in 50 seconds? >> first of all i should say i'm not claiming to know at all what uaps are. i'm saying what's very clear is that there has been a government cover-up at least going back to world war ii if not prior to that. there are reports prior. the government has made it a priority including the c.i.a. to deliberately mislead the public into believing there is nothing to this, it is just -- certainly before drones just weather events, missightings. too much evidence here. i think the public is ready for it. i think it's time for the truth to come out. >> ainsley: okay. we can't wait. you will have to come back on. tell us more and thank you for watching at home. >> lawrence: pete hegseth now going to be the secretary of defense. see you tomorrow. >> bill: thanks, guys, good morning. historic day for america and for the trump transition. we're waiting for donald trump

to touchdown in washington. that should happen momentarily. this morning he will meet with president biden at the white house. first he will meet with congressional republicans on the hill. also this morning senate republicans will elect a new leader. to say there is a lot going on is an understatement. >> dana: all within three hours. >> bill: welcome to history. we're here for you. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." we're told trump will meet with house republicans before his meeting with congress. elon musk will be attending as well. >> bill: less than 30 minutes from now you have senate republicans holding a secret ballot to elect their next majority leader, rick scott, john cornyn and john thune. we could get a result maybe next hour. >> dana: karl rove, alexandria hoff, chad pergram and mark

meredith. rich edson is at the white house awaiting trump's arrival. >> president-elect donald trump is returning to the white house for the first time since he left it back in 2021. since winning the election the president-elect has been down at mar-a-lago building out his administration and cabinet. this will be the first biden/trump meeting since their debate in june. biden's rough performance led democrats pushing him from the top of the ticket. it is a traditional meeting. trump never extended biden in 2020. the white house refuses to say what biden will discuss but the image of the two people together sends a strong message. >> i will not get into specific agenda what they'll discuss. the president cares about the message it sends to people. i won't get into any

conversation about agenda. >> jake sullivan said the president will warn that abandoning ukraine means more instability in europe. vice president harris has no oval office meetings on her schedule today. her office has not answered fox's questions whether she will host vice president elect j.d. vance. biden hosted pence in 2016. absent from the white house melania trump. "new york post" is reporting she declined jill biden's invitation because of the 2022 raid on mar-a-lago. at the time, the white house maintained that the president had no advance warning of that raid. dana and bill, back to you. >> dana: thank you so much there at the white house. >> bill: donald trump's cabinet growing by the minute. president-elect announcing key administration picks late yesterday. mark meredith has the rundown back in west palm beach, florida. what have you got, mark? >> good morning to you. president-elect trump is tapping some of his most ardent

supports, one of the biggest names dropped overnight pete hegseth, best selling author and host on fox. trump wants him to lead the department of defense saying pete has spent his life as a warrior nor the troops and country. tough, smart and true believer in america first. now a number of senators told our capitol hill team overnight they were shocked and surprised. if confirmed he would lead the federal government's biggest department with budget estimated to be more than $850 billion. trump is calling on congress to confirm john ratcliffe as c.i.a. director. he previously served as trump's director of national intelligence. sources tell fox that trump is still planning to nominate florida senator marco rubio as secretary of state. as of this morning there hasn't been the official announcement from the trump transition team. some trump surrogates have encouraged trump to look at others for the post. all eyes are still on rubio.

two of trump's supporters musk and ramaswamy will lead the department of government efficiency or doge. this is something brand-new but democrats this morning already mocking the move. senator warren of massachusetts writing the office of government efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership. two people to do the work of one person, yeah, this seems really efficient. notable she decided to post that on x. the platform that elon musk owns. still no word on what trump may put as his press secretary. one of the more high profile spots. we'll see if he drops any hits. >> bill: mark meredith. >> dana: let's bring in karl rove on this historic day. i want to start at the white house with karine jean-pierre yesterday laid out what she thinks biden will try to do in a transition to trump. watch. >> he has a very clear message

