continuance to do the thorough review. >> brian: will he be cooperative on the transfer? will he be cooperative on the transfer of power? >> i had a great talk with him yesterday and graciously conceded and do what he can to do the smooth transition. >> brian: whatever you he did, do the opposite. >> ainsley: there were rumors that kamala harris might run for governor. >> we'll bring back and restore safety in the community of los angeles county. >> ainsley: congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> brian: now we can visit. catch me on radio. we have a huge show coming your way. >> steve: same time, same couch tomorrow. >> bill: good morning, everybody. so it begins.

diving head first into trump 2.0. the transition to a new trump administration kicking into gear. president biden will speak about that this coming morning as we await his address from the white house. good morning, i'm bill hemmer. here we go on a thursday. did you sleep last night? >> dana: i sure did. >> bill: i slept like the bolder. >> dana: i'm dana perino. president biden will address the nation following yesterday's concession speech by vice president harris. she thanked voters for her support and emphasizing a peaceful transfer of power. >> earlier today i spoke with president-elect trump and congratulated him on his victory. i know folks are experiencing and feeling a range of emotions right now. i get it. but we must accept the results of this election. while i concede this election, i

do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. >> bill: the democratic blame game is in full swing. some of it public. some behind closed doors, surrogates pointing the finger after the vice president's crushing loss. >> it was basically if anyone is seeing "game of thrones" it was a bloodbath. everyone is in a state of shock. >> steve: you said you thought tim walz was part of the problem. >> i do. i'm biased. i'm from pennsylvania. one of several factors. there were several factors that led to this result but that contributed to this. >> bill: peter doocy reports from the white house leading the coverage today. questions in a moment. first of all to you, what do you have? >> good morning, bill. the revered democratic campaign consultant david plouffe brought in to help harris seal the deal when she took over for joe biden has deleted his account on x after appearing to blame joe

biden for harris's loss on tuesday and for setting the vice president up to fail. part of what he wrote is we dug out of a deep hole but not enough. devastating loss. thanks for being in the arena all of you. the sentiment with that and everything else from harris loyalists has shifted from joe biden's legacy as a selfless patriot is cemented. he stepped aside to let harris beat trump. two,unpopular his v.p. was doomed from thet c could considering joe biden was president grumbled one harris aidented anonymity to speak. joe biden is the singular reason kamala harris and democrats lost tonight. exit polls don't reflect that joe biden was the singular reason that harris lost and some democrats who won this week are imploring their colleagues to drop the bitterness quickly or else. >> one thing i don't think is

constructive is to get into the blame game blaming certain individuals for things that could have been done or should have been done or would have have been done. none of it will help. >> kamala harris can't go off the grid. she is still the vice president for another three months. her office today is telling us she will have internal meetings and briefings with staff that are all closed to press. we don't expect to see her in the rose garden with president biden in two hours where he will explain what comes next with the transfer of power and also hopefully a little bit more about this invitation he extended to donald trump to come here to the white house at some point just to scope out how things might have changed in the four years since he moved out. >> bill: the read-out is interesting you gave us. m mag -- do you have anything more

when trump arrives there, when it might happen? do you know the last time that harris and biden had a conversation? >> the vice president and president did talk on the phone at some point yesterday before she conceded. we don't know exactly what it was about. we know that the biden/trump meeting is being ironed out with two staffs. but it's going to be interesting to hear how president biden threads the needle what comes next with the peaceful transfer of power. that's not going to happen until january and not like joe biden is just going to stop try to implement his agenda. you have the campaign saying the work is about to begin to trump-proof the administration, joe biden next week will head to south america and try to put his fingerprints on as many different things as possible before a president with a completely different worldview comes in and tries to undo it. >> dana: it doesn't happen at

the white house. that's a directive that goes out to all cabinet agencies. we don't have enough reporters to cover that. a lot to come. many of those people also that work in the white house now are worried about their futures looking for jobs. >> absolutely. >> dana: peter doocy, thank you. >> bill: thank you. want to bring in josh holmes host of ruthless podcast. good morning to you. it is times like these where you can't read long or deep enough and there are so many pieces out there already. starting to take shape. "wall street journal," a line or two. working americans when they voted for democrats were the backbone of america. saints of small town virtue. when they didn't they were garbage and deplorables. he captured trump movement 2016. help us understand it a little

