california faced similar fates to gascon. san francisco mayor london breed lost her re-election bid with the crime crisis on top of voter's minds and mayor and progressive d.a. in oakland were both recalled. the message, bill, from golden state voters seems to be pretty clear. progressive policies on crime just don't work for them. >> bill: thank you. jonathan hunt live in los angeles. we were noting two things. president-elect trump will get 38 1/2 of the vote in california. good run for a republican in that state. the other thing during the transition times, folks, very interesting. just to see all the movements. i think it will be interesting to see joe biden and kamala harris together. >> dana: it will happen today. >> bill: coming up shortly at arlington national cemetery. >> dana: talked to my dad this week. he knew all about the george

gascon race. he is in colorado. it's a national problem. we'll get you to this as well. president-elect trump is moving full speed ahead to fill his administration to hit the ground running on inauguration today. i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning to you. hope everybody had a grand weekend. i'm bill hemmer. trump wants to fill his cabinet as quickly as possible but his candidates will need senate confirmation and with republicans in solid control trump wants a senate leader who is ready to speed up the process by allowing recess appointments. >> dana: right now there are three contenders seeking the motion, rick scott, john cornyn and john thune. they all agreed to the recess demand. scott is saying he is on board. >> whatever it takes, we have to get these does. schumer will slow everything down. i'm all on board. the country voted and they want a change. they want the trump agenda and want his nominees and policies.

we need to do everything we can to get it done. >> bill: chad pergram is front and center on capitol hill. why are recess appointments so important? >> good morning. recess appointments are not automatic. under the constitution both house and senate must vote for the same adjournment resolution that permits the senate to be out for more than three days. republicans are reviewing their leadership options. few are tipping their hands. >> we have to be able to work with president trump and his administration so that we can move ahead with the big policies that we have to put in place in order to address the deep concerns that americans have with government as it has been the last four years. >> president-elect trump is not endorsing a candidate but his ally elon musk is backing rick scott. musk called john thune the top

choice for democrats. gop senators have expectations of their next leader. >> here is what they better do. better work hand in glove with president trump. this is president trump's republican party. the american people elected a new leader with a mandate. that means the next leader of the senate needs to have his ear to the ground listening to president trump. >> j.d. vance can vote in the leadership election. he remains a senator. incoming senators like dave mccormick of pennsylvania can also vote for leader even though not allowed in the orientation meetings yet. pennsylvania democrat bob casey has not conceded his race. >> i'm not going to talk about the pros and cons of the different candidates here. i think the mandate is clear. they have all said that they will be in step with president trump and we have to be. >> it's about the math. the winner needs an outright

majority of senate republicans voenth. we expect 53 republican senators next year. 27 is the magic number. if no candidate gets 27, the top two vote getters proceed to a second ballot. >> bill: okay, chad, thanks. going to lean on you, get ready. >> dana: more on all this with republican senator john kennedy. >> we are going to get president trump's nominees confirmed. president biden has some people -- not all, but many of them in important positions that frankly are meat heads and we need to get them out of there and get president trump's people in. i don't just see that being a problem. >> bill: do you think one particular senator would be a better leader in this congress

than another? >> well, there is an official-looking document floating around the internet that supposedly says here is how every republican senator would vote and here is who he or she would vote for for senate majority leader. in an unprecedented act of selflessness it has senator thune actually voting against himself and for senator cornyn. if you think this list is real or accurate, then you probably think that elvis is alive and running a small bait stand on lake erie. we haven't even had a meeting yet to hear the formal proposals

from the three nominees about how, if at all, they will run things differently than senator mcconnell. here is what i know. we will pick a leader who will advance president trump's agenda. we saw what everybody else saw on tuesday night. here -- despite what the so-called experts in washington say with their npr tote bags and organic broccoli, this was a simple message from the people. republicans aren't perfect but the other side is crazy. and president trump is going to do things differently and we'll pick a leader who will help him do that. >> bill: okay. >> dana: wanted to ask you about this because the associated press called the senate race in pennsylvania for dave mccormick, the republican. chuck schumer and bob casey aren't accepting that and schumer said with over 100,000

