miles above earth. four astronauts shared this video. >> greetings from the international space station. happy thanksgiving to all our friends and family who are down on earth and everyone who is supporting us. >> they're thankful for 0 gravity. it's fantastic. our family and friends, those lifting up prayers for us and have been. >> dana: they aren't skimping. smoked turkey and does it come in powdered form? they were the ones supposed to be home months ago. >> john: they are coming back home in february. i will see your coyote and give you a moose and caribou. >> dana: i just stay out of the way. thank you for watching "america's newsroom."

>> dagen: happy thanksgiving to you. this fox news alert. a day one priority for the president-elect, slashing wasteful spending and bureaucrat i can red tape. we get more information how mr. trump plans to do just that. i'm dagen mcdowell in for harris, this is "the faulkner focus." elon musk and vivek ramaswamy laying out the ways the department of government efficiency or doge will execute its job. ramaswamy is accusing the biden administration of a last-minute push to ramp up spending ahead of trump's transition. congress is also ready to take action. joni ernst will lead the senate's doge caucus and put out a 22-step plan to cut trillions of dollars in waste. in a letter to musk and ramaswamy joni ernst writes i hope doge is sharpening their knives. i have a step-by-step plan to carve up waste, trim the fat, turn washington into a lean,

efficient machine. senator tommy tuberville says voters are on board. >> there is so much fraud and theft. the american people are sick and tired of it and they want accountability. we don't have any accountability right now. nobody pays the price for making a mistake or losing money or money going out the door going places it shouldn't go. >> dagen: peter doocy with more. hey, peter. >> the challenge for this elon musk, vivek ramaswamy doge government waste project. it is more complicated than it sounds. >> executive branch orders can be reversed by the next administration. we have two years of a relatively friendly congress to the trump administration. so i am hopeful elon and vivek will make inroads into the u.s. congress they need to to do and accomplish the cuts sustainably.

>> we have senator joni ernst, x page. a few posts from a long thread. we're spending on under utilized buildings. bureaucrats refuse to show up for work. why pay for empty buildings. currently the federal government is paying $0.11 to make a nickel. makes no sense. only washington could lose money making money. changing the coins could save money. they also see waste in checks. >> i think most of the work of the department of government efficiency will be in some of the programs around health and human services, some of the programs around payment delivery. because we do waste a lot of money in payment delivery to people in the united states. there is a lot of fraud in these systems. i would say that's the low hanging fruit. >> the leaders of doge are

already interviewing candidates for jobs with this new outfit. experts in government spending and expenses and cost cutting and the goal has been as high as $2 trillion in cuts, 30% of the total u.s. budget. dagen. >> or close to our budget deficit last fiscal year. thank you. the trump administration making it clear it will handle biden's border crisis. trump incoming border czar tom homan met with greg abbott to commit to securing that state's border. homan vowed there will be mass deportations of illegal immigrants in america. the two stressed the sheer magnitude of the crisis and warned those who plan to resist efforts to fix it. >> 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. >> i'm sending a message for people who said they will get in our way. don't cross that line. don't test us. >> dagen: more democrats are piling on vowing to try to derail trump's security border agenda. denver mayor mike johnston among them. he claimed he is willing to go to jail to resist deportations. tom homan says that's cool. >> all he has to do look at arizona versus u.s. and see he is breaking the law. me and the denver mayor agree on one thing. he is willing to go to jail. i'm willing to put him in jail. >> we want to focus on violent criminals we would be happy to help support pursuing arrest and

deporting them. we won't support deploy to pull 10-year-old kids out of their classroom in handcuffs. it is immoral and unamerican. if that's what they are proposing they'll find us resisting. >> dagen: no one is proposing that and said the opposite. one border democrat congressman cuellar of texas bucking his party on the issue. >> i was communicating with tom and we talked about getting together sometime when i head back to d.c. in the next week or so. >> did he reach out to you? >> we can find a lot of common ground. i've been doing this for many years. the current administration has not listened to me. tom knows what needs to work and i think given my experience. >> dagen: tammy bruce, fox news contributor. the list of these democrats, mayors is growing. the mayor of tucson saying she

