secretary air force major general pat ryder will be addressing the media. now this comes as there was a talk of a potential cease-fire between israel and lebanon. by minister netanyahu said to address his nation after what was supposed to be a vote by the israeli cabinet on that very cease-fire proposal. we will see what happens. we are also waiting incoming border czar tom homan's stop at the border. he will be touring the border, food to agents and troops in eagle pass, texas, with governor greg abbott. now eagle pass, texas, on sunday had 200 illegal immigrants come across. 60 of those unaccompanied minors. we remember that video of that poor little 2-year-old venezuelan girl who reached the border alone. we will be hearing from him today. they are taking the border crisis quite seriously 55 days out of inauguration. thanks to everyone. now here is "america replorts." ♪ ♪ >> sandra: all right, top of the new hour, a live look, that is eagle pass, texas, were

incoming border czar tom homan is visiting the front lines with governor greg abbott. they are making multiple stops today. we do expect they will make some remarks as they help pass out thanksgiving meals to those texas troops protecting the border. we are following this for you all hour. hello and welcome everyone. i'm sandra smith in new york. i was captivated looking at the shot of the cowboy hats and the troops and thanksgiving dinner about to begin in front of them, john. >> john: what a difference in approach between this last administration and the incoming and administration when it comes to the men and women who are protecting our southern border. i'm john roberts in washington. this is "america reports." texas governor greg abbott has been laser focused on border security in his state. battling with the biden administration over the past four years. and today, a big step forward. rio grande city kicks off border wall construction on a newly acquired state land. texas mother alex -- alexis dungarees, whose daughter, jocelyn, was killed by suspected illegal migrant,

says this is a bigger fight. >> there is a reason i am up here and standing speaking because my goal is to get justice for jocelyn, but to make a change for every other child in this state and this nation to not have anymore families go through what me and my family are going through. >> sandra: and we are learning of more heartbreaking stories involving young children at the border traveling across alone. here is tom homan this morning on that. >> children die on most every day, children get sexual assault of, 31% of women that make that journey get sexually assaulted in this and administration has been hiring. this is something we're going to show the american people exactly what we're doing on the border and why we need to do it. and this is one clear example why we need to secure that border. >> john: our bill melugin as usual in the middle of the action on the ground in eagle pass, texas. bill? >> yeah, john, good afternoon to

you. we are now inside of a texas national guard military base in eagle pass where we just got a five minute warning for the arrival of incoming border czar tom homan and texas governor greg abbott. you can see over my shoulder the hundreds of texas national guard soldiers and texas dps troopers who are here and ready to meet them, to receive them. they are going to be served thanksgiving meals here. there going to be a lot of handshaking and a lot of thinking for securing the border here. you take a look at our second camera we've got in the room, this is the area where we expect governor abbott and tom homan to thank some of these soldiers, thank some of these troops and also deliver remarks later on but we want to show you what the troopers and the soldiers out here have in dealing with, take a look at the video we shot earlier this morning right here in eagle pass, predawn hours, or camera crews on seen as a group of more than 200 illegal immigrants were quietly brought across the border by smugglers and human traffickers. mixed in with that group were 50 unaccompanied children and minors traveling completely alone, excuse me, with no adults or guardians.

we talked to a teenager from honduras who told us his cousin paid $6,000 to get him across the border. we also ran into two little girls from guatemala, ages seven and ten. they were completely alone and they talked to us. take a listen. >> [speaking spanish] >> [speaking spanish] >> and it has been a very tense relationship between the state of texas and the biden administration. you guys might remember this video we shot in eagle pass last year. border patrol was repeatedly cutting the razor wire put down by the state of texas on the banks of the river here in eagle pass, texas, was outraged about that saying it was destruction of texas property, a violation of their state sovereignty, but it didn't end there.

