running for his cabinet. hey, bill. >> hey, guys, good morning to you. with michigan being called for trump yesterday. trump has broken down the blue wall. he swept all three of the blue wall states. is he just short of 300 electoral votes now. we still have arizona and nevada left to call and his transition team already getting underway. here is what they are saying in part, quote: in the days and weeks ahead, president trump will be selecting personnel to serve our nation under his leadership and policies that make the life of americans affordable safe and secure. here are. so names being tossed around "the washington post" cabinet positions susie rawlins. john paulson, scott bess sent. secretary of state ric grenell, marco rubio, secretary of

defense senator tom cotton. more on him in a second. other names being tossed around for other positions, doug burgum, vivek ramaswamy, elon musk and then obviously r.f.k. jr. here is what trump senior adviser jason miller had to say about all of that last night. >> he knows exactly what he wants to do. he knows. the people that he wants to bring with him. and some of these issues can't wait until he gets sworn. in obviously we have what is happening at the southern border there are different things that president trump can do simply by being the president-elect. is. >> axios is reporting even though senator tom cotton's name is being tossed around, he is politely declining any opportunity to have cabinet position. axios is reporting that he prefers to stay in the senate where he plans to run for a leadership position in the senate. the number 3 position, guys. we will send it back to you. >> steve: bill melugin live there in a balcony in west palm

beach. it's interesting, depending on what the newspaper is or the news source, they have different lists of people who are vying for things. for instance, yesterday, we told you that according to punch bowl it, sounds like mike pompeo is angling to be secretary of defense, which would be interesting. "the washington post," which came out about an hour ago says marco rubio and ric grenell are under consideration for secretary of state. and what's interesting, you know, the margin of majority in the house, we don't know if republicans are going to be in the majority, but elise stefanik is angling for a job, u.s. ambassador to the united nations. if it's just a very slim majority for republicans in the house, they got to keep her in the house. so she would hit a brick wall. >> brian: is there a sense that's going to be a contested seat? it's going to be hard for her. >> steve: it's not that. it's just a big number. if the republicans only have one or two vote majority in the house, it's like we need all hands on deck. >> brian: wouldn't they have a special election just for it

unless they thought she couldn't retain -- wouldn't they have a special election. >> ainsley: or would the governor wouldn't appoint someone? >> brian: no. that's for the senate. because i think that's a district that pretty confident will stay red. >> ainsley: mike pompeo did say it would be his honor. he said that at the end of the soundbite. let's just enjoy today that we just found out the election results but it would be an honor. i thought it interesting that the transition team has been working together since august. they have been preparing the next administration. and donald trump, remember he said is there anything you regret or would do differently? he said i would be more careful something like that who he hires. >> lawrence: that's going to be the big thing. there are a lot people we keep hearing being considered. i believe it's tighter than we know. a lot of leaks who they think it is going to be. >> ainsley: tighter who is -- >> lawrence: there is a tighter knit circle when it comes to the picks of the cabinet. >> steve: there is the public.

>> lawrence: public floating things publicly and then there is the real. just like it was when it came down to who he was going to pick for the vice president. >> brian: we know tom homan is going to play a dominant role. steve. >> lawrence: he. >> ainsley: back in a heart beat. >> brian: i wouldn't be surprised if he is putting up the wall. karoline leavitt. i think that guy scott jennings over on cnn, that guy should be press secretary. he has taken the fire every day. chris loss vida maybe, stephen miller. i also think vivek and matt whitaker will be good. governor jeff landry's name has been brought up. people especially on the other channels saying he just wants people who are going to do what he wants them to do. not really. he wants people who will respect him but he wants their opinion when decision is made to it don't do what madison kelly did who tried to do what they thought was in the best interest of the country which was

contradictory to what the first term president thought. >> ainsley: president trump spoke to the world leaders, israeli prime minister, can't's prime minister. french president. indian prime minister. the south korean president and ukrainian president zelenskyy. he talked to biden. biden congratulated him and invited him to the white house. >> brian: do you know who the first one to call was? mbs. that's a sin bowl. called pariah nation. told the houthi rebels you are no longer on the terror watch list. went over to iran and said can we get back into the nuclear deal? kind of looking forward to a president that understands as imperfect as that regime is, they are not the enemy of the u.s. >> steve: yesterday the president-elect spoke to not only joe biden and joe biden invited him to the white house. even though trump has been there before he said let's get this going. nice and smooth. we have new wallpaper. he also spoke to kamala harris. and the trump team put out a very nice statement about the