left to be counted in pennsylvania the race has not been decided as is custom we'll invite the winner which is votes are counted. dave mccormick won't be able to be there for a orientation. what kind of game is schumer playing here? >> when i first read the article, dana, my thought was clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right. senator schumer has a fatal attraction sometimes to nutty ideas. this is one of those times. what he is doing is petty. i know he is disappointed in the election, but he needs to go file a hurt feelings report and let's move on. dave mccormick should be able to attend orientation. >> bill: okay. another topic here. democrats are getting some interesting advice. one of which is have president biden step down and appoint

kamala harris the first woman 47th president of the united states. this was floating out there all last week, justice sotomayor is expected to remain on the supreme court, she says, some liberal activity theists have called for the 70-year-old obama appointee to retire before trump can fill her seat. i don't know, you know? she has a vote in that issue, too, senator. >> i mean, all these people -- all these people floating these ideas, they are all coming out of washington from the d.c. permanent washington type, you know? they need to put down the gumese. the american people have spoken. we'll have a new government. in the process of putting together that government and everybody needs to just take a deep breath and relax. i understand these experts have

to earn a living, but some of the things they are proposing is just so deep stupid. the american people know that. you would think they would have learned that the american people may can figure things out pretty quickly. >> dana: put down the gummies. i love it. >> bill: get ready for interesting times. i know you will be. two men in custody. another on the run in iran after the f.b.i. foiled alleged plans to kill president-elect donald trump and an iranian american dissident. david spunt is tracking that now on what more we might have learned from over the weekend. hello. >> good morning. authorities are still looking for this 51-year-old farhad shakeri. they believe he is in iran now as i speak. according to a criminal complaint unsealed friday shakeri worked with the

revolutionary guard to kill president-elect trump. he demanded large financial sums in return. he indicated to an irgc official this would cost a huge amount of money and in response the official said we already have spent a lot of money so the money is not an issue. the complaint alleges he spoke to f.b.i. officials. via telephone and gave them conditions. the complaint continues and says he wanted to let somebody else out of jail already inside jail. intelligence officials have been telling fox news for sometime trump has been the target of a steady threat stream since he ordered the killing ever this man on your screen, soleimani in january of 2020. officials see these plots as a chance for revenge. law enforcement sources also tell fox iranian dissident was the target of the plot. he worked with two men no new york to murder her. >> i don't want to die.

i want to fight against tear knee and this regime and alive to see the end of this regime. >> the two suspects who thoughts say shakeri hired to kill and surveil her are in custody. the third time she has been actively targeted on american soil. >> bill: intriguing stuff. david spunt. >> there were not enough policemen around the stadium. it was horrible. a problem, 2024 chasing jews in the streets of amsterdam. throwing them in the canalls and stabbing. >> harris: israel giving warnings to its citizens. what's being done to shore up security in amsterdam now. >> bill: the fight to protect women's sports. a college volleyball coach says she was suspended for speaking out. >> dana: the daniel penny trial set to resume tomorrow. why his attorney is seizing on

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ordered to hand over her keys and school i.d. hours before a scheduled game. melissa would not go into detail as to why she was suspended with pay and the school would only confirm to fox the associate head coach of the san jose state university women's volleyball team is not with the team at this time. we will not provide further information on this matter. she says it comes after she took a stand in support of brooke, the team's co-captain who recently joined a federal class action lawsuit against the ncaa. she claims in the lawsuit that one of her teammates, blair fleming, is a male who identifies as transgender and alleges san jose state went to great lengths to make sure no one found out. she agrees with the allegations which include concerns over safety and fairness and made her feelings known to university staff. even with her job on the line she says she is speaking out to protect the future of women's

sports. >> safety is being taken away from women. fair play is taken away from women. we need more and more people to do this and fight this fight because women's sports as we know it right now will be forever changed. >> san jose state hasn't said whether there is a trans athlete on the roster. a request to interview blair fleming have been denied. boise state and the university of wyoming announced they're forfeiting watches without giving a reason why. se seven games forfeited against the san jose state women's volleyball team this season. >> we got to see what this case was all about and the other