will deploy the police to fight cruel and immoral deportation efforts. who are these democrats governing for, illegal migrants presumably didn't vote for them? >> they clearly have missed the message of the election. there is a universal understanding on issues regarding inflation that affect all of us, crime which affects all of us, the open border which affects all of us. this transcends partisanship and transcends who you are. your social and economic class. everyone is affected by this. everyone's daughter. nobody asks if your daughter is republican, democrat or what town you live in when you have gangs and others here who are determined to do evil. they will do it and all of us have an interest in stopping that. these are politicians, the drama is sending in the airborne and the handcuffing kids. lies meant to fear monger. the performtive theater of

hamlet or something because that's all they have. they might as well say the government will bomb denver. grow up. this is life and death for many people. laken riley's families. i don't know who they are pandering too except their own egos. this election is done. resulted in the way it did because americans want this to change. trump and his team are going to do it and the american people back them. >> dagen: i call it aseam et rick outrage. they show no out rage at the thievery, mayhem, murder, the rapes of the innocent and just these societal damage. the economic financial and educational burden now borne by generations to come because of the migrant crisis created by

joe biden and kamala harris. this is what they get upset about? >> the same situation regarding covid. such damage. we knew things like closing schools and masking children was not going to work. that they were -- the least vulnerable in many ways and yet they did it anyway because of the drama. because it made them feel important and that seems to be a thread here. that it is their sense of entitlement. the elite sense of being superior versus the nature of what their job is, to help the american people and their own constituents. >> dagen: let's turn to helping women or not helping and supporting women. a federal appeals court ruling the alleged biological male athlete on the san jose state university women's volleyball team will be allowed to play in this week's tournament. a dozen women, some from san jose state, signed onto a lawsuit they claim the player's

participation violates title ix regulations and their first amendment rights. emergency appeal was denied after a biden-appointed judge ruled that san jose state and that player blair fleming could play in the tournament. the group that filed the lawsuit wrote in a statement it is shameful the administrators at the mountain west conference and ncaa are unwilling to do their jobs, solely to protect fair competition and the safety of athletes who compete in college sports. sjsu scheduled to play the winner of the boise state. both schools forfeited over the issue during the regular season. the university of nevada reno women's volleyball captain with this. >> i wish the best of luck to those girls today as they play against each other and whatever they do tomorrow, whoever wins

tonight faces san jose state, i wish them the best of luck as well. they are faced with something really hard. a lot of stakes now forefitting during the season was one thing. now the stakes are much higher. >> dagen: san jose state fired one of its coaches. he said the fight is not over. >> i definitely feel so strong that, you know, that moving forward with this and helping this fight and making sure we save women's sports for the future of young women. my nieces, my grandchildren, is very important. >> dagen: the ncaa, the school, this judge, even the conference are protecting one and sacrificing the many. all of the women on san jose state and all of the women who

will compete in this conference and against this school. >> it eviscerates title ix. americans want fair play. this is what sports is supposed to be about. it's what title ix represents. to see this happen shows you how deep this kind of ideology. identity is one thing, right? transgender people and ideology about activism. there is no sexual civil rights movement, any civil rights movement in this country that required the he -- black americans, gay people, women, it was about actually just wanting fair play. wanting equal access, wanting to be able to play our sports. it wasn't about being something else, pretending to be something else or erasing the rights of those in this case of women.

we have to remember that. the ideology and political fight versus the individual. i think this is a difference between biological men, no argument. this is biological men playing women's sports with women, which makes no sense. there is a way to accommodate them but it is not to destroy women's sports in the process. it is absurd. >> dagen: and put women's safety at risk. >> correct. >> dagen: which we have seen. >> it can go to the supreme court and i think president trump will have something to say. >> dagen: voters choose president-elect and more americans are saying they like him. a poll shows a trump bump. what it could mean for his agenda for america. plus some top democrat donors are livid with the harris campaign after a billion dollar plus loss. >> $9 hundred thousand to put her face on the sphere in las

