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>> vice president elect jd vance arriving on capitol hill with the secretary of state pick marco rubio and joined by the a.g. nominee matt gaetz who will be the subject of an ethics committee hearing later today. they will meet with senators trying to shore up support for these nominations. more on that as we get it. >> long overdue the city of los angeles takes definitive steps to protect immigrants. l.a. is willing to stand up against mass deportations. >> a shove defiance in los angeles. the second largest city of america gearing up for a showdown over trump's efforts to fix the border crisis. one of the top issues that drove voters to the polls in this 2024 election. that is for sure. good morning, everybody. i'm martha maccallum.

>> john: i'm john roberts. bill and dana are on assignment. the los angeles city council approved a sanctuary city ordinance as border encounters under biden-harris topped 10.4 million people. >> martha: meanwhile a u.s. official telling fox news that 1.4 million illegal immigrants in the united states have been ordered deported by federal immigration judges. but have not been removed. about 13,000 of those are indeed in ice custody as we speak. as the chaos unfolds trump's incoming border czar planning to hit the ground running. >> out of the gate we're concentrating on public safety threats and national security threats. what politician whether you are mayor or governor is saying no, i want public safety threats to remain in my community? give me a break.

>> john: greg abbott standing by on how texas can help in cleaning up this disaster. first we begin with jeff paul live in los angeles. jeff, good morning. >> john, california has been a sanctuary state since 2017. los angeles has essentially followed the law and practice. we don't expect to see too much change in daily life. however, the l.a. city council's unanimous vote to make los angeles an official sanctuary city sends a message getting the law on the books is about hardening support for the city's large immigrant population especially as the incoming trump administration proposes to carry out mass deportations. l.a. sanctuary city law was proposed early last year. it wasn't a direct response to trump's election win. however, having all city council members agree to forbid city employees and resources from being used in federal immigration enforcement certainly signals strong resistance to trump and his proposed policies. >> if we know anything about the

person who just won the election, we know that their bark is their bark and their bark matches their bite. >> given the re-election of donald trump and consistent hate speech toward undocumented people i can't think of a more pressing issue than this one today. >> the law doesn't stop the federal government from coming into cities like l.a. to carry out deportations but does make the jobs of federal agents more difficult. city employees including local law enforcement and sfe property can't be used to investigate, cite, arrest, hold, transfer or detain any person for the purpose of immigration enforcement. incoming border czar tom homan says the idea is ridiculous and only further endanger communities. >> they want help get the help out of the way we're going to do it. if i need to send twice as many resources that's what we do. if they give us access to the jail less agents in the community.

for them not letting us in the jail more agents will be in the community. >> the l.a. school board that oversees the second largest school system passed similar resolutions declaring itself a sanctuary for im granulitis and -- they are trying to trump-proof california laws. >> john: jeff, thank you. the democratic leader of another blue city not holding back in his thoughts about president-elect trump. listen to chicago mayor brandon johnson. >> he is a threat to everything that is sensible. stop playing games with the people of this country. we won't let him play games with the people of this stechlt he wants to work with us he will have a partner. if he wants to threaten us then he is declared opposition to us. >> john: johnson has been receiving criticism for some time that allocated tax power

money to migrants instead of city residents. >> martha: joining me now texas republican governor greg abbott. great to have you with us in the studio. thank you for joinings. bill melugin report evidence 1.4 million migrants that are under deportation removal orders in texas it's very interesting. i want to look at this sound bite. your land commissioner talking about 1400 acres in texas used as part of the deportation process. watch this. >> what i care about is we have safe communities. no doubt we're losing too many of our children to these violent criminals coming across the border. i am 100% on board with the trump administration's pledge to get these criminals out of our country and we're more than happy to offer our resources to facilitate the deportations of these violent criminals. >> martha: what will this land be used for and what will it look like? >> right now the land is being

used to have another border wall built on that land by the state of texas. but using this land for deportation purposes is just part of a multitude of strategies we're involved in. one is as we speak right now more orange buoys put into the river to deny illegal entry. second thing we're working to make sure we go after the criminals that they were talking about. i declared tren de aragua as a foreign terrorist organization so that we would be able to muster every single law enforcement tool in the state of texas to go after them and arrest them. we made hundreds of arrests of tren de aragua which is working to expand across the country. we're making it clear tren de aragua made a mistake when they tried to put a foothold in texas. >> martha: katie hobs, these states are pushing back. the biden administration is already trying to stop what you are doing with the buoys.

