markets to the detriment of consumers and the american economy. bill, this is just one of two antitrust cases hurled at google. a judge in the other case already found that google search is an illegal monopoly and there is weighing whether to force google to sell chrome search engine and the android operating system. all of this is part of the biden d.o.j. efforts to break up google and big tech. >> bill: a big deal. see what we get. >> dana: fox news alert. immigration is a mess. border remains broken. yet some democrats are rushing to fight an immigration crackdown by trump administration before it even gets started. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning, partner. nice to see you. bill hemmer, good morning at home. some democrats finally admitting it is time for america to secure our national boundaries while others like the mayor of denver are calling for resistance to the mass deportation that's

planned for illegal migrants as promised by president-elect donald trump. incoming border czar tom homan calling it a matter of national security. >> what's happening to our southern border is the biggest national security vulnerability this country has seen since 9/11. we know terrorists have crossed the border and a threat to our national securities. cartels of mexico have killed thousands of people with fentanyl. we have dangerous people in the country. they pose the biggest national security threat to this country right now. >> dana: madeleine rivera is at the white house. good morning. >> good morning. blue state prosecutors have been preparing for months for a potential trump presidency. some spoke to "politico" about the actions they can take. they include possibly suing president-elect trump for misusing military troops on domestic soil and fight trump if he tries to withhold federal funding from local authorities who don't assist in carrying out

deportations. >> we're going to push back every single step of the way. we aren't going to allow donald trump to turn america's law enforcement agencies into his own gestapo police. we aren't going to allow that. >> prosecutors are aware that a second trump administration might be better prepared to respond to the legal challenges that might come its way. byron donalds tells maria bartiromo democrats will suffer politically if they resist president trump's agenda. >> if they decide they will oh pas deportations, that 57% of the american people want to see enacted they'll have more political losses in the future. president trump and his team are going to deport illegal immigrants out of the united states. >> zooming into a local level denver's mayor mike johnston is walking back his comments about sending city police officers to block deportation efforts but

encouraging people to protest and says he is willing to go to jail to stand up to trump if he believes the actions the administration is taking are wrong or illegal. the white house has no new policies but enforce laws that are already on the books. >> dana: madeleine rivera, thanks so much. for more on this we have a radio talk show host in colorado. mike johnston the mayor of denver walked it back. let me play for you senator rand palls. thoughts for him before that and get your take. >> the mayor of denver, if he is going to resist federal law, which is a longstanding history of the supremacy of federal law, if he will resist that it will go to the supreme court and i would suspect he would be removed from office. i think the mayor of denver is on the wrong side of history and really i think will face legal ramifications if he doesn't obey the federal law. >> dana: tell us what's going on out there. >> the mayor of denver is doing what mayors in liberal cities

do. saw the mayor of boston do the same thing. he is quote, unquote, walking it back a little bit but not that much. he is merely saying i wish i didn't maybe call it something like our tiananmen square moment but not changing his view. on our radio station a couple of days ago the mayor compared possible deportations of illegal immigrants to the internments of japanese americans by fdr during world war ii, which is a terrible comparison. illegals aren't supposed to be here. >> bill: the other thing he will meet them at the county line and 50,000 residents from denver. this will be our tiananmen square moment. do you see that happening? >> so i think very much depends on exactly what the federal government tries to do. not just in denver. i think if the federal government does what i expect. they will come after people who

committed crimes while they were in america and i read on fox news's website this morning nearly a million half illegal aliens who have already been adjudicated as to be deported. that will take all of ice's time for quite a while, a year, two years, who knows how long. if the feds are just doing that it will be very difficult to see what there is to protest against. if the left -- ice agents coming through to deport people who have been here for a long time i do think you would have many thousands of protestors but i don't think it will play out that way. >> dana: tom homan has said as much. if somebody has been designated, someone who needs to be deported, following the law and deporting them is not illegal and it is not a violation of their rights. it is what the law is telling them to do. wanted to ask you this, though. you pay attention to the electorate in colorado and

