find him the next time he wanders off into the wilderness alone. >> laura: you know in the city where you have preschool teach, with that long kind of rope that the kids hold onto, the leash, i call it the kid leash where they hold on and go across the street. they need a leash or something to keep him on track. >> what do you think we should buy him aside enter that? >> laura: a golf cart so he doesn't of to go through this when he retires tsand dunes, very hard to navigate raymond. >> laura, even a straight sidewalk is hard for biden to navigate at this point. >> laura: oh, my god, we're out of time. >> they brought a big cake. sorry. >> laura: and eat it:can have our cake and eat it too. raymond thank you. jesse's next. ♪ >> the confirmation battle is brewing over president elect's

choice for attorney general with house republicans in the senate on a collision course. vp elect j.d. vance returns to capitol hill as he sells lawmakers on that pick and another crucial nominee. >> plus more illegal migrants being arrested in a blue state where the governor is vowing to push back on plans to deport illegal migrants. >> and supporting american's ally in the middle east incoming us ambassador to israel mike huckabee will join us on how the trump administration will bring calm and stability to the region. you are watching fox and friends first on this thursday morning, i'm carley shimkus. >> todd: and i'm todd piro, first time we're talking to the governor since received the nomination looking forward to that but first we go to alexandria hoff live in washington with the latest the trump transition. alex. >> reporter: hi. good to be with you this morning. according to a trump official, the president elect is confident that senate republicans will approve his cabinet nominees but we also know not all have been won over so today vice-president elect has taken the lead on

trying to soothe concerns joined today in meetings with trump's choice secretary of defense pete hegseth. just like yesterday focus was on matt gaetz whose nomination for attorney general has been the most controversial. >> senator's been giving me a lot of good advice, looking forward to a hearing. folks have been very supportive, saying we're going to get a fair process. so it's a great day of momentum for the trump/vance administration. >> reporter: the house ethics committee has been investigating gaetz for raged sexual misconduct and elicit drug use. his resignation last week haltd the probe. yesterday a vote was split on party lines whether to publicly release the findings in that report. >>the chairman has essentially suggested that there was agreement of the members of the committee, which there most definitely was not. >> reporter: so axios is reporting that a possible plan to bypass senate confirmation, senate consent through a recess appointment would also be blocked. they write, quote, several house

republicans would vote against any motion to go into recess. so something we are still waiting for the president elect's choice for treasure secretary according to the hill names being floated right now include kevin marsh former member of federal reserve board of governors, mark rowan ceo of apollo global management and tennessee manager bill hagity. yesterday pick for nato former acting attorney general matt whitaker. >> todd: alex hoff live. we appreciate it. the gop widening its majority in the lower chamber after republican nick begich flipping alaska's only house seat defeating the democrat. no strange stranger to politics his grandfather an alaskan congressman uncle mark us senator representing the state from 2009 to 2015. they now occupy 219 leaving 213 for the democrats but carley somehow we are still waiting for

results in three more races, one in iowa, close there, the republican incumbent is currently leading there, that's merion, as well as a pair of tight races being tallied in california. just to be clear the election was november 5th. caribou in alaska as you said. a man in florida arrested and charged for plotting to bomb the new york stock exchange. the fbi said he planned on detonating the bomb using a remote control device and recorded a statement saying, quote, he feels like bin laden which he planned to release the day of or after the attack. according to court documents the suspect told agents he wanted to hit the exchange to, quote, wake people up. the fbi has been investigating since february after they received a tip about him storing bomb-making items in a storage unit. that suspect is going to remain behind bars while awaiting trial. >> carley: the justice department urging a federal judge to make google sell its chrome browser after a judge ruled in august the company has

a monopoly on the online search market. they said selling chrome would create an equal playing field for competitors and they want to prevent google from paying companies to be their default search engine. google says the proposal is over-broad and they will submit their own remedy next month >> and todd did you see this the 58th annual country music awards taking place. >> todd: i was sleeping carley. >> carley: in nashville last night hosted by luke bryan peyton wilson and peyton manning opened with country legend toby keith who died earlier this year. >> we want to take a moment to toast great toby keith. a great artist, a great american and a great country music icon. toby, you will be missed buddy. >> carley: he would love seeing all those red solo cups also honoring the king of country george straight with this performance straight even jumping on stage to get in on