>> we will not be participating in misguided efforts that harm our communities. it hurts families and tears them apart. we're not going to -- that's not going to happen on my watch. >> we can make sure that we are doing our part to protect our residents in every possible way. that we're not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear. >> martha: what do you make of it. >> they're doubling down on the reasons why they lost the election. americans demanded to stop the illegal immigration into our country especially of thieves who pose great dangers whether in arizona, massachusetts or other places across the country. they won't be cooperating with ice, with the border czar, with any effort to remove very dangerous criminals they will see more crimes in their cities and see more losses at the ballot box because americans are

angry about this. these office holders will have to be responding to that anger. >> martha: i want to ask about the bills with regard to china and more clarity on these deportation centers that they will be built on this property? is that the understanding? >> all of that will be up to the trump administration and where they want to use or what strategy. the reality is a lot of the people being deported will be deported from new york, from california. flown out on planes going elsewhere. so we just want to make sure that the trump administration understands we are here to help whether it be to deny illegal entry, whether it be to arrest those here illegally, whether it be to assist in the deportation process. >> martha: let's talk about what you are doing aimed at the chinese communist party in texas to make sure they don't have a foothold. in a lot of places they already do. >> right.

many americans are unaware that china specifically targets states in the united states to undermine what's going on in the united states of america. they have been in texas going after chinese dissidents who left china and they are legally in the state of texas now and they have these local police stations set up run by chinese going after the chinese in the state of texas. >> martha: there are chinese police stations set up in texas. >> in houston. >> martha: how do they get away with it? we don't allow other law enforcements from other countries in our texas. >> they think they have a law enforcement effort for the chinese who are in houston, texas. that's being shut down. so once we learned about it, working with the federal government, f.b.i., people like that we were able to identify it and work to shut it down. we have the chinese going after people. the chinese going after

intellectual property and -- the largest power grid in the united states in the state of texas. they would potentially be able to attack our power grid and shutdown texas. the if they do that they would shut down the largest energy sector in the united states. we rank number three in the world for oil production. if they brought all that to a halt it would be devastating for the operational purposes of the united states of america. we are on the front lines of having to guard against this potential chinese attack, which is why we are redoubling our efforts to arrest anybody in the state of texas posing any type of china problem by making sure our universities, investments, all things like that are being walled off from china. >> martha: coordinated effort. there are so many different ways they are trying to penetrate. you have been on top of it since the beginning, governor. thank you for joining us today. a couple of counties in texas that never voted republican that went republican in that last election. it was becoming more purple but

didn't show up that way in the past election. keep us posted what is going on in texas with these efforts as the new administration moves forward. >> john: immigration issue. venezuelan gang tren de aragua is expanding its operations across the country. a new report from the "new york post" shows tda has set up shop in 16 states. that area includes half of the country's population. steve harrigan with more from atlanta. steve. >> you just heard the governor refer to this organization as a terrorist group tren de aragua. a phrase we'll be hearing a lot of. basically means aragua train. a prison where they got its start. the warning it has a foothold in 16 u.s. states and tennessee going even a step further. the tennessee bureau of investigation saying this violent venezuelan gang is now operating in all major tennessee

cities. >> they are violent toward law enforcement. they will fight and they will attack police. they have no respect for law enforcement and that's an understanding as well. we want to make sure our partners throughout the state and policing know that. they are prepared for those encounters. >> this gang got its start about ten years ago in venezuela. they began by extorting businesses and then they began to prey on migrants trafficking women and young girls as well. they are notorious for having no boundaries when it comes to violence. burying people alive and seen the effects of this violence in neighboring countries like columbia and peru. 5,000 members. not clear how many are in the u.s. the group did start to get a lot of attention after some security video went viral at the end of the summer showing members of the gang inside an apartment complex in aurora, colorado. the trump administration is

vowing to take quick action against the gang. >> immediately sign executive orders sealing the border shut. beginning the largest deportation operation in american history. finding the criminal gangs, rapists, drug dealers and monsters that have murdered our citizens and sending them home. >> the expansion took place even as the biden administration sanctioned the group as a trans national criminal organization offering a $12 million reward for its three leaders. back to you. >> john: it will be a busy 100 days for the incoming president. thank you, now this. >> the sentencing hanging over the president or right to appeal hanging over a president while he remains in office would damage the institution of the presidency virtually to the same extent as an actual conviction. >> martha: kicking the can down the road prosecutors pushing to delay sentencing in president-elect trump's new york criminal case. will the judge decide to drop

this conviction completely? once and for all? there is also this. >> i think the speed with which you've seen donald trump choose these key positions should signal what he wants to do january 20th. he wants to get to work on day one making sure this country is turned back around and things start working again in america. >> martha: part of that is happening now. vice president-elect vance is making the rounds in congress trying to smooth the way for confirmation of the incoming administration's nominees. the latest on all of that next. >> five, four, three, two, one. >> martha: quite a scene yesterday. all systems go. spacex launching in texas. president-elect trump watching it all right there alongside elon musk.