riders were experiencing. their fear, their children's's fear and got to see what danny penny did to protect them and himself. >> bill: the attorney for the marine veteran daniel penny maintaining his client's innocence as his trial resumes this week in new york city. witnesses have described the scene on board the subway car when penny is accused of killing a man who was harassing other passengers. here is another witness on the stand on friday. watch. >> [inaudible] >> bill: what she is saying is he just held him. he did not choke him. this is important stuff. >> friday was very important day for the defense. in addition to all the things we have heard on friday, i wrote

down some of the things. he was violent, desperate, angry, grimacing, i was scared s-less. one woman said she rode the subway for 50 years and never saw anything like this. she said as she exited the subway, neely was still resisting. so what does that tell you? on friday we heard from one witness who said he was respectful, that being the defendant, danny penny, of taking down jordan neely because of the hysteria on the train. everybody experienced the same fear. i am going to kill an fer, i'm ready to die. everyone is saying the same thing. he was taken down with respect and he was still resisting. the prosecution is saying he held him for so long and the train stopped. no, he was still resisting.

we know from a few days ago he literally bucked up and picked up danny penny as he was resisting. jordan neely was 30 years old and strong and young. he was continuously resisting. everything that happened friday on the prosecution case worked against the prosecution. then there was one witness who was so negative toward the defendant here that he called him a murderer, acted like an abuser but so over the top the defense said we want a mistrial here. you are calling him a murderer. he is not even charged with murder. the judge denied it. i'm sure there will be very strict instructions to the jury. >> dana: that case you with following for us. we want to talk about this. president trump elect has named tom homan has his border czar. he was on "fox & friends" earlier today talking about that appointment. >> to the american people, president trump is going to secure this border, he is going

to save american lives, he is going to -- by securing the border we'll drop illegal alien crime that is skyrocketing. less people will die from nent nall. less women sexual aly assaulted on the southern border. >> i think everything that tom homan is speaking about is what is negatively impacting america. it is time that we put america first, which is part of the trump agenda. tom homan was the acting ice director in the 45 last trump administration. he is talking about doing something that the american people want. they gave trump a mandate for. the electoral college and he is just the guy to do it. he is a tough, tough guy. >> bill: what happens if a deep blue mayor or deep blue governor doesn't want to cooperate with ice? >> i don't know that -- >> bill: how ugly could things

be? >> things can get ugly. at this point if i were tom homan i wouldn't give a darn as what the democrats think. he has a directive from the president based on a mandate from the people that we want these negative influences, criminals, people victimizing american citizens, fentanyl, look, this drug cartel is in charge of our border. i don't care what some blue city mayor or some blue governor thinks. this is federalism and this is where he can actually come in and protect the country, which is the first order of government. >> bill: homan thinks the list is long for criminals and potential terrorists here already. >> it is wrong. it is terrible. this administration has let in 15 million people in. the unknown gotaways. we don't know who they are. we know there are terrorists here and people coming here who committed murders in their own country and murder here. i am not exaggerating. this is what happens when you

open a border. you allow the american people to be preyed upon by people we don't even vet. >> i will be in court tomorrow. >> bill: we'll get your reaction moving through the week. >> dana: see you tonight. israel's prime minister said he and president trump see eye-to-eye on the threat posed by iran. what will they do about it? general jack keane is here next. >> my voice was ignored but tens of millions of american's voices were ignored and disen franchise eid and led to trumpism. people tired of being on the sidelines. >> dana: democrats facing a big identity crisis after losing big at the polls last week. what comes next for the left?

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israelis this week coming following attacks on supporters of the country's soccer team in amsterdam last week that were coordinated and a great "wall street journal" piece about this. netanyahu's said intelligence report show anti-israel groups intend to hurt israelis in several european countries. >> bill: israeli leader has spoken to donald trump three times and on the same page with iran. in et net said this, we see eye-to-eye on the iranian threat and the danger it poses. retired four star general jack keane, senior strategic analyst. good morning to you. what would the strategy be, general? >> well, first of all netanyahu has a very good relationship with president-elect trump as we've all seen from the previous administration and also from the time in between administrations.