the action before receiving the willie nelson life-time achievement award. ♪ we have us a real good time ♪ ♪ but being famous has a price, there's smoke and mirrors ♪. >> carley: the big western was chris stapleton taking home three awards including for single of the year for his hit white horse, morgan wallen took home entertainer of the year, wallen was not there but presenter jeff bridges stepped award on his behalf and a good time was had by all as you were snoozing todd. >> todd: whenever i think of george straight i think when my late grandmother was in the throws of alzheimer's she used to play all my xs live in texas on repeat she would forget she played it and we would dance and never stop dancing until she had to go a different room. one of my favorite memories i love that song because i think

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♪ ♪ >> the ukrainian air force saying russia has fired an intra ballistic missile in the central city, if true this would be the first known use of these powerful nuclear capable missiles and this as the us embassy in kyiv has reopened following an urgent warning russia might launch a significant air attack on the capitol city. tensions remain high in the region after ukraine used long-range british missiles and american made ballistic missiles to strike russia territory for the first time. president biden also expanding

ukraine's arsenal by agreeing to give the country anti personnel land mines. >> the land mines that we would look to provide them would be land mines that are not persistent. you know, we can control when they would self activate, self detonate, and that makes it, you know, far more safer eventually than the things that they are creating on their own. >> carley: john elliott the former trump national security aid and thor of the new book the biden harris betrayal weak and woke on the world stage. john good morning to you. how big of a deal is this news that ukraine is saying russia has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time? >> reporter: carley, good morning. it's absolutely a big deal if it's true, just as you said. what this represents is a major escalation by russia in the war against ukraine and this follows on what the biden administration did just the last couple days.

they allowed for attacks directly -- long-range attacks, 130, 190 miles up to 190 miles into the territory of russia that's never been authorized before. these are us weapons that are now authorized to go directly against russia and then also what lloyd austin was just slaying about the anti personnel mines those have never been given over there and are very, very dangerous once again a major escalation. if true this icbm launched for the first time against ukraine, this would mean a major escalation, really a response to the provocation that the biden administration is doing in the last throes. we've got two months going in this administration, president trump has said that he's going to ramp this war down, and suddenly why are we provoking the russians and having a tit for tat. meantime more going on on iran we can talk about about you we are-the verge of world war three on two locations on the biden

harris and two months before president trump takes office. >> carley: vladimir putin just lowered the threshold for them to be allowed to use nuclear weapons, the current stance is they can use nuclear weapons if they're attacked at any time. so where do you think all of this is going? >> once again we're on the verge of world war three right now because putin has said that there was a red line. he said that if we allow ukraine to attack directly long-range missiles into russian territory, then that was a red line and that he threatened nuclear action as a result of that. and, look, we also have the iranians one month away from building several nuclear weapons right there. this is once again the instability that's brought about through the biden harris weakness, we saw it in afghanistan. there was a green light for putin to go to years ago into russia, two and a half years ago now. and so this is something where russia is right on the edge right now and this is something that we need president trump in

office right away so that he can ramp down these conflicts and just bring peace to that region. >> carley: john, there are also those in the republican party who think that president biden should have already done this given ukraine the ability to strike deep inside russia from day one, give them everything they want. you could make the argument that that would be the peace through strength position. what about that? >> well, it's not the case because, once again, this is something where president putin is ready to negotiate because he knows for a long time that this is a position that president trump has had and that he will, as a deal maker, he's the art of the deal and he'll be able to push both sides together. but what this risks right now is something that can spiral out of control very quickly. we saw the use, if this is truth the report of the icbm being used, that's the first time ever and that shows all you need to do is put a nuclear war head on that and we have world war three. this is something that is very dangerous and if we're looking to strengthen the hand of zelenskyy, the ukrainians against russia, this is a very dangerous game to play and we