effective and polite and cordle call she had with the incoming president. late in the afternoon there she is at her alma mater, howard university in the district of columbia. what is interesting is she does concede. here's the thing. she is not done fighting. apparently she doesn't realize that america voted on what she stood for and america said not this year. here she is. >> in our nation, we owe loyalty not to a president or a party but to the constitution of the united states. [cheers and applause] and loyalty to our conscience and to our god. my allegiance to all three is why i am here to say: while i

concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fuels this campaign. >> lawrence: they put out a nice statement about the phone call with her. it was gracious in his statement. and then she goes out there essentially had this rallying call to continue to fight even though the country with the popular vote as well as the electoral college totally rejected everything that they stand for. it's not just her. i was looking at all the different networks and pundits. there has been a complete -- i guess they are still in a haze. still time to turn this around to say hey, maybe we need to change the party. listen to the american public and regroup. >> steve: do you think? >> ainsley: i talked to people yesterday. did you watch her concession speech? i thought she did a beautiful job. if she had just done that we maybe would have voted for her. and i watched it and i said wait, did d. we watch the same concession speech? i was kind of like.

>> steve: people speaking to probably had voted for her. >> ainsley: maybe. so i don't concede the fight? really? you are going to continue this? enough already. this is one of the reasons people voted for trump because they are tired of what have you done. >> brian: she done as a candidate. nobody is going to lean back on her. i don't think she will get speaking fees when she leaves the oval office or as vice president. she is not a strong candidate. didn't know the issues. known as lazy and hard to work with. we saw that play out and shortcut to get there give her credit for having loyalty to president biden. people say why did you have loyalty to president biden? you should have left him behind. just as many projected and predicted the knives are out. david plouffe comes out and says look i'm proud of what we did. i was left in too deep a hole to dig out. >> lawrence: incredible. a shot at biden immediately. >> brian: you had this over and over again. our agenda was not popular. bernie sanders we left the working class. >> ainsley: have you seen lydia,

the lady who worked for her. i don't know her last name. she was on some of the shows yesterday i was proud for being honest. she was so honest about this is what we did wrong. this is what we should have done better. sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt you. >> brian: ritchie torres in new york took aim at his own party. the defeat simply in denial. this guy in new york is pro-israel in middle of all the protests around him. >> lawrence: one thing they have to evaluate as well is it wasn't just a candidate problem. it's a message problem. they are not speaking to every single multi-cultural temperature group that they once had rejected them. was i getting numbers of exit polling in texas. about 34% of black males voting for donald trump. this is astronomical. >> steve: the democrat brand is broken right now. >> ainsley: look at the numbers in new york. can you believe how well he did in new york? >> steve: look at the numbers he did in pennsylvania. post election political drama

playing out in the commonwealth of pennsylvania as the matchup between incumbent senator bob casey and republican dave mccormick is still as you can see right there too close to call. >> lawrence: meanwhile all new this morning. the philly dnc chairman is torching the harris campaign. >> brian: mccormick won. casey is in denial. there is no path to winning. bryan llenas is live in philadelphia. bryan? >> bryan: good morning, guys. the democratic blame game and infighting here in pennsylvania is heating up after vice president kamala harris turned out fewer votes in philadelphia. 99% of the vote counted. then president biden and former secretary hillary clinton. we spoke to philadelphia's democratic party chair bob brady who blames the harris campaign. the national campaign, nothing. zero. they had no respect. they have no coordination. they didn't -- i never even had a conversation with the lady. they didn't even do the right thing as far as giving us the resources we need and they want to blame us.