take a look at this remarkable video, also last year, here in eagle pass, the biden administration border patrol literally brought out an address real great forklift and started lifting up the razor wire to allow masses of those migrants to cross illegally into eagle pass. texas was so outraged about that, they ended up suing dhs, though dhs ended up siding with the biden administration and said they are allowed to remove that razor wire. back out here, we expect tom homan and governor abbott to arrive here pretty much any minute now, where they will serve meals to these soldiers who have been manning the front lines in operation lone star for the last several years, often at odds with the federal government. it's been a very adversarial relationship between the state of texas and the feds, and part of tom homan's visit and part of his reason for coming here is he wants to start thawing out that relationship and show the trump administration plans to be a partner for the state of texas and not an adversary. back to you. >> john: going to be a whole

different ball game and they are not waiting until january the 20th to get in the first inning, either. bill melugin, thanks, we'll get back to you in the event gets underway. i can tell you, sandra, there will be a complete turnaround of relations between the federal government and texas peered. >> sandra: our viewers are so for mother with tom homan. he has been on this network a lot leading up to the transition. back, and you know he means business. you have seen him on here talking about crime, as it pertains to those flowing over this border unvented. you have heard him talking about drugs and warnings about fentanyl that have been flowing over the border with illegal migrants coming into this country. the unaccompanied children that are going unaccounted for and turned over to potentially dangerous hands in this country. so many of them. he has spoken passionately about this and he is about to be visiting in eagle pass, and we will certainly carry the moment live as we continue to watch this transition happen, john. >> john: at the same time all of this is going on, a couple hours ago there was an event at star county texas on a new 1400-acre piece of land that the

state of texas just recently acquired. it was a private ranch. they are going to start rebuilding some border wall there. and just the fact that texas now going to be working hand and glove with the federal government, i assume we are probably going to see huge reductions in cross-border traffic, particular the rio grande valley. star county was reliably democratic but it went like so many other counties in southern texas for trump this time around so they are expected some big changes. >> sandra: that's a combination of soldiers, national guard soldiers in texas, eagle pass, where tom homan and the governor will be serving meals shortly come along with texas dps troopers. they are all stationed at the border and i'm sure they are going to welcome that meal when it comes, john peered all right, meanwhile, a big part of president-elect trump's plan to restore order at the border is to slap tariffs on mexico and canada. lou bethany's and chief market strategist and dan greenhaus

join us. your first time on the program, good to have you here. had a good conversation with you. welcome to you. first up, give us your thoughts on this, we know the financial community, dan, you and i have had a lot of conversations about this. they too were warning about these tariffs and the impact it would have on the economy, so where do things stand now? wall street still looks pretty optimistic to me after the election of donald trump. >> i have to say, i agree, i have to say, this is personal, t brothers to fentanyl overdose. made exceptions for tariffs, the father of free markets. i think the market is digesting this well. if you look at what is going on right now, tariffs seem like they are going to be a lot of trouble and passed on the cost to consumers but in reality it doesn't happen. 50% of costs gets absorbed by wholesalers, to get to the table. >> sandra: dan, you look skeptical. >> it's not that i am skeptical. it is a negotiating tactic, the

administration had no problem with that, the threat is real. there is a narrative this is just a negotiating tactic. that is something with which i largely disagree peered president trump has taken a very positive view of tariffs. but that said, there is a high likelihood that the full breadth of these tariffs won't take place if mexico, if canada, less so china, take the step trump is demanding, we have every expectation that a lot of those tariffs would not be put into place. >> sandra: he says he's going to impose the tariffs a day 1, canada already warning on the impact of the economy in the u.s. and our energy facilities. canada is saying our relationship today is beneficial, particularly for american workers. today canada buys more from the u.s. than china, japan, france, and the u.k. combined. canada is essential to u.s. domestic energy supply and last year at crude oil imports originated in canada, we know that. okay, so are we concerned about

these warnings? >> no, i'm a data-driven guy. i look at the data. if we get rid of all of the tariffs in 2016 it boosts gdp by .2% to .3%. if trump enacts these tariffs come has to follow through, already seeing canada and mexico's stances soft in the day he announces. a drug may be .8% on gdp. do you not think everything else president trump is about to do, unlock energy independence, have elon musk and efficiency, going to come up and bring up. >> sandra: talking d.o.g.e., now. elon musk and vivek ramaswamy, who have been put in charge of leading these cost-cutting efforts come apparently they are already interviewing john job cabinets. dan, how you feel about iowa center joni ernst, sharing her excitement, christmas comes early in december, use it before they lose it, $53 billion recently spent in a single week.