need to be very careful and get president trump in office so that he can push both sides together and get a deal here. >> carley: tense times john elliott thank you so much for joining us we appreciate it. >> reporter: thank you carley. >> carley: you're welcome. to a fox weather alert at least two people dead and hundreds of thousands without power after once in a decade bomb cyclone slammed the west coast and conditions are expected to worsen today as an atmospheric river bluffs the coast with heavy rain and dangerous winds. >> in the northeast dangerous weather in northeast and new england as they brace for a powerful winter storm and rain. senior meteorologist janice dean here with the forecast. >> let's talk about the northwest the bomb cyclone an area of low pressure very strong, you can see almost looks like a hurricane on the satellite imagery, it's not. but we did feel hurricane force winds along the northwest coast and more heavy rain in the forecast over the next 24-48

hours. we have over 300,000 people without power. and the dangerous conditions continue today and friday. so life-threatening flooding along the coast and then we could see feet of snow in the mountains. so it's a good story because we need the rain, but bad because a lot of it is coming in a very short period of time and a very powerful storm. now here across the great lakes, the ohio valley, the northeast we are talking our first significant winter storm for some of these areas including chicago, upstate new york and we are watching the radar because we potentially could see a mixing of rain and snow along the coast, along the i95 corridor and watching this carefully for friday for our big tree lighting here in the city. there might be a window of opportunity where we are outside. so i'm crossing my fingers, i'm keeping everyone up to date. we actually could see some snowflakes as well here in the new york city area, but, again, a wait and see. it's going to be a game-time

decision whether or not we're outside or inside. >> carley: game time it is. >> todd: game-time decision and we'll see if janice can deliver a christmas miracle. >> i'm really going to try a lot of people are really hoping for a better forecast. >> carley: janice thank you so much. >> sounds good. >> carley: all right, laken riley's killer will spend the rest of his life in prison after being found guilty of her murder but many are outraged by the reason he was spared the death penalty ja patty morin whose daughter rachel was killed by an illegal migrant allegedly is here with her reaction to the verdict next.

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♪ >> carley: a judge ruling brian coal better berger the man accused of killing four university of idaho students in 2022 can face the death penalty. >> chanley painter joins us with the details. >> reporter: good morning todd and carley the death penalty remains on the table despite the defense throwing nearly every legal argument at the judge in hopes of sparing their client of

the possibility if he is convicted of being the monster prosecutors said murdered four university of idaho students with a knife two years ago. in filings the defense claimed among many other things that the death penalty goes against contemporary standards of sdunt situate but the judge pointed to the fact the idaho and the u.s. supreme courts say the death penalty is constitutional. the family of kaylee cog salve as reacted with we finally have a judge who appears prepared well versed in the process. a new found level of seriousness that has been absent for far too long. justice is moving forward and we pray that one day in the not so distant future it will be served. this decision comes as the defense also filed a 160-page motion to -- this week to suppress much of the evidences in this case including the defendant's own dna allegedly found at the scene. >> todd: a lot paying attention as well as daniel penny case

what's the latest. >> reporter: today the case continued with defense witnesses, they call a forensic pathologist to challenge the state's conclusion that jordan neily ace death was solely a result of daniel penny's choke hold this testimony coming on the heels of defense forensic psychiatrist who told the jury tuesday that neily had been hospitalized more than a dozen times for psychotic episodes and abusing synthetic drugs including delusions the rapper tupac sha correspond was using him to change the world and he heard the quote devil's voice t psychiatrist said neily's behavior as described by witnesses were the result of a psychotic schizophrenic episode compounded by drugs. >> he approaches a woman who's got a young child, a baby, in a stroller and then he says, i don't care if i go to jail for the rest of my life, somebody's going to die. daniel penny has the right,

under new york law, of justification, to use whatever force is necessary to confront the deadly force that was about to be used against the mother with the child in the stroller. daniel penny could have ignored it but he was someone who made a decision, as a marine, to take him down and keep him from those individuals. >> reporter: and now the question remains whether penny will actually take the stand in his own defense. guys. >> carley: that's the big question. chanley painter live thank you so much. illegal immigrant josé ibarra has been found guilty in the murder of laken riley and has received life in prison without the possibility of parole your honor i'm asking you to give josé ibarra the same thing he gave us when he made the choice to take laken's like and destroy ours. he showed no mercy when she was begging her life. >> i plead with the court to the world of this evil person.

