over. between 47th and 48th. >> brian: all religions are represented. >> rabbi gives a prayer, priest that gives a prayer, chamber singers from high t university impacted by hurricane helene and they have given so much money back to north carolina residents and they are coming here to sing for us. >> brian: this is all from last year. this year bigger and better. gets bigger and the tree. when do we cut down the tree? >> lawrence: we cut it down weeks ago. you will have a turtleneck on. i went and purchased you a turtleneck. it is not matching mine. >> ainsley: all american christmas lighting here at fox. watch it tonight during "the five" and the hosts of the "the five" will be out there. >> john: president-elect trump pushing forward with the

transition. he and his team are selling lawmakers on his cabinet while unveiling a new pick for attorney general. good morning, i'm john roberts. bill and dana are off. great to be back with you. this time for a full two hours. >> gillian: great to be with you for a half hour yesterday. >> john: some people would say they wouldn't want to be near me for even 30 seconds. thank you for being so generous. >> gillian: this is "america's newsroom." the president-elect is continuing to roll out his new cabinet picks including pam bondi for attorney general replacing matt gaetz. the new nominee getting praise from republican. >> i think she will be great. open the books on what the agencies have done and gone after trump and conservatives. how they've gone after religious americans people of faith. we need to lay it all bare and we need to fire everybody involved and we need to overhaul d.o.j. and the f.b.i. and i think pam bondi will be up for

that task. >> john: she was a lawyer for president trump during his first impeachment trial and chairs the america first policy institute. 20 years as a prosecutor in florida and the first woman to serve as the state's attorney general from 2011 to 2019. >> gillian: i believe she will be the third female attorney general if confirmed in the u.s. history. we'll fact check that for you. two weeks after election day bob casey has now conceded to republican dave mccormick solid filing the gop's three seat majority in the senate. michael whatley is here. nate foye is covering the pennsylvania senate race on the ground. let's go to alexis mcadams in west palm beach this morning. >> a lot is shaking up here as we get more information on the trump transition team. matt gaetz is out and pam bondi is in. smart, tough and strong according to people who have

worked with her and she will go after the d.o.j. to shake things up. watch. >> merrick garland is our chief law enforcement officer and this entire country. we talk about the weaponization of the f.b.i., c.i.a., atf. i.r.s., it all starts at the top with merrick garland. he has to respond to this. he has to be held accountable. this is way too important for the american people. our justice system is at stake. >> for people at home wondering what they want to know about pam bondi. she was the state of florida's first female attorney general. a member of donald trump's impeachment defense team. local prosecutor for years and worked on a wide range of cases from drug trafficking, human trafficking and capital murder cases. trump says bonde has what it takes to be a great addition to the team. pam will refocus the doj to its purpose of fighting crime and making america safe again.

i've known pam for years, she is smart, tough and america first fighter who will do a terrific job as a.g. bonde was on stage recently at a rally in north carolina talking leading up to the election with trump saying he has been fighting for america and she will fight for him. >> and now the question is who could the next treasury secretary be. back out here live we can the tell you trump has floated kevin warsh for that position. economist and former member of the federal reserve board of governors. another job opening is trump's f.b.i. director. he could kick out chris wray and try to put in mike rogers, former marine and f.b.i. agent who ran for congress in michigan. the theme is to shake up washington, d.c. and that's what

trump is trying to do. >> gillian: thank you so much. it's been over two weeks since the presidential election. closer to three now. democrat bob casey is finally conceding the pennsylvania s senate race. we have the insight into that. >> it is finally over. exactly one hour after the pennsylvania state department announced it finished its initial vote count with provisional ballots casey conceded in the u.s. senate race. >> pennsylvaniaance can move forward with the knowledge their voices were heard whether their vote was the first or last to be counted. proud of the work we've done since election day to enfranchise voters across the state no matter who they voted for and to insure that the democratic process could unfold.