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i think this disqualifies her forever, forever. if you can't run a campaign, you can't run america. they tell me about her political future. i don't think she has a political future. >> dagen: top democrat party donor absolutely torching vice president harris's losing campaign. the team breaking their silence. four of them speaking out on a podcast and what had to be a painful autopsy of their effort. >> being up against a narrative that we weren't doing anything or we were afraid to have interviews is completely -- and we just gave us another thing we had to fight back for that trump never had to worry about. >> dagen: those aides took a bit of blame for the spectacular loss but also did some wild finger pointing targeted for their failure the media, recent

hurricanes, voters in battleground states, lack of time, and trump's ad showing harris's support for sex changes for people in prison. the vice president back from her hawaii vacation shared this video thanking supporters. watch. >> that fight is still in us and it burns strong. and i know this is an uncertain time. i'm clear-eyed about that. i know you are clear-eyed about it. and it feels heavy. and i just have to remind you, don't you ever let anybody take your power from you. just reflect on all the good you have done and all the good you have yet to do. >> dagen: many viewers simply stunned. republican congresswoman virginia foxx of north carolina posted the dial-up modem sound

played on an infinite loop is more bearable for whatever that is. another, the final reference for the road. one more kamala's best play is to lay low for six months. the fact she doesn't realize that is personal on brand. power panel, emily domenech and former advisor to kamala and fred hicks. great to see both of you. she said clear eyed. >> leave it to congresswoman virginia foxx to tell it like it is. it was a tough video to watch. it shouldn't surprised us. we watched a campaign from vice president harris completely out of touch with what the american people were looking for. it shouldn't surprise us she is

completely out of touch with what democratic voters are looking for in defeat. i think we're hearing that from her campaign staff and from other democratic donors just concerned she frankly is not the future of the party and perhaps should have laid low in this critical moment. >> dagen: fred, it is not just this video. but i did think hawaii vacations were supposed to be restorative. the fact that this campaign burned through more than a billion dollars, wound up with debt. that just speaks to now we know what happened the last four years in this country financially, economically. >> listen, any time anyone loses anything it is tough. tough emotionally and tough spiritually so i'm not surprised that she took some time away. as a matter of fact the criticism on this network was that she didn't speak election night and now people are complaining she is speaking. i think it was actually a good

thing for her to do that to speak to not take up too much time but to let people hear her voice and what she is thinking. reality now is that she is trying to figure out her own path and democratic circles we are looking at what is our path forward. who will lead the party both at the state level and at the national level. but with respect to what john morgan and others are said i would say to our democratic mega donors, republican mega doan ares ran laps around you and you need to understand watch message will work rather than taking to television and networks and trying to blast someone. let's build the party and build up what we're trying to do. >> dagen: the next candidate in the campaign shouldn't throw their money on a tire fire. i want to move on to this. look at kamala harris campaign by the numbers. a worst showing for a democrat since 1988. 7 million viewer votes than

biden got in 2020. 0 swing states won. 1.5 billion in campaign cash reportedly spent. 42% approval rating in a recent "wall street journal" poll. emily, what i heard in that video -- we're not dismissing the fact she made this -- she came out like coping with kamala. the fact she is talking about pride and there is just no whoops, we lost, we fouled up. that's what no one hears. >> i think this is a real opportunity for her to say let's think about the things that didn't resonate with the american people and think about the policies where frankly president trump gave a better argument. on the economy, on energy prices. let's look internally and figure out do some rehashing we normally see post election. it doesn't surprise me we aren't seeing it from vice president harris. i don't think we've seen it from many folks in congress, either. i'm a former congressional staff