now i understand some blaming joe biden. can you imagine blaming joe biden for her loss? she lost. he didn't lose. >> bryan: based on your experience in philadelphia, do you think that it is indicative of this campaign was run nationwide. >> it signed of seems that way, don't it? i mentioned our caller counties. they were screaming and holler hollering for signs they didn't get them until the last minute. >> bryan: harris campaign lashing out releasing a photo of brady standing next to harris and tim walz. then they said in part quote the pennsylvania for harris team knocked more than 2 million doors in the weekend leading up to election day, which is 2 million more doors than bob brady's organization can claim to have knocked during his entire tenure as party chairman. brady says the harris campaign gave them about half the resources that they need and relied way too heavily on outsiders. >> these people coming from other parts of the country.

they don't relate. they knock on the door literature and take off. how is mom and kids doing? that's more important the human touch when you have your committee people doing that and the neighbors where they live. >> bryan: meantime we are watching pennsylvania's senate race still too close to call. dave mccormick leading bob casey by less than half a point. about 30,000 votes at this rate automatic recount does hit, according to commonwealth law here in pennsylvania. when it is fewer than half a point. but the mccormick camp says look, they have this in the bag. they don't think there is enough votes out there for casey to make up that margin. guys? >> brian: what is the next step, bryan? who is going to push casey to take a reality check? do you know? >> bryan: well, the casey campaign says that there are enough provisional ballots out there. and i don't know. i mean, at this point they are going to hold on here. the recount if it happens it has

to happen i think by the third week -- three weeks from now. and we'll see. but mccormick -- remember mccormick and oz had a recount in their primary three years ago that vote total moved a couple dozen votes. >> steve: the key is it's the provisional votes which have not yet been counted and that could tip it one way or the other. all right, bryan, thank you very much. earlier you mentioned bernie sanders he took to x to essentially blow up the democratic party. and he said, among other things, it should come as no great surprise that a democratic party, by the way he is not a democrat. he is an independent, which has abandoned working class people, would find that the working class has abandoned them. first it was the white working class now it's the latino and black workers as well. the democratic leadership defends the status quo the american people are angry and want change and they are right. do you know what? bernie sanders is actually right on that. >> lawrence: of course is he right. i feel lining we moved too fast when it came to the philly guy because he had a couple points there. he said we invited all these

outsiders out here to essentially be a relatable to average day working people and he says no one respects them or care what is they say. new talking point i keep hearing on tv well the college-educated people voted for kamala harris? excuse me, so you are speaking down because you have a degree -- by the way that you want all of us to pay for now, people didn't go to college you think you are smarter. that did not work so well. >> brian: i love the term they use uneducated. high school educated. >> ainsley: right. >> brian: in heir house ironing all day. [laughter] uneducated. what is wrong with you. black voters vote 2024 and latino support in 2020 was 35%. now it's up to 41%. trump is telling the republican party this is what i'm leaving you. now you spend the next four years continualing to show you care. don't just show up in four years or two years. i also thought it was interesting that joe manchin, a centrist, democrats are really going to miss, was trying to say

this last four years. he wasn't trying to give joe biden a hard time. self-trying to say what you are jamming down everyone's throat with the green new deal wouldn't fly and the rescue package wasn't needed left the democratic party he wouldn't have beat jim justice anyway. his party should take away from this devastating loss. >> donald trump he was able to have a program that basically more people bought in than what kamala did. that's the middle. the power of the middle sun believable. i hope when they get to washington they remember how they got there they got there to appealing to reasonable, responsible, sensible people that are in the middle. >> steve: that's right. and we saw from the fox news voter analysis where we talked to 110,000 people coast to coast throughout the process. there were only -- there were less than 10% of people this

time who identified as independent. ultimately -- what's interesting. as we wait for what happens in pennsylvania, 13 democratic senator candidates out performed kamala harris. for instance, in ohio, sherrod brown lost to bernie moreno by 4 points. right? but kamala harris lost to donald trump by 11. so, people like their local people, their statewide people more than the candidate. >> ainsley: did you all see the clips of "the view" yesterday. >> lawrence: oh, yeah. >> ainsley: sean hannity -- my word, they still don't get it. i only heard one comment about maybe we need to take a step back and think about middle america. what does middle america really want? >> brian: hope selfish democrats will say not fight trump every step of the way. we lost the house. the senate got flipped on us and white house overwhelming victory and i watched congressman himes yesterday he said we used to say donald trump didn't win the