denver in particular. are people against deporting illegal immigrants that are -- the criminal element that we've seen? >> no, i think even in a place as liberal as denver, people are good with deporting the criminal elements. that's why this becomes so political just in how people talk about it. are they going to go deport the criminals or try to deport every illegal alien they find? i think it will be the former. the left is trying to make it sound like a latter. even here in denver people want the criminals removed. >> bill: they have said they are going after the criminals first and going after those on the terror watch list. there is a lot of them and that process could begin very soon. thank you for coming on and talk to you real soon. >> always great to be here. thanks, guys. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: ross from denver, california there. >> dana: and tsa is bracing for its busiest thanksgiving travel week ever. senior correspondent steve

harrigan is in atlanta with more. sometimes we turn to this and there are no people there. looks like they have a line already, steve. >> it's a pretty good flow so far considering this is the busiest travel week at the world's busiest airport . 18 million people screened up 5% from last year. the worst days are traditionally wednesday before thanksgiving as well as sunday after but some travel experts say that is changing. >> people are leaving on tuesday before thanksgiving. a lot of schools are closed wednesday. families with kids are taking off on tuesday instead of wednesday. instead of coming back on sunday they are coming back on monday. >> one potential snag is in charlotte, there. airport service workers have gone out on strike. that could cause some real delays. dana, back to you. >> dana: steve harrigan, thank you so much. of course it will be a possible stormy week. i know my mom and barb will

leave denver a day early to see aunt patty sue and uncle rodney because snow is coming. >> bill: northeast is getting hammered. travel on wednesday is overrated. i just see it works really well. it's smoother than most people think. >> dana: i'll be here. >> bill: that's right. could stormy weather hamper your plans? janice dean to affirm or deny the theories. >> where are you traveling? >> bill: ohio >> dana: jersey shore in a car. not a big deal. traveling thursday morning to travel in the northeast, tuesday, wednesday, thursday we have a couple of storm systems. see the map across the ohio river valley, we have this weaker storm system, another one in its wake. west coast a lot of heavy rain

along the coastline and then feet of snow especially in the sierra, four feet of snow for you, an early ski season for you. what we're dealing with. low pressure right now for the next couple of days and then on thursday for the thanksgiving day parade here in new york city it will be wet, it will be windy and we're going to see interior northeast snow. prepare for that. i know a lot of folks will be traveling into new york. i would say if you can get a window view in a building that's probably the best. right now the worst airport delays now in seattle and portland, san francisco, detroit and denver. we're starting to see those delays stack up. and your forecast for the east. best and worst days to travel before thanksgiving. today is the best day for new tuesday. washington, chicago on and for boston on monday. thursday not great. it will be windy.

there is a criteria for the balloons for the parade. check in with me tomorrow. >> dana: can i see the balloons wednesday night? >> i think they will be able to fill up the balloons and it is fun to see. >> bill: is there annie -- an emoji for wooh. >> dana: intense fighting between israel and hezbollah. a cease-fire could be taking shape. more on that soon. >> bill: elon musk and vivek ramaswamy tack to government waste with doge. could it work? if so how. we'll talk to elon's mom today. >> dana: the postmortem continues for democrats. senator-elect adam schiff says there is plenty of blame to go around. >> i do think democratic party has to recognize the challenge we have, which is for too many

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>> bill: that's beirut on sunday. each side getting in their last licks. hezbollah launching heavy strikes against israel and more than 200 rockets. the two sides could be close to a cease-fire agreement. there are a lot of alerts going on the wires right now. see what comes to pass. maybe later today or tomorrow. general jack keane fox news chairman of the institute for the study of war. good morning.

hezbollah in lebanon fired into israel on the 8th of october a year ago. this after hamas raided southern israel out of gaza. they've been at it ever since. the idea would be this, however. take hezbollah and move them north of the la tonny river, 18, 20 miles of a buffer zone and have the lebanese military fill in that area as opposed to hezbollah fighters. can they get it done? will it work? >> well, we'll see. i think certainly the cease-fire and potential negotiation, we broke news on this on your show weeks ago when the israelis were reaching out to deal with this. our audience understands, the objective here to israelis has been limited. not what gaza defeat hamas and destroy as many of the fighters as possible, which is still ongoing yet obviously winding down. here it is just to -- that area