to the american people and not to sound like a broken record but this is indeed true, he wants to show the american people the system works, right? to trust on the institution, to trust that the norms are -- do matter here. to trust that he is showing by leadership what a transition -- peaceful transition looks like. an efficient, effective transition, a smooth transition. >> dana: a long way of saying that they anticipate having a smooth transition. it's kind of weird to think how -- the things that both of the president-elect and president said about each other but they will meet today and i hope for all of our sakes it is a smooth transition. >> i hope so as well. i do not think it was a wise thing for jake sullivan to go out and begin to lecture donald trump on what he thought trump's policies ought to be. big mistake on his part. this is a transition. one administration has been

dismissed by the american people. we don't want to take your vice president and get another term of biden-harris administration. jake sullivan a little humility. don't be lecturing the guy coming in. >> bill: the comment that was most relevant there he said we want to know what trump's ideas are for the international situations, crises and wars. trump is the last person to tell them what he is going to do. i think the most relevant analysis at the moment is when trump went to d.c. in january of 2017 he used to brag that i've been here seven times in my life and never spent a night. he went in maybe with some hubris and a lot of inexperience how washington worked. this is a very different man who has been there, done that and we can see by the early appointments of his cabinet, the nominations anyway, that he wants to hit the ground running. from your perspective, karl, how much can that experience from

being there and learning and making mistakes eight years ago can help him now? >> absolutely. look. think about last time. we had a lot of drama. like the apprentice show, mitt romney comes to have dinner with him and cameras are there. this time he said i'll get going because he realizes he has a limited window. basically he has a plate full of very important things. we don't have a budget in place. we have a debt ceiling we have to raise. we have a tax code that expires at the end of next year. we have a deficit that is bigger than the amount of money we're -- we pay more on interest on the debt than on national defense now. he knows he has big issues. he has moved rather rapidly and laid these people out bang, bang, bang, bang and started with the priorities. i will start by talking about the border. i will get that in place. talk about my national security team. i wouldn't be surprised to see the next be the economic side. bang, bang, bang, get it going.

and he realizes from having been there how precious time is. time goes fast. >> bill: what we're seeing is he will manage it a different way and we'll see how it goes. karl, stand by. more news to the house side. republican members about to meet the former and future president. alexandria hoff picks up the story in d.c. outside the hyatt on capitol hill. good morning. >> good morning to you. house g.o.p. members gearing up for handshakes and not just with president-elect trump but as we know elon musk as well and outstanding house races, we know that. republicans appear poised to maintain control of the house saying they're ready to deliver on trump's agenda. a lot of excitement in the hotel behind me. when and if the majority is reached the margin will be tight. elise stefanik chosen to become

u.n. ambassador and congressman michael waltz as the national security advisors. house leadership said they can't afford to lose any more members. >> i know he has already pulled a few talented people out of the house. hopefully no more for a little while until special elections can come. it shows you the talent that we have and the ability we have to get this country turned around quickly. >> today is a conference meeting and candidate forum later today internal leadership elections. there had been talk alternative house speaker nominee getting propped up. president-elect trump has voiced multiple times support for speaker mike johnson's continued speakership and johnson dismissed any concerns yesterday. >> the president is fully supportive. we have to get this team together to move forward and excited about the opportunity to do it.

i work with without margin i have. >> house members don't plan to nominate someone to run against johnson for the speakership role but force a vote to have him maintain his position rather than let him assume it. >> bill: we're waiting for it all. thank you on capitol hill. thanks. >> dana: let's go to chad pergram with the latest on the leadership battle. >> a secret ballot between john thune, john car nine and rick scott. 27 is the magic number. the winning candidate needs a majority of all republicans voting. senators are keeping close counsel. >> i will hear everybody out. i think it is good we're having a forum tonight to listen to everybody and there are a few things important to me all along. one i want to make sure we execute on the mandate we got last week. >> if no candidate stores squarest scores a majority they will go to a second ballot.