popular vote. donald trump barely won. donald trump lost the house and the senate. we called him a loser. maybe that was but that is not what is. i couldn't believe it anderson cooper just sat there everything he said i can't even counter so we have to think about where we can work together. >> ainsley: i heard a lot yesterday. the reason he won is because we were better off under him. how can we vote for her when we know we're going to get the same that we have had the last four years? >> lawrence: it's that simple and, ainsley, you were talking about "the view." some of the commentary about they rejected a black woman? are you kidding me? >> brian: a lot of this. >> lawrence: can you imagine joe biden got more of the black vote than she did. there was not to deep seeded hatred. >> brian: i should not play the al sharpton clip or joe scarborough. >> steve: took the right tone. okay woe talked about this before. we are no longer in the majority. but we need to work together.

donald trump needs people to work together. can you imagine? pinch me. pinch me right now. pinch me. >> brian: okay that was a little too hard. i wish i believed that. that's a guy that lost. that's the same guy that was going to -- we had bipartisan immigration reform and filibuster is now gone. but now he has lost. >> steve: we send them to washington to get something done. let's hope they do it unified government. >> ainsley: how many memes did you get yesterday of donald trump vetting the mcdonald's food. emcee. receive steve she was working. >> brian: 80 years old. i don't know if he is going to change his spots. >> steve: meanwhile as we started the program we realized it's your birthday. >> carley: it is. plection a couple days before the birthday a big week. >> brian: rum cake for everybody. >> carley: major news that broke overnight. >> this is a fox news alert. a military judge has reportedly ruled that plea agreement

between the u.s. government and the alleged master mind of a 9/11 attack plus two suspected accomplices are, quote, valid and enforceable. defense secretary lloyd austin revoked the deal back in august. but the judge says he acted too late. the three terrorist suspect also now be able to avoid the death penalty by entering guilty pleas. in exchange for life in prisoner. they must plead guilty to all charges including the murder of nearly 3,000 people who died on 9/11. we are going to get reaction this hour from a man whose father was killed on september 11th. the biden administration is reportedly bracing for migrant surge at our southern border before president-elect trump takes office in january and for good reason. look at this. a caravan of around 3,000 migrants in southern mexico are currently heading toward the u.s. and a group of around 100 migrants were apprehended in texas after rushing the border just hours after trump won the election. according to nbc, smugglers are

enticing people to run to the border before trump implements, quote, extreme security a fox business alert here. the market is set to open just a few hours after the dow 1500 points following president-elect's donald trump's victory. bitcoin hitting a record high yesterday over $76,000. and shares of trump's truth social were up almost 6%. and finally, another squirrel is going viral after making a brief appearance at vp harris' concession speech in washington, d.c. yesterday. right before kamala harris took the staining, the critter stole the spotlight by scurrying across the platform and this moment is reminding people of peanut the squirrel who was taken in by a new york man as a pet before being seized by state government officials and euthanized. the internet weighing in on yesterday's squirrel appearance. one person joking that the d.c. squirrel was actually peanut's cousin others say it may be the ghost or spirit of peanut.

and one user wrapping it all up in two simple words, quote: that's nuts. and those are your headlines, guys. did you see that squirrel at the concession speech? my gosh, what is happening? >> steve: just the imagery. when you see a squirrel gathering nuts, that means it's going to be a bad winter. >> carley: is that so? i didn't know that. >> brian: hibernating. i heard bat squirrels mean long winter. that means they eat a lot. >> steve: i'm just saying winter started kamala harris campaign yesterday. >> ainsley: can the fruit flies hibernate? don't ever carve a pumpkin in an apartment. i have had fruit flies for a weak week. finally going away. >> brian: pop up like sea monkeys? >> ainsley: driving me insane. my daughter's milk in a glass like this. it's driving me insane. >> lawrence: i have a solution. >> ainsley: i have done it all.

apple cider vinegar water bottle. home depot ordered all those things. >> brian: where do they come from? >> ainsley: a pumpkin that i carved. >> steve: come in tomorrow dressed like a beekeeper we know it's bad. >> ainsley: exterminator coming back again. >> steve: house of representatives still in limbo after flipping crucial seats from blue to red. a live report on the possibility of a republican trifecta, unified government. republicans runs all of them straight ahead. ♪ using these type of cleansers could be damaging and stripping your skin. i use new olay cleansing melts every day. just soak, activate and wash.