>> so republican senator-elect dave mccormick solidifies the republicans' 53-47 majority winning by 16,000 votes. john fetterman reflected on casey three terms in congress writing he fought for working people in pennsylvania, rural communities, seniors and people with disabilities. all of us, bob casey was, is and always will be pennsylvania's best senator. the race brought concerns about election integrity when county officials indicated they would break state law and count ineligible votes. senator-elect mccormick talked about that last night on fox. >> we need to step back and look what happened in this election and make sure it doesn't happen again. we need voter i.d. you need voter i.d. it is something i will fight for day one in the senate. >> one loose end to tie up senator casey waived his right

to the recount last night. because it already started the state department is reviewing law and provide an update where things go from here later today. send it back to you, gillian. >> gillian: nate foye, thank you. >> john: let's bring in michael whatley. what trump said about his pick of pam bondi. for too long the department of justice has been weaponizeed. pam will refocus it for fighting crime and making america great again. i've known her 15 years and a very capable person. she scares a lot of democrats. >> she should. she is going to focus on the issues that need to be focused on, right? we need a safer communities, we need safer country. she is going to be able to deliver that. we cannot go through what we have over the last eight years with the weaponization of justice that we've seen with all

of the attempts to go after donald trump. to go after his allies, civil court, criminal court. that needs to be shut down and needs to be investigated and the people who broke the laws to be able to move forward with those investigations in those cases need to be punished. there needs to be accountability for it and we need to have a department of justice that is actually focused on delivering justice for every single american as an attorney, as a prosecutor, as the attorney general in pennsylvania, pam bondi has always shown she is tough, smart and a great pick and she will be a fantastic attorney general. >> gillian: michael, pam bondi stepped into the ring last night right after matt gaetz pulled his name from consideration. he will no longer serve in the president's cabinet. he has won a seat in the new congress. do you think he is going to assume that seat and do you

think the party is going to embrace him if he decides to? >> that's a decision that will be up to matt. the house leadership team in terms of how they move forward with it. right now the biggest focus we have and i met yesterday with speaker johnson and the leadership team in the house is making sure that they are in a position to move forward with implementing donald trump's agenda. president trump ran on a very simple agenda of restoring our southern border, rebuilding our economy, insuring that we're strong enough as a country to protect our interests and allies around the world and making communities safe again. congress has a mandate to act on that. it is a mandate to make america great again where the focus needs to be in the house and senate. then the senate needs to move forward quickly with all of these nominees that will be put forward by president trump to get them confirmed. people are policy. what president trump is doing is selecting a fantastic team to

implement his agenda going forward. >> john: let's go to bob casey saying -- here is what was said by casey saying it's over. >> nice to be with you, we're excited to have this resolved finally. mathematically it was clear that the election was over and there was not a path to victory. the people of pennsylvania stood up in bucks county and across the commonwealth and said wait a second. we will follow the rules and that was a good thing for pennsylvania, good thing for this election. >> john: josh shapiro pointed out during his senate primary in 2022 mccormick did not wave his right to a recount in his race with oz but the margin was 900 some odd votes not nearly 17,000 votes. why did casey go ahead with this

after the way the bucks county commission embarrassed themselves in front of the nation? >> i think the biggest thing that we saw throughout this election cycle in pennsylvania was that the courts were very consistent and very clear in terms of what votes need to be counted. we were very disappointed to see platoons of lawyers coming from washington, d.c. with the casey campaign to start filing challenges to ask county commissions to include votes that clearly should not have been counted and then when we went to court and got a very clear mandate from the supreme court. truly disturbing behavior by the democrats across the board. look, we're done. we're ready to move forward. the voters of pennsylvania voted resoundingly on november 5th and through the early voting period for donald trump and for dave

mccormick and we're very excited to have dave serving in the senate. he is going to represent all people from pennsylvania and a champion for every pennsylvania family and fight for them every single day and donald trump is ready to carry his agenda forward with the support coming out of the house and the senate. >> gillian: thanks for taking time with us this morning. great to talk to you as well. >> john: good to see you. >> gillian: the pentagon is confirming russia launched an intermediate ballistic missile into ukraine days after president biden allowed ukraine to strike parts of russia with long-range u.s. missiles. the pentagon saying this. >> this was a new type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield. it certainly a concern to us. we've seen this type of dangerous, reckless rhetoric before from president putin.