>> i am disgusted to look and be in the same room as him. >> the district attorney trying the case is facing outrage for no, sir asking for the death penalty because they take into account collateral consequence toss undocumented. patty morin the mother of someone allegedly killed by an illegal last year. what a day for laken riley's family and friends who received a partial level of closure yesterday but clearly the anger and sadness is overwhelming given those victim impact statements that they gave to the judge yesterday. what was learning this verdict and hearing it come down like for you knowing that you are in the exact same position that laken riley's family is? >> well, first i have to say that i didn't watch the whole trial because there were some similarities to things that happened with my daughter. and so it made it very emotional for me. and my heart just went out to the mom and the family, because,

in a small part, we all grieve differently, but i understand their pain. in maryland, we don't have the death penalty, it's just life without the possibility of parole and i think the question is more where does the line between justice and mercy come, and are we being merciful by allowing this person to live because they have descendants, possibly children? or are we protecting other families by doing the death penalty. so, to be honest, i don't really have an answer for that. i have mixed emotions about the possibility of this person in my daughter's case, if he's found guilty, having life without the possibility of parole because we don't know if laws are going to

change down the road that could somehow reverse that. so that scares me. it really does. >> carley: that's so well said and clearly you've thought so much about this. >> thank you. >> carley: this question has come up a lot, especially because the da of athens clark county who by the way was voted out of office overwhelmingly in large part because of her progressive policies, the da that was in charge of the laken riley case initially and in 2021, her name is debra gonzalez, her office said that they would no longer seek the death penalty when considering charging defendants, and she would, quote, take into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants. so i think the question does become, what collateral consequences should you really be focusing on for undocumented immigrants or for the victims? and it's something that i think a lot of people are grappling with, including yourself.

>> yes. i do think there is a place for the death penalty. like truly, i do. i think that if somebody knows that if i'm going to kill another person, that i have the potential of dying myself, that it would prevent crime. i really do believe that. but at the same time, i think it more becomes the circumstances of the crime. was it intentional, unintentional, you know, those kinds of things. but something that's just done out of the moment out of rage or passion or just animalistic desire where you prey on another person, i think possibly, i think possibly they should get the death penalty. but, again, it's a hard line. >> carley: it really is. patty, we haven't spoken since president trump won the

election. i think that in large part one of the reasons he won is because americans, people across the country, saw what happened to your daughter and said, we cannot stand for this. a beautiful life extinguished. do you view his election victory like that? >> i am so grateful that he won. 87% of americans voted for donald trump. so i am so happy that he won. and i think the reason why is, yes, because of stories like my daughter's that have hit the media, but also there are thousands of countless other stories across america that media is not picking up or that local law enforcement is keeping on the down low because they don't want people to realize how -- i can't think of what the word is but how extreme this violence really is and how prevalent it really is.

people have no idea. >> carley: right. >> and i think the longer we go into president trump's term, we're going to see it more and more. >> carley: the trial for the man accused of killing your daughter has been pushed back to april of next year. we're going to be thinking about you and praying for you and your family leading up to the trial. >> thank you. >> carley: and i'm sure we'll check back in with you soon. patty thank you for joining us this morning. we appreciate you. god bless you. >> thank you for having me. >> carley: you're welcome. >> todd: ice arresting two illegal migrants charged with raping children in massachusetts and a third accused of raping a child in brazil. the ladder hiding in the us after being caught and reeased in our border in 2022. this comes as maura healey says her state will not cooperate with president trump's deportation plans. >> would the massachusetts state police assist in mass deportations? >> no, absolutely not.

i think that the key here is that every tool in the toolbox has got to be used to protect our citizens, to protect our residents and protect our states and certainly to hold the line on democracy and the rule of law. >> todd: trump says he will launch the largest domestic deportation operation in america history but not just mass chutes many blue state leaders are trying to push back on trump's deportation plan including in los angeles. the city council there actually doubling down on its sanctuary city policies. but citizens say they're fed up. one of those business owner paul, great to see you as always. let's be clear, ice is going to remove illegals in la whether the city participates or not. tom homan has been explicit to that. all this does and what other sanctuary cities are doing is create a dangerous environment not only for the agents but for the public at large. does anybody in los angeles actually want that, paul? >> absolutely not.