senators elect get to vote and vance can vote, still a senator. he doesn't become vice president until next year. utah republican mike lee does not like the secret ballot. >> yes, we could depart it and change the rule. that would take a majority involvement there doesn't appear to be support for that. it doesn't stop individual members from saying or being asked how they voted or how they intend to vote. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer is ready to work with the new leader but offered a caveat. >> to my republican colleagues, i offer a word of caution in good faith. take care not to misread the will of the people and do not abandon the need for bipartisanship. after winning an election the temptation may be to go to the extreme. >> president-elect trump has not weighed in on the race. it is risky if mr. trump

supported a candidate who lost. some senators will not say how they voted. they want to avoid a backlash. dana and bill. >> dana: thank you so much. we'll bring back in karl rove and also are seeing joint base andrews, the stairs are getting ready to receive the plane that president-elect trump is on making his way to d.c. to meet with senate republicans, house republicans and the president. let's talk about the senate race. i groaned when chuck schumer talked about bipartisanship. >> i feel physically ill. here was the man who jammed down the american rescue plan, the so-called inflation reduction act, who did everything he could to marginalize his republican colleagues and now lecturing us about -- i hope the republicans exercise bipartisanship. the last guy to lecture republicans on that issue is the senior senator from the state of

new york. >> bill: so you had, i believe, two opportunities to witness at the white house two different transfers, right? 43 coming in george bush and obama coming in as the 44th president. i came across this quote. vice president walter mondale said the psychological transfer occurs then. meaning it starts to settle in. how do you reflect on that now? >> it is absolutely right. you could sort of tell and following the meeting in -- early 20001 between president clinton and bush. you could tell for both men it was a moment. the realization for president bush that these awesome responsibilities were going to fall on his shoulders quickly. then the same in 2009 -- 2008 with the incoming obama

administration. president bush thought ahead about this and he called together the staff and said i want everyone to reach out to their perspective counterparts and invite them in and have the smoothest, most productive transition. you talk to the obama people about it and they will say we're so grateful for what president bush and his people did in order to make it easier for us to come in. think about this. at noon that's the moment on the 20th of january when power transfers from one president to another. noon on the 20th in a secure facility the incoming chief of staff was standing with the outgoing chief of staff to monitor the security arrangements because there was a credible threat against the inauguration. and there were the obama people and bush people at this vital moment waiting -- david axelrod has a speech that he is supposed to give president obama to say

will you please now leave the ceremony is at an end and orderly leave. there has been a threat. >> bill: what do you remember from that time? >> dana: that's how i became friends with gibbs and psaki, we were to reach out to our counterparts and we're friends to this day. i also remember that last day that going forward on january 20th, 2009, it was freezing cold but you can also feel the energy and excitement of the incoming team and their supports. everybody is gathered there. you see all of that building. one of the things that's really different this time -- asme owe excited to see how susie wiles will manage. she doesn't like to do press. i don't know her personally but excited to see how she will do that. i think she will be very good at that job and they know what they want to do. president trump knows what he wants to do and he has people

let's go forward and then karl with this senate majority, he will be able to do a lot. do you think this senate leadership race matters a whole bunch today? >> i think it does in the sense of managing the senate. look, the senate is 100 members all of whom consider themselves future presidents of the united states. and the egos are tough. people have their own opinions. you have committee chairs with big responsibilities over big issues and so etchings it matters who the majority leader is and minority leader. you have to manage your caucuses with respect for these powerful figures inside but corral them moving forward. the leadership race is interesting. alexander who ran against lott for republican leader wrote 27 thank yous having received 23 votes. >> bill: what we remember from

this day with obama and trump is that the meeting went 90 minutes at least. >> dana: it went well. >> bill: both men came out cordial. i would expect that again today. they go over the threats around the world, not to get ahead of things but on inauguration day when the two men rode up to capitol hill and obama told trump your problems would be north korea. but the fact that -- i think today, yeah, length of the meeting will be important. i think the tone and words coming out of it is what to watch for. >> what does president biden tell president trump that we don't need to know but he needs to know as critical information that he may not have had from intel briefings thus far in the campaign. >> bill: stand by. we'll watch it together as we await. is it trump force one? what does he call that plane?

>> dana: president-elect force one? >> bill: it is coming from mar-a-lago and it should land anymoment. we'll follow his track and keep an eye on what is happening in the senate as well. dana. >> dana: we have a new lead on the economy, charles payne on the latest inflation numbers out this morning. that's up next.