for the stake of taxpayers, d.o.g.e. needs to be the grinch. >> she is a legislator. she can cut spending if she wants, obviously not by herself -- >> sandra: and they will have to as it happens. >> it is important to remind everybody, they know d.o.g.e. is not a government agency, it's an advisory. the biggest problem d.o.g.e. has come i'm in favor of cutting government spending, a lot particularly wasteful, but the biggest problem d.o.g.e. has is only 12% of government spending is not on autopilot. i said this before but the u.s. government is basically a health insurance company with an army. everything else is largely speaking -- i'm not saying we should let it be -- >> sandra: doesn't sound -- >> $53 billion we know we can cut right now before the end of the year. yes, there are things in entitlements, it's about efficiency, though, right? defense spending, the democrats agree we can be more efficient. medical care, how we inspire innovation -- >> sandra: how about more

competition? >> this is one of those things where the bar is low and they can just knock it out of the park. >> i will say real quick. the government, the cbo puts out a report every year with suggestions on what to cut and how much it will save, and there is a long list of stuff to choose from. >> sandra: safe to say you are not applying for a job at d.o.g.e.? >> i would take the job, sure. >> sandra: people with background politics, technology, law, i'm sure they are open to business. >> i will call up. >> i'm staying put. i like my job. leadership starts on the top and i see it. >> sandra: lou, great to have you on the program, welcome. john. >> president biden: >> john: i will take the seasick crocodile. watching eagle pass, texas, will. >> 's incoming border czar tom homan a text governor greg abbott any minute now. >> sandra: we are watching that. israel and hezbollah appeared to be edging closer to a ceas cease-fire, taking place in the middle east right now. that's next. >> let's hope in present trump

is inaugurated one of the first things he does is reinstate that maximum pressure and make it clear that it is not just for israel, it is for all of the middle east to have a peaceful existence. ♪ (vo) whether your phone's broken or old, we've got you. with verizon, anyone can trade in any phone, any condition. and get iphone 16 pro with apple intelligence, on us. and, ipad and apple watch series 10, all three on us. that's up to $2,000 in value. only on verizon.

on the 8th of october, a year has passed. it is not the same hezbollah as back then. we brought it back. decades back. this is the axis of the axis. we killed all the seniors of the organization. most of the missiles, thousands of terrorists, and they are

underground terrorists, infrastructure, over the years they build, we destroyed. we attacked strategic targets in all of israel, in lebanon, and the area in beirut, we have destroyed a great deal of their infrastructure. three months ago only all of this would have sounded science-fiction, but it is not science fiction. we did that. and i want to tell you, at any given moment, conducting this campaign, i look at all the fronts at the same time. that's how decided -- at first i wanted to focus on gaza and not to open another front. several months ago, when things have started cooking up in the north, and hezbollah, but the

missiles, we very particularly chosen when we'll attack, how we are attacking iran, and that is how i act today, as well. i look at all the fronts, the same fashion, and see the full picture, and to our heroic soldiers, all the means to save their lives, to protect their lives come into being this victory at the same time, and therefore, i will bring before the cabinet a cease-fire plan what will happen in lebanon, with the full understanding with the u.s. we are reserving for our self for military action it doesn't follow the agreement, we will attack, try and build up terrorists structures near, or if it bring a truck with

missiles will attacked as yes, if they go -- i know the claim we will not be able to go back if we start to cease-fire. that is what i was told, exactly what i was told when we did a cease-fire in gaza, you know, to bring back hostages. they said we are not going to go back to the fight. we returned and how we return and big time we came back. they tell me now hezbollah will be quiet for a year or two. it will get stronger, and then it will attack us again. hezbollah -- israel -- avoid the cease-fire not only by shooting at us, merely by trying to arm themselves. each one of their violation will attack with force. i know there are those who don't believe we will do so. but they not believe we are going to go into gaza street by land and we did so.