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pushed a delay of sentencing until trump leaves office. judge merchan hasn't indicated when he will issue a final decision on the case. ashley is the lawyer for trump's co-defendant in the georgia case and joins us now. ashley, great to see you. it has been a minute. what do you thick judge merchan. will he hold everything in abeyance until 2029? >> i think he is hoping and praying that the prosecution does the right thing and i think he has given them extra time to hope they do the right thing. you have to understand that prosecutorial discretion is the basis of our entire criminal legal system. without a prosecutor willing to exercise that discretion for the greater good the whole system fails. i think the judge is hoping to do the right thing. a president on bond for four

years? will it be pending for five years? is that really what the public wants and for the greater good? this case needs to go away. >> john: i don't know about that. andy mccarthy was talking about this yesterday. clearly in bragg's interest to keep this thing going because he is up for re-election next year in a city that voted 80% for kamala harris? does he want to dismiss the whole thing or is a no, we'll fight this tooth and nail and i don't care if it takes five years, we're going to bring him to justice? new york politics it may not be in the interest of the nation but it is in the interest of alvin bragg. that seems to be his top priority. >> that's the problem. whose interest is it in? really in the interest of the new york people? it is interesting there is no victim here. that's really important because

prosecutors normally have to answer to a victim. there is no one that actually called and reported a crime. there is no mother that lost their child or no person that their money was stolen. nothing like that happened. so he could save face. he could do this politically and still save his office and do the right thing. still facing re-election but it is unfortunate to see him and making a decision based on his own political well-being, not the greater good of the people that he represents. what we need is a strong leader, someone who is actually willing to dismiss this. >> john: even though there are a few legal lemons. trump transition is making lemonade out of this. this is a total definitive victory for president trump and the american people who elected him in a landslide. manhattan d.c. conceded the witch hunt cannot continue. lawless case is stayed and president trump's legal team is moving to get it dismissed once and for all. obviously they are hoping that judge merchan will see the light

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>> john: monmouth poll done in recent days found that 57% of americans believe that it is likely the charges were all poll it i can motivated. it has been a minute. great to have you on again. >> thanks so much. >> martha: today is the deadline for pennsylvania counties to start recounting votes in the state's hotly contested senate race. republican challenger dave mccormick leading democratic incumbent bob casey. new court ruling could give mccormick a big boost. nate foye with the latest on this. >> this race just continues to stretch out. senator-elect dave mccormick is up more than 16,000 votes but his margin over senator bob casey shrunk as philadelphia county wrapped up its initial count last night. now with the recount underway there are more than a dozen legal challenges over ballots in pennsylvania. the supreme court in the state ruled undated or misdated

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play out. i'm here to tell you the process is not done and this race is not over. coming up at 11:30 something to watch this morning. philadelphia city commissioners hold a news conference of process counting ballots. the final results of the recount are expected a week from today. >> martha: thank you very much, nate. >> each one deserves a hearing, a fair process and timely vote. >> they are not of the swamp or part of the problem. they are disruptors to the problem. >> john: jd vance tries to show up support and kellyanne conway shares her insights coming up. all eyes on the trial in laken riley's murder. key testimony and evidence all coming in with the defense preparing to rest its case. christmas can be a crazy time

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john we're keeping an eye on vice president elect jd vance campaigns for trump's cabinet picks. they're meeting with republican senators critical to securing the nominations. chad pergram is live at the capitol. >> jd vance arrived today with secretary of state nominee mark row rubio and matt gaetz. he will shepherd them to meetings with senators as the house ethics committee meets about its probe of gaetz. >> if there is an ethics report out there or that has been completed, then i think the senate will want to see it. it may very well speed up the vetting process. on the other hand, if it is not available and we have to recreate it ourselves it would delay our ability to make a decision on a very critical nominee. >> the ethics committee

investigated alleged drug use by gaetz. allegations of sexual misconduct. bipartisan senators want the report in order to fully vet gaetz. house speaker mike johnson opposing releasing the report because gaetz resigned from congress. democrats want answers. >> here is this administration one side talking about saving government money but waste taxpayer dollars making us do the investigation. ridiculous and a waste of taxpayer dollars. >> this is the first big assignment president-elect trump has given vance. he is charged to convince senators to confirm his controversial nominees. at least one republican believes confirmations will not be an issue. >> i don't think it is going to be ugly if we're properly vetting the nominees as they are coming forward and there will be a thorough vetting of the nominees. but bret, you know very well there was a mandate in the last