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>> bill: here he go about right on time. the president elects plane landing at joint base andrews and we'll follow every movement today in washington, d.c. >> dana: quite a feeling on that plane now. >> bill: you think about inauguration day when he flu over capitol hill and circled back over the white house before joe biden was inaugurated and now you come back this way.

something else. haven't seen it since 1890s, right? remarkable. touchdown in washington, d.c. joint base now. >> dana: as the plane lands let's tell you about the story. year-over-year retail inflation in checking in at 2.6%. a.2% month over month rates charles payne can help explains this. it's not going down the way people want. >> no, it's not. in fact, we bounced from the prior month. this is higher than the last two months. you know, i think the thing also that's amazing to me if you look at the exit polls, it really -- you have to think of our conversations how many times did we have an economic data point come out and everyone said that was a strong retail sales report. that was a strong jobs number and there is nuance to all of this stuff, right? and the nuance is playing out in the cpi reports. stuff we have to buy, we have to

buy house insurance and you have to have auto insurance, you know, you have to pay your rent. those are the areas of inflation not budging at all. medical supplies, medical commodities, drug prices aren't budging at all. i'm not sure there is anything the federal reserve can do about it which adds to the conundrum. when interest rates at the levels the fed has them rewarded folks who own those kind of assets with a trillion dollars at least. they've taken that money and gone out and spent it. when they spend the money the top 20% 40% of consumption, the consumption numbers are strong. the fed can't lower rates but have to keep them higher, everyone else is paying the price. now your credit card rate went from 15 to 23%. so the fed is essentially won the war against the bottom 75% of american consumers but the tactic for winning that war has enriched the richest folks already and so they go out and spend and the data says well, we

can't help everyone else. it is a conundrum right now. >> bill: if you have assets put them to work. >> they're working for you now. corporate america is sitting on so much paper and their cash is a profit center for them. >> bill: the statement came out called sticky inflation. close to being pre-pandemic level. a gallon of gas is $3.08. question about treasury. something not announced yet. a couple possibilities. jamie dimon is on the list apparently. robert lighthizer and scott is an interesting guy worked for soros in the early 90s made a fortune for him when he shorted the british pound and by trump's side for about a year now. do you see a leader in that

category. >> betting on scott, overwhelmingly i think with paulson pulling out i think that was maybe the tell in the last 24 hours. and lighthizer will be more specific on the trade thing. that's his forte. making the tariff program work. i think he has a specific role already. diemon wouldn't be a good team player. the first time he had to hire people part of the swamp. this time around he said i can't go in there and effectively change it if most of the people who work there that i hire are either born of this system or believe in it too much to want to dismantle it. he has to come in with mostly outsiders who understand the situation and want to dismantle this thing from day one. >> dana: as we see president trump's plane rolling at joint base andrews he'll get to the stairs in a moment. i read last night the trump

economic awakening by hubbard. i know him from the bush administration. tax cuts, responsible spending can deliver stronger growth. i don't know if you want to flash it up here the numbers on living costs like shelter, car insurance, health insurance all these things are up so much. thinking about the woman on 60 minutes who was interviewed. didn't you see inflation is down and things are getting so much better? she said i didn't see that at all. >> she works at a diner, right? for scott pelly to insult her intelligence which is why the media got it so wrong and so did the democrats, you can't take hey, the inflation number was better than it was three months ago. people are talking about their lives. it's a linear thing. if prices are substantially hire now for essentials than they were three years it makes it worse.

they haven't gotten better from january to july. people are living a long-term life and their life said i could do this back then. i could afford something three or four years ago that i can't. american dream, housing. when younger folks are looking at housing they aren't looking at month-to-month move in mortgage race. look how much houses costs to buy and mortgage and how much their parents may have paid or grand parents may have paid. they're right. >> bill: a profound day we're watching now. you could call it moment one perhaps and then moment number two will happen on inauguration day in washington, d.c. on 1/20/25. hang around because i want to ask you the relationship between vivek ramaswamy and elon musk. that's quite a team. two alpha males in the same room and your thoughts on that