to go to khan yunis, and we did. they didn't believe under the tremendous international pressure we would get into rafah, not only got in, but attacked, and how we attacked, many attacking lebanon, and they are too we attack. we attack with wisely and with power that surprised the whole world, so as all of this, maybe it is time to begin to believe in how results we are in our method, our commitment to victory, so why have a cease-fire now? three main reasons for it. one, focusing on the iranian threat. and i'm not going to go and expand on that. two, refreshing the forces and getting armaments.

i am not going to hide it, there were many delays in getting armaments and weapons and this is going to -- soon this is going to open up, we are going to have, we will have the armaments. we will save our soldiers lives and give us additional force to complete our task. third reason for the cease-fire, separating hamas and this front from the first. hamas plan from the beginning that hezbollah will be at its side but when hezbollah -- hamas will be alone, and this will aid us in our sacred goal to release our hostages. in the last year, we changed things. 180 degrees. we have returned fire big time. we are changing the middle east.

all of this we are doing thanks to our heroic soldiers, and your heroic -- and also the forceful and wise way in which the war is being conducted. a good deal is a deal, agre agreement, that one, and forces, and we will enforce it. god willing, we will have security, we will have the north flower and continue together until there is victory. >> john: all right, that just about wraps it up very quickly from benjamin netanyahu, saying he will present to the israeli cabinet tonight a cease-fire proposal between israel and hezbollah for three reasons. he said first of also they can focus on the threat from iran so they can refresh their forces, sandra, and also separate the conflict with hamas from the conflict with hezbollah because

you remember conflict with hamas started october 7th. october the 8th is when the conflict with hezbollah started. >> sandra: and we saw the increase in violence yesterday, obviously, his words crucial to listen to. alex hogan is live in tel aviv with reaction right now to that. alex? >> hi, sander and john. so really a pivotal time right now here in the middle east to learn more details about what people in the region have been waiting and embracing for four weeks and months but really more than a year now for the thousands of people here in israel who have been displaced, for they more than a million people displaced in lebanon that reportedly that cease-fire will happen and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is going to be getting more information to his cabinet later this evening so we will still wait to hear some more details about exactly when all of this will take place, but what we do know again about the contingencies within this deal, it will be a 60 day pause in fighting.

it will also ensure that israel will withdraw from lebanon and hezbollah forces will need to move about 20 miles north of the israeli border, above the litani river. that is the border essentially where they will need to move. in place there will be a lebanese army that will deploy peered we heard from the lebanese foreign minister earlier today saying he thought this would come to fruition by tonight. also saying there are as many as 5,000 lebanese forces who are ready to go to the border as soon as possible, so again right now the big breaking news that we are having out of the middle east is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says after more than a year at war that there is officially going to be a cease-fire, and this is again tremendous relief for the people who have been displaced, but it isn't worth forgetting that this has been a year of tremendous loss for the people on both sides of the border. really across the city in tel aviv behind me you can see the lights in the building,

there are hotel across the city and country filled with people who are displaced, at a time the country also battling the forces on the gaza strip, hamas, they are also having to navigate what has become an increasingly tense border. the fight constantly with hezbollah. again, to reiterate, what we are just learning out of this cease-fire deal, the reasons for this, netanyahu said, there were three main reasons. the iranian threat. it is also an effort to replenish and refresh its own ammunitions and forces as well as isolating hamas. john, sandra, back to you peered. >> sandra: live in tel aviv for us, thank you. john? >> john: the southern border in texas, eagle pass, to governor greg abbott greg abbott and tom homan are speaking. listen in. >> serve 24/7. there are times when you're deployed, times when you are not deployed, but the fact of the matter is, having you available to serve the state of texas or

the united states of america is essential for taxes and for our country to remain sovereign, free, and safe, and that is exactly what you are delivering to the people of our great state, and i want to thank you so much for everything that you are doing. [applause] no state in america has a national guard like the texas national guard. either in volume or quality or what you have provided for our country. a country, meaning people outside the state of texas. they know exactly what you have done. the difference that you have made. the truth, the facts, are that what happened over the past four years was unprecedented. more than 11 million people came across our border illegally. it's not just the volume of