what we're focused on is continuing to support ukraine with what it needs. >> gillian: putin is threatening to retaliate with more strikes against u.s. facilities. the fight causing the former commander-in-chief of the ukraine army to offer a grim declaration. world war iii has officially begun. we'll dig into that more coming up throughout the hour. >> i'm astounded by the tone deaf arrogance of the democratic leadership in this country. they just got their butts handed to them. >> john: democratic cities, how they are trying to make it harder to deport illegal immigrants. >> gillian: the menendez brothers forced to wait longer for a decision on clemency. after 25 years who is counting? what is prompting that delay now? >> john: day 19. the daniel penny choke hold trial.

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>> gillian: venezuelan migrant in colorado has been charged with raping his employer's 14-year-old daughter. he came in september of 2023 released by border patrol due to a lack of detention space at the time. this now comes as ice agents arrest multiple immigrants in

massachusetts. two for raping a child and one for carrying out that crime in brazil previously. >> can expect cities to foot the bill. coordinated national plan where these migrants arrive and texas shouldn't have to bear the entire brunt. >> john: mike johnson in january calling for a national plan to address the migrant crisis and now vowing to stop federal immigration enforcement telling a local newspaper. more than us having dpd stationed at the county line to keep them out you would have 50,000 denverites with the rose and gun, right? you would have every one of those hyland moms who came out for the migrants and you do not want to mess with them. johnston ignored reporters who asked him about the controversial comments. >> gillian: the biden white house is allegedly loosening up immigration policies in a

potential blow to president-elect trump's new border agenda and plans for mass deportations, "new york post" reports the administration will roll out a new app that will essentially allow migrants to skip in-person checkins with localize offices. madeleine rivera is live from the white house with the details of that plan. >> good morning, gillian. ice agents used these to keep track of migrants released from detention. per the "new york post" this app will allow migrants to keep in touch with immigration officials using a phone or laptop. the problem is that the app is reportedly half baked. homeland security sources say the software is glitchy and doesn't track a migrant's location if they are using an android or laptop and doesn't check for past arrests or outstanding warrants. we're waiting for a response from the department of homeland security. white house press secretary karine jean-pierre was asked about this by mark meredith yesterday and she says she has no new policies to preview. >> i don't have anything to

announce. i laid out for one of your colleagues what we have been doing especially since we moved forward with our executive actions in june and what we have seen encounters have dropped more than 55% and lower than we were four years ago. >> the app is reportedly set to be unveiled early next month in new york city which has been struggling with an influx of migrants. more than 23,000 migrants stère arrived in the big apple since spring of 2022. from a financial standpoint is city has spent more than 3.7 billion for asylum shelter, food and other services just this fiscal year. >> joe biden and kamala harris we saw an open border t12 million illegal immigrants. the worst in our nation's history. that's going to end and it will end on january 20th. >> the "new york post" reports up to 100,000 migrants will be enrolled in the first wave of the program. gillian. >> gillian: pennsylvania avenue

for us, thank you. >> john: as all this is going on, officials in los angeles voting this week to become the nation's latest sanctuary city. the move is seen as pushback to president trump's plan to ramp up deportations. so how are local officials responding? let's bring in nathan hockman, los angeles county district attorney elect. i know how early it is where you are. thank you very much for getting up for us. want to ask you a question before we get into the sanctuary city question. that is you will take office very soon. how are things when it comes to law enforcement and criminal justice going to change under your tenure from the way that they have been under george gascon? >> under gascon he adopted pro-criminal extreme policy that pre-determined that certain crimes and certain criminals juveniles, stealing under $95 people using guns during violent crimes and gangs participating

