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>> ainsley: good morning to you. it's 7:00 on the east coast. >> steve: she was fixing her coffee. >> ainsley: i had my collagen, right. i can read and do the same time. i am a woman. >> steve: add creamer. >> ainsley: my best friend in first grade, today is her birthday. remember you learn all their birthdays? brine who was that. >> ainsley: millie powell. happy birthday. i will always love you. >> brian: what's her address? >> ainsley: it's on my christmas card list. i don't have it memorized. >> this is a fox news alert. it is a republican trifecta. republicans retain control of the house. giving the g.o.p. a clean sweep to tackle trump's agenda. but, as trump pulls another house member for his cabinet, that makes three. does that spell trouble for their control? >> lawrence: plus millennials momentum, how trump making picks to pass the torch down to a younger generation. >> steve: not so s sunny answer

co-host son any question that may have cost kamala harris the presidency. >> would have you done something differently than president biden during the past four years? >> there is not a thing that comes to mind. >> lawrence: oh, wow. >> steve: wrong answer. >> brian: can you see everyone folding up the tents in the background and going home. mornings are better with friends, put something on. >> lawrence: a fox news alert. a clean sweep. republicans officially retaining control of the house late last night. it's the first g.o.p. government trifecta since trump first took office in 2017. >> ainsley: meanwhile the president-elect is shaking things up with his selection of florida congressman matt gaetz as attorney general. >> brian: third house member go to be nominated for a role in the upcoming administration as johnson jokingly tells trump knock it off. >> i have begged and pleaded with the new president enough already. because our numbers are small.

we are going to have the majority. we are celebrating that. >> steve: don't take too many he is saying. this morning we have live team coverage. griff jenkins is screen left white house on the republican sweep but we start with mark meredith who is in a lovely location in west palm beach. not far from lawrlg ma with the latest on donald trump's picks for his cabinet. >> mark: steve, november in florida not a bad place to be at all. good morning to you and good morning, friends. president-elect trump faces uphill battle getting his latest nominee matt gaetz for attorney general to be confirmed. team trump says it's up for a fight. gaetz was a surprise pick yesterday. he has been in congress since 2016. and a long time trump supporter. but, he also quit congress after it was announced he would be up for a.g. the house ethics committee was investigating allegations gaetz was part of a scheme tied to sex trafficking of a minor. gaetz has long denied the allegation. but now that he has quit congress, the investigation is over. trump says he wants gaetz

because matt will end weaponized government, protect our borders, dismantle criminal organizations, and restore americans' badly shattered faith and confidence in the justice department. but senators say they have some concerns. >> it's just kind of like a god tear kind of trolling. just a trigger a meltdown. >> somewhat interesting pick. we will have to see how that all unfolds. >> florida senator marco rubio lure gaining bipartisan support as trump's nominee for secretary of state. trump says rubio would be a good pick because he would be a strong advocate for our nation. a true friend to our allies and a fearless warrior who will never back down to our adversaries. rubio also vowing to advance trump's agenda on the world stage. >> the job of the secretary of state is to execute on the foreign policy by the elected president of the united states i hope to have the opportunity to do it if my current colleagues here in the u.s. senate confirm me. >> mark: trump also choosing his next director of national

intelligence picking the former democratic congresswoman of hawaii, turned republican trump supporter tulsi gabbard. she had been in the mix for a number of these jobs in these final stretch. and, of course, we are still waiting to see when the next confirmation announcements would come out, who would be the next nominee as the president-elect is back in florida after a whirl wind day in d.c. just yesterday. steve, ainsley, brian and lawrence. back to you. >> steve: thank you very much. with the floridians a couple of them matt gaetz and also michael waltz taking jobs outside of their member of congress jobs, ron desantis is going to be in charge of filling those. and desantis put something out and he says congratulations to the floridians being appointed to key positions in the trump administration. i have instructed the secretary of state cord bird to formulate and announce a schedule for the upcoming special elections immediately. the hope is that they can do it in the first week of january so

donald trump can hit the ground running. >> ainsley: they 8. you know they will republican areas, republican governor who is trying to help out a republican house and a republican president now. so, they will make it happen. and the goal is january 3rd, i think. that's what speaker johnson says. >> brian: right away, by the way elise stefanik governor of new york 90 days to put something on the board. matt gaetz said okay, you nominated me attorney general, i'm out. so he immediately resigned. and that would halt any exposure technically of the ethics investigation supposed to come out any kay. so the question is matt gaetz attorney general, you have two unnamed republican senators, one senator murkowski basically saying she is not going to vote for him. i don't know how many votes he can lose to get out of committee in judiciary. >> steve: four. >> brian: see what his explanation will be. is he very good on his feet. definitely got a controversial background and he has got a lot of tape on him that maybe is not going to help him become the chief cop.