momentarily. i want to bring in trey gowdy and others and we'll be off and running today. trey, you are first, how do you view the moment now? >> political resurrection, bill. just like we were talking about a week ago. it is more than a comeback. i don't know what kind of plane grover cleveland took back to washington but you would know. you were around then. i was not. this is -- it's only been done once before. what will happen when he gets to capitol hill is it will be celebratory. they've been in the wilderness for four years but he has to remind them some of you wouldn't be in the room for me and last time i was president you stalled my agenda. it was you, not john mccain, some of you. but you better get with it and let me hit the ground running my first 100 days or history tells

us some of you won't be in the room two years from now. >> dana: hugh, love your historical perspective. >> i worked for richard nixon out of college and up until this moment nixon was the greatest political comeback story now donald trump is. richard nixon was never shot in the head. so i think we are witnessing history today and it is going to continue to unfold. very happy with the rapid roll-out of the team across all the different silos, more will be coming no doubt in short order. good campaign, great transition, hopefully an extraordinarily successful second term for donald trump. >> bill: we can show senate republicans going into their private meeting behind closed doors. jd vance went in a moment ago and john thune. we'll see how it goes with the

secret vote. josh kraushaar, join the conversation. >> a big moment, a moment where he has the control of the republican party and it will be fascinating as trey was alluding to to see him meet with the house republican caucus. trump was frankly responsible. is responsible for the expected republican majority if you look at states like michigan, pennsylvania, some of the big wins by house republicans in those states. they won because of trump's coattails. there are other republican lawmakers that got elected in this year because of donald trump so this will be a much more united party but also going to be a very narrow majority for the republicans. so unity is going to be the name of the game. this will be a more unified party but no margin for error for house republicans. senate side it will be fascinating to see who emerges as the senate republican leader.

there are a lot of supporters of donald trump that like rick scott and his more grassroots -- closely tied to the maga grassroots. but i think john thune is probably the favorite and interesting to see what trump has to say about all three senate republicans. >> dana: can you talk a little bit about teamwork and leadership from the white house and how it could help republicans work together as a team? once you have a also bit of success and show that you can work together as a team it can sometimes propel more success. >> yes, dana, you put your finger on it. the momentum was lost in 2016 or 2017 when he came in. remember all the talk was repeal and replace obamacare and it was the freedom caucus that voted down that first attempt and all the momentum was lost. you have the debt ceiling coming up. you have budget reconciliation, you have the border, which you better address because you ran on it. the good news is the house has already passed a border and

immigration bill but what trump needs to do is say look, some of the worst offenders in the house are his biggest supporters. he is going to say you leave mike johnson alone. don't do to him when you did to kevin mccarthy, quit these internal fights. we have a short window of time to do what we promised to do. if we don't do it we won't be back together again. some of his closest supporters are the problem children in the house. so he can talk to them in a way that other republicans cannot. >> bill: i was thinking with karl about a half hour ago about what trump learned from the first time around and whether or not that can make him more experienced and a better commander-in-chief. perhaps maybe a better manager of the u.s. government along the way. he had a noticeable disdain for the intelligence community the first time around. i don't know how much you

thought about that going into a second term now four years removed. what comes to mind do you think when you look at some of the appointments and how he is carving his way through that part of the u.s. government? >> first thing that comes to mind, bill, he won't sit down with the equivalent to jim comer and get ambushed again that destroyed a lot of the momentum in the first term and led to the mueller investigation and russia, russia, russia stuff. i have to disclose my son works for mike waltz so i have to put that on the table whenever i talk about this. by bringing waltz into the national security advisor job and vance into the presidency he has pip lines to the senate and house which are effective and well respected members of those bodies. jd vance is in the leadership vote this morning as is mike waltz. his whole team including pete hegseth. i hope we get to that. i have smoke coming out of my ears listening to some of the

