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deportation all process. >> there is no oversight or accountability with respect to the biden-harris team and what they have done on the border and how they have not kept track of these kids for the fentanyl pouring in. >> preparing for a possible final surge before president trump takes office. a clear sign, if one were ne needed, that migrants regard president biden has the open border president. >> sandra: the border crisis coming into sharper focus in the final days of the biden administration as texas now prepares for a possible migrant surge ahead of president-elect trump's inauguration day. the state once again revving up its program, even adding more barriers to block migrant crossings. and that's where we are at the top of a new our. john, good to be with you, welcome to "america reports" our two. >> john: other state is rolling out the welcome mat in,

you guessed it, california, los angeles city council voted unanimously to adopt a sanctuary city ordinance, which means america's second-largest city will harbor illegal immigrants, despite the majority of americans and polling saying they want them out of the country. the incoming border czar sending a message to blue cities and states, planning to get in trump's way. >> title eight, united states code, read about that and don't cross that line because it is a felony to harbor and conceal an illegal alien from i.c.e. read the statute, don't cross that line. >> sandra: all right, fox team coverage, brooke taylor has more on efforts texas to curb illegal crossings. larry kudlow in new york on trump's plans for the border crisis. but we begin with jeff paul live in l.a. jeff, what does this change in the city of angels? >> yeah, sandra, the new by is expected to change much to daily life here in los angeles.

the city was already following it in practice after california became a sanctuary state in 2017, but it appears city council members are trying to send a message to one person in particular. >> that all angelenos can interact with our government without the fear that donald trump's deportation squad is around the corner. >> we know that there is a target on our back from this president-elect, and what we are doing here is we are hardening our defenses. >> trump has had his say, but now it is our turn to respond with decisive action and full force of law on our side. >> now for all 13 l.a. city council members voting in unison to make los angeles a century city. under law, city property can't be used to hold, transfer, rest, or detain a purpose for the person for the purpose of immigration enforcement. it won't stop coming in for deportation orders but incoming trump border czar tom homan says it will make officials jobs more

difficult and dangerous. >> it also puts them at danger, when we find a bad guy, and we will, they're going to be others with them, others that weren't even on our radar. what they are saying, force us in neighborhoods to arrest more illegal aliens and what we originally planned to do. their idea, it's ridiculous. >> the l.a. school board passed similar resolutions. governor gavin newsom has already called for a special legislative session to "trump-proof" california laws. john? >> sandra: i will take that. jeff paul, live in l.a. for us, thank you. john? >> john: meanwhile, texas adding more of those controversial buoys across the rio grande to keep illegal immigrants from crossing the river entity devastates. brooke taylor is live in eagle pass, texas. she has been getting inside look at everything going on there. what message is the sending, brooke? >> well, john, last year when we started seeing this record

number of migrant crossings, texas governor abbott started putting these buoys in the river to stop migrants from coming. in 2023, biden sued texas, saying this was a humanitarian disaster. so the lawsuit has been ongoing, but this sending a really strong message to the biden administration, he's still our president, technically, really sending a message of defiance as today they started putting these buoys back in the water. we got an exclusive look of this happening just a few minutes ago, we actually got back from a ride along on the rio grande with dps troopers. right now there is about a thousand feet of buoys. the goal to add another thousand feet. these are put in areas where there have been strong border crossings and where migrants can use other routes and get around these buoys, abbott is hoping with a new administration, he is going to get strong federal support. that way they can add even more of the buoys. he has even said this is more affected and it is cheaper than the border wall.

critics have said these buoys endanger the lives of migrants. right here in eagle pass, troopers and border patrol agents have been seen in groups of around 100-200 migrants sporadically, something we have been reporting on that they are noticing right now is this uptick in special interest aliens and also unaccompanied children among these groups. now the month of december, it is known to be a month where border crossings tend to spike, so they are hoping that these buoys act as a line of defense. it makes migrants think twice before crossing. and again, just something you really strong message that it is all hands on deck here in texas, john. >> john: all right, as it has been for months and months. brooke taylor for us along the rio grande, thank you. sandra? >> sandra: larry kudlow, fox news business host. your thoughts on this entire debate that is happening? the border is a focus for so many reasons, right? we just covered the brutal

murder of laken riley and the sentencing of that georgia nursing student. just awful. that is obviously a huge part of this story, and as paul mauro was warning, there are more of these men out there. they are in this country today. so to focus on the border for so many different reasons, what are you looking at as this mass deportation plan takes form? is it possible, first of all? >> yes, it's possible. the law is behind mr. trump and mr. homan. the law is very clear. i just want to say one political thing, though. these crazy people in the los angeles city council who think they're very brave to stand up in favor of illegal criminals. mayors in san francisco and oakland lost their jobs in the last election. the left is on the run in california, and i think that is an important point. whether these officials in l.a.