you showed on the map is key terrain. what the israelis have wanted to do between their border and the river is remove hezbollah from that area. they have essentially done that. destroyed all the infrastructure. why? from that area from that river south to the border that they've been firing into northern israel and 60 to 70,000 israelis are displaced. the whole campaign. decapitating hezbollah's leadership going on for weeks, rockets and missiles destroying hezbollah's rockets particular focus on long range missiles and then the third thing clearing out the hezbollah fighters in that area. that has been accomplished and why hezbollah is willing to negotiate given the comprehensive nature of this campaign. the real issue will be will the israelis, as part of the agreement, bill, if hezbollah moves back in, they have the

right to go and attack that area again to eliminate that threat. israelis want that as a provision of the agreement because the u.n. resolution back in 2006 after that war had an agreement like we're talking about here. u.n. peacekeepers were going to enforce it in that area. that failed miserably. that won't happen here. will the lebanese army be able to do that? israelis have suspicion about that. they want that provision. iran has told hezbollah make the deal. that is interesting because i have said for a long time iran is back on their heels. both of their proxies have not accomplished what they wanted to accomplish and iran itself no longer has an air defense system that's worthy of protecting itself. >> bill: that last point makes a lot of sense. 5:18 in the evening in beirut. now to ukraine. we get a new president 55 days

from now. here is michael waltz expected to be part of his cabinet. national security pick talking about ukraine and the escalation we have seen in the past two weeks. >> one side escalating, the other side escalating. this needs to be within a broader framework to end this conflict. it is more like world war i trench warfare. president trump is incredibly concerned about the carnage that is taking place there. we need to bring this to a responsible end. we need to restore deterrents, restore peace and get ahead of this escalation ladder rather than responding to it. >> bill: i don't know how you want to react to that. what is the resolution in ukraine if you see one now? >> first of all, the only people that really want the war to continue is putin and his ultra-nationalists, ukrainians didn't want war in 2014 or 2022 when russia invaded and they don't want it now.

53% of the ukrainian people would like the war to end because of the incredible suffering that's taken place among that population. that's the reality of it. but what this has got to be about. we're not arbitrating a deal between like a union and a corporation. and try to have it come out neutral. we have to work a deal in favor of the ukrainians. and i think president trump knows this because to make the deal successful we have to have some leverage. the use of the missiles weapons. give the ukrainians want they need to do to get as much leverage going into the deal. i think it would be worthwhile for the trump administration, once they are in power, to look at this collectively with the whole national security team. put together a good negotiating team, and recognize full well where putin is coming from. he doesn't want a deal. he believes he is going to win. he wants to topple the regime in kiev. not about crimea and the donbas

region where the operation is going on. topping the government so he can take control. that has been his motivation. he will never give up that aspiration. even if there is a deal, bill, he will violate it because he has violated every cease-fire in ukraine previously and in syria and it is aspiration, then he will play the long game to take ukraine eventually. so that's who we are dealing with. we have to force him into a deal where we have some leverage over him. >> bill: thank you, general. could be the front lines for cold war 2.0. thank you for coming on today. appreciate it. >> dana: jewish journalist was arrested while reporting on an anti-israel protest in toronto over the weekend. video of ezra's arrest shows police telling him he was inciting the pro-palestinian crowd. one protestor dressed up as sinwar. he joined us last hour with more

on his arrest. >> the police came up to me and said you have to leave the public sidewalk now. you are not allowed to be here because these hamas activists are disturbed by your presence. i said it's because i'm jewish. i have the right to be here and do journalism. the cops said your very presence here is offending these hamas activists, leave now or i will arrest you. i said i'm not leaving. a jew can walk on the streets. >> dana: he was searched and detained but he was later released without charge. >> bill: wow. president-elect donald trump now tapping the hedge fund manager scott bessent to be his treasury secretary as the stock market skyrockets after the big win there. up 400 points and more. the department of government efficiency, doge, could bring a major overhaul to our federal government as elon and vivek have big spending cuts.