>> steve: political playbook came out. matt gaetz was not on the short list but trump was not satisfied with the people he had spoken to, you know we have talked about some people up for that job we presumed. so, this plan to have him as the attorney general was hatched on the plane. matt gaetz road from joint base andrews with the future president yesterday. and they came up with this. the bulk work says this. this apparently comes down to why donald trump picked matt gaetz they said none of the attorneys had what trump wants. and they didn't talk like gaetz. everybody else looked at the attorney general as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. they talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional b.s. gaetz was the only one who said yeah, i will go over there and start cutting f'ing heads and so apparently the president likes

his spirit, his presentation, the big question is can he get confirmed. >> lawrence: i think the thinking ever the former president based on the sources i'm talking to is that there was this comfortability with bill barr but not to the point of cleaning up the entire department. and that's why he wanted someone who be like a -- almost like a pete hegseth, what he is going to do when the defense department is to clean the house. get all the corruption out of there. and there are some people that feels like they just lead the department effectively and don't worry about the career officials. the second thing that i think has come into play. i think criticism matt gaetz and him being a fire brand is okay. he should still get, you know, a vote and be able to defend himself there i do not think it's fair to bring up what is happening in this ethics investigation when the department of justice dismissed charge. so, if our chief law enforcement agency said there is not enough information to pursue a case, why are we turning it over to

congress and some investigation? >> ainsley: yeah. i agree with that if they were able and especially, under a democrat, under joe biden. >> lawrence: right. they said not enough. >> ainsley: right. >> steve: no criminal charges. >> ainsley: exactly, no criminal charges. when he resigned from the house immediately, then the investigation goes away. in the ethics committee. >> steve: right, but the report has been written, apparently, and washington, d.c. leaks like a sieve. and you can bet a dollar to doughnuts if he is -- undergoes the confirmation hearing process, as is standard, somebody is going to read verbatim at from whatever it says. >> ainsley: i think trump wanted to pick someone who has been through investigations, too. and what matt gaetz feels is unfair. he was unfairly treated. they can relate on that. >> lawrence: to your point, ainsley, i don't think they do themselves any favor -- if you don't like matt gaetz, right? and you are planning on leaking this report, this is not going to help your case because it almost emboldens that side of

the party that says why are they coming after him if there was no criminal charges? so why would you go out there and leak information when there was not enough evidence to go to a trial? >> steve: we should point out we don't know what is in the house ethics report, only they know. >> lawrence: i'm saying whatever is in it should not be leaked if there was not enough evidence to go through a trial. we shouldn't be leaking information to targets political opponents. whether it is in favor of him or against him. >> brian: it was going to come out if he stayed in the house. >> steve: within a week. >> brian: within a week. so we know this the "wall street journal" said bad choice. senator joni ernst says he has a lot of work to do. lisa murkowski says: not a serious candidate. we will see. this is going to be senator thune and how hard is senator thune. >> lawrence: this is going to be the toughest nomination to get through out of all the picks. >> steve: absolutely. >> ainsley: i think we all can agree he has good hair.

>> brian: solely responsible for blowing up the house last year. and he had no plan to do the next day. he just had a personal vendetta against kevin mccarthy. that was pretty evident. >> ainsley: 10 minutes after the top of the hour. now to griff jenkins republican trifecta in washington. hey, griff. >> griff: good morning, guys, look, the american people have spoken. it is donald trump's washington again. as the republicans take control of all three pill lers of power. something not seen since the first time trump came into office. take a look. we can show you, fox puts the balance of power in the house at 218 to 208 were a handful of races still yet to be called. meaning the majority could actually grow not with standing gaetz's resignation yesterday. and speaker johnson remaining at the helm winning unanimously for another term as the top republican. now, the trifecta was clinched after that race in arizona was called for republican incumbent juan sis can a manny.