snobs in the beltway. >> dana: president-elect trump is descending the stairs from his plane returning to washington, d.c. triumphant in his victory and we'll see. he will hit the ground in a moment and then off to the races. >> bill: appropriate color for the torics red, white, blue as he comes down the stairs and then with the salute he will head to capitol hill to meet with house republicans and we believe he will be there for about 30 minutes and make his way to the white house and we'll track all of it. go ahead, hugh and finish your thought. >> personal satisfaction here has to be extraordinary. john ratcliffe at the c.i.a. and said to be marco rubio at state department. elise stefanik is a brilliant person to lead the west and voice america's concerns at the u.n. susie wiles, liked by everybody. i just think he has put together a top tier national security team and i hope the economic

team and i hope pete hegseth gets the fair hearing he deserves. anyone who reads his book war on warriors knows what he is talking about on d.o.d. >> dana: he certainly does. there was some criticism but there is a lot of support for him, too. also called an inspired choice and generational change. josh, talk a little bit about the runway for president trump to try to get something done for the economy, which was the number one issue for voters? >> the economic picks starting with the treasury secretary are going to be critical and i think if the roll-out of the national security team is any indication, this has been a much smoother transition than what we saw back in 2016. he has picked choices that have united both the more traditional conservatives, marco rubio expected at state, stefanik at the u.n., ratcliffe at c.i.a. these are folks that have united both wings of the republican party. they have been announced quickly. i remember that you had a lot of

potential candidates in 2016 coming to trump tower and there was a whole kind of chaotic process back when trump was first elected. this is a very streamlined process, very well organized. credit to chief of staff susie wiles who ran a tight ship on the campaign and translated those managerial successes to the incoming administration. >> bill: charles, it was late last night when we got the announcement of doge. not a bitcoin but department of government efficiency headed by vivek ramaswamy and elon musk. charles, i don't know how this goes. karl was quick to remind us they don't have much power to enforce but they will have the ability to shine light on the inefficiencies of government and waste along the way. >> in some ways that's more important, right? listen, we just saw elon musk take over twitter. immediately come in and operate

the entire thing on just 1/third of the staff they had. there are a lot of administrative hurdles to get this done. first and foremost let's fine-tune where these things can happen. it's easy to say government is bloated. great to actually get these between vivek and elon musk get them in there and say here is the specific game plan on how we should go to it and love the fact president trump gave them a timeline. because of the calendar year when this can start to happen like the fiscal year maybe third fiscal year, the idea american people want is a concrete plan and implementation of that plan. >> dana: one issue the government is dealing with is they -- a lot of federal workers don't want to come back to the office. you have so many government buildings where the taxpayers are paying leases on those buildings that are 20% occupied.

social security administration 7% occupied. and the biden team could not get people to come back to work. there are those things in my mind. are there efficiencies on that score? >> the magic word is productivity and efficiency. to continue to dominate the world economically is based in large part on those things. so it has to apply to government as well. a lot of things that applied to the private sector that make the private sector so amazing have to be applied to our government because we do want roi for taxpayer money. we're not trying to make a profit with the government but we are tired of the trillions of dollars in waste that we have all seen with our own eyes. >> bill: screen right is outside the hyatt with the hyatt hotel on capitol hill screen left. about a 15-minute drive from joint base andrews and we'll follow it there.

musk said he would do a leaderboard of the most insanely dumb, his words now, ways your money is spent. this will be both extremely tragic and extremely entertaining end quote. last comment. >> who is the lawmaker who did that? this will be a lot more in depth than that. the numbers will blow people away. >> dana: also you have no communicators, something we haven't touched on yet the ability of so many of these people to be good communicators. pete hegseth at the top of that list to communicate clearly to the american people. he will be able to speak. you haven't had a full articulation, i don't thyrx of a lot of the phone policy goals of the biden administration because they cannot or would not do it. in this case you have musk telling you about the inefficiencies of government. it will be entertaining with ramaswamy, i will watch it. >> bill: tom homan in the last