care or not remains to be seen. now to get down to brass tacks, first of all, federal law supersedes local law, okay? andy mccarthy has got a piece about this. section 13241 of the immigration law title eight u.s. code one. federal law supersedes local law. now there is an even better one in the amended immigration and naturalization act. was done about 15 years ago. i'm surprised more people don't talk about it. it is section 287g. we talked about this on our show for, i don't know, a couple of years now. 287g program enhances the safety and security of our nations community, hang on, here it comes, by allowing i.c.e. enforcement and removal operations to partner with state and local law enforcement agencies here to identify and remove incarcerated, criminal,

noncitizens. incarcerated, criminal, noncitizen. they are not just saying anybody coming over the border. although they have the law, too, that is section 212f, can stop anybody from coming over, mr. trump will use that. this is saying is if you are incarcerated, and you are an illegal, than the law states clearly that i.c.e. can go in and remove you, and the local officials cannot stand in the way. and i think this is what homan is talking about or will talk about. he is not talking about using the military and all these left-wing craziness that people keep saying. they are not going after grandmothers who have been here 30 years. they are not going after babies. they are going after incarcerated criminals, and probably people on the terrorist list, okay, who are also potential criminals, are already criminals, as you noted, the heartbreaking trial of laken riley and that son of a b was finally busted, the

venezuelan gang member. but the point i'm making is it's right here in the cold hard print, federal law supersedes local law. these los angeles people, they are a bunch of clowns, they are a bunch of dummies, and they are responsible in large measure, people like them, for the lawlessness that has happened, and let's remember another thing, please. mr. trump ran heavily on closing the border and deporting criminals. ran heavily. second biggest issue after the economy. and what happened? he won an amazing mandate. popular vote, electoral college vote. >> sandra: to your point, though, we can put that up there, americans do support mass deportation. it's on the screen here, "the new york times" sienna collin poll, 57% strongly or somewhat support deporting migrants living illegally in the u.s., and we already know, put bill melugin's tweet on the board, 1.4 million of them

already here already have orders of removal, final orders of removal, meeting immigration case heard, receive due process and ordered removed by the u.s. of doj federal immigration judge, yet still democrats are pushing back and fighting this. this is just some of them resisting trump plans to deport them. listen. >> we will not be participating in misguided efforts that harm our communities. it tears families apart. and we are not going to -- that's not going to happen on my watch. >> the idea of calling out, you know, the army, into the domestic confines of the united states is, seems uncalled for, and may in fact be unconstitutional and illegal. >> we are not cooperating with those efforts that actually threaten the safety of everyone by causing widespread fear. might as well add to that, we don't care what voters want. here's greg abbott this morning, also on democrat efforts to block president trump, listen.

>> they are doubling down on the reasons why they lost the election. what americans demanded were for one -- to stop illegal immigration into our country, especially those who pose great dangers, whether arizona, massachusetts, other places across the country, where they are not going to be cooperating with i.c.e., with the border czar, with any effort to remove very dangerous criminals. >> to his point, no lessons learned, doubling down on why they lost the election. larry? >> politically they are dumb as dirt. the point is what i just heard, these are red herrings. the intent of trump is not to break up families. it's not to go into places. it's not to have military running around. that is not what he is talking about. he is talking about identifying and removing criminals. that's what he's talking about. criminals. that's a different matter. many of them are incarcerated.