kim call better defeating will rollins out in california's 41st district. john thune won the contest to be the next majority leader help deliver on presi president-elecs vision. >> ready to enact president trump's agenda. we have a mandate from the american people. a mandate not only to clean up the mess left by the biden-harris, schumer agenda but also to deliver on president trump's priorities. >> but take note, these majorities both in the house and the senate are tight. meaning there will be little room for coming up short that margin will be very tight. and we're looking at possibly a lot of herding of cats when it comes to tough votes. guys? >> brian: thanks so much, griff. the big difference is the person

knows how to herd cats is donald trump. yeah, we have 4 point margin. i need everyone voting for me. there is no one really in the house that stands out as an anti-trumper that's going to try to ruffle things up. sinema might be a different story. 53 once you sit mccormick, that's substantial. >> steve: and, regarding the senate -- so john thune won on a second ballot, rick scott was eliminated after the first round. he won 29-24 over john cornyn. he said we are going to focus on two things. one, republican senators and over the last couple of months he has helped raise so much money. and, also, repairing and mending his relationship with donald trump. and apparently they have been talking more. he is on the same page. the president and john thune spoke yesterday. but, this comes with a background of -- and we were talking about it over the last couple of days how maga influencers were trying to get rick scott across the line.

the conventional wisdom was his ceiling was probably 12 votes. he wound up getting 13, rick scott did. i saw something really interesting this morning. so, john thune's voting record with donald trump, he voted with donald trump 91.4 percent of the time. rick scott, 84% of the time. so, john thune actually more on the page legislatively than rick scott. >> brian: other thing that is interesting to, once they eliminated rick scott, most of the votes went to cornyn. rick scott votes went to cornyn. two good guys. by the way tom cotton becomes number three he doubled up senator joni ernst. that's one of the reasons he is going to be head of the intelligence committee and number 3 in the senate. got two pretty good jobs. >> lawrence: there is a lot of focus on the republican trifecta and how the republican party is going to be able to get this donald trump agenda through. i'm going to be looking at all

of the congressional races and even some of the senate races where donald trump won, but a democrat won as well. because, they are going to have to moderate their position a little bit. especially some of those people that were on the campaign trail that tried to link themselves to donald trump. will they try to be bipartisan? i think there is a mandate for them as well. >> ainsley: i love that they're starting to put younger people in these positions because when he was president before, i think he has learned a lot. he is putting the younger generation in. look at this list. this is vivek 39 years old. elise stefanik is 40. j.d. vance is 40. >> steve: stephen miller 39. >> ainsley: did i miss anyone else? '. >> brian: will tulsi gabbard is 43. >> ainsley: how do you like it you are a millennial. >> lawrence: all this talk about the next generation of leaders. donald trump not only has he remade the republican party, but he is setting them up not only when it comes to different minority communities but the younger generation.

i think it's pretty cool. >> steve: just barely missing that list pete hegseth who i think is 44. just the next generation is up. what is interesting not only is donald trump bringing in new blood, but what he ultimately is doing that list much people over there on the big wall those are the people who are going to be taking the maga philosophy into the next generation after donald trump leaves the white house donald trump and many others continue his legacy. >> brian: here is how the vote broke down in past elections. in 2020, he had 36% of those 18 to 29. it went up to 47%. so he added 11. if you think about it, is he very comfortable with younger people around them. he asks them as many questions as he does when he goes on these podcasts he feels totally comfortable and he doesn't get there amend says i'm 78 years old and was president this the way things are. he asked joe rogan questions and theo vaughan the same thing.

hey, i know you had a problem with addiction. what led to that? why were you addicted? how did you come out of it? so he does not have that arrogance as if i know everything. >> ainsley: i thought also the younger generation we all liked it when we saw him in the garbage truck. we all liked it when we saw him working at mcdonald's. >> steve: made me hungry. >> ainsley: right? >> steve: at the same time, donald trump is a brilliant producer. you know, he was a producer with the reality show and stuff like that. and he has been able to look at how the evolving media landscape and in the last four years, in the last 8 years, suddenly there are podcasts and stuff like that. not just tv. it's podcasts, it's radio shows, and he went on all of them. and then you had kamala harris, apparently she did not go on the joe rogan show, according to one of her insiders because they thought that some of the progressives on her staff would be outraged. that she would go on his show. but one show we have been

talking about for years is "the view." >> ainsley: sunny hostin she said what do would you do differently, kamala harris? you know i don't think i would do anything differently. sunny was asked about that. the first soundbite we are are going play this is sunni on the podcast. >> i followed up because i was surprised that was the answer. look, i think it wasn't so much about the question that it was really more about the answer. >> not a thing comes to mind. >> not a thing comes to mind. and that's why i followed up with is there anything that you would do differently? the reach i fulled up, that wasn't a gotcha question. that was a layup, really. it. >> it was an important question. one she should have expected. >> that's what i thought. i actually thought it was a chance for her to explain to all the people who are saying i want