election. >> gaetz is expected to meet with mike lee and john kennedy today. in the meeting this morning g.o.p. south carolina senator lindsey graham. confirmation hearings start in january. >> john: they will be interesting to watch. no question about that. chad, thank you. martha. >> martha: here to discuss is fox news contributor and senior advisor to president trump kellyanne conway. great to have you with us. so many of the president's picks have been met with such positive response and we've seen some of these en the -- entities rolling with some of their ideas, today with vance and rubio and the former congressman matt gaetz. it's written about a lot in a number of editorials, gaetz maybe not worth it for the president. what is your take on what will

happen here and if the ethics committee does release that report, what the impact might be? >> so that's what the hearings are for and what the preliminary meetings are for. democrats are welcome to meet with the nominees as well. i totally encourage that. sounds like our senator from new jersey has other ideas. good to see him again. it has been a while. this is what the meetings, the private meetings and hearings are for. remember, the nominees will be under oath. people asking the questions never are, martha. we'll have to have a truthful, transparent hearing process for each of the nominees and then the folks will decide. i think that presidents right, left and center are giving a great deal of grace and latitude in forming their government especially after the country has spoken to decisively. the shared demographic breadth of victory means trump has a mandate and wants to find people who will fulfill that mandate.

the other thing i just want to say is that i look at some of the cabinet secretaries we have now. they are still on the job and still paying them in their positions. we have a department of homeland security secretary who has lied to us for four years. he said in 2021 the border secure and it is closed. since then 10 million people have come here. that's a number larger than the population of 39 states. we have a guy at health and human services who has no real health background. we have a guy bernstein not an economist. a music or sociology degree. that's fine. are we concerned that these people aren't up for the jobs they currently have and yet they got confirmed? some overwhelmingly. the last one i want to talk about is blinken. our secretary of state. i turned up the volume when he had his confirmation hearing four years ago, martha and talked about his stepfather being a holocaust survivor.

i have since met with some australians who helped his stepfather's family at that time and guess what? he is the first one to call for a cease-fire after october 7th. i think president trump will stick with these nominees. we'll see what happens. and i'm not surprised that the democrats who can't get over the election results will try to resist every single nominee. i can't think of a -- >> martha: they won't resist every single nominee. matt gaetz is the most controversial what we're hearing on the hill and may be senators prepared to perhaps vote against him and we haven't seen this house ethics committee. i think it is important to point out the d.o.j. did not press charges in the issues that were brought before them. i want to get a quick thought on recess appointments. an interesting piece in the national review today by john yu

saying president trump could throw congress into adjournment and push through a recess appointment of his picks. then the senate would be likely to do the same thing and gavel it back in. do you think that all of that, if it goes to that level, is a good move for the incoming president to go through? >> let's be clear, martha. that presidents for many years have used recess appointments. i remember first becoming mostly familiar with it during president george w. bush. >> martha: for not the attorney general or top cabinet spot. >> appointments. these judges are lifetime appointments. they don't leave when the president does. >> martha: i looked into this. it is true obama did 171 recess appoint also, bush did 70 some. not any that were at the cabinet level. so it's a question of whether or

not politically it's worth it. >> we're not there yet. as far as i can hear from president trump and vice president elect vance they will go through the process and why they're up on capitol hill today. president trump was asked yesterday about this particular pick and said he is sticking with it. i think it is important sunny hostin from "the view" had another read to her viewers that matt gaetz denial of these charges. the role of the attorney general and cms and role of director of the f.b.i. i want americans to remember what these roles are supposed to do. dr. oz as cms will oversee 160 million americans who rely upon medicare and medicaid, chip and other health agencies programs for the healthcare. president trump said in the announcement yesterday he also wants dr. oz to root out fraud or abuse. but get rid of that so we make

sure the seniors and low income americans who deserve to be on these programs get what they need. i think one of the most truthful things biden said on june 27th is we killed medicare. we killed medicare. didn't he. his own government statistics say they gutted 237 billion out of medicare through the inflation reduction act. >> martha: there is a tremendous appetite for exactly that, people are very enthusiastic about shaking the trees and finding out where this waste is. it is all our money, taxpayer money and these are very bloated organizations in many cases. so i think a lot of americans across the board look forward to that. kellyanne, thank you very much. we'll watch this process and covering it all. good to see you. >> john: despite the biden administration's opposition texas putting up more buoys.

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>> martha: breaking news out of athens, georgia. closing arguments are now underway. we have the latest.