i think they will be very clear eyed the anchor and cause of what is taking place in the middle east is iran's desire to dominate and control the middle east region and to do that accomplish two things. one drive israel to the point where people do not want to live there anymore because of the desperate security situation, and drive the united states out of the region. those are what they are operating against, those objectives. president trump i think will work with prime minister netanyahu to end this war in terms favorable to israel. they are our ally and i think he will give them all the support they need. he will not micro manage their operations as the previous or current administration is doing. i think also, bill, very key is what about iran? i know from my israeli sources that netanyahu is fed up with 40

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>> dana: live look at arlington national cemetery. president biden and vice president harris are set to take part in a wreath laying ceremony there in honor of veterans day and bring you that live as it happens. a beautiful day in d.c. >> bill: always a great event. >> my voice was ignored but tens of millions after americans voices were ignored.

i encouraged my colleagues to get into rural america and sit with people and listen to them. have a cup of coffee and understand they aren't racist, they are not bigots or anti-semites. >> it is not just about the campaign. it is about what does the democratic party stand for? >> the reason we didn't win ultimately we didn't listen enough to people on the ground. >> bill: some of the democrats' harshest critics are fellow democrats and the millions of americans turning away from the party as they grapple with their election defeat. a lot to say on sunday and they said it, rich edson. >> they did, bill. democrats say they know there is a problem. they are all over the map how to fix it. the party needs a different approach on immigration. >> let's have a serious debate about what border security looks like for democrats and make sure that we bring in a lot of different views on this. remember, it wasn't that long ago we had democrats on tv

denying there was even a crisis at the border at all. we've got to have that debate. >> told "the new york times" his party spends way too much time trying not to offend anyone on trans issues. as a democrat he is supposed to be afraid he doesn't want a formerly male athlete running over his daughters on a playing field. others -- >> i think she had, you know, some hills to overcome. the fact that her campaign started in the middle of the summer, obviously it would have been better had that not been the case. we can't go back and change history or president biden's mind whether he should have launched a re-election effort. >> bill: nancy pelosi told "the new york times" she thought there would be an open primary to replace primary. had he stepped aside sooner there may have been other candidates. she clapped back at senator bernie sanders telling the times

she doesn't respect sanders saying the democratic party has abandoned working class families. sanders wants a more progressive party. no surprise a democratic party that abandoned the working class found the working class abandoned them. >> bill: didn't give the opportunity to get to know her. not a single press conference in 100 days doesn't help. rich, thank you. >> dana: let's bring in former trump advisor and director of message planning for president biden. meghan, i will start with you. the democrats are the ones reeling and trying to figure out things. this is from a cnn focus group. they asked pick one word to describe republicans and donald trump and one word to describe democrats and kamala harris. crazy said the white woman in her 40s who didn't go to college. preachy. asked to pick between the two words. woman said she probably would go with crazy because crazy doesn't

look down on me, preachy does. i will let you take that wherever you want. curious if you heard anything different over the weekend to enlighten us how democrats will grapple with this loss. >> that's right. i think democrats have lost their way. the electorate is more moderate than the democrats were expecting it to be this time around. we do need to refocus and recenter ourselves and understands that sometimes you have to move to the middle to be able to get things done on the left. that's one thing that the party will be grappling with moving forward. no, i have not heard really much different than that over the weekend except the party wasn't where the electorate was and why we were not successful on tuesday. >> dana: call for number three. it's pretty astounding how much money was spent to get so little on the democratic side. watch. >> the truth is, this is just an epic disaster the, a $1 billion disaster. promised all of us that harris

would win and put videos out saying that harris would win. i believed her. my donors believed her. they wrote massive checks. i feel a lot of us were misled. >> dana: the $1 billion campaign. $15 million plus for celebrity event production. they paid oprah winfrey's organization a million dollars. and they were still asking all of these people to give small dollar donations to the campaign. >> right. you see now after that has come out that they paid the call her daddy podcast over six figures is worse now knowing that fema purposely was directed to ignore trump houses, signs with trump houses. that is terrible. they call her daddy example is speaking for how the campaign was. a lot of smoke and mirrors, a lot of celebrity endorsements, free concerts billed as rallies. no substance.