many of them have been incarcerated a number of times and released in cities, for example, released without bail, released without jail. that's what he's talking about. and you know what? the local authorities who are usually completely with trump and opposed to the politicians, the local authorities know who these people are and they know where to find them. and what homan is saying is i.c.e. will come in, okay, you might make our job a wee bit harder and it might take us a wee bit longer but we will put in as many i.c.e. agents as necessary to remove these people and send them out of the country. all the liberals you described here you narrated on the show, they are just raising red herrings. and this position has been so soundly defeated. i'm just saying, politically, they are dead wrong. it's going to hurt them, which is fine by me, let's get rid of them. secondly, legally, legally, these sections, particularly 287g of the immigration and

naturalization law, federal law supersedes local city council laws and things of this nature, and they will do it. they will do it. mainly come at the end of the day, sandra, because the country wants them to do it. >> sandra: copy that. larry, we want you, come back soon. we will see you at 4:00 for more of you. larry, thank you very much. all right. >> go back and change it. i love my daughter alice with all my heart. >> john: that is killer mom susan smith pleading with a parole board for her freedom 30 years after strapping her two young sons into car seats and pushing that car into a lake, judge jeanine pirro on the board's decision. >> sandra: whether democrats like it or not, the latest from

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>> sandra: democrats called for a party reckoning after losing the house, senate, and white house. the chair gets underway, some fear the party may already be repeating past mistakes. jacqui heinrich is live from the white house with more on this for us. jacqui, where do things the democrats stand right now? >> sandra, the democratic party really hasn't fully completed the autopsy on what factors ultimately cost than the house, the senate, and the white house. but they've got to decide on a new leader before any internal audit even comes out. martin o'malley, one name being floated for dnc chair, says the dnc should produce that report, but some democrats are skeptical

of choosing someone currently within the biden administration and also a failed 2016 candidate. ken martin, dnc vice chair, once the job. he diagnosed the parties failures in an op-ed, "it is time to speak normally, directly, and concisely about the issues families and comedians care most about. many people around the country don't know what we stand for which means they don't trust us to advocate for them. even worse we too often allow republicans to falsely and negatively define us." and then there is also former chicago mayor rahm emanuel, who has worked for three presence going back to bill clinton. aoc isn't too hot on that idea, calling his bid a symptom of democrats prioritizing the donor class overworking people. she posted to x, the dnc needs an organizer who gets people, not someone who sends fish heads in the mail -- that's a not to emanuel's 1988 mobsterresque message to a political rival. elon musk wait in saying it would be a good move. there are of course still voices that say the democratic party doesn't need to do too much

soul-searching. >> we lost with 47% of the vote. this is not somehow some sort of mandate where he absolutely destroyed our outcome in the presidency. it is still the closely divided country. >> that of course is captured with other voices, like dallas mayor eric johnson, who left the democratic party last year and switched his registration. >> the democratic party at that point should have gotten the wake-up call. they should have figured out if the mayor of the ninth largest city in america, african american, male, switched parties, then maybe we have a problem. >> democrats have not selected a date for the election, but they've got to have a new chair in place by march 1st, sandra. >> sandra: jacqui heinrich at the white house, thank you. >> hi, i'm steve daines. my pronouns are republican majority. i have -- [laughter] i have a simple message for chuck schumer and for bob casey. it's over. >> john: montana

senator steve daines saying the days of woke are over. and at the time has come for the pennsylvania senate race to end. let's bring in senator daines now. do you think casey should give out his recount? critics are saying he is embarrassing himself by allowing it to continue, particularly after the shenanigans that the elections officials and those four counties were undertaking. >> absolutely, there is no mathematica way that bob casey can beat dame mccormick. the ap has called the race, decision desk is called the race. it's going to waste a million dollars of pennsylvania's taxpayer money for this recount. the race is over. bob casey needs to concede. chuck schumer needs to concede. dave mccormick will be the 53rd republican u.s. senator to be sworn in in january. >> john: i don't know if you heard the latest, we had that bucks county election official saying i don't care what the law says, i'm going to violate the law. she sounds more contrite, listen here.