as part of gang membership would not be prosecuted notwithstanding the facts of the law. i reject those and the extreme policy of mass incarceration that don't rely on the facts and law. i come down with something an approach called the middle or hard work middle. the hard middle. returns prosecutors to looking at each case individually. the individual defendant, the individual crime, the impact on the victim. to determine who the true threats are to public safety and need to be behind bars. those are often the repeat offenders and the ones that aren't. the first-time non-violent offender still will be held to pay a debt to society for violating society's laws. but that's where non-prison alternatives. community service, restitution, pay it back or diversion program if you have a serious drug addiction that offers you a choice between prison and 18 month rigorous rehab program that if you complete will wipe your record from the crime committed. we'll be bringing those policies

back on day one. i have the support of over 750 prosecutors, tens of thousands of law enforcement officers. victim groups and basically the entire public that has rejected the george gascon era. >> john: we'll watch closely to see about the changes. let's get back to los angeles voting to declare itself a sanctuary city. california's attorney general throwing down the gauntlet to donald trump about pending deportations. listen here. >> we will take swift and strong action to prevent you from breaking the law in the state of california. we follow the rule of law in california especially law enforcement agencies who know better. >> john: he is saying we won't cooperate with you at all. will you cooperate with the trump administration in terms of deportations? >> what's interesting is that california in 2017 passed sb54. it made an entire state of california a sanctuary state.

so i don't know -- there are certain carve-outs for dealing with violent crimes and serious crimes that were carved out in the initial legislation. i don't know if the l.a. city ordnance will be much different than the state laws in place for seven years. also affirmed by the courts. so again, as a d.a. i will uphold the law. all the laws that are before the d.a. whether it's california, federal. and two constitutions, federal and state constitutions and see whether or not this l.a. ordinance does much different than a law on the books for seven years. >> john: would it be your intention to cooperate with federal authorities with deportations within the city of los angeles? >> right now again the actual state law allows local law enforcement officers with violent and serious felonies to cooperate with the ice officials. i don't know again if the l.a. city law will be much different. certainly with respect to the

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>> we were supposed to have a public hearing with wray and mayorkas coming before our committee. we both dropped out within the past hour and not given a reason other than they didn't want to testify in an open setting on these issues. >> john: james langford with us yesterday calling out the heads of dhs and f.b.i. who are refusing to publicly testify at a hearing yesterday on threats to the homeland. the outrage at their no shows extending to democrats as well. senior congressional correspondent chad pergram on capitol hill for us now. >> good morning. two witnesses, two hearings, two days, two cancellations. f.b.i. director christopher wray and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas skipped house and senate hearings on global threats. bipartisan members are fuming. >> that's ridiculous.

they owe that to the american people, both of them. they need to come and testify. there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. very disappointing development. >> the department of homeland security says it wanted a classified briefing to discuss threats. house homeland security chairman mark green said he offered wray and mayorkas an open session and classified session. no dice. >> there is a concern that secr secr secretary mayorkass, see is sitting in that job and told me i have this information. i have to take that seriously. >> there is concern about iran, china, and russia. plus threats during the holidays. senate homeland security committee chairman gary peters called the cancellation a shocking departure from the custom of transparency. other democrats joined the criticism. >> we want to hear publicly from

mayorkas and wray. ? >> we need an explanation for this morning's cancellation. i can't tell you why it was postponed. i definitely want to hear from them. >> republicans know mayorkas is out the door in two months. the department of homeland security says mayorkas has appeared before congress 30 times. john. >> john: i need to ask you a question. 5:30 this morning i was about to get into the bureau and see 20 police cars surrounding a flatbed drug with something under cover on its back. any idea what was that? >> that is the capitol christmas tree. 80 foot tall spruce from a national forest in alaska. only the second time the capitol christmas tree has been from alaska. they drove it all the way from a remote island, john. >> john: i thought they had a load of gold on the back of that truck judging by the number of

police cars surrounding it. they were giving it a big welcome into the city at 5:30 in the morning. chad, thank you, appreciate it. gillian. >> gillian: that's not the answer john was expecting. >> john: i was hoping it was a big nuclear device or something. something really interesting. >> gillian: something more dramatic. bring in former advisor to the clintons mark penn and national review senior writer noah rothman. mark, republicans and democrats are both opposed to mayorkas and wray dropping off the morning of two days in a row. do you agree it's a strike to the heart of transparency? >> well, you know, both of those have been quite frosty when it comes to having to cooperate with congress. so the minute the election is over, of course they will say well, we're leaving office anyway. i think it is a bad show on their part. i don't think america will take notice of this but it is in line