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♪ >> lawrence: so control of the house is still in limbo as republicans hope to hold onto the majority in the lower chamber. brooke singman has the latest on that. hey, brook. >> good morning, lawrence. control of the house is still up for grabs after republicans flipped the senate for the first time in four years. 40 house races have yet to be called. right now republicans are leading with 205 seats including one gained. democrats are trailing with 190 seats. so let's take a look at some of the most contested races. we have in new york's fourth district democrat lauren gillan declared victory over anthony

d'esposito that race has not yet been called. in oregon's fifth congressional district bynum holds a lead over lori chavez dare member. and iowa's first congressional district. republican incumbent congresswoman mariannette miller meeks is county confident in her lead 799 votes after she won by just six votes in 2020. house speaker mike johnson is confident that g.o.p. will maintain its majority. listen. >> everybody fed up about the cost of living, their rising crime rates, the wide open border and weakness on the world stage and we have plans to fix all of that i'm convince weed have the white house, the senate and the house. i think we will deliver that majority. we will be ready to play ball on day one. >> steve, back to you. >> steve: all right, brooke. thank you very much for the live report. coming up on 6:30 here in the east. a "wall street journal" op-ed out this morning argues the

democrats have no one to blame but themselves as voters rejected a far left agenda, including the failure of bidenomics, cultural imperialism, such as woke gender policies and more regulations, just to name a couple. fox news contributor and "wall street journal" editorial board member bill mcgurn joins us right now. bill, good morning to you. >> good morning, steve. >> steve: so it shouldn't be a surprise. donald trump very effectively out on the stump would go are you better off today than you were four years ago? we found out late tuesday night into wednesday morning the answer is no. >> right. it's a simple question. it cuts through everything. and i think ainsley said it before. people compared what they had on donald trump primarily more money from their paychecks and what they have under joe biden and kamala harris. and naturally, they like the former. >> steve: yeah. >> i would add one thing. not only did they have bad

policies. these policies were defended and promoted by insulting the voters, like bidenomics, joe biden insisted he was t. was a great deal for america. you are just too stupid to understand it. you know, that's not a great selling point. >> steve: yeah. when you think about it, a lot of lifelong democrats probably voted for donald trump. and it had nothing to do with anything other than i just went to the grocery store and for 100 bucks i used to get three bags of groceries and now i just got one big one. >> that's how i feel. i don't do all the shopping, but when i go, i'm so shocked a bag of five or six things, it's $50. i can't believe it. so, i think there is a lot but i think democrats really alienated people. they have counted on trump being less popular and they were so ungracious. i think it extended to kamala harris' concession speech. you guys were -- it was the

most -- speech writer for a president. that was the most ungracious set of remarks i have seen. not a single grace note about reaching across the aisle. you know, i point back to the civil war. right before. steven douglas said this is a time when partisan feelings have to yield to patriotism. i'm with you, mr. president. he said that to lincoln. gore quoted it in his 2000 concession speech. nothing like that from kamala. we saw in that speech incapsulated why she lost. >> steve: ultimately, bill, when you look at how he won across the board and in a lot of natural democratic constituencies, it is like washington and everything else, everybody should be like instead of how are we going to stop him. it's like okay, maybe the people want that stuff and we should figure a way to do it. but, washington is a crazy place. so they're probably not going to

do that. >> no. if the concession speech is any indication, there is no self-analyst. you know, when reagan was reelected, the democrat leadership council was founded. it would produce bill clinton. but it was easier then. they just had to rethink some of the economic and foreign policies and so forth, moderate some of those. and clinton did that. but this time i think it's more like a religion. they would have to repudiate identity politics and all the things that really drive passion. i can't s see them doing it. >> steve: it's a real wake-up call for the democrats. bill mcgurn, thank you for joining us today. >> thanks, steve. >> steve: you bet. fox news alert on this thursday morning. shocking decision, a military judge has restored plea bargains for the accused 9/11 mastermind and two other terrorists, those