bit. that line nails it again. >> really well said. i think reflective of a whole bunch of people across this country have felt totally overlooked by the democratic party and biden administration and kamala harris and seeing somebody in president trump that represented them. it happened in 2016 and 2024. in addition to that there are new coalitions. it's not just your white working class that everybody talked about in 2016. huge numbers of hispanic voters, talking about big increases in african-american support of president trump. young people. bill, it's an old maxim in american politics that democrats have a lock on 18-25. president trump won them across the country. it's a wild coalition. >> dana: bernie sanders tweeted this yesterday. it should come as no surprise a democratic party which has abandoned working class people would find the working class has

abandoned them. some democrats might think wow, maybe we should have gone with bernie. people weren't saying we want to bernie sanders way of the world. they want a different way. opportunity, not socialism. >> that's entirely right. it has been clear for four long years the american people do not like a progressive left way of governance. what's what the biden administration implemented in the first year. even in the mid-terms where republicans didn't do as well. people said on the economy we blame joe biden, immigration, we blame joe biden. they didn't turn around and vote republican but they didn't love anything that this administration was doing from a policy perspective. but what bernie sanders are talking about is the condescending tone that democrats use that tells working class people around this country, don't worry, we know better for you. you can't think about these big things. we're here to help. and that has been wholesale

rejected in the biggest possible way on tuesday. >> bill: general, letitia james, pretty strong in her language yesterday. she says in part o'malley dillon says the work of properect theing america from the impacts of the trump presidency start now. to some people i think maybe that sounds like resistance 2.0 perhaps. if you were flipping the channels yesterday you heard a talk about racism as misogyny talking about fear and anger one. what do i tell my daughter now? but as the morning rolled on you heard more things like why did democrats embrace anti-semitism? that was the way it was framed. this whole gaza battle here. why didn't they do anything about immigration or inflation? some of them were starting to look at themselves and blame themselves. but i thought this comment was the most relevant. the progressive movement needs to end if we want to win again.

what do you think about that, josh, in the examination postmortem? >> well, it is the underpinning of the modern democratic party is this sort of identity-based pitch to the american people that, you know, somehow you can't think for yourself and your destiny is pre-determined based it in what it is you look like. you saw an immediate reaction how could this happen? maybe hispanic voters are racist and black men are sexist. this is really what they were saying. they won't learn the right lessons out of this, bill, if that's where they are headed it will be a real problem for them. i think if you look inward -- a american people just told you that they wanted a mandate for president trump to fix this economy, fix these borders, and maintain some order around the world. it would be a very good idea for the democratic party to go about the work of trying to help him fix all of that.

if they will do resistance 2.0 they will find a really, really angry american public. >> dana: there was a piece called revenge of the silent male voter. based on her observations it is worth looking at as well and david brooks is saying maybe we have a problem of our own. my last question to you is the senate and senator mitch mcconnell. his last act is delivering a republican majority with some great candidates that they recruited in order to run. i was surprised that wisconsin went for trump but returned tammy baldwin to the senate on the democratic side. hovde ran a good race there. what does it mean for president trump that he will have this republican majority going forward? he might be able to get a lot done. >> absolutely critical, right? it starts with all of your personnel. if they want to confirm cabinet secretaries you better be sure you have a united states senate. it was mitch mcconnell's lasting

goal to try to insure that he turned over a republican majority to his successor and raised somewhere north of $4 hundred million and had a great partnership with steve danes to recruit candidates who could compete and win this cycle. he didn't get everything on the map but tough to beat a senate democratic incumbent and they went around and the pennsylvania in and of itself, that win in ohio very big win. could well pick up another one in nevada and they have the one in west virginia. they will have a majority here. it will make life a lot easier for president trump when he takes office. >> dana: josh holmes, fun to have you along with us on this ride and more to come. keep us on speed dial if you would. thank you so much. >> you bet, thank you, guys. >> bill: "new york post" here is the cover. life of the party. how trump won more young people, black, hispanic men and forged a new republican coalition. a lot of what josh was talking

about. biden from four years ago and harris from this year. this is trump from four years and trump from today. we'll start with latino men. he is up nine. this is latino women up six. black men he finished up 12. black women he is up three. and ages 18-29 which josh was talking about up ten. i don't know if a ton of people saw that coming. i will join my partner here. up ten among the youth in america. >> dana: somebody finally talked to them and also i think that different ways to approach things in terms of podcasts is one thing. not just how they got the message out, it with as the message. young people were screaming saying we can't afford anything. car insurance has tripled. housing tripled. how are we supposed to get ahead? their whole life has been on delay especially due to covid.