with both of them have really thumbed their nose at congress for the last two years. >> gillian: noah, it is, though, an annual hearing. not like this was a one off. it is something they offer every year on this network and we air the entire hearing in large chunks so our viewers can know about the major threats brewing abroad. >> it is representative how the biden administration is so deflated it is sputtering to a close. but it is not at liberty to do that. the president is the president until january 20th. christopher wray testified in the wake of the october 7th terrorist attacks in israel that we had entered into a threat environment that was all but unprecedented. all the red lights were blinking flashing red and it was incumbent on the security apparatus domestic and intelligence apparatus to interdict the threats. we haven't seen that kind of

domestic terrorist event they were scared of materialize. good on them and the security. you don't have to divulge anything in an unclassified setting. both wray and mayorkas have testified previously. we're entering into the holiday period and an elevated level of threats and incumbent on both secretaries and director wray to appear before congress and demonstrate that they are on the job. that they have this thing fully -- their hands full eye wrapped around this things. by simply disappearing they aren't sending signals to reassure holiday shoppers walking into crowded settings that they may be apprehensive about. they need to be reassured. >> gillian: for the white house's part, the president brought along the entire normal press gaggle he has with him more than halfway around the world and never bothered to talk

to anybody. listen to karine jean-pierre trying to justify it. >> does the white house have value. >> he enjoys engaging and going back and forth with all of you and something he will continue to do. we have less than 60 days, two months left. that is plenty of time for the president to continue that engagement. >> gillian: a head scratcher reply. >> it is a head scratcher because usually in the last, you know, couple months of a presidency the elections are over, you take some foreign policy trips and do some press conferences, try to get above politics and kind of go out in a very nice way and this all looks very odd with two of them not showing up in congress and president biden not wanting to do the traditional press

conferences as part of a foreign trip. i would say again it's pretty odd. america right now doesn't really want to do politics. they are okay with it. a little bit more. it is kind of odd and unusual. nothing i've ever really seen before. >> gillian: noah, i will owe you one for next time. we have to leave it there. thank you to you both for joining us. john. >> john: i think we're on a path back to sanity in california because we're defying gavin newsom. >> john: ten california counties flipped red. newsom is reaching out to voters in trump country. republicans are putting together a team to slash spending. the newest addition is congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. >> we run a deficit. we have now a debt payment because we had 36 trillion in debt, you will tell me that

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>> john: musk and ramaswamy getting a helping hand from congress. house oversight chairman james comer planning to create a subcommittee to work with your new department of government efficiency known as doge. marjorie taylor greene is going the head that committee. >> she says she cannot wait to get to work gutting useless government agencies that she says is wasting taxpayer money.

greene has a business background and ran a construction company and no stranger to using the power tools which may be necessary for the sizeable amount of cutting that needs to be done from the government budget. greene says one of the top orders of business will be giving people the pink slip. bad employees whether failing to do the job they were hired to do or working in roles no longer needed never get fired. this is incredibly unfair to the hard working taxpayers of our country and it's about to change. greene and comer have already met with ramaswamy and doge team. they will be working hand in hand in find every wasted penny. some democrats are not convinced this is something that needs to be done. they don't think we have a spending problem but instead a revenue problem. they say the solution is to raise taxes on the rich. >> why is government efficiency a bad thing? >> he is talking about doing 2 trillion cuts taking away people's social security in order to be able to do more

giveaways for billionaires. >> right now the government is spending $2 trillion more than it is taking in in tax revenue. where do you propose the cuts start? >> i propose that billionaires give back the money that they are now taking in giant tax cuts. >> you could take all the money of all the billionaires in this country and still only cut about 6 trillion off the debt, which is over 36 trillion right now. >> john: i love the way you chase them through the halls and up and down the staircases. you are a force of nature. thanks, hillary. >> thank you. >> some people talk about this economy is booming. inflation is cooling. lowest unemployment in our lifetime. all that may be true but people don't feel that way. they feel like the economy is not supportive. they feel like the economy is not nourishing. >> gillian: not supportive or nourishing.