>> we all say things that are out of turn. we all make mistakes. i made a mistake. and because i am an elected official, i am held to a how far higher standard than everybody else. >> john: sounds like someone named governor shapiro got to her. >> she didn't just make a mistake, she broke the law. what she did, she broke the law. they ought to go and arrest her for breaking the law. this lawlessness right in front of the american people is what causes so much concern, literally democrats trying to steal an election in pennsylvania. it's not going to happen on our watch. dave mccormick will be sworn in january, guarantee that. >> john: the nominees for cabinet secretaries are making the rounds in the senate. rubio has been up there is this point? >> look, president trump won a decisive left line of three, decisive popular vote victory.

he has a mandate from the american people to move forward. he deserves to have the officials he has nominated, they are loyal to him, that is why i will be working with president trump and the transition team to move his nominees through the u.s. senate as quickly as possible. we have a big problem. it takes up to three years to get these presidential nominees through the united states senate. some 1200 nominees requiring senate confirmation. that's wrong. we've got to go a lot faster. doing all i can to help president trump. >> john: one thing i want to ask about, quite exciting for folks in the districts, the commanders may be moving back inside the city limits because the energy and natural resources committee yesterday voted out of committee a bill that would give control of the rfk stadium property back to d.c., which would allow the commanders to tear down, build a new stadium. you had been in opposition to this because the commanders, who used to be the redskins, sumthroughout -- you said about

this, at the time, the logo, a depiction of real people, not a caricature come had just been canceled, along with the old team name. when his son and i visited, he was clear -- this logo was a symbol of strength. it was a point of pride in indian country, and it should be recognized as such. what agreement did you reach that allowed you to vote yes on this bill to allow the commanders to come back into d.c.? >> we were calling out leaders, a case of woke gone wrong. the irony that they were canceling native american culture, the dei movement went way too far. look, this is honoring a blackfeet chief who was born in montana. he's highly esteemed. the blackfeet tribe of montana, their current chairman and the tribal council nine-day letter in strong support to bring the logo back. it honors indian country, so we

have had good discussions with the nfl and with the commanders. there is good faith negotiations going forward. that's going to allow this logo to be used again. perhaps revenue going to a foundation that can help native americans in sports and so forth. we are making good progress. and based on the good faith negotiations, i made a decision to support this bill yesterday in the committee. >> john: i know they put a plaque up in northwest stadium honoring wetzel and the logo. be great to see it back on the helmets again peered senator, things for joining us, appreciate it. >> thank you, john. >> john: sandra? >> sandra: getting an x quiz of one-on-one with ukrainian with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy as president biden ramps up support for ukraine during his final weeks in office. >> and he's allowed to get awah it. i was just scared. i didn't know how to tell the people that love them that they would never see them again.

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♪ ♪ >> john: russia's war on ukraine surpassing 1,000 days now with ukraine's military for the first time using american-made missiles to strike

into russian territory. chief foreign correspondent trey yingst speaking exclusively with ukrainian president zelenskyy on the worst front lines up progress or lack of it may being made. he is live in the ukrainian capital. trey, the war grinds on pit. >> yeah, john, good afternoon. hours after ukraine launched into southern russia, on a train with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy asking about the u.s.-supplied atacms. take a listen. >> so it's not enough just to say yes, you have the permission and then give us, for example, 30 missiles. >> you are talking about atacms. yes, speaking about kamala he seven and also atacms. always look on permission from the united states. if the united states doesn't give it, europe will not give it. >> reports to indicate president biden is giving you

limited permission to use these u.s.-supplied long-range missiles, specifically in the kursk region, a region where we now understand north korean troops are staging alongside the russians to fight your shoulders. >> i can share with you not all the details, really, but yes, it -- yes, we have -- but i am worried. if we have permission plus missiles, you will hear the results on the battlefield. so, for today, we didn't use it. >> you are saying you don't have enough atacms right now to start using them against russia? >> something like this. >> i want to ask you about the response, not only in russian media but also from russian lawmakers, saying that by firing these u.s. supplied missiles into russia it could lead to

world war iii. >> [speaking another language] >> interpreter: could you tell me frankly that the army of north korea at the end, isn't it, the involvement of the whole world by russian federation into the world war iii? this is the second country which is official to taking part in this war. >> earlier in the day, i asked zelenskyy about these missiles a separate time, and if any targets were off-limits. he didn't imply that targets were off-limits with these missiles, but said in the past, the americans were unhappy when ukraine targeted russia's energy infrastructure. john? >> john: yeah, military targets seem to be okay, energy may be off-limits. trey, great job with the interview. now this. >> i don't get to see them ag