they were looking for something new and they are going to get it. >> bill: more examination of all this coming up. stick with us, a lot more to come. >> dana: we could do it for 24 hours. who is going to end up in the cabinet? senator tom cotton has taken himself out of the running. senator marco rubio appeared to do the same last night on hannity. there is still a ton of people to choose from. "washington post" reporting that doug burgum, vivek ramaswamy, elon musk and robert f. kennedy, jr. >> bill: wall street and money soaring to a record high as trump goes back to washington. look at the markets. the fed makes the decision on interest rates this afternoon. very important in the near term. we'll check in on that and there is this from new york yesterday afternoon. >> we faced this challenge before and we used the rule of law to fight back. and we are prepared to fight back. >> dana: new york attorney

general letitia james adding fuel to the fire vowing to keep up her fight against president-elect trump. is this really what the democrats need right now? >> bill: back at the hem commander-in-chief plenty of fires to attend to and put out overseas. how allies and adversaries are reacting to trump's win and what will his policies be once back as commander-in-chief? —no peeking. —okay. okay. ♪ open. ♪

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>> dana: want to bring you in on video we're getting from ventura county, california. camryio northwest of los angeles. this wildfire is triggered because it's super dry there. watching the with channel yesterday. under 5% humidity and they have the santa ana warns.

forecasters are warning the potential for extreme and life threatening blazes. keep you posted as this video is just in to fox news. [shouting and chanting] >> bill: that was a look at a scene in chicago trying to get a sense of how many people were out there on the street. protests against president-elect trump breaking out in numerous cities. demonstrators taking to the streets in seattle as well as new york and philly. chanting slurs and carrying banners in rage over his win. we'll see how for that goes. >> dana: new york attorney general letitia james delivered a warning to president trump during a news conference yesterday. >> we did not expect this result but we are prepared to respond to this result. my office has been preparing for

several months because we've been here before. we faced this challenge before and we used the rule of law to fight back and we are prepared to fight back once again. because as the attorney general of this great state it is my job to protect and defend the rights of new yorkers and the rule of law and i will not shrink from that responsibility. >> dana: let's bring in jonathan turley. she says she didn't expect the result. maybe she should also think about did she cause it? contribute to the cause? >> with every one of these hearings and charges the popularity of trump went up. if they added another case he would have been elected by total acclimation. people were looking at new york as exactly why they needed a new direction. she is the the face of lawfare. she ran on the pledge to nail trump for something, anything. she didn't mention what it would be. she ran on that platform.

so it leaves many of us cold to hear this self-congratulatory speech of hers she is well prepared for what is coming. what she did may have helped trump more than anything else or anyone else. >> bill: roll this. ro khanna from california on moving past lawfare. >> i think where we need to go candidly is to focus less about every one of his legal issues and all of the things about donald trump and focus more on the american people. go to these communities that we lost, listen to them, try to understand why they are angry and why they are frustrated. >> bill: right? level headed. my understanding all the legal cases will wind down. i don't know how it happens. jack smith said the same before trump is sworn in. justice department can't go after a sitting president. conflict of interest. what is also intriguing the house looks like it will stay in republican hands. if that's the case, then, i don't know. phone conversations, you name

it, you know? maybe a, b, c, d fill in the blank. impeachment will not happen in a second trump term because even if the house flips midway through his second term they could run out the clock within a few years of that time. >> that's the dangers what we saw with james. with both houses in control of republicans, any lawfare will shift to these d.a.s. that is going to have to be the center of gravity for people who want to continue lawfare. that's a form of rage. i wrote a book about this and rage is addictive. people won't break that addiction. they'll shift it to people like james who is willing to use it. torpedoes in the water. sentencing hearing in the new york case not subject to a presidential pardon. a state case. motivated judge there. james's own case which is looking bad on appeal. she may face a serious loss on the new york appellate level. you have the georgia case, which has really fallen apart but