look, everyone i talk to -- good morning, todd. everyone i talk to is so excited that trump was elected, that did he is choosing a cabinet that is bold and aggressive. not a lot of them are lawyers or politicians, they're regular people who have been affected by all this crime caused by immigration. people in los angeles now, we told the world, we told country the story. if you saw all the counties, all the counties in los angeles improved republican over democrat. so los angeles -- california and los angeles is fed up with this whole thing. the city council, i don't know what they're thinking. it's a draft ordinance, it does nothing. it has no teeth. it is simply a declaration, symbolic like everything else they do. it has no teeth. there is no mandate on any city department to obey the ordinance.

there's no mandate. it's all recommended that these city departments obey these mandates and lapd is excluded from the ordinance. so although the new chief mcdonald says he is not going to cooperate with ice, i think he better listen to tom homan. i think mayor bass better listen to tom hoeman and the city council better listen to him because the way i heard tom homan says he will make recommendations to our majority congress on how to alter the federal felony harboring laws so he can come in la with handcuffs, i will invite him over for lunch first and he can go to city hall and cuff everybody if they're not going to cooperate and get rid of the crime problem. >> todd: when you read the resistance it does beg the question why, why are all these groups and politicians so committed to potentially creating an environment where the next laken riley tragedy can occur, the next rachel morin

tragedy can occur. it makes no sense. it can't happen and tom homan and donald trump their plan is to stop it. paul great to chat with you as always my friend. have a great day >> texas wasting no time helping trump support the border sending in more buoys. >> carley: texas congressman tony gonzalez is here to tell us what else the administration needs to do to solve the border crisis. ♪

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♪. >> carley: jaguar's facing backlash after announcing a rebrand of its luxury car company with this ad. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> carley: got the club beat. >> todd: where's the car? here's cheryl casone from her sister network fox business here to explain what we just saw. >> reporter: where is the car? that's what elon musk said on x, that's what he posted and i think it's like 47 million views or something like that now of this ad. >> carley: that's good. >> reporter: a lot of debate. but there's a lot of debate about this because it's like what are they trying to do? so the criticism has been that

this is -- that they're being woke, trying to go woke but we know that woke is broke and companies are pulling away with it. what i see is a different thing here. jaguar's had a lot of problems for a long time and they want to go all electric by the way by next year. this is a british company and a fair point to put out here, are they trying to go all austin powers on us? the marketing team, look, they actually are not producing a lot of their main cars anymore they want to go all electric so customers have kind of been moving away and jaguar is now responding to the couldn't verse saying, the re-imagined jaguar begins its unveiling today with an all new brand identity that establishes its unique character through a dramatic new visual language. again we don't know the cars though because they don't have them folks. okay. on the other side is the business of jaguar which has been failing and here's what in the detroit free press wrote before this ad came out.

they said the brand's been in retreat for years as jaguar prepares to ends production of all current models and no certain replacements in the pipeline reason to wonder if the 102 year old british brand will ever come back. people also hate the new logo. i think this is one of those things where if it's not broke don't fix it. >> carley: the new ones on the right. >> reporter: the right is the new logo. >> carley: yeah the classic one is great. >> reporter: keep the classic one. so i don't know if a bunch of 25 year olds in marketing decided let's do something new, but it just doesn't -- it misses the mark completely. >> carley: feels like they're over-thinking it just make a cool car james bond woulded want to drive and maybe people would buy it. >> reporter: but you have men in dresses than whole modely fashion -- i don't know if somebody left europe and decided they wanted to go work at jaguar. i don't know. >> carley: this feels like a very rish brand thing to do which is what they are. >> reporter: they're luxury.