and you aren't hearing from members about what they need to be changing in order to better appeal to the american people and the challenges we have today. >> dagen: fred. >> we're having those conversations at the state level and some within our leadership circles. so the reality is you are right. we lost big. and we have to look at that and understand what happened and why. i think we will. i think by the time we get to january 20th we'll start to see some things coalesce and see donald trump being donald trump and that might create opportunities. we'll have to see. >> dagen: speaking of which you keyed this up awfully well. the trump bump is on. new national poll shows the president-elect's favorability up six points from just before the election and nine points from august. majorities of men, white and

hispanic voters rank trump favorably. half of women say the same as do 28% of black voters. historically high number for republican president. those numbers jive with the headline trump is suddenly cool and it may help his agenda. the piece points out the viral trump dance craze. it argues fresh off his decisive victory in the election trump has once again become a cultural force and worth noting gallup polling has not seen trump's favorables over 50% going back to his first campaign for president. i will go to you, fred, on this. it is also -- i personally think it was him serving up frys and wearing a sanitation vest. it just his ability to give into the moment and make fun of himself. >> so there is a saying in politics you are never as popular as the day after you win the election.

we've seen it play out time and time again. i want to be clear and straight forward. donald trump has been a cultural force for 30 or 40 years. i tell people all the time growing up you play the game of monopoly and you think of donald trump. he has made his way into hip-hop culture in the early 2000s. he has been a cultural force and something democrats have underestimated and haven't figured out how to counter. the question for the republican party is this a republican force or is donald trump personality that is propelling the party to its wins now? no doubt he won. congratulations to him. >> dagen: emily, final word. the new republican force maybe. >> you are exactly right. we need to take advantage of this cultural moment around president trump and he is funny. we need to be honest about the

things we believe and it gives the incoming trump administration a real opportunity to move forward these policies to hopefully turn around our economy and get the america we want to see back on track. >> dagen: i think it was ian sams who labeled the serving up fries and the sanitation vest as president trump's mike dukakis moment. kamala harris was 1988 mike dukakis. thank you both. happy thanksgiving. 60-day cease-fire between israel and hezbollah is in effect. some are not optimistic it will hold. closing arguments in the manslaughter trial of marine veteran daniel penny set for monday. jurors heard key eyewitness accounts of the event that were captured on police body cam and played out in the courtroom. >> he was pissed or something.

>> dagen: the defense rested friday after residing not to put penny on the stand. paul mauro in "focus" next.

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>> dagen: the 60 day cease-fire between israel and hezbollah in lebanon held up overnight. the sides exchanging assaults moments before the deal was announced. when it comes to hamas and gaza, the terror group is still holding dozens of hostages and israel is fighting there. a former idf spokesman with this. >> we have to look at this, zoom out 30,000 feet in the regional perspective. cease-fire will allow israel to regroup. catch its breath a bit and focus on what really needs to happen in the middle east. that is to address the main

source of violence and instability, which is the islamic republic of iran. >> dagen: "wall street journal" headline not sparking optimism saying the impossible mission to enforce and israel/hezbollah cease-fire. a peacekeeping mission couldn't stop the war. alex hogan is in tel aviv. >> so far the cease-fire is holding. israel is warning any civilians in lebanon not to return to those small towns and villages along the southern border until the idf successfully clears out of the area. something that will take place in phases over the next 60 days. some are not heeding that caution. look at this. footage from throughout the day of thousands of people crowding streets jamming the roads trying to head further south back to their homes after 14 months of war and for some more than a year being displaced.

>> thank god. it feels great. thank god for everyone's safety. we're returning well. i hope lebanon stays safe always. >> lebanese army on the move today. lebanon and its forces will create a buffer along the border where hezbollah must retreat. the white house says this took months of diplomatic efforts to broker this peace plan. u.s. and allies like france are not going to have boots on the ground but say they'll provide assistance. why this all came together now israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, the iranian threat. need to replace troops and weapons and isolate hamas. that's key. for the last year we have heard from hezbollah in its oy tack it was retaliation what was taking place along the gaza strip. by having peace in the north israel will be able to focus its attention once again on gaza and defeating hamas. back to you.