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makes a plan. what has he told you about the transition so far? >> well, i went to mar-a-lago for a gala, which was really fantastic, everybody was so excited and happy and glamorous and just -- we just see a better future. that was just a wonderful evening. then the next day we spent -- i kind of sat down while he had meetings, which i love. they were talking about what they are going to do and vivek was there, too, for some of the meetings. i sat listening and i can't tell anybody what they are saying but it's all over x and the news. they are telling everybody. they just can't believe how many buildings are empty, how many people don't go to work, how many people don't know their colleagues because they have never met them. they don't see them. they don't know what they are doing. and then they joked and said oh,

i bet they are using -- that's very funny for tech people. for me i had to look it up. using cobalt. >> dana: old system. shocking for somebody who advanced technologically to go to the government and say what are these things you are using? it is interesting that the idea of government efficiency comes up over and over again. there is some hope that this time it could actually make a difference and a person from cnn thinks it's possible. >> a good part of the rage that has built up among parts of the republican base over decades has been centered on the notion that party leaders have promised repeal again and again but never delivered. with doge, we may finally get an effort to actually deliver on the central republican promise of the last 70 years and we will find out what america thinks of it. >> dana: about how your son,

elon musk has been told many times this will never work. it could never happen. that is impossible. he is putting rockets into space. this is something that he can do? >> yes, it is going to be quite easy because they are going to, you know, start with what did you do this past week and then also come into the office. just those two will eliminate a lot of people. and rightly so. because if you didn't have to come in and prepare things, it makes things much easier. >> bill: there are a lot of alpha males in that room. between donald trump and your son and vivek and all the others, how are they going to make this work? >> they will make it work, yes. they all are on the same page. there is a lot of women as well that will be involved and they all have the same goal, to make america economically viable again, you know.

>> dana: susie wiles is the chief of staff to make sure everybody stays on task. your book is a woman makes a plan. adam schiff is a democrat who just won congressman. i'm sure you probably know now won his senate seat. watch what he says about blame. >> for too many millions of battleground voters, working people, they don't think we represent them and we have to make that case anew. i think the entire democratic party bears responsibility. myself included and the former president. the question is if you are working hard in america, can you still earn a dana: so the democ trying to find their footing. you talk about making a plan. do they have one? >> i don't know what kind of plan they can have because the media has to change and the politicians have to change. stop being mean and nasty and dishonest because as i say, they used to always hate on elon for

15 years but i trusted them with the other news. they hated the republican party and fox news and then i realized no, they are dishonest in all aspects. >> bill: i've watched a lot of your interviews. you were a registered democrat, right? >> i was, yes. >> bill: you called them malicious and dishonest and then you said they say elon is terrible and i think why are they lying about elon? that was your change? >> well, just that they actually made it even worse for him and then i said maybe they are lying about everybody else as well. and it made me angry. i used to actually post people who docked "the new york times" and cnn and journalists involved and say shame on you. nobody cared. i'm talking about eight years ago i was doing that. it will change now.

>> dana: this book is called "a woman makes a plan -- i'm excited to read it. what are some of the top two messages in here for people who would be your reader. >> first of all at the age of 76 i'm on your show and you can still be smart and active and working. i am working a lot. and then also make your children independent and responsible for their own choices because that's what my three kids do. >> dana: that's in the book. you have that in there. i can't wait to read that part of us. thank you for being with us today. we might call upon you again. good to see you. thank you. it is a wall street welcome for donald trump's treasury secretary pick scott bessent. he is coming for the u.s. deficit. hillary vaughn. >> he will help trump deliver on every aspect of his economic

agenda to help usher in a new golden age in america, cutting taxes, returning to energy dominance and obliterating government waste and getting america's debt under control. >> scott is deaf niftily someone that the market likes and will be on it with the monetary policy, cutting, creating pro-growth policies and on the president's agenda with tariffs as well. >> bessent has a three, three, three approach. goals to cut the deficit, push economic growth to 3% through pro-business tax policies and push the u.s. to produce 3 million barrels of oil per day. republicans on capitol hill are cheering trump's pick but while some democrats may not be fans they aren't completely opposing his nomination yet. senator warren saying mr. bessent's experience is helping rich investors make more money, not cutting costs for families squeezed by corporate prove tearing. i don't know if he will transfer his loyalty from wall street investors to america's workers