a change agent. >> lawrence: everyone is talking about this postmortem and what the democratic party should be doing differently. >> lawrence: didn't talk to the working class and white minorities the right way. she was a terrible candidate. the democratic party has to come out there and be able to say it. i know you guys just parachuted her in. but there is a reason why she was the first candidate out of t of the primary in 2020. she should have totally been ready for that question. this was a protective question. this is her sorority sister that was trying to help her out. giving her a layup. and she just did not have an answer. >> ainsley: she was asked that question twice that day in two different interviews. and she never even -- even the second time she was asked. >> lawrence: the late night show? >> yeah. she had a chance for her staff to say maybe we shouldn't answer it that way. >> lawrence: let's regroup. >> steve: one thing a lot of people said in the polling is we

would like to know more about you and your plans. so sunny goes i'm going to ask and this is her chance and kamala harris blew it. >> brian: unfolding scandal that i think is going to come out that whole campaign was fake. it's a fraud. now you find out that all these celebrities that came forward, how much were they compensated and whether it's to a foundation or whether. >> lawrence: production company,. >> harpo. al sharpton $500,000 to the -- his coalition. next thing you know is he doing an interview. now, they say when the fec sheets come out, we are going to find out if eminem was paid anything and meghan stallion was paid anything. he or she is a celebrity. they are going for this -- they are going for this candidate. now we are going to say to yourself how much is that candidate getting paid? ened i just love the fact that danica patrick goes i wasn't paid anything. wasn't even offered to me. why would you? do you think brett favre got money to go out there in green

bay? >> ainsley: you are absolutely right. she can't blame anybody but herself. >> lawrence: terrible. >> ainsley: or the people who put her in that position. she never even had to wane primary. >> lawrence: they wasted so much money that donald trump it did it for a portion of it. and they are rebuilding sets and all. this by the way, have we got a comment from msnbc or nbc about them paying al sharpton and her doing interview after that. that has to be some type of media malpractice doing that. >> brian: i look at al sharpton as a great journalist. [laughter] >> brian: you are absolutely right. he posed himself as a commentator. i would add one thing is that she came out and this is the whole thing, nancy pelosi had a script. do you know what her script was? jungle primary at the dnc. that was going to save the day. she outmaneuvered nancy pelosi and as soon as he was done and joe biden and kamala harris, the story will be written. she said no, no, it's going to be me. it's going to be her.

you want me out, i'm picking her. deal with it. and she consolidated the delegates. nancy pelosi said it on the podcast, on the "new york times." she wasn't really my pick. i wanted -- >> ainsley: i think a lot of these celebrities got behind her because they hated trump so much. they were trying to convince themselves how great she was. there were only a few democrats saying she is not a great candidate like david axelrod would push back, sometimes james carville would burn back a little bit. >> brian: doesn't guarantee a win. >> ainsley: we all knew she wasn't a good candidate. we didn't know where she stood on issues. flip flopped and flip flopped. she wouldn't do the interviews. she wasn't forthright about how she voted in california. she made a lot of gaffes, word salad after word salad. how could they think she was a great candidate. they said she was. they loved her and loved her. all because they hated trump. >> steve: she wasn't a great candidate but she also and we heard experts on the democratic side saying that particular question that sunny asked derailed her presidency. >> ainsley: it wasn't sunny's

fault? sunny just asked the question. >> steve: sunny is feeling the heat because people are blaming her. >> lawrence: do you know who is great though? >> steve: yes that woman right there. >> carley: i was hoping you would say me, lawrence. thank you so much. that is so sweet. somebodyshall i get to more new. raiding the home of shane cop plan seizing phone in manhattan part. comments after the betting platform showed trump holding 58% chance of winning over vice president kamala harris at 42% on election day. cop plan suggesting the raid was politically motivated. president biden set to below the xi jinping in peru. they will attend the asian economic cooperation pflum lima and comes as tensions grow between the two countries over tariffs, fentanyl and taiwan. first time biden and xi speak since an april phone call. and listen to this. police arresting four people for falsely claiming a bear damaged

their vehicles. the owner of the car submitted this but investigators didn't buy it a search warrant was executed and a bear costume was discovered in the suspect's home all four people charged with insurance fraud and conspiracy after defrauding their insurance company over $140,000. there was a person in a bear costume. >> four people charged. >> so, ainsley, was the bear costume like from a real bear? that looks. >> steve: amazon. >> four people insurance fraud. breaking in these cars, allegedly, the reports from "new york post" this morning and they had the claw marks on the seat. >> how do you come up with this idea. >> the story is saying or investigators are saying i think