there again you have a very motivated district attorney and she will try to keep that thing going down the road. so we have to watch all of those. but i said over a year ago that if trump won this election, jack smith would likely never see a jury in either of these cases and that appears to be the case. he is a lame duck prosecutor and people are waiting to see if he leaves on his own or shown the door. either way, he is gone. >> dana: in the sentencing hearing we're waiting for, do you think that will just go away? the judge has the option of saying i won't sentence him to jail? >> what he should do is a conditional discharge without any jail. that's not been the trend of his rulings in the past. he has been -- he has had a rather heavy hand on the side of the prosecutors. i think it would be very unwise for him to sentence the president to any jail time but it would be appealed and the president would not have to go to jail. >> bill: how do you conclude that case, then?

is it a fine? how is it resolved? he is 19 days away from going into a prison cell when he won re-election. >> there is a lot of room at the elbows on conditional discharges. sentence people to home confinement, community service and do none of those and i think that's the option here. this was a really awful case from the beginning and even people on some of the other networks have criticized this case as being unfounded and unprecedented. i think this is where this judge needs to listen to his better angels and call it a day. if he imposes something harsh in terms of a sentence, it will be appealed and he very well could lose. keep in mind we haven't had an appeal on what he did at trial. he has layers of reversible errors in this case. they would decide if this thing can survive given the verdict.

>> dana: great to have you here. >> bill: will you bring a flow chart next time? i'm listening carefully to you. >> dana: mrs. turley, he has the bagels and he is returning to washington, d.c. >> i ran a mile to get my wife bagels because she is a bagel snob. >> dana: true love. we love you, thank you for being here. >> 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've been begging for justice and closure. we've been fighting this battle for 23 years. >> bill: outrage as a plea deal is back on the table for three men accused of plotting the 9/11 attacks. how the families of the victims are responding. republicans will control the senate. what do we know so far about control of the house? both sides now say they are still confident. >> this is a historic resounding victory and it is really a political realignment. president trump has grown the republican party into a big tent

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>> dana: republicans will take control of the senate come january but it wasn't a clean sweep. democrats managed to keep hold of few battleground seats like in wisconsin and michigan. but wow, that michigan race was close. the house, the vote totals are rolling in. chad pergram has the latest on these results. hi, chad. >> good morning. there are still close races yet to be called in alaska, arizona, and washington. the strength of former president trump sidelined two democrats in pennsylvania, matt cartwright lost and susan wilde lost to ryan mckenzie. >> we'll have the u.s. house majority when all is said and done but a shift of a couple seats one way or the other. i'm looking forward to getting there. actually having the house, the senate and presidency lined up. >> however, the pennsylvania

senate race is still uncalled between democrat bob casey and challenger dave mccormick. it may take days to sort out results. republicans are optimistic they can cling to their majority. >> we have a pickup opportunity in alaska. the northern maine district is moving our way. media was so quick to say democrats would gain seats. we think we'll build this majority based upon the data we have. remember, we flipped two seats in pennsylvania, a district in michigan. >> both house democrats and republicans have conference calls today on the state of play. retiring senator joe manchin says democrats lost because they failed to address moderates. he hopes both sides remember that. >> the power of the middle is unbelievable. i hope when they get to washington they remember how they got there. they got there by appealing to reasonable, responsible, sensible people that are in the middle. >> moderate democrat scott peters of california won re-election. he says, quoth, it is evident

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>> how do you fit into that? >> we delivered the majority two years ago holding my seat is critical in keeping this majority. i think we will be able to play a significant role in the house in helping craft legislation and make sure that there is a little bit more of a balanced approach. at the end of the day donald trump won big. he won every swing state and will win the national popular vote. we flipped the senate. voters want us to focus on the issues impacting their families most acutely, the economy, border, international crises we're seeing and energy policy. i think we're going to hit the ground running come january. those first 100 days will be critical on tax policy, energy and on the border. i think we'll be able to get a lot done but i think being in a swing seat like mine that helps determine the majority of the house, we'll be able to have a voice in this process. >> dana: i know that tax policy will be a big one.