24/48 hours laid out -- >> every president has deported folks. in fact millions, right? but how we'll go after, who we're going to go after first and how we will make it work. they aren't just picking the folks quickly but they already have a game plan and has to make people feel good hitting the ground running. this is hitting the ground running in the real sense. >> bill: nice to have you with us, charles. see you at 2:00 on fox business. get back to our panel. trey gowdy you are first up this time and take it step-by-step. you have the meeting with house republicans and then you have the meeting at the white house. let's take the meeting with house republicans first. what is the message there other than let's get it going, guys? we're back on trump time? >> quit fighting with each other, mike johnson is your speaker. you can replace elise with whoever you want. i won't pick any more of you. the margins are too tight in the house. we have two years. this is what we're going to do

and the order that we'll do it. if you don't like it, tough. you wouldn't be here if it weren't for me. that's his message. the senate is diceier. the two favorite words in the senate language are secret ballot. they will have no idea who voted for whom. i think thune will win. i would advise him to just accept whoever the majority leader is. they will work with him. don't weigh in on that and then he will have a cordial meeting with joe biden. our country is known for the peaceful transfer of power. >> dana: hugh hewitt. he flagged pete hegseth. >> pete hegseth got slandered by a bunch of people off x last

night. he is competent and el quit. the ability to communicate is so effective to effective governance and something that trey mentioned. you get two budget reconciliation cycles. i hope the president-elect tells both bodies i want a lot done in the budget and the reconciliation. i want it done fast. when elon musk and vivek ramaswamy bring back a blueprints for streamlining government i want that in the second budget and reconciliation. epa ought to be at interior. army corps of engineers shouldn't screw up people's ability to -- there is a lot they can do. have to be in the second budget reconciliation. the trump tax package and things like nwr and corporation for public broadcasting needs to be in the first one and ought to be in the first one. it only takes a simple majority in the senate. >> bill: yet to get to the matters overseas. we will, however. josh on speaker johnson's

comment we reflected on a moment ago, whatever margin i have i will work with to advance the agenda. how do you think about that now? >> well bill, i'm watching the eight or so lawmakers that scuttled kevin mccarthy's speakership and see if they change their tune. i imagine they will because of the decisive victory by donald trump and many of their districts. the big members to watch are the ones that gave mccarthy and mike johnson a lot of trouble on the right. freedom caucus folks that are the ones always at the center of attention on the house side. i do think trump when you have the presidency, when you have the power, we saw this in 2016 and later in the first term, that really makes it a lot easier to unify the party and i think trump his mandate will be seen in the reaction of the republican lawmakers. >> dana: stand by. we're tracking president-elect trump making his way to washington, d.c. meeting behind closed doors at

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>> dana: fox news alert. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram is outside senate chambers. an update for us, what's going on inside as they choose a new leader. >> they started a little bit

ago. i'm 100 yards down from the senate here. in the old senate chamber where they are meeting. they try to do the leadership elections in that room because it speaks to the history of the building and the importance of the position. there are three candidates running here. john cornyn, john thune and rick scott. i caught up with rick scott and he said he was confident he would win. i asked him whether or not his strategy for victory would be to get it to a second ballot. what will happen here, you have to get an outright majority of the 53 republican senators or senators elect so the magic number is 27. the person who comes in third drops off. it might give rick scott an advantage if he gets it to a second ballot. meantime i talked to mike rounds, republican senator from south dakota. he is offering the second for john thune and i said what about that? you think it's helpful there? he said i think we might be able to get it done on the first ballot. a couple of notes of interest

this morning, jd vance, still a senator but will become vice president next year, he did arrive at the capitol and he is apparently going to vote. we shouted at him whether or not he would vote or who he would support and here to forepresident-elect trump has not weighed in on the leadership race. i asked rounds about that and he said it is probably better that he doesn't and leave this business to us because again, the problem for president-elect trump is if he were to bet on one horse and somebody else wins, then that's probably an embarrassment to the incoming president. it might be best for him to keep off stage here. we don't know how long this will take. the other thing we don't know is whether or not there will be a meeting maybe tomorrow now is something i heard this morning between president-elect trump and whoever is the winner. that person will be the senate majority leader and they will have to work hand in glove with president-elect trump to try to get his legislative agenda across the finish line.