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>> it's a new day in the united states senate and new day in america. this republican team is united, we are on one team, we are excited to reclaim the majority and to get to work with our colleagues in the house to enact president trump's agenda. >> steve: okay. all right, newly elected into senate leadership as republican conference vice chair is that guy right there. oklahoma senator james lankford. good morning to you, senator. >> good morning to everybody. >> steve: okay. donald trump has made it very clear he has come out with a bunch of names. he wants you guys to confirms cs this quickly as possible. what's your number one priority though legislatively? >> election legislatively it's going to be the tax cuts issue. we got to be able to deal with that piece. it's going to take months and months and months to be able to pull that together. extremely complicated but very important. we don't want the tax issues to expire at the end of next year. >> steve: so, the lynn election held in private. there is no record of who voted for whom. what was going on behind the

scenes? i know a lot of maga world was united behind rick scott. and essentially said to all of you guys, you better vote for trump's guy, that's rick scott. that didn't -- it did not work, ultimately. >> it was so interesting. we had folks that said they were speaking for trump out there and they were putting out there for rick scott. great guy. rick scott is a terrific leader. a great member ever the senate. but the issue became they were saying they were speaking for president trump. president trump never spoke out on that. i have noticed he is not a shrinking violet. he is someone if he has an opinion, he actually says his opinion on that. in fact, as soon as john thune was elected. he put out a statement in strong support of actually john thune and so the time that president trump actually spoke about the leadership elections was immediately afterwards and actually was in support of thune. thune supported trump overwhelmingly. look at the vote history when from when trump was here before. so he has been very supportive of president trump. and he came out immediately in the press conference and reaffirmed it.

>> steve: there you go. so, you are united behind pushing the trump agenda. one of the thirst things you guys have got to do in the senate is you are going to have to confirm his nominees. one of them, nobody saw matt gaetz yesterday. he wasn't on anybody's bingo card, really. and, you know, the stories today are out there where there are a number of republicans who think this is going to be a tough confirmation. what are you guys going to do? >> i would say we are going to do the matt gaetz confirmation like all the rest. president trump put a bunch of nominations out there. we got to get on those quickly. when the new congress is sworn in the 3rd of january. even before frump is actually inaugurated and sworn. in we will actually get busy on those starting on january the 3rd. those are hearings behind the scenes. be able to go through that they will all be public and be able to go through that and as soon as the president is actually sworn, in we will be able to do the final votes on it and get bidsy, especially on the to be cap net picks. >> steve: sure. we have both seen donald trump when he was president and we

have seen him over the last couple of years. i have got a feeling what he is going to do is if there are some republican senators who are sitting on the fence and currently four would have to say no to matt gaetz for the confirmation to fail, but knowing donald trump, is he probably going to get on the horn and say hey, i got all you guys elected. you got to help me out here. >> yeah, he will stay engaged in the process as he was. i would say there is a huge difference between joe biden and donald trump in a million different policy areas. it's also a big difference in how he handle issues. president trump was always engaged with members of congress on the phone, calling, coming over, getting a chance to be able to talk back and forth. coming to the capitol. a lot of action to be able to move legislation. joe biden has not left the building. has never called most members of congress and is not engaged. even his legislative team doesn't engage. president trump is a hands on leader. i fully expect him to be able to be engaged. >> steve: he wants to get a lot done and he needs your help. senator, thank you very much for joining us. i know you have a busy day.

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favorite to be treasury secretary in a second trump administration. key square capital management ceo and founder scott bess isn't a joins us now we talked a lot about radio. this is what donald trump said about you. have you hit in next few months. >> i'm in violent agreement with president trump over that. >> brian: you are a nice-looking guy. >> you too,. >> brian: brian your thoughts about president trump's vision for the economy and where you might fit in. >> you know, the good thing, brian, is everyone asks me what do you tell president trump what he should do? i don't have to tell donald trump he should do anything. he has done it. we had a great economy under 1.0. 2016 just until we hilt the wall in covid was one of the greatest periods in american history. i think under donald trump we could have a golden age for the next four years. we can bring back the

manufacturing, we have energy dominance, have you already seen what is happening with everyone is laying down their weapons thanks to president trump. we are going to have peace and we are going to have this technology boom. think about the coalition that donald trump assembled. this was the greatest political comeback in history. greatest political comeback in history. and it was a combination of working class americans and melonmusk. the richest person in the world. who else could do that but trump. >> brian: you went to rallies, one in pittsburgh. something struck you. what struck but that audience. >> it was electricity in the air. the people are with donald trump. you know, you and i, we have a great life that show up in pittsburgh and they are just workers. they got on their hard hats, their vests. they are with their families. and president trump speaks to them and they know that he has their back.