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in northern gaza israeli forces are expanding their ground operations, most civilians have evacuated further south as the idf works to clear this area from remaining hamas cells. on the humanitarian front, there was a bit of positive news yesterday as 231 palestinian civilians were evacuated from gaza medical treatment. coordinated between israelis and emirate it tease. shifting to the northern front hezbollah rocket fire has continued into northern israel as the iran backed groups arsenal. airstrikes againsts hezbollah strong hold of lebanese capital of beirut. certainly the entire region right now watching to see what comes next understanding that with a new american administration israel may have more flexibility against its enemies in the middle east. brian? >> brian: all right, trey, maybe they will be allowed to win. appreciate it. meanwhile a fox news alert. a military judge reinstates plea deals for the 9/11 master minds

and two fellow terrorists that would spare them the death penalty. families are outraged. including our next guest who was 15 when his dad bruce was killed in the world trade center on september 11th, 2001. breath eagleson is the president of 9/11 justice joins us now. you just told me, one of the things that bothers you most you got to find out from us that this is happening. the families always feel out of the loop. >> that's right. nobody has ever listened to what the families want in any regard to any of this. what we're doing and what we're asking is we have been begging for justice and closure. we have been fighting this battle for 23 years. we have members of our community that are dying. we have parents who lost their sons and daughters on 9/11 that have since died and have not seen justice. so, this administration, the biden administration has made misstep after misstep when it comes to 9/11 families. look, they are actively lobbying the hill as we speak to block our path to justice. that's why we are so optimistic this morning feeling good about president trump. he met with us on 9/11 at an fdn

firehouse e took the time away from his campaign to come talk to us and hear what we really wanted. and what we told him and what he acknowledged and we are so encouraged about he recognized what the evidence says. the evidence says the saudi arabian government, 23 years ago, facilitated and worked with these hijackers. he recognizes it. we all recognized that it was the regime of 23 years ago. nothing to do with mbs and the current regime. we are hopeful and president trump said look, i'm going to personally intervene here, i'm going to help you out. if i'm elected president in less than a month. i'm going to bring you resolution. i'm going to make sure those documents k0u78 out and make sure that story is told and end this nightmare. this stuff about guantanamo, discussing hurtful. never should have made the deal in the first place. talk to us. we are the families. don't act like we are the boogie men and we are the ones on trial. >> brian: previous regime moabyism in curriculum. previous regime had bin laden's father as the number one

construction company with the government and bin laden sped off with huge family and only come to region that some in saudi arabia terrorist mindset like that. so, we'll see what happens. because we know that mbs has locked up the previous regime in a hotel when he actually took power. it's also important to point out, do you want death for them? is death penalty the only thing the families want? >> you know, if you poll the 9/11 community you will get 100 different answers. what we want is justice. we want truth and we want closure. it's above my pay grade to decide whether these guys should die because, look, they might want to die. i want whatever they don't want. if they want to live, let's kill them. if they want to die, let's make them live. i think the real story is let's address the elephant in the room. the elephant in the room is we have troves of documents saying how 9/11 happened 23 years ago and it was because of the help of the previous regime of saudi arabia. let's put that to bed and move forward and do you know what?

i want to say one more thing. what more perfect way to start an administration -- what more perfect way to bring this country together to have folks like senator kirsten gillibrand and blumenthal standing with president trump announcing a deal. announcing that we are going to see resolution for 9/11 family members and put things in the past and embrace this new mbs regime and embrace a new trump presidency and come together over this and heal this country over this because everyone agrees that we deserve justice. >> you do, brett, thanks for answering our call and getting your response. families are lucky to have you as a spokesperson. brett, thank you so much. >> thanks for having me. >> brian: you got it. republicans looking secure a political trifecta with the power of the house still on the line tipping in their favor. our next guest just flipped a key seat in pennsylvania. he will be joining us soon. i believe his name is rob resten. don't ask me now i know