energy another to try to aflags and price issues. if the republicans keep the house and they have the white house and the senate, can an immigration bill get done? >> we will have to. we need to secure the border. what joe biden and kamala harris allowed over the last 3 1/2 plus years, 10 1/2 million migrants coming into the united states is unfathomable and created a crisis in states like new york spending billions of dollars. so we have to secure the border. we need more border and court personnel. we need to build a border wall. we passed hr2 last year. i believe it will be a framework of any bill. but we have to address the long-term immigration creels is in this country. we have a shortage of doctors, nurses, home health aides, construction workers, ago workers, population decline. an immigration system that works. my wife is an immigrant. i've been through the system. it is broken but i believe we can get immigration done so long

as we secure the border. >> bill: take a look at the state of new york. you look at the counties around new york city. here is just jewish voters in new york. trump is at 37% four years ago, 46% this time. a lot of that has got to do with what is happening in the middle east and on college campuses here with regard to gaza. >> no question. we saw within the base of the democratic party rank anti-semitism exploding. and i can tell you in a district like mine that has the largest jewish population in america in my congressional district i won the jewish vote overwhelmingly because we focused on the issues. i passed the anti-semitism awareness act that codified president trump's executive order into law. chuck schumer refuses to pass it through the senate.

democrats failed in their response to the anti-semitism crisis in america. you have democrats calling for an arms embargo with israel. democrats who were not supportive of israel's right to defend itself and i think that played out in this election. you saw the jewish vote shift. you saw the latino vote shift. in a state like new york where democrats control everything and created a crime crisis, migrant crisis, billions of taxpayer money voters had enough. donald trump showed up in the bronx and manhattan and long island. kamala harris didn't do any of those things. that's why you see a shift to the right and we've seen it over successive cycles now where voters in new york are fed up with one party democratic rule here. >> dana: i want to put up these numbers because jewish voters in new york from the fox news voter analysis biden won them by 63% in 2020. harris 54% in 2024.

a dramatic shift here. >> no question and why you see it. >> bill: you said i have x amount of orthodox jews in my district and i will win every one of them. >> we did. yep. >> dana: all right. keep in touch. you guys will be busy. a win can be energizing. >> absolutely. it is for the country and we'll get to work. >> dana: mike lawlor, thank you. >> bill: president trump back in the world stage commander-in-chief. how will it go. friends and foes overseas in a different world reacting to his election victory. >> i think the world will change fundamentally when president trump takes office on january 20th of next year. they will once again have a respect for american leadership. or ga. ga can be unpredictable—and progress rapidly—leading to irreversible vision loss. now there's something you can do to... ♪ ( slow. it. down.) ♪ ♪ ( get it goin' slower.)♪ ask your doctor about izervay.

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>> bill: a bit of a stunning development in the case against the mastermind of 9/11 and two

other terrorists. the a.p. reports a military judge is now putting a plea deal back on the table. the deal was struck by defense secretary lloyd austin over the summer saying the terrorists would avoid the death penalty in exchange for a guilty plea. that deal has been condemned by 9/11 victims. we'll see what happens next at gitmo. >> world leaders react to trump's victory watching to see what the new reality will be when he becomes commander-in-chief once again. in the face of a growing number of global crises. joining us now is retired four star general jack keane, senior strategic analyst. try to take you around the world if we can. let's start in the middle east. benjamin netanyahue said your historic return to the white house is a new beginning for

america and a recommitment between israel and america. a huge victory. let's start in the middle east and what you expect. >> full throttle support for prime minister netanyahu. give him everything he needs to win the war as soon as possible. no micro managing of the operation. no pressure on him other than what do you need and how can we get it over with as soon as possible? what president trump is really facing, the major strategic shift he will experience in the four years he has been out of office is the fact that china, russia, iran and north korea are colluding and cooperating and coordinating together and have become so much more aggressive and assertive. it is not isolated russia invaded ukraine and iran operationalized proxies in the middle east and that president xi is threatening war in the indo-pacific region to take taiwan by force if necessary.