the campaign i think wanted to coast on vibes. vibes doesn't pay off car loans. >> dana: they melted on contact. evon barker worked for democrats but voted for trump. listen here. >> especially now after working in democratic politics as a fundraiser, living out here, i've noticed that there is a cultural attitude and culture all resentment that many people on the left have towards people in the middle of the country, towards trump supporters in general. i think we saw that very clearly in the final few days of the election when joe biden came out on television and called the majority of the country garbage. >> dana: meghan, what way do democrats go from here? a piece of advice. we have a platform for you. any advice you want to give? >> move back to the center and need investing more in the middle class and working class

people of our party and go back to what the backbone of what our party was and what it was built on. it will take soul searching from people and get a lot of the left on board to move more moderate. if we don't we'll continue to lose elections and it will be interesting as we start to look toward the mid-terms and the next presidential. >> dana: you live in the great city of dallas, any interest in going to washington, d.c.? >> i did that for a while but glad to be back in texas. >> dana: okay. >> i do think it is important the democrats -- you saw from some of the reaction that they are like cut off your family and friends and cut off your hair and that reaction just isn't productive. >> dana: it is making it worse. rubbing the spot on the wall. doesn't work, guys. alexa and meghan great to have you. hope you have a great week. >> bill: simon and garfunkel getting over the bridge of troubled water. celebrity news.

the iconic duo might be settling any of their bad blood. art garfunkel telling the times paul mentioned in on old interview where i said some stuff. i cried when he told me how much i hurt him. looking back i guess i wanted to shake up the nice guy image of simon and garfunkel. i was a fool, end quote. >> dana: that's beautiful you can figure it out. >> bill: i never met paul simon. garfunkel is a gentle bear. he is a gentle guy. >> dana: i love the name. >> bill: i like his quote. >> dana: there is a lot more of that. that psychiatrist on joy reid's show could use a little of garfunkel. >> bill: honoring our veterans today. a live look at d.c. arlington national cemetery moments away you see the president joe biden and kamala harris will be together taking part in the wreath laying

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back power in washington their first big order of business is extending the trump tax cuts. hillary vaughn is live on capitol hill. will this be much of a fight? >> it could be because there is going to be disagreement among republicans about how much they are willing to add to the debt to ultimately get this done. house republicans have been gearing up for what they call the super bowl of tax policy to fulfill president trump's pledge to make his 2017 tax cuts that delivered lower taxes for millions of americans. republicans are tasked with working up trump's other tax ideas like no taxes on tibbs, overtime or social security. the committee for responsibility budget warns the wish list could come with a hefty price tag estimating it could add 7.5 trillion over a decade. congressman byron donalds said their production doesn't take into account all the economic growth that will come from putting money back into people's pockets. >> it doesn't cost $7 trillion. the reason why we know this is

because under his first tax policy, which is current tax law today. democrats and outside groups said it would cost $5 trillion. the truth is the federal government raised more tax revenue than was ever modeled or contemplated by any of these organizations. >> there are already some disparities. house republicans want to move on a tax, border and energy package within the first 100 days of the new congress. senate republicans have signaled they want to do it right forecasting it could be a year-long effort and a lot up in the air. house republicans still several seats shy of gaining control of the house and they don't have the imagine or majority leder picked in the senate yet. >> i believe i will win. here is what i bring to the table. i clearly believe in the trump agenda, number one. i am a business guy that had

success doing exactly what we need to do in the senate. >> there is also going to be republicans holding out to make sure that we're back to a balanced budget. not adding to the deficit. if that's the case they could handcuff what republicans are really able to do. dana. >> dana: hillary vaughn, thank you so much. a fight to watch indeed. president biden and vice president harris are about to mark veterans day at arlington national cemetery. the wreath laying ceremony is set to start in about five minutes. fox is partnering with u.s. vets for a program called make camo your cause. donate at go.fox/u.s. vets. a portion of that will go to u.s. vets. >> bill: good stuff there. nice to see everybody on a monday. veterans, we salute you. >> dana: harris faulkner will take you through the next hour. here she is. >> harris: we begin with this fox news