keep in mind they only have 53 senators, not 60. they can't overcome a filibuster. they have a little morley way in the senate than house of representatives. that will be very tight. republicans are inching toward the majority. they picked up another seat last night. 216. 218 is the threshold there. mike johnson expressed concern on any given day you have somebody out sick or out in a car wreck or something like that and if she keep plucking house members, stefanik and waltz are going to the administration, that's a problem here. again you get close to that 218 delta will be very hard to advance those legislative priorities through. however, the charm that will you hear a lot about and i heard your guest on the other side of the break addressing this is budget reconciliation where you can move things through the house and senate. more important in the senate, however, with a simple majority.

it has to be related to fiscal matters. immigration, border policy is a little dicey. there was some talk by the democrats trying to do that over the past couple of years and senate parliamentarian said no dice. but maybe something that deals with taxes certainly that falls within the realm of budget reconciliation. the key for the new senate majority leader can he get his people on board or 51 of them on board? >> dana: thank you so much as we watch that. >> bill: one of the main corner stones in president-elect trump's campaign is trying to make national security and foreign policy is important. china, ukraine, russia, middle east. it is loaded. we have the washington director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation and institute and joins us now. roger, good to see you again. read you a headline from the

"wall street journal" editorial board. biden leaves trump a ukraine defense. how do you peel away russia? do you do another aid package in congress for ukraine? put pressure on iran with israel's help? economic pressure on russia to stop selling energy to europe? that's a lot. this world today is much more dangerous than eight years ago for the first term of donald trump. >> bill, it's a loaded deck here and we know as it relates to ukraine president trump wants to have a negotiation. he wants to see this thing end peacefully. that will be a huge challenge in part large part due to what he is inheriting. the policy of de-escalate at all costs has undermined the u.s. position in all of this and that's going to be a great challenge for president trump. it will be what mike waltz is

going to have to deal with as national security advisor and team he is assembling. oriented behind president trump and that goal. the execution of it as you have outlined will be quite difficult. vladimir putin can't be viewed as a winner here. this is something we want peace but peace that is something we can defend and we can support and that problem doesn't look like a putin win. >> bill: based on history it might be january of 1981 when ronald reagan went to washington when the world was misaligned as it was today. susie wiles we just saw her. this is stop number one for house republicans. one of the things about that sticks out at me, look at the -- look at the security around this now. you think about the threats on his life, the threats out of iran. this is serious stuff. steve witkoff is a man a lot of

americans don't know. they will get to know him very soon. successful businessman playing golf with trump in palm beach the day that that shotgun or rifle came out of the bush. he will be the middle east envoy. when i saw that name and remember him speaking at the convention in milwaukee, i know how close these two men are. i know how much trump respects and trusts him. it tells me how much of a priority he is putting on the middle east and possibly getting that peace deal renewed. have you thought about that, roger? >> i think iran ties to what you are talking about with the whitt could have appointment is the biggest policy difference we'll see between the biden administration and the trump administration. maximum pressure will come back in force. and with that you create the opportunities to work with the gulf allies, with the sunni

allies and notably to see what can happen with the kingdom of saudi arabia. something that did not change with the biden administration irrespective of october 7th and everything that happened with the ring of fire a year later. the biden administration did not change its policy with iran as if it wasn't relevant to the conversation. not what you'll see in a trump administration. witkoff will pursue maximum pressure and may yield the diplomatic outcome you are describing. >> bill: thanks for coming on. we'll see you in early december at the reagan library in simi valley, california. thank you very much. coming up at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast. >> dana: fox news alert. a brand-new hour. donald trump returns to washington. welcome to this brand-new hour of in us news, i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer, good morning. nice to be with you for this day of history. president trump about to meet with house republicans as the cars move about on capitol hill and about an hour from now he

will head down pennsylvania avenue to the white house and have that meeting with president biden. let's get to alexandria hoff starting us off in d.c. near the hotel and good morning to you. >> even though there are several races yet to be determined across the country republicans do appear poised to maintain control of the house and deliver president-elect trump the trifecta he needs to move his aginned along quickly. it's something that members when they spoke yesterday say that is their priority. it will be up for discussion today what order do they want things to get done here? accompanying president-elect trump will be elon musk. a lot of excitement on capitol hill. a lot of big names around this area. jd vance at the capitol. chad was talking about there was a little debate today. it is a celebratory meetings they'll have leadership elections and some talk about