it has all taken place in the last four years. why? because these leaders of those adversary countries believe american leadership is weak. they believe they can take advantage of the opportunity and the vulnerabilities that we're presenting to them. they believe we lack the political will to confront them. and i think i'm not involved in the politics of what takes place in this country but i think what the american people had in mind, one of the things is restore strong american leadership on a world stage. that's what president trump is going to have to deal with. when american leadership is strong in the world the world is a safer place. >> bill: this is pretty tricky. ten dimensional chess now is what you are describing to us. how would you strategically try and weaken that relationship? what do you do? where are the weak points and where can you take advantage? >> you top being paralyzed by

the fear of adverse consequences. we give the ukrainians just enough to not lose. why is that? the administration has always been afraid of escalation. we have never attacked iran despite they have attacked us over 300 times during this administration in terms of armed firelesss in iraq and syria. they have attacked our warships. the houthis, with anti-ship ballistic missiles of all things. and we have never responded against iran. and they know that we're not going to confront them. so i think we have to send a very clear signal that we will confront them. that we do have the political will and given this president's performance before, i think they will believe that he has the political will to confront them. >> dana: can you tell us about china and what the taiwan -- the country of taiwan is thinking? >> well, i think taiwan is thinking that the president is going to help them.

he was helping them in the past. let's strengthen taiwan militarily and help train them. let's make certain that when china looks at that small island by comparison to the massive size of china, that it's not worth it. they will impose cost on them in concert with allies. that's the message that we want to send to mainland china. listen, president trump was the first president to ever confront china. mostly it was economically. but also we have to strengthen our military hand in the indo-pacific region. when we get close to china, america's number one military super power, we can deploy our troops all over the world. within 1,000 miles of china, get close to that coastline, the military advantage swings to china. >> dana: do you think china will sit back and not do anything in the next two months? >> other than the intimidation

and coercion that is already going on with taiwan in the philippines, they'll continue that. >> bill: foxnews.com here we go. iran terrified of trump presidency as iranian currency falls to an all-time low. iran is trying to take him out after soleimani. i guess the first big meeting for trump in 2017 was when president xi came to mar-a-lago. during that meeting they fired missiles, direct response of north korea during that meeting. which world leader do you host first today in a changing world? >> well, i think what we'll see from president trump is he believes strongly in his own personal diplomacy with adversaries. i think he will continue to do that. and certainly he is entitled to do that. and i think -- and he wants to have a friendly relationship with adversaries. and certainly he is not the

first president that had that viewpoint. but his policies in dealing with adversaries have been strong in the past and i expect them to be even stronger now given the reality of what we're facing in the world. these four countries are very aggressive and assertive. the american people can sight and they are on the move and they have to know that we are going to stop it and contain it. we want to prevent a war here, not start one. >> bill: you've given us a lot to think about. >> dana: fun to take a tour of his brain, right? general jack keane. >> that may be more harm than good. >> dana: love to get in and see what else we can find out. we're watching the white house. president biden prepares to address the nation this morning. his speech comes after his number two suffered a crushing loss to president-elect trump. plus trump edged out harris to win battleground pennsylvania. now the philly democratic party

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walls are all that are left standing. we had 80 mile-per-hour gusts yesterday. that's a cat won hurricane. it tore through multiple neighborhoods in ventura county one hour northwest of los angeles. with those winds firefighters cannot directly attack with hoses or hand crews or bulldozers. initially even no fixed wing could get in because of the winds. helicopters dropped water but it would evaporate and disperse before hitting the ground. spot fires, when you have see the tall columns of smoke, in ash, embers, they're jumping 2 to five miles ahead of the main fire. they are trying to put out the embers. if they get into an attic vent or cracked window it will lose that house. >> everything is dangerous out there driving. they can't see five feet in front of their engine. operating in and around power lines and gas lines on fire. there is a variety of dangers

out there. no injure eaves we'll report on right now. everybody is doing good. no significant injuries i've been told throughout the incident. >> 0 containment. 1,000 firefighters here. red flag warning until 6:00 p.m. tonight. on the weekends on shore moisture. next 24 hours dangerous situation. >> bill: thanks, best to all of those folks in southern california. thank you, sir. >> dana reads sports. >> oh, surprise. >> dana: i missed this. remember an australian break dancer? she is announcing her retirement. she was mocked for her unique dance moves after she received 0 points at the olympic games and faced allegations she manipulated the selection process in order to compete. the australian breaking organization they call it denied she did that but, i mean, co