>> dagen: thank you so much alex hogan. happy thanksgiving. thank you for that. the trial of marine veteran daniel penny continuing. he has pleaded not guilty in the death of homeless man jordan neely on a new york city subway. penny did not take the stand. one of penny's attorneys argued the jury already heard from him. bombshell eyewitness accounts from police body cam footage show the moments after police arrived the scene. >> he told everyone he don't care what happens. he don't care about going to jail. >> [inaudible]

. >> dagen: paul mauro fox news contributor, attorney and former nypd inspector. the closing arguments are on monday. what do penny's -- what does penny's legal team try to hammer home here? >> his defense is something called justification. it means that he went far enough to mitigate the threat that was against him and why footage like that is so important. the prosecution are not saying that neely wasn't some sort of a threat. what they are saying is daniel penny, you went too far. the counter to that is the fact that his threat was so extreme and you are hearing it not from penny but from other people. there is other footage that matters here. when penny is interviewed by the police and doesn't know neely is dead yet he says things he kept

struggling. i felt he was a threat. cops let him talk. he did himself a lot of favors in that interview. realistically that was almost the best you were going to get out of him on the stand. i agree with not putting him on the stand. they l double tap the idea the threat was real and ongoing and he did what he had to do and contributory factors to neely's death. >> dagen: drugs in neely's system, k-two, a sickle cell disease as well. was it clear in the testimony -- does it open the door for the jury to decide in favor of the defendant, find not guilty because it is not clear what was the exact cause of neely's death? >> you had the dueling experts, right? first the m.e. came out and said it was all down to daniel penny. then the defense had their own expert came out.

first of all, the hyoid bone wasn't broken. the defense had good medical issues to point to. the disease and the fact that k-21 not synthetic marijuana. it is to marijuana what like an aircr aircraft carrier is to a -- it is very cheap but completely off the charts in terms of quality control. sometimes it is weak, sometimes it's very strong. there is that. also the police testified that he still had a pulse when they arrived. m.e.s got there quickly. all the third party testimony. i think the defense here has a strong case. if i had to give a prediction. everybody asks what will you think? i think a hung jury is quite likely. >> dagen: all it takes is one individual on that jury who has been on a subway car trapped

underground with a dangerous mentally ill individual. >> i was on the subway the other day and it occurred to me as somebody who grew up on the subway i said to myself what if a jordan neely got on here now? what would the atmosphere be like? i'm surprised that penny's attorneys didn't ask them to visit a train car and a feel for what it was like in that car that day. nobody is saying that jordan neely's death isn't a tragedy. the system in new york is broken. $4 billion, nothing ever changed. people running around the street cutting people with knives. everybody rings their hands but nothing every changes. all that changes is more tax money goes to it. they hire more people, cars, computers, pensions,

unfortunately jordan neely's of the world continue to walk away from mandatory mental health treatment. >> dagen: good to see you. happy thanksgiving. holiday travel high gear. if you hit the road, take a flight. brace yourself for record crowds. we'll tell you what you need to know for where you plan to go. millions have sacrificed for our country and they are struggling. >> veterans come to us because they are overcharged on their credit cards, cars being repossessed, they are being foreclosed on. >> dagen: one veteran helping his fellow former servicemen and women this holiday season, as he has for years. president of america's warrior partnership jim lorraine will join us next.