people. it is the intent, the crime, the harm that they caused along the way. you all surely know the stories. there have been little girls in texas raped and murdered by people who have come across the border illegally. there have been family after family after family in the state of texas alone that have been beaten, abused, harmed, or had their homes or their neighborhoods decimated. they needed somebody to step into that breach and stand up for the rule of law upon which our country was created. the men and women who did that are the men and women of the texas national guard and the texas department of public safety. americans thank you for your service. [applause]

i know that sometimes what you are doing may be hard. my only hope is this, and that is that you know also, every single day, how important, how essential it is what you are doing. texans are counting on you. americans are counting on you. and especially this time we have thanksgiving, we as texans and americans have at the top of our list among our thanks, a thank you to all of our texas national guard. those who came from other states to join you from those other state guards, as well as our dps officers. so, for me, the best and most prolific thing i can do for you today is to let you know the gratitude that texans have for you. maybe the second best thing is what general seltzer was talking

about. there is a change of foot as we speak right now. and as something that formally occurs on january the 20th but has already begun, action, planning, preparation, schematics, everything that needs to be done is being done to make sure there is no time gap whatsoever. that us in his january the 20th occurs, there is going to be a change in a way that the united states of america protects our border and protects the sovereignty of the united states of america, and we have with us the person who is going to be the tip of the spear leading that effort and that is tom homan, a person that you probably know is well experienced at this. if i recall correctly, you served in the border patrol, served the head of i.c.e. and as

we say in texas, this is not his first rodeo. he has been down this pathway before, done this before, comes ready and prepared with both the physical attributes, the mental attributes, and the experience attributes to make sure we are going to be doing more and faster then anything has ever been done, to first of all regain control of our border, restore order in our commu communities, and also identify, locate, and deport criminals in the united states of america who have come across the border who are preying upon our fellow texans and our fellow americans, and make sure we restore safety and law and order in communities across the entire united states of america. and i am proud to have with us

today the next border czar, and that is tom homan. [applause] >> thanks, governor. look, you guys know me. for the last four years, i wake up every morning pissed off about what this in ministry did to the most secure border -- i worked with six presence with ronald reagan, every president took steps to secure the borderg national security without border security don't know who's coming in, what's coming in, all this, right? no one did better than present trump. president trump is one badass president to secure the border, illegal immigration down to a 45 year loan, 83% and 90%. unprecedented success. joe biden is the first president in the nation who came in the office and unsecured the border on purpose. this isn't mismanagement. this isn't incompetence. this is by design. so the first morning i woke with

a smile on my face was the day after the election when president trump won because he is going to come back and finish the job he started. first of all he sends his well wishes and happy things giving from president. also we have a secretary coming in, secretary kristi noem, the governor. i've met with her numerous times e right person at the right time for the right job. she has a lot of great ideas of her own so i am looking forward to kristi getting through the confirmation process and coming to work with us. i think she is going to do a fabulous job. today is the first day bring up shelby. governor abbott has done an amazing job. illegal immigration in texas down 86%. 86%. think about that. this is a model we can take across the country. we are going to finish the job he started. this is a motto to take across the country. it is a shame the taxpayers of texas have to spend billions of dollars to do the job that this administration failed to do.

didn't want to do. then because of that, everybody in this room understand, you are a national hero and you are saving this nation. it is not just it would illegal immigration anymore. when this administration caused a crisis as big as they because it overwhelms the border patrol and because the border patrol is so over lump taking care of this event here in crisis many were pulled off the line and what happens then? 600% increase in sex trafficking. fentanyl coming across the border to kill a quarter million americans. record number of people on terrorist watch list crossing the border. over 2 million known gotaways, how many come from a country carrying fentanyl, sex trafficking women and children, gang members? so it is more than just illegal immigration. i don't care what your opinion is on illegal immigration. you because a crisis this big, all of these terrible things happen. cartels making record amount of money smuggling and trafficking women and children. and record amount of money