but willing to work with everyone to help working families. he will work with energy secretary chris wright. he is getting support from the oil and gas industry who feel like they have an ally in the administration. the president of u.s. oil and gas says he is an innovator who understands everything from nuclear reactors to mineral supply chains and happened to usher in the shale, oil. he will turn things upside down in a good way. >> i think it will be an all-in energy possibly. we can produce two to 3 million barrels of oil a day. if the price of oil is a $7five a barrel you talk about 150 million a day that would benefit the economy. >> bill: trump's team is preparing a huge energy package

to roll out in the first few days including more exports for lng and off shore drilling and drilling on federal lands as well. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on that. >> bill: america ace crime crisis facing its toughest battle. pam bondi is vowing to make america safe again. class could be dismissed for the education department. will donald trump's secretary pick change the way americans learn? ♪ limu emu & doug ♪ everyone customize and save hundreds on car insurance with liberty mutual. (balloon doug pops & deflates) and then i wake up. and you have this dream every night? yeah, every night! hmm... i see. (limu squawks) only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

>> bill: so pam bondi fills in when matt gaetz leave expected to take the reins as attorney general. david spunt is live in washington. >> bill: the expectations are high for attorney general nominee pam bondi coming into a department of allegations of playing politics for years in democrat and republican administrations, the nation's top law enforcement officers where crime is a problem in cities large and small. she brings something to the table that others haven't. experience as a state attorney general. she ran the justice system in florida working to take down drug rings and human trafficking

rings. several who know her say she is tough, role and take a roll the with border crisis with fentanyl or working to get more immigration judges in the system. a huge shortage, bill. she is close to the president-elect personally and professionally. critics say that's not what is needed in an attorney general. a.g. merrick garland and president biden barely spoke if someone else was present so there was -- this current administration over the past four years was careful. if confirmed, bill four years was careful. if confirmed, bill, the top three in the new d.o.j. will be bonde, close trump senate impeachment trial. todd blanche and beauvais. the justice department shouldn't be his personal law firm. he is wanting to shake things up. d.o.j. officials agree she is a

much better choice than matt gaetz. >> dana: president-elect trump promised to eliminate the department of education. how he will go about that is unclear. mark meredith is looking into this and i am curious how this is going to work, mark, what have you learned? >> good morning. quite controversial and interesting to watch. the federal department of education dates back to the 1970s. it has grown in size and influence but in cost. the budget now around $80 billion. while president-elect trump vowed to end it not as easy as you may think. it was created by congress and up to congress to close it. even with a republican majority you would have to get 60 votes to kill it. that's a big threshold. senator mike rounds of south dakota introduced legislation to cancel the despite spending all this money test scores have dropped. >> most of the scores have gone down.

math has gone up four points in four decades. there is a better way to do it. get the beerber congratulates out of this thing. >> lots of departments in the federal government whose focus is finance and that is what student loans are. so i don't think there is any chance that somehow student borrowers are left orphaned because nobody is in charge of student loans anymore. >> trump has tapped former small business administrator linda mcmahon. he said she will spearhead sending it back to the states. democrats are vowing to block the efforts claiming it will create chaos in classrooms nationwide. another fight coming to washington. >> dana: i'm here for the fight.

really interesting. >> bill: it sure is. as we blast into 2025 it will be -- take off right away. check out the number of people already nominated. i think on the wall is it 36, 40? right around that number thus far. very impressive. a lot of people probably expected. some of them a bit of a surprise here and there. senate will be busy the first week of january and we'll see what the address is, what the tone is on the inauguration speech. >> dana: can i mention dr. janette nesheiwat one of the friday night announcements for surgeon general. she is an angel and works very hard and very successful person and fabulous doctor. congratulations to her and everybody nominated. in particular i wanted to mention she has been great to all of us here and i'm excited for her. >> bill: hard earned for all of them on the wall over there. the wife of -- hard turn. the wife of country singer jason all dean going off on billboard

magazine. she blasted the magazine leaving her husband off the list of 100 greatest country stars. billboard has gone woke. jason aldean released more than two dozen number one singles. >> dana: that's right. the chances are if you like country music and know the words to songs many of them will be his songs. maybe she has a point. we'll see. >> bill: she has spoken about her husband. that's today's celebrity check. i didn't know you were dying for it. >> dana: you knew i was. a new family giving thanks as they celebrate their first holiday together thanks to adoption. plus a fresh episode dropping martin scorsese has new episodes. catch them every sunday through december 8th. >> come and be baptized in the