again. and i'm sorry. i don't know -- i know that's not enough. i know it's not. but i don't know -- it just words, but they come from my heart, they really do. >> sandra: killer mom susan smith begging for freedom 30 years after strapping her two young sons into car seats and rolling that car into a lake. the board unanimously denying her pleas. joining us now as judge jeanine pirro, cohost of "the five." just another difficult story, judge, hello. >> you know what's horrible about this is that susan smith once it became clear she was going to be charged, she said, you know, i was going to kill myself and i thought about it, i was in such a bad place, but instead she decides she's going to strap in her 14-month-old and 3-month-old in the back of a car, push the car, allow it to go into a lake, and sandra, it took 6 minutes for that car to go into the lake, be filled with water, and for her son's to drown. and this is how vicious the

woman is. she blamed a black man. for kidnapping -- for carjacking her and kidnapping her two kids. so for the amount of time that they were investigating this case, which i think was for several weeks, they are looking for a black man who was involved in a carjacking. so this is a woman who doesn't have a very pure soul, to say the least. so the question right now, she served 30 years, she was convicted of the murder of these two innocents, and the question is, has she spent those 30 years in a way where the parole board feels she has rehabilitated herself? and the answer is an unequivocal no. and that is because she had ten disciplinary sanctions. she was sleeping with the guards, two of whom lost their jobs because of her. she was doing drugs. she lost her canteen privileges, her phone privileges, or tablet privileges. she did drugs. i mean, she's a mess. >> sandra: remember that moment she smirked in the courtroom 30 years ago?

this is her lawyer making the case that this is about mental health. listen. >> it is a mental health story. it's about the dangers of untreated mental health. it is about the lack of insight, the lack of diagnosis into mental health, and it's about stigmas. >> sandra: okay, so there is that. and here susan smith is, judge, in her own words, talking about the mistakes that she made while in prison. listen. >> i grew up and i knew i needed to stop making dumb decisions. and i did. i just, i knew it was time to just, to grow up and do the right thing. i just made a lot of dumb choices. >> sandra: yet none of this is winning over family or friends. judge, this is just a sampling of friends and family members that are advocating against her

release. >> what i had stolen from me was two older brothers. >> susan has always focused on what's best for susan, and so the evidence that you have before you i think tells clearly that she has not focused on michael and alex. >> never felt any remorse from her for it. she never expressed any to me. she came pretty close to causing me to end my life. because of the grief that she brought upon me. >> you see, what you are seeing there is the ripple effect of crime that is so horrific that it's besides the victims, the family and the loved ones around the victim suffer for the rest of their lives thinking about how those two beautiful young boys' lives are ended with their mother watching from the shore. and, you know, there is some other guy talks about the danger of untreated mental health and stigma. i'm not worried about her

stigma, i'm worried about what's going on with people who are victims, not her in particular. and her husband, she contacted him to see if he would testify and not object, and of course he said the woman is delusional. my life was ruined because of what she did. >> sandra: you have been putting out some incredible fox nation specials, you have susan smith, 30 years later. judge? >> we have a lot of what she was doing in 30 years. this woman is an operator. those tears are crocodile tears. i have a lot of trouble believing they are real. she has not exhibited any remorse in any way. >> sandra: judge, thank you very much and thank you for all of your work from the courthouse this week. all right, judge, thank you. ♪ ♪ >> we have made hundreds of arrests of tren de aragua which is working to expand across the country. we are making it clear that tren de aragua made a mistake when they tried to put a foothold in the state of texas. >> john: texas governor greg abbott on the growing venezuelan gang tren de aragua as the new dhs reports shows it is now

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tren de aragua now has operations in 16 states. that's according to a homeland security memo obtained by "the new york post." crimes linked to the group include murder, robberies, gun smuggling, as well as famous apartment takeovers in colorado. joining us now is victor a vela, retired special agent with i.c.e. and homeland security investigations. he and his partner were ambushed by a mexican drug cartel some years ago. his partner, jaime's apollo, was killed in that incident. you know, victor, all too well, the dangers of mexican drug cartels. this is a new danger from venezuela peered what is your assessment of tren de aragua. >> it certainly is a danger and the national security threat, a lot of people are not talking about the links that tren de aragua has to venezuela and the regime there with maduro. maduro has a lot of connections, obviously, we know that hezbollah, iran is present there, and tren de aragua coming

