pete hegseth. on capitol hill today. >> ainsley: guess who will be here tonight? donald trump and tomorrow highlights from the patriot awards plus melania trump will join us tomorrow in a "fox & friends" exclusive. her first interview since president trump won the election. >> steve: janice, the weather tonight is going to be? >> great. >> brian: try to come back. we'll do the radio show. on the veranda. >> ainsley: the veranda. >> steve: it has been a great program. keep in mind. one mission, stay within yourself. [cheers and applause] >> bill: a big day, even bigger night. good morning, everybody. the drumbeat of doge.

will it save you money? we wait to find out. vivek ramaswamy and elon musk on the hill together on plans to slash spending with lawmakers. i'm bill hemmer. do they need last names? elon and vivek these days. >> dana: pretty soon symbols and we'll work on that. how to pronounce. i'm dana perino and this the "america's newsroom." a lot of excitement around it. not like simpson bowles. >> dana: that was a commission and obama was no thanks for all that hard work. i don't think that will happen here. musk and ramaswamy will meet with the senate doge conference looking to drum up support for their plan to get rid of government waste. $2 trillion. >> bill: joni ernst is the chair of the senate dodge caucus. we'll talk to her. let's pick up the reporting and we begin our reporting with

aishah hosni. good morning to you. >> good morning. i can't wait to see how large these media scrums get around these guys. like you said highly anticipated visit here. everyone on the hill, democrats, republicans have been talking about doge since the election. a lot of excitement for this visit. you know we have this $36 trillion national debt. musk and ramaswamy will come to capitol hill to lay out their plan to cut government waste today. they want to reduce the federal workforce by 75%, cut 2 trillion in federal spending and close down entire agencies. one of them could be the consumer financial protection bureau. watch for that. guys, they want to get it done in two years done by july 4th, 2026. elon musk has already indicated that one way to cut back is to perhaps fire federal employees who don't come back to the office. not a lot of stuff brings republicans and democrats together here on the hill but doge seems to be sparking a lot

of bipartisan buzz. watch. >> i think democrats should embrace government efficiency. it doesn't mean that we'll start cutting services. but i think you can be more efficient. >> anybody could support making our government more efficient and saving whatever money that we can. >> bill, the pair have a lot of other grand ideas, too. like getting rid of daylight saving time which would make a lot of folks watching happy. we'll see what the headlines come out. >> we're cheering for them. we all win if they win i do believe. >> dana: a manhunt is underway in new york city after the ceo of united healthcare was gunned down outside his hotel yesterday and the killer may have left the chilling message written on the bullets. alexis mcadams is live in new york city. you were there when the news broke yesterday. what does it look like today? >> they still haven't found this gunman yet. there could be key evidence and clues that could help break this

case again here in new york city. that would be some words etched according to the "new york post" into some shell casings that were found here in midtown manhattan. we're told it was deny, depose, and defend. what's the significance? similar to a title of a book in 2010 that talks all about the insurance industry, slamming some of their practices. people remi that are fed up with some of their coverage read that book back in 2010 including possibly this gunman. it comes as a manhunt continues and working hard to track this guy down. he was caught on camera before the shooting. you can see the gunman walking up in new york city, pulls out a gun and opens fire not once or twice but three times. brian thompson was shot at least twice. first in his leg he turns around and looks gunman and in the chest. the gunman had been waiting for the ceo, spotted him and started shooting early wednesday

morning. >> the motive of this murder is unknown currently. based on the evidence we have so far it does appear the victim was specifically targeted. >> this is the gunman wearing a mask, gloves, and hoodie. he might have made a critical mistake here at that starbucks before the shooting. you can see part of his face showing with the backpack on. they might have enough of his face to run it through facial recognition and bought a coffee reportedly and something to eat, drank it and threw the wrappers and possibly the cup in the trash. could have been a big mistake. they can use that to track him down and we'll see what happens next. brian thompson is the one killed. his wife and kids waking up to minnesota to horrible news. he led one of the biggest health insurers in the country, united healthcare. a husband and dad of two in town for business. he was supposed to speak at the investors day conference at the hilton hotel in midtown and why