moving the dope. i'm happy that we finally got a president, president trump is going to come in january, and like the governor says, we are not waiting until january. we are already talking and planning and going to put a plan in place and secure this nation at the highest level it has ever seen. we are going to finish trump's work. i want to say thank you to each and every one of you. what people don't understand, in texas, for every ounce of fentanyl your troopers seized are less overdose deaths. every person you arrest for trespassing and put through the finger printing process, that is one less got away. at least we know who these people are. what you have done is not only protect the state of texas and the citizens of texas, you are protecting this nation. it's a shame with that other governors and other mayors who right out of the gate have said they're going to push back on president trump and what we're trying to do, especially for enforcement. let me be clear. there is going to be a mass deportation. because we just finished a mass illegal immigration crisis on the border.

where anybody can look at 9 out of 10 people claim asylum at the portable end up with an order of removal, so you can't ask the right to claim asylum, the right to see a judge, the right to due process, and we give you that due process, that the end of that due process, a judge orders your removal, we have to remove you because if we don't, shut down immigration court, those don't mean anything anymore. take you guys off the border because there is no consequences. so you can't demand due process or right to claim asylum and not obey the court order. that is why there needs to be a mass deportation, a mass number of people, millions of people who will get a final order and be ordered to move. if we don't to it, what is the option? let them stay, you will never finish the border. send a message to the rest of the world can enter the country illegally which is a crime, ignore a court order -- we are telling the whole world and to this country illegally and you never have to go home.

we are a nation of laws and we are going to enforce the laws. the men and women of i.c.e. have a tough job ahead of them and sending a message for people saying they're going to get in our way, they're going to stop us from doing what we are doing in enforcement, i have said it 100 times in the last week, don't cross that line. it is a felony to knowingly harbor and conceal illegal immigrants of from authorities. don't test us. the nation wants a safe country. we have had enough crime in this country, illegal alien crime, it's time to end it and stop it. present trip is committed to securing this border. he is committed to having this mass deportation operation and concentrating on public safety and national security threats. for any mayor and governor who is going to push back on removing public safety threats from your community, that is your number one or spots ability. you ought to be teaming up with us. the biggest on the southern border, like i said, 2 million known gotaways, we don't know how many unknown, on the

terrorist watch list. you don't think a single one of the 2 million came from a country -- then you are an idiot. everybody ought to be on the same page. republican, democrat, independent. this is a huge national security vulnerability and everybody ought to be concerned with that. so thank you for your service. thank you for all the work you are doing. i am impressed what i have seen today. governor, hats off to you. mr. mcgraw has been a mentor of mine, he has done more for dps than anybody who's ever worked for dps in my opinion, took you guys to the 21st century peered finest law enforcement agency in this nation so thank you dps, thank you to mr. mccraw, thank you to the governor, game on. time to get this done. game on. >> john: all right, game on says tom homan, even though it is still a long way away from january the 20th. the incoming and administration working hand in glove with the governor of texas to secure the

border and prevent cross-border illegal migration, particularly as we have seen it. there is on a company minors children, some as young as two years old who have made the long journey from places like el salvador, through mexico, the the united states by themselves. >> sandra: incredibly passionate warning to local communities were threatening to resist president trump's plans to close the border and deport illegal migrants. don't test us, said tom homan, the headline to come from eagle pass, texas. by the way, there is another stop planned where they will meet with troopers and troops on the border and get them a thanksgiving meal and say great job, but let's get to work. >> john: it is pretty clear all the folks on the frontline really appreciate the fact the incoming and administration is paying attention to what they are doing in a positive way. all right, well, we have that. now there is this.

israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said just a short time ago he is recommending to his cabinet that they take a look at a cease-fire proposal that has been drafted with hezbollah that could potentially bring an end to the fighting that you see there in places like beirut, where the israeli air force has been going after hezbollah targets trying to create or destroy its infrastructure and literally taken out the entire upper echelon of hezbollah leadership. let's bring in alex gray, the former chief of staff at the white house national secured he counsel during president-elect trump's first administration. his partners with our good friend robert o'brien, as well, security firm. alex, do you expect the israeli cabinet, do you expect the israeli cabinet will except the cease-fire proposal? >> thanks for having me again, john. i would expect if the prime minister is putting it forward it will be approved this evening. my sense is there is a reason this happens now, the timing of

this is important. yes, obviously israel has conducted an extraordinary campaign to decapitate hezbollah at every level of its leadership. but i don't think we should underestimate the impact of 55 days until donald trump takes the oath of office again. i don't think that is a coincidence. i think it is similar to 1980, where you saw iran releasing our hostages right before ronald reagan took the oath of office. because they understood then that the air of american weakness was ending. seeing a similar idea make today were ron, hezbollah, hamas, understand the window to avoid e through strength policies is ending rapidly. they are going to calibrate their behavior accordingly and israelis know they are not going to be restrained any longer by an american administration that is looking for political advantage domestically rather than what our allies need and

interest dictate. >> john: so netanyahu is very clear announcing the news of the cease-fire that of hezbollah does not uphold its end of the deal, israel reserves the right to go back in there with air strikes and punish hezbollah again. but do you also expect that what we are going to see on january the 20th is a united front between israel and the united states in putting pressure on iran to end its maligned behavior with these proxies? >> john, you look at what president trump did in his first term, and i always think that is the best way to gauge what he is likely to do in his second term. he put extraordinary maximum pressure on tehran and brought it to its knees, and president trump leadership in his first term enabled us to reshape the map of the middle east. president trump was able to create a historic peace agreement between israel and the gulf arab states. he was able to change the fundamental architecture of the middle east because he understood that a ran was the head of the snake. iran was what was providing the

proxy support. iran was destabilizing the region with hamas, hezbollah, houthi proxies, and he went after the regime in a strategic manner. i think you are going to see president trump and the team around him come back to those same successful policies. again, it is peace through strength. it has been tried, it's true, and it works every time. >> john: all right, we will see what happens on january the 20th. one of the reason i want to bring up, one of the reasons we booked you today, you have an interesting op-ed in "the wall street journal" where you raise the idea of trump buying greenland. democrats made a lot of fun of him when that came up in his first administration but you right in the journal, why trump really should buy greenland, greenland is believed to have significant natural resources, gold, silver, copper, uranium, rare earth minerals. an opportunity for adversaries to explain the resources with little regard for local communities or environment of concerns, and independent greenland free from denmark would be unable to

resist course of extraction of the kind practiced by china and russia. the u.s. can offer an option that preserves greenland's sovereignty while protecting it from maligned actors. so how much should he offer denmark for greenland? >> i think greenland is going to be independent one way or another, they have said that publicly and president trump is the master dealmaker. there is an extraordinary opportunity here to make the deal of the century to bring greenland into what is called free association with the united states. they have their own foreign policy, but we will take care of their defense and their security, and it will ensure that china and russia and other adversaries don't exploit the natural resources and the other strategic location that greenland provides. this is a unique opportunity, and only present trump i think can bring it about. >> john: it's a beautiful place, no question about that, and strategic importance cannot be understated peered however, one danish member of parliament

said nice fantasy but forget it. alex, good to talk to you. >> thanks, john. >> john: say hi to robert for us. sandro? >> sandra: over a dozen bodies mysterious lay turning up in a lake. is there a serial killer loose in austin, texas? paul mauro is on this and will join us next. i was out on a delivery, when i came across a snake. fedex presents tall tales of true deliveries our battle was legendary. maybe now my friends will believe me. we did this for one delivery, see what we can do for your business. fedex.