>> just minutes ago, closing arguments began. i can tell you that right now the defense is telling the judge that the evidence is overwhelming and asking the judge to find jose ibarra guilty on every single count. there are ten of them. before this the defense was supposed to call more witnesses today. instead they moved into the rebuttal stage. the state called a gbi agent to the stand who interviewed jose ibarra's brother diego. in that interview diego identifies his brother to law enforcement in a video of a man throwing away a jacket into a dumpster outside of their apartment. it is important because police found that jacket pretty quickly. it had blood and hair on it that prosecutors are saying the riley's, diego told law enforcement that jose did not tell him anything about this murder. this is very important because throughout the whole trial the defense was questioning the evidence on one hand but then also trying to say that it was

ibarra's brother, diego, who killed riley. closing arguments underway. it is very likely this whole thing could wrap up by day's end, martha. >> martha: thank you very much. john. >> john: the return of the nfl to the nation's capital taking a big step forward. senate panel has approved a bill to give d.c. the control of the site where rfk stadium currently is. but not without obstacles. one senator pushed for a tribute to the team's original logo. todd piro. mural bowser and commanders want to get ahold of rfk stadium inside the city limits unlike northern stadium and make it a new home for the commanders saying unlock the potential of the rfk campus put it into affordable housing, world class recreational facility and

economic opportunity for district residents and visitors alike. but this logo here is at the center of a dispute. montana senator steve daines was balking signing off on this because they wanted to throw the old logo into the dust bin. >> a lot more than just where is john roberts and his family watch the next game, in maryland or dc? what is at issue is a negotiation that steve daines has been having with the league and team to make sure that a member of a tribe in his home state of montana who created this logo will be allowed to incorporate the logo into something whether a throwback commanders uniform, something in the stadium in some way, shape or form they want this representation. as you well know this logo represents the heart of when the washington franchise was at its best. john, there is also the fact of the matter november 5th woke

died. you look around the country, woke died on november 5th. it seems -- i don't know if you've interviewed these people. so many members of the native american community want the logo to rename. they were upset it was the anders or holding the redskins. the people upset are the white liberals who lost resoundingly on november 5th. hopefully the logo gets representation. it harkens back to a time when the redskins/commanders were good. my giants were good because they were beating that team. >> john: you can go back to the miracle mets, too. what's interesting to me is that it was a blackfoot tribe member who was responsible for creating this logo and steve daines, senator from montana said look,

for historical purposes this needs to stay. here is what he said on x. three years ago there was an inspiring story, his father chairman of the blackfoot tribade designed a model after a chief. it ended being the iconic logo used by washington's nfl people. it is not a caricature. had been canceled along with the old team now. he was clear this logo was a symbol of strength. it was a point of pride in indian country and should be recognized as such. as you point out, various polls show different things as to whether or not native americans were offended by the redskins name or logo. some showed majority were, some show imaal-majiid or tee -- cls clsh you mentioned the word

history. this is history, why run from this aspect of history? to your point. when there doesn't appear to be significant opposition in the native american community. commanders are the name going forward because we mentioned the rich white liberal. they are the people buying the tickets in d.c. to this team. there would be a complete outcry if they went back. nevertheless they need to incorporate the name redskins in something, something in some way, shape or form. >> john: at the very least the logo. thank you. now this. >> it has been 1,000 days since the invasion began. how would you describe the current state of the war? >> very difficult period. >> martha: trey yingst exclusive interview with ukraine's president zelenskyy as hostilities are boiling over. the united states embassy in kiev shuts down after a warning of a significant russian air

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>> john: the newly formed doge is already facing pushback. grady trimble from fox business is here. why, people don't want to save money? >> the leaders of doge say very little is off the table but facing pushback from house democrats who have this to say. >> we still have a constitution. i don't know that i can find any constitutional statutory basis for deleting agent cismd >> we'll protect our institutions, protect our values, protect the norms that have made america the greatest country in the history of the world and the greatest democracy in the history of the world.

>> ramaswamy said we recognize federal bureaucracy is the enemy while acknowledging there are millions of good people who work within it and it is possible to mantle that dispairing while respecting the individual human beings as we do it after ramaswamy says he is hearing that federal government unions are scrambling to update collective bargaining agreements to avoid getting fired. many employees aren't happy with the idea of returning to the office five days a week. the largest union for federal workers, the american federation of government employees, says efforts to cut government waste should start with contractors but it adds when it comes to changes in working conditions that could impact union contracts, the union takes the position that such changes must be negotiated with it through the normal collective bargaining process. doge hasn't made any official recommendations yet, john, already facing pushback. >> john: democrats are defending

the norms. john stewart had something to say about that o