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santa ana winds have returned to southern california. critical fire danger over are the next 24 to 48 hours. cold enough for snow across the mountains of new mexico and colorado and then we are also watching raffaele, a hurricane in the gulf of mexico moving westward. will probably impact mexico. something we need to watch. but, of course, the snow is also a big story for parts of the rockies, we could get upwards of 2 to 3 feet. there is the forecast today and there is raffaele. the good news is moving away from the u.s. and it will weaken as well. all right, ainsley, over to you. >> ainsley: okay. good deal. thank you so much. >> janice: of course. >> ainsley: republican victory republicans looking to maintain control of the house. the g.o.p. one step closer with a big win in pennsylvania in president biden's hometown in his district that includes scranton. first time candidate and businessman rob bresnan meet

matt cartwright who served there for six terms. pennsylvania congressman-elect rob bresnahan joins us now. congratulations. >> thank you very much. glad to be on from this side of the campaign. >> that's amazing, he was trying to get a seventh term and you beat him. how did you do it? >> listen, we worked really hard. we left absolutely nothing on the field. we had an incredible team. i mean, it was every single day. we drove over 50,000 miles. our district luzerne county. the home of scrant. wayne county, pike county and monroe county. we ran hard for 13 months and three days. at the end of the day we left nothing up to chance. the excitement, the energy. we knocked over 50,000 doors as a campaign. we phone banked. i mean and also the issues that we ran on were the kitchen table issues. it was about the economy and inflation. it was about the problems that you see on the southern border. it was about crime in our streets. so, everything we ran off of was

what was -- what families were talking about every single day. we stayed out of partisan politics and we stayed to the issues that really make a difference. >> ainsley: what about matt cart write, was he out there campaigning as well did he work hard. >> he worked. control. something i had to overcome the uncontrollables. we focused on our message and what we could do and a way that we can bring a positive change to the people of the eighth congressional district. >> ainsley: what separated the two of you, why do you think the voters chose you over the guy who had been in office for a long time. >> people are ready for a change. you are talking about groceries in the state of pennsylvania increasing by 8%. one of the highest in the country. we're talking about, you know, winter is right around the corner here in northeastern pennsylvania. one in two homes heat their homes off of natural gas. we have seen crumbling infrastructure and, you know, something that we ran off of was

these election year press conferences, promising everything that's going to come back to the district but, yet, nothing seems to get done. and, you know, we ran off of a very simple message. are you better off today than you were even two years ago? and the voters decided that they are not and they are ready to give me a chance. >> ainsley: congressman-elect, thank you so much for coming on. congratulations. >> thank you very much. >> ainsley: you are welcome. all right, let's hand it over to carley. today is her birthday. happy birthday, girl. >> carley: thank you so much, ainsley. i appreciate that we have more news to get to starting with a wildfire alert. right now wildfires are burning in the woods of jackson township, new jersey. a handful of families forced to flee their homes and the fire is only about 20% contained and in southern california, a fast moving wildfire tearing through more than 14,000 acres as it races towards the pacific ocean. thousands of people were forced to evacuate and the flames destroyed dozens ever homes there look at this, one girst

battling to save an american flag that was knocked to the ground. wow, look at that image. that looks apocalyptic, my goodness. a new photo of the nasa astronauts stranded on the space station raising concerns about their health after a health expert says they look gaunt. the two have been stranded since june after the boeing starliner experienced technical issues. williams and butch wilmore are set to return in february of next year on a spacex spacecraft. and get a load of this. $11 can of fresh air is being sold to tourists in italy, lake cuomo air contains about 13 ounces of, quote, pure air from the most beautiful lake in the world. the company behind the pricy souvenir says you can crack one open whenever you need a moment to escape. don't buy the can of air. that's just my two cents on this. ainsley, what do you think? >> ainsley: what? oh, no. $11, too?

>> carley: hold the can and close it. >> ainsley: my mom would not buy water in a bottle because she says i can get it from the tap. this is worse. >> carley: mom is making a lot of sense. >> ainsley: the future of trump's legal cases will be left to be able -- will the left be able to let them go?

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