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fox news future paul mauro is on this for a long time, covering the story here for a while. you dug deeper, okay, because there was all these random explanations for like why people were being found dead in lady bird lake. and it became very odd, paul. what are you learning now? >> so austin has under a million people, new york city has 8.5 million and comparatively new york city has nothing like this when i did a request to the nypd it turns out they came back with zero suspicious drownings in the entire year of 2023, and austin over a dozen. i reached out to the austin police department, gave me a very an undying statement, nothing to see here, we investigated, nothing suspicious but the commonality of the "victims" is -- over a dozen bodies, most of the middle aged males who were in the bars along a strip of bars and around austin, the middle aged males

who end up in the lake who are not known to be heavy drinkers, no explanation as to why they would be there, no implication they decided to just go swimming in the middle of the night, bodies found in the middle of the night, and here's the thing to me that is very interesting. in may of this year, a victim named jeff jones, last thing he remembers according to the reporting, he is in a bar, next thing he remembers, he has some vague recollection of being on a bridge and he says he feels like he was pushed off. the only reason he survived his he didn't hit the water, he hit the shore and survived. he was banged up and survive. they did his blood, he had been roofies. >> sandra: wow! >> date drug in his blood. a lot of people discussed, are the autopsies showing if any of these victims have been roofies. austin pd is very understaffed, i'm sure they are doing what they can, but it is a troubling pattern. >> sandra: we had a woman, to give our viewers an example of how long we have been covering,

in february, mysterious drowning of her partner and said this then. >> i believe somebody put him at the lake. i don't believe he put himself there. it's just, i mean, i really haven't had any back up as far as city of austin austin police department helping in that way. but i know for sure that he was put in that lake and he was killed. >> sandra: that is her own account of that. but what we do know is that texas residents have been expressing major concern over staffing shortages, at the police, they voted to defund the police department back in 2020. in february, a single police officer, there was one police officer on duty in one section of the city for a few hours on a saturday. this is austin police association president calling attention to the vacancies of their police department saying there is a steady decline in public safety that has put the city on the brink of disaster.

holy moly. >> yeah, they have enacted this d.a., travis county d.a. jose gars, a member of the democratic socialists of america, funded by joe george soros peered his main priority seems to have been when he office was to that he indicted 21 police officers after the summer of love, so you can see what his priorities are, and the residence there are now starting to feel this. they are down something like almost 500 cops from what they should be allotted for. why this matters is when you lose that level -- only supposed to have about 2200 cops, about a quarter of the police department has flown the coop, different departments or have retired, when you lose that level of cops, you lose the specialized units, because you have to have a response. 911 calls have gone up but you lose detectives, swat, crime scene, people that close the kind of cases you and i are

talking about. i think it is time for a state-level agency, texas rangers or one of those groups, to take a look at this. >> sandra: residence reporting they are having a hard time getting someone to pick up the phone when they call 911. incredible story. we are going to stay on that. thank you very much. john? >> john: sandra, survivors hit hard by hurricane helene set to spend thinks giving and makeshift shelters. we will talk with a man in virginia who has been living in a tent until today. after careful review of medical guidance and research on pain relief, my recommendation is simple: every home should have salonpas. powerful yet non-addictive. targeted and long-lasting. i recommend salonpas. it's good medicine. ♪ hisamitsu ♪

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♪ ♪ >> john: president biden set to make his annual nantucket trip for the final time as commander in chief but he will speak at the white house this afternoon amid the israel-hezbollah cease-fire talks. our lucas tomlinson is live in nantucket anticipating the president's arrival. what's the latest from where you are, other than it's pouring? >> that's right, john, good afternoon. president biden set to arrive here in nantucket earlier this evening after speaking in the rose garden about 30 minutes from now, 2:30 eastern, to discuss the potential cease-fire between israel and hezbollah. president biden and the first lady got thanksgiving started visiting a coast guard station on staten island. he was the president. >> i've just been told i've been fired. [laughter]

what they do when they tell us, they set a time, how long we're going to be somewhere, and then what they do, they close all the rooms, the secret service does, and if you want to lose all support for the coast guard and no one will ever vote for me again, i better get the hell out of here. >> now, john, the cease-fire between hezbollah and israel will be announced about 10:00 p.m. in israel about an hour from now, take effect tomorrow morning, here's some of the details. hezbollah and all other armed groups in lebanon will not conduct any offensive action against israel and israel will not conduct any offensive military action against targets in all of lebanon including on the ground, so the way president biden should be giving us more details about what is in this agreement he minutes from now in the rose garden, john. >> john: looking forward to that. lucas, stay drive. >> sandra: california governor gavin newsom promising to trump-proof his state against

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