directly from the maduro regime into our country, and mentioning the mexican cartels, the latest i have heard is tren de aragua is now kind of feuding with the mexican cartels to take over them of those areas and plazas to take over some of these smuggling schemes because they see the potential they could make with that type of trafficking. >> john: they are nothing if not brash and willing to flex their muscles. our carrie kuttner who used to work for attorney general bill barr said when she was there in the doj, nobody even mentioned tren de aragua, it was all about ms-13, but take a look at this map and see how far they have spread across the united states. they are, victor, almost like a cancer literally metastasizing daily across the u.s. >> i tell you, john, this is going to be the number one priority for tom homan and the new administration to locate these individuals and not just deport them but actually

investigate them because we have national security issues here. we need to know what the reason they came over. this is not the type of migrant that came over because they want to have a better life. they have come here with a different agenda. you have seen them taking over apartment complexes, wreaking havoc, murdering, by the way, i was glad to see the verdict on this laken riley case and this animal get sentence. there summary laken rileys out there. i spoke to a mother of the cheerleader that was murdered last year in texas. there are many of those that need the national attention of the american people that know that this is happening. and unfortunately, john, i get a message of most every day now, almost every day, of another crime committed by an illegal alien in this country, whether it is murder, whether it is rape, whether it is a property crime. we have enough crime in the u.s. to deal with. then we have to somehow, you know, deal with california and other states that want to protect them. enough is enough, and we are

going to make some serious changes come january 20th. >> john: a bike trail i used to use all the time, there was a woman who was raped by an illegal migrant from honduras. thankfully they caught him. you talked about why tren de aragua is coming to the united states. clearly it seems to be the land of opportunity for them p or listen to the director of the tennessee bureau of investigation on what it's got s tentacles into. >> we are aware that they are moving into different operations. they go from human trafficking to organized retail crime theft, and then they move into the drug trade, taking on the cartels in a very violent, bloody battles that they have had, and they alo have zero respect for policing. they have attacked law enforcement officers throughout our nation. >> john: i mean, they are becoming very diversified, and they don't seem to fear anybody. >> they are involved in the fentanyl trafficking. some have been arrested in chicago doing that, yes, human

smuggling and human trafficking trade, and now they want to do it themselves. that is why they are in the feud with some of these cartels. he's absolutely right. this is the culture that they bring because they grew up hating the police. they were trained and told the police is their enemy. this is very different than the culture that we grew up with here in the u.s., respecting law-enforcement and respecting authority. this is what we have to deal with. they absolutely have no respect for any life, especially a law-enforcement officer. this is what is going to be dangerous about it. this is the type of group we have to be approaching very methodically and very safely to take them out. >> john: well, in his first term, donald trump went after ms-13 hard. he has a big job ahead of him with tren de aragua. victor a vela, thanks for coming on, appreciate it. >> things were having me, robert, john. >> sandra: great concerns as the national debt hits a record $36 trillion. what they want done.

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sometimes treated differently than other religions. >> christianity too many people, you mentioned and they are shocked anybody can make fun of christianity today and it is okay. you cannot do it with other religions. >> john: seriously. episodes available now on fox nation.com, looks like an amazing series. >> sandra: all right it does indeed, quickly attacking ling the record, 36 trillion-dollar national debt with more than 3000 states financial officer sending the letter to the speaker of the house on the grave concerns about the dads, we are tracking those live on capitol hill, hillary what can you tell us about this? >> the u.s. debt is so massive those financial state officers are warning if it is a national security threat to, they are saying the course we are on right now is unsustainable, irresponsible and dangerous.

right now our data is $36 trillion and counting, that is how bad the problem is, the government collected $4.5 trillion in taxes but to spend 615 trillion in dollars, spanning trillions more than we get in taxes and this a debt is not interest-free, the government is spending a huge it chunk of our taxes to be off the interest of the debt, interest cost over $1 trillion in 20231 than where did the spends on medicare or the military. >> there is a debt problem, it is roughly 100% of gdp, $36 trillion and it is on a trajectory that will send it northward reaching something like 122% of gdp in 2034th continuing north. that is literally unsustainable. >> some democrats worry that president-elect trump planned to trim the fat from the government rooting out waste may actually hit the bone. >> we have a president who is

talking about 2 trillion of a ways to being cut and all that, at what point are we going to be cutting into bone and marrow? >> the last time the u.s. balance their budget was in 2001 nearly 24 years ago. >> sandra: to live on the hill, thank you. we will be right back.

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