>> brian: he is counting on him and treasury secretary will be key. what's your story? how did you become so successful? how did you grow up? >> look, brian, i am a kid -- i grew up fishing village a little river in south carolina. i think i'm the luckiest person in the world. our family had some economic hardship when i was younger. i got my first job when i was 9. i had three jobs to make my way through yale. i came to wall street. the only thing i knew is something bad happened in 1929. and, you know, i have had a great career. and the opportunity to be able to give back to the country will be incredible. but, you know, any way i can help. >> brian: paid your way through college. student loans you paid it back. >> i paid it back. i didn't expect forgiveness. and, you know, i just went straight to work. i came to wall street and, you know, i have been doing this for 35 years. and i will tell you, your colleague upstairs, maria bartiromo says donald trump is

the single most sophisticated leaders in terms of economics we have ever met. marie and i have met a lot of leaders. >> brian: he cares more about blue collar america than white collar. i know you are a finalist along with luted nic to be the next treasury secretary. >> thank you. it's all president trump's decisions he made great decisions on the campaign. i can't wait for the next four years. >> brian: thank you, scott for being here. >> appreciate it. >> brian: blue states unite. democratic governors team up against trump. will they ever just respect the will of the people? we will discuss their approach. ♪

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>> ainsley: as trump wins back the white house democratic governors including several potential 2028 contenders are now vowing to protect their states from donald trump's policies, the group is called governors safeguarding democracy. and it's being dubbed as a nonpartisan group, an alliance, vowing to oppose whatever trump's second term might bring. here with reaction is former executive director for draft biden in 2016 and a former senior adviser to bernie sanders, mr. will pierce. hey, will, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me on,

ainsley. >> you are welcome. tell us about this group. it's a resistance group against trump. called governors safeguarding democracy. governor pritzker of illinois. governor polis of colorado to write this and give this playbook to other governors. >> overall, i can i tell you simple what they're doing. president-elect hasn't been elected or inaugurated into office yet here are the governors coming out against him automatically. overall i think they should be respecting the will of the constituents illinois for example 44% of the state voted for trump. colorado 43 voted for trump. now you have these governors coming out and saying oh no we are going to oppose. they don't know what the administration is going to be doing yet. they are just drying to get their campaign ready for the next presidential run. >> ainsley: i agree with you. we reached out to both of the governor's offices they sent us the press releases or one of the articles i was reading that's what they said. they sent the press releases to that publication, didn't ever respond to this, really, but they wrote a press release, so

that means this is not a discreet they are not writing this playbook and giving it out to governors, they say it's nonpartisan. i don't think -- they haven't heard back from any of the republican governors, they are not going to get the support from the republican governors, what's your response to that? have you heard behind the scenes there are republican governors that are wanting this playbook? >> absolutely not. when i am actually hearing behind the scenes a little bit though i have yet to hear governor newsom coming in and getting involved as well. i'm sorry if you look at these cities and communities these governors are representing, chicago, san francisco, l.a., these governors should be more focused on getting their communities back on track instead of -- >> ainsley: i agree. governor polis was on another met work he said we are going to work with him donald trump and his administration however we can for our state. why would you start this resistance group, especially when a big portion of your state has voted for donald trump. >> yes. let's take it a step further. we know what this is really

about. they are going to be defending the illegal immigrants and working to keep them inside the states. i'm sorry, you have so many resources being taken away by these states. you have out of control crime, housing crisis. governors focusing on these issues instead of focusing what is going on in their own home state. >> you are right. we haven't had an inauguration and already against them day one. great to see you. >> thank you. >> let's hand it over to carley. >> thank you. >> carley: business headlines to get to starting with a fox business alert. largest dock workers union breaking off talk with port employers over concerns about the proposed use of robots that the union says could eliminate jobs. the international long shoreman's association says in a statement, quote: together we will work the -- we will show the world that the ila stands as one, ready to fight for a better way of life for every member and every family who depends on this great union. dock workers took to the picket line last month after failing to reach a new contract.

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