it's not bud light. >> todd: at least in the u.s. the primary owners of jaguars are like rich guys who want to go fast with their car. i don't know if this commercial speaks to those individuals but prove me wrong, jaguar. >> carley: nightmare story because i never know how to say. >> todd: you go jaguar, so did you. j a g w a h r. that's cheryl casone catch her on mornings with maria. thanks cheryl. texas doubling down on stopping the border crisis by dropping more migrant blocking buoys into the rio grande river and offering trump a massive plot of land to aid his mass deportation plan incoming border tom hoe man explains how he will execute the plans. >> targeted enforcement operation where they get arrested they will be detained for a short while when we get travel dprouments the host country. sanctuary states say they're not

allowing tent fasts in their state. fine we'll arrest them fly them out of the state and detain them outside the state. you're not going to stop us doing what we're going to do. >> texas congressman tony gonzalez represents el paso sits on the homeland security committee and joins us now. representative great to have you as always. i want to focus on this plot of lapped going to be able to build a detention center on this that will be massive. how much of a game changer could this land be in terms of facilitating the trump/homan deportation plan? >> good morning todd thanks for having me. it's a big game changer. you know, the republican party led by president trump is going to make america safe again and it's time to lead, follow or get out of the way. and it's going to be all hands on deck if we're going to accomplish this agenda and the way you do that is you use state, federal and local law enforcement all coming together working to keep americans safe. this land in texas i think is a great idea. you've got to have an area to

stage people out of. and so i think it's just the start. you're going to see more as we get closer. the devil's always in the details but it's time to execute. >> todd: let's look at numbers, the new numbers show 1.4 illegal migrants ordered to be deported while 13,000 are in ice custody my gut tells me the eventual numbers will be way bigger than that. with regard to the sanctuary cities we've been talking about all morning long doubling down on their sanctuary policys in response to trump's win. is there anything congress can do to keep them in line or directly punish them and i'm looking at the power of the purse which you as a congressman in congress gets to wield. >> you're spot todd and i sit on the appropriations committee and the house has to use the power of the purse to wield that and it's great that president trump is coming into office here in a couple months, but people need help today. and so one of the things that i've been working on, it's already in this year's

appropriation's package is it forces local, state and federal law enforcement officers all to share intelligence. you take these woke sanctuary city politics out of it and you just have law enforcement work together. that's the way it should be. another one is we have to put money towards the areas that are going to actually impact us, these ice deportation flights, called repayration flights. that works. you don't send people all across the krishgs you send people back to their country of origin. what happened to laken riley was absolutely terrible. josé ibarra should absolutely have been given the death penalty but there's so many other americans that have been impacted by this as well, the tambongas grandmother and daughter sadly murdered in west texas, my district, so so many americans want justice for things that have happened these last several years. >> todd: it is a shame that there is such obstruction of what donald trump and tom homan want to do with regard to this i understand we're not always

going to agree on policy but the fact of the matter is, as you just deathly explained all they're going do is make pit harder for ice agents to do their job, it is comforting representative that you and your fellow congressman are going to work hard to make sure that ice can do its job with the least obstruction possible keeping them safe and the public as well. representtive tony gonzalez we appreciate it. enjoy the rest of your day >> reinforcements are on the way. that's the message from traipsed israel as trump vows to bring peace to the middle east. >> carley: mike huckabee has been named trump's ambassador to israel and will tell us how he plans to make that happen. first steve doocy has a look what's coming up on fox and friends. hey steve. >> carli todd thursday morning here on fox and friends and our lead story is this one. you watched it yesterday. the judge in laken riley's murder trial took less than 20 minutes to return a guilty verdict, guilty on all charges and sending illegal migrant joée

ibarra to prison for life over those crimes. governor of georgia, brian kemp, is going to join us live as he and other leaders work to ensure this never happens again. and in another case, marine vet daniel penny is back in court here in new york city this morning, but why is alvin bragg, the da, so focused on prosecuting a good samaritan acting in self-defense? while career criminals are allowed to roam the streets? we're going to talk to judge jeanine about that. plus president trump is going to reportedly look to form a new position that focuses on crypto currency and the new name we're hearing he might tap for the treasury department. kevin o'leary from shark tank is going to join us live. all that and more coming up at the top of the hour in in about nine minutes and five seconds. nine minutes and five seconds. you're watching fox and friends first live from a rainy new york city. or tired?