he was here and gunned down by the shooter in what police say is a targeted attack. a witness shot pictures and called 911. >> i hear two shots. i was parking in the car. hear two shots and then when i looked this man down here, yeah, then the guy ran. >> along with the shell casings and messages they have so many cameras across midtown manhattan and pull the surveillance video quick to try to track him down. if anybody has information call the nypd. >> bill: we did a little bit of this yesterday so folks at home know. these are landmarks in new york and everybody is familiar with them. southern end of central park, 59th street that runs east and west. one of the few streets that

actually do run east/west. this is 5th avenue that runs south. tree lighting here. 6th avenue runs north and dead ends to central park and over here is 7th avenue into times square, etc. to give you a sense of what we're looking at. 54th street right here. we believe the suspect was inside that starbucks around 6:00 in the morning, okay? now this is the timeline that we're pretty sure developed. here is the victim, 44 minutes later, just a few blocks south there from the starbucks right near the hilton, then here is the shooter waiting on the side street, 54th street waiting at the building who fires into the victim there, firing several shots. his gun gets jammed a couple of times but he is pretty good with a gun and he was able to continue shooting. he flees here.

an alleyway and exit toward 6th avenue. the shooter that we believe he got on this e-bike and rode north on 6th avenue. you ride north and enter central park. we believe that's the case. 6:48. 48 minutes into central park and he disappears. other reports suggest he went into a different part of the park. we don't know. this is what we believe the facts are at the moment. the cover of the "new york post" now. executed on 54th street. former f.b.i. agent bobby chicone joins us now. >> i think he went into the park to change clothes. that's an easy place to hide other than the streets. it is difficult to change clothes in the streets. he probably had a change of clothes in the backpack and went in the park, changed his clothes

to have a different appearance. ditched the bike. they'll probably find the bike somewhere in the park. and yeah, the only thing i would take exception with the gun jamming. that's been a lot of reporting. if you look at the video he really clears that weapon quickly. there is no sign of a jam which is when you shoot a gun there is a pause. i think he was using coming like a slide device or it prevents the gun from cycling. makes it more quiet. a special device, rare but the down side of those devices, the good side it keeps it quiet because the action doesn't rack. the down side is you have to manually rack it after each shot which you see him do in the video. he doesn't pause as those of us who shot weapons and you have a jam. you have to look at it first to realize there is a jam. he doesn't do that. he wracks the action after each shot which means he knew that it wasn't going to rack. he racked it himself. that's my theory he was using this slide lock device to keep

it more quiet. which ups his sophistication a little bit. he made so many mistakes. it wasn't a professional hit man or anything. my other take is the writing on the bullets -- >> was not? >> he made too many mistakes. a real hit man wouldn't have gone into a starbucks knowing you would be captured on film. probably shot the guy somewhere more quiet out of the public eye. so also the writing on the bullets means he was trying to make a statement. he wants his position to be known. he wants people to know why he shot this guy. which helps because it narrows down your pool of suspects. now you have a pool of suspects who had a beef with the company. you can start narrowing down your pool of suspects based on that motives. >> dana: his wife gave this statement. there had been some threats. i don't know. a lack of coverage. i don't know details i just know he said there were some people that had been threatening him.

given that, does that help them also narrow down? >> absolutely. you are right. usually somebody doesn't go from 0 to 100 and say i'll shoot in person. there is an escalation. they write a letter or email. they get more angry as they don't get the relief that they are seeking. so they will be pouring through those decisions to deny coverage and things like that to see who was escalating in their language, in their emails and texts, however they were communicating with the company. there is usually an escalation of frustration with the company. you don't go from 0 to 100 and shoot the ceo. probably some kind of escalation in the anger and frustration on the part of the person who ultimately takes this kind of action. >> bill: based on what you know about the camera system in manhattan, would you intentionally go into the park because you know you can elude cameras? >> absolutely.