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>> dagen: breaking news, the trump-vance transition team saying some members or potential members of the income administration are facing serious threats. the team issuing this statement quote. last night and this morning several of president trump's cabinet nominees and administration appointees were targeted in violent, unamerican

threats to their lives and those who live with them. these attacks range from bomb threats to swatting. in response, law enforcement and other authorities acted quickly to insure the safety of those who were targeted. president trump and the entire transition team are grateful for their swift action. we'll bring you any information on this as we get it. a record number of americans expected to travel throughout this thanksgiving holiday. aaa estimating that some 79 million will be hitting the roads, taking to the skies or using some other form of transportation. one travel expert has some suggestions. >> get to the airport early, be patient, don't be rude to airline employees, and just as always you've got to take things in stride. be pro-active in your travels and always kind of have a backup

plan. if things go awry, change on the airline app as opposed to waiting in line at the airport. >> dagen: kelly is at chicago's o'hare international right now. >> i like that advice that your expert told us. we've been speaking to a lot of people this morning all going through different things as they go through the airport. including one woman who said she is carrying her mom's ashes. a good idea to be kind to everybody around you, not just the employees but other travelers as well as everyone stressed. the good news is there aren't very long lines at o'hare at the moment. if you are traveling back on sunday expect that to be a bit more stressful. generally everyone is returning from their travels on that day. this as tsa says they plan to screen 18.3 million passengers throughout the country over the seven day period, 6% more than

the same stretch last year. this comes as there are disruptions at airports across the country including a short strike at charlotte's airport earlier in the week and ongoing shortage of air traffic controllers. united airlines saying the single most consequential thing anyone can do to improve the flying experience is fully staff the faa. right now we are looking at 1300 delays according to flight aware and about 29 cancellations. per aaa booking data we are learning that air travelers are paying about 3% more this year, although the number of flights booked for this thanksgiving period is the same as last year. one mom i spoke to about how her travel was. >> we go every year to miami and our tickets were more expensive this year. so usually we do try to book ahead but this time we didn't notice any difference in booking ahead or further out.

>> this as international travel has increased for this thanksgiving. >> dagen: thank you. this holiday season thousands of veterans across this nation are struggling, specifically with economic insecurity. one out of nine working age veterans are food insecure and 1.2 million low income veterans use snap or food stamps. research shows that veterans struggling with food insecurity are four times more likely to deal with suicidal thoughts. america's warrior partnership connects local veterans services organizations as they need to support vets in their community. jim lorraine, retired air force lieutenant colonel and president and ceo of america's warrior partnership joins me now. such an honor, pleasure to have you here. what you do is just about connecting those veterans in

need with the vast amount of resources that are out there that they might not know even exist. >> that's exactly it. there is a sea of goodwill. there are 45,000 nonprofits that serve veterans in the united states. trying to find the right one that can meet the needs that you have is daunting. so what america's warrior partnership does it knows who the veterans and what they need on the left hand and knows what the resources are on the right and we connect the two. woven into that. it was interesting to your previous session, woven into that is that we ask veterans about their -- whether they have any suicidal ideation. what we get to is about 15% of the veterans that come to us have had a thought of taking their own life within 30 days of contacting us. it is really big. it is a big issue. >> dagen: if you don't ask, they probably won't ever tell anyone

that. so if they say that, what do you do? do you immediately put them in some sort of care? >> so if they are in crisis we work with the veteran crisis line. most are not in crisis. most of them are just trying to find their way forward. we have a group of licensed clinical social workers and others that work through the issue with them. frankly, it is building a relationship with them and letting them know somebody has their back and we won't give up on them and of those 15% that we evaluate, we stay in touch with them to make sure that they get beyond it. we look at how hopeful somebody is and how hopeless somebody it. if you are hopeless you need to get connected. to your previous what you talked about about food insecurity. i love how you used economic insecurity. food insecurity and homelessness, etc. , is all economics and what is really

hurting veterans today. >> dagen: i heard you say just quickly particularly older veterans on fixed incomes. real quick, jim. >> yeah, exactly. older and disabled veterans on fixed incomes. paying off credit card bills and getting their cars taken care of, etc. it is tough. >> dagen: jim lorraine, i hope i get to talk to you again very soon, sir. thank you so much. taking care of veterans. america's warrior partnership. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." i'm dagen mcdowell in for harris, happy thanksgiving to everybody. "outnumbered" is up right after the break.