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♪ >> todd: a vote to stop sending weapons to israel overwhelmingly failing in the senate. that did not stop 19 senate democrats led by bernie sanders from supporting it. while some democrats want to stop supporting israel the incoming republican majority is making its stance clear. >> to our allies in israel and to the jewish people around the world, my message to you is this: we enforcements are on the way. senate republicans reclaim the majority in six weeks. and, when we do, we will make

clear that the united states congress stands squarely in israel's corner. >> mike huckabee has been appointed to be u.s. ambassador to israel by president-elect trump, and he joins us now. i believe your proper title is now ambassador designant huckabee, we congratulate you wholeheartedly on this position and this honor. but it's clear that israel does not have the support of the united states in all corners of the country given that 19 senators just voted to block u.s. arms sales to israel, which is our greatest ally in the middle east. and bernie sanders led this effort and he said the reason we should do this -- one of the reasons is because israel is run by religious zealots. what is your reaction to bernie sanders and this effort yesterday? >> bernie is as wrong on this as he is about economic policy. it's very unfortunate. i want to be clear i can't speak as an ambassador because i have got to go through senate confirmation.

i'm honored that the president has asked me to take this role, and i hope that i'll get through the senate process. until then, i'm certainly not speaking for the administration. the future one or the current one. but i want to be very clear, this is outrageous that these 19 senators don't understand what an ally means and why we need israel. as a strong ally and why they are important to us. this should be one of the most bipartisan and overwhelming understandings and we are not asking to give things to israel, but to sell them the things that they need to protect themselves against the annihilation that is intended toward them from iran and from their proxies, hamas, hezbollah, and the houthis. this should be an easy call. and i don't know why these 19 senators are more in favor of terror than they are in peace. >> carley: how do you think our relationship with israel would change when president trump enters office? >> president trump was the most effective president in history

when it comes to israel. in bringing about a level of peace and security for the jewish state. he moved the embassy. he recognized the go alan heights. he recognized jerusalem as the eternal capital of the jewish state. there were so many ways entrepreneurship brought forward. the historic abraham accords should have earned him the no bell peace prize. only way it didn't is because there were people prejudiced against him. that was a breakthrough. a sizeable breakthrough that hopefully he will be able to build upon and i have every confidence that he will. >> todd: it seems whenever we refer to israel, the word head scratcher comes in to play. this decision you were talking about a vote against sending arms to israel head scratcher and resolution on the gaza cease-fire during the u.n. security council vote because we wanted to make sure that a cease-fire included the hos

hostages. governor huckabee, how would it not include the hostages? they have done nothing wrong. they were in captivity for over a year. why not include them? >> yeah, for over 400 days, todd, the hostages had been held and it's really pathetic that at least seven of those hostages are u.s. citizens. we don't hear anything about that. and i really do appreciate the fact that the biden administration in the u.n. did stop that from happening, this ridiculous resolution. it was absurd and insulting. but to say that we're going to have some type of cease-fire without getting those hostages back, is an insult to anyone's intelligence. and i'm glad the u.s. decided to spike that run right in the ground. >> carley: i want to get your reaction to this "new york times" columnist was a biden backer he recently said donald trump has a chance to be an historic president with a major middle east deal he writes,

quote: trump was the rare american president who actually put out a detailed plan for co-existence between israelis and palestinians. if that trump revives that initiative in 2025 he could be remembered as the president who preserved israel as a jewish democracy and helped to securely birth a palestinian state alongside it. is that possible under the president-elect? >> i think anybody who knows donald trump understands there is very few people on earth who can put a deal together any better than he can. i'm convinced that if there's any hope for resolving what has been a long-standing conflict, donald trump is going to find a way to do it. i go back to the abraham accords, no one thought that was possible. it not only was possible, it was done. if he had still been in office, i think we would have seen it expand even more. >> carley: that's right. >> todd: governor huckabee, congratulations on the nomination. thank you for joining us. "fox & friends" right now. ♪ ♪