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11% in the last month, 28% in the last year. where is it growing most? well, they measure by days of supply. you have 60 days of supply. lincoln has 168 days, others double the amount of supply. the best selling vehicles 131 d for the f-150 truck. if you look at that and break it down further, a lot of them about 3,000 are actually 2023 models. so i would say it's time to go out and look for a deal. you can definitely get a deal at the dealership right now. bill. >> bill: thank you, jeff. need to sell. we need to move some of those things, right, pronto. >> move the metal. >> bill: southeast p.a. jeff flock. >> dana: heartwarming holiday coming up for a new family. 12-year-old hezekiah was officially adopted by chelsea

and nick weeks ago with the help from the selfless love foundation and getting ready to celebrate their first holiday season together. chelsea and hezekiah join us now and the founder of the selfless love foundation. hezekiah, i'm glad you could join us this morning. start with ashley. how does the story begin and ask them how it ended. >> hi, dana. thank you for having us back on the show. it is hard to believe but christmas day almost one year ago chelsea and her husband nick had one of their first zoom calls with hezekiah. it lasted two hours and now almost a year later they will be celebrating their first holiday as a family. >> dana: how did they sign up with you? >> everything we do is through collaboration. we work with the child welfare agencies and with families like the sullivans who are willing to adopt some of our more

vulnerable children like sibling groups andd has taken advantage of all of our pre-adoption services. >> dana: chelsea, tell me about your and nick and your decision to look for a child that you might be interested in adopting. >> we decided to adopt because we weren't able to have kids ourselves and it was just the next logical step. it was such an exciting adventure, really. >> dana: you chose to go for somebody who was maybe a little bit holder. hezekiah had been living in a group home. >> yes, absolutely, we did. it's the way -- what we believe it doesn't matter the age of the child. they are still children. everyone needs to be loved. >> dana: hezekiah you were in a group home and you had a zoom call. can you tell us what that was like? do you remember? >> it was -- i was happy because

i had a family who loved me for who i am. >> dana: indeed. tell me something. you actually now you have grand parents, you had dad and donuts day event at the school and also have a great grandmother? >> uh-huh. >> dana: can you tell me about her? does the cat have your tongue? >> what are you doing with her coming up? >> we'll be making a gingerbread house. >> dana: all the traditions are starting now again with hezekiah. >> yes. and we're so excited to do it. unlike a lot of families we don't have all the sentimental ornaments. this year we are making a bunch of them and are blessed to have a selfless love ornament on our tree now. >> dana: they are crowd favorites indeed. ashley, last question to you. where do you see this going and can you just explain the scope

and scale of how many wonderful children like hezekiah are there waiting for a forever home? >> now in the united states there are over 100,000 children sitting in foster care waiting to be adopted. 2/three of those children are sibling groups and the average age of a child in foster care is eight years old. for anyone that is considering adoption, stop considering, start acting, please. visit our website selfless love foundation.org to find out more about the adoption process and resources available to families no matter a child's age, they never lose the desire to be loved and to be part of a family and to have a permanent home just like hezekiah. >> dana: we're excited for you and glad you are having time off this week. enjoy the gingerbread house. send me a picture and i will post it on my story. great to have you on. chelsea and nick, congratulations. we appreciate you.

november is national adoption month. >> bill: good story. really nice. before we go now we were kicking off the holiday season last week. the annual american christmas tree lighting with singer gavin degraw. >> dana: he was great. >> bill: rendition of the most wonderful time of the year and lit the tree, roll it. watch it. watch it. where are we going? oh, bingo. >> dana: did you do that on purpose? >> bill: absolutely. this is why you are in front of the camera and not behind it. a little trick of the trade there. >> dana: angie my sister thought the snow was real. it was real in our hearts indeed. "the faulkner focus" with sandra smith in for harris next. >> sandra:. top of the hour here. president-elect donald trump is moving forward with his plans to secure the southern borderward o secure the southern border despite some democrats' claims