that was governor newsom in fresno as part of his effort to reach out to trump voters. ten out of california's 58 counties flipped red. after fresno he plans to visit two more counties that trump improved by over five points compared to 2020. let's bring in steve moore economic advisor to president-elect trump. steve, is the economy not nourishing? >> by the way, there is a huge -- talking about this off the air. a huge surge in confidence just in the last two weeks both in businesses and consumers saying we feel better about things and the direction of things. but look, people are still feeling the effects of the inflation. prices are still up 21% over the last four years. and so people are hurting out there. but look, i'm optimistic as most americans are that things are going to get better. california is a different case. california, they've lost more people in the last five years than in the history of the state.

they are moving to florida, they are moving to texas and utah because the taxes are so high, the crime is out of control, all of these things and by the way, gavin newsom is now considered the frontrunner for the democrats for 2028. but he has to figure out how he can repair california if he will run for president. >> john: that's like saying the arsonist needs to rebuild the house he burned down. he goes to the counties and said people aren't feeling the economic benefits and everything. put up on the screen the survey that found that 35% of people in 2024 said the economy was their number one issue compared to 25% back in 2020. people are fed up with how he is running the state. he is the problem. >> that's true. california actually, one of the bluest states, actually turned redder and so i will give you a couple examples. the voters voted down a massive

minimum wage increase. the first time ever because people are seeing the businesses leave. you saw what happened with fast food. you reported on this. a lot of the fast food restaurants closed down. they also voters also in california voted for tough on crime measures because crime is out of control and you have the -- so i think even california is starting to get with the wave that we have to get taxes lower, get crime under control and you mentioned the fact that inflation was the big issue. the second biggest issue was illegal immigration. and if i recall, california has been one of those sanctuary states. >> gillian: so big holiday coming up next week. if you are like me it's shocking that thanksgiving is a few days from now. want to talk prices for families coming up against the holiday. big picture, steve, looks like costs are down about 5% this year over last year. you can see there.

the numbers. but the even bigger picture is costs remain up nearly 20% from five years ago. which people are still -- prices tend to go up over time slowly. it is a whopper that people are still feeling. >> thanksgiving dinner will be as expensive as ever. donald trump is very aware of this, that the reason that biden lost and harris lost was because of illegal immigration and inflation. the two is. i guarantee you this will be one of our top priorities is keep prices down. produces more american energy. the reason, john, they call people supply siersd. we want to increase the production of goods and services in the economy. when you produce more things the prices go down. i don't understand why the democrats don't understand that concept. if you do what elizabeth warren is talking about, raise taxes, that will make inflation worse.

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>> john: a story you want to pay attention to. parts of western north carolina seeing their first winter wekts of the season. many of the areas seeing snow have not fully recovered from hurricane helene and conditions are people are living in let's say less than optimal. steve harrigan on the ground in north carolina east of asheville with the latest. steve. >> first snowstorm here underway. freezing temperatures the last thing people in western north carolina needed. as you see here people were in these mobile homes. the floors were torn out by the storm helene eight weeks ago and moved to hotels by fema. the hotel vouchers have run out and now they're in tents after eight weeks after this storm. for families with small children, it is not an easy transition. >> it's awful especially with your kids. it feels like you are letting them down. it's really cold. very uncomfortable.

>> a lot of people here have also lost their cars in addition to their homes. they were flooded out in the storm. there is no money for many for bathrooms or bottled water. the pace of recovery is snow. >> no sewer, water or power. there is your answer. >> this is a storm that killed 103 people in north carolina, cost 50 billion worth of damage and eight weeks later you have families in donated tents with wood burning stoves. back to you. >> bill: that's a hardship. snow is coming down. more to this story and we'll hear from you later on today as well. dangerous escalation in ukraine. chilling threat from russia as the war moves closer to spreading across europe. dragging the world into a potential global conflict. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm john roberts. dana and bill are off today so it's you and