that's where you can change your clothes outside the view of cameras. like you said, we know and i lived in manhattan and worked in manhattan. cameras on every corner and cops on every corner and why you use the alley to get to the park. very pre-planned. i safe he is not a professional hit man but he did some good planning here. unfortunately that probably means he planned his escape just as well as he planned the attack so he could be out of state, out of the country, who knows? he purposely went into central park because that's -- there is much more coverage with bushes and trees and places like that in the park. particularly early in the morning as it was where he could ditch that bike, change the clothes, take the mask off and get into another part of the city depending where he exited the park and walk around like a normal citizen. >> motive is something we're trying to figure out. >> dana: the park is leash-free from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. peter goes every day with person and there ten to 7:00 near the area

if it was where he was last seen. the park can be a place. a lot of places to hide in there or stash clothes as you said. bobby, thank you. >> thanks for having me. >> you can't vote, you can't enter into legal and binding contracts under the age of 18 so to allow them to make a decision that will affect not only the entire course of development physically, psychologically and reproductively is completely redick laos. >> she is a detransitionner. on the docket is sex reassignment treatments for minors before the supreme court. we'll hear from the tennessee attorney general about the state law that bans the treatments and that's being challenged at the court right now. >> dana: the bitcoin boom. currency surges to a new high. >> bill: jury watch again within the hour.

jury still weighing whether or not the marine daniel penny should be convicted set to reconvene this hour. will their review of evidence late yesterday sway their minds and help them make a judgment together?

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>> bill: 9:18 in new york. lpga updating its gender eligibility policy. it could mark a big step forward in the fight for fairness in women's sports. steve harrigan is on that story for us today out of atlanta. what are they doing, steve? good morning. >> this is a major policy change by the lpga.

they're saying if you went through puberty as a male you won't be eligible to play in women's professional golf tournaments on the lpga. won't be allowed they said beginning january of this year, the new season our policies reflective of an extensive science-based and inclusive approach. the timing comes as there are several golfers born male now trying to qualify for the lpga including haley davidson who posted angryly thanks for nothing. one of the key factors is distance, whether even after transitioning if you've gone through puberty as a male you do have an advantage when it comes to distance on the golf course. >> there is a major difference between how far an average man can hit a golf ball and how far an average woman can hit a golf ball. this is a competitive analysis by the lpga which i think is

arriving at the right conclusion. >> this move was really spurred by the women golfers themselves. 270 of them wrote a letter demanding the change. bill, back to you. >> bill: something else. steve, thank you. see how it turns out. steve harrigan in atlanta. >> dana: it's becoming the symbol of the bull market. bitcoin soaring past 100,000. maria bartiromo is on set with us. look at this dramatic rise. i have spent a lot of time trying to understand bitcoin and i actually still don't. i will provide the dumb questions. what does that mean $100,000 for bitcoin? >> 100,000 for one coin, one bitcoin. if you remember, it was, you know, 60,000 or so before the election. it was creepinger higher after the election 75,000 and people expect it forcontinue given the

fact the administration incoming support crypto. i had a guest on this week he expect bitcoin to go to 250,000 by the end of next year. one of the key things to look at is one of the nominations from president trump paul atkins for the incomes securities and exchange commission chairman. this is important. paul atkins has repeatedly criticized the current s.e.c. chairman for ex esposizioni i have -- it has become so bureaucratic. whether he will support the merger of the security and exchange commission and the commodities futures trading commission. they are all looking to cut waste and looking to cut overlap in government. what doge is doing.

and if in fact paul atkins supports merging those two agencies, that would create more clarity in terms of oversight. one of the big issues with bitcoin we don't know who is regulating it. everybody wants a piece of the oversight. if paul atkins gets behind the idea you want to merge the two agencies it creates clarity and legislation around bitcoin only positive to give people actual barriers, boundaries and clarity on oversight. >> bill: in the meantime there is a lot of debt. $36 trillion. jerome powell call for number two. u.s. federal budget said the u.s. federal budget is on an unsustainable path. the debt is not at an unsustainable level but the path is and we know that we have to change that. which brings in the conversations about doge and how much you can cut and how much you can save long term. >> yeah. i think this is the conversation of the day with nominees meeting with doge caucuses in the senate

as well as in the house trying to understand where specifically the waste is and how significant cut can you actually make to cut into that $36 trillion in debt? we have seen the lists of wasteful spending. this is good. i think both sides of the aisle are looking at this and saying this is something we should be prioritizing, cutting out wasteful spending and insuring we actually start prioritizing this $36 trillion in debt. we'll see how significant the cuts will be. it is a major issue and where scott bessent comes in as well the nominee for treasury secretary has prioritized debt at $36 trillion and prioritizing that as well in terms of wasteful spending and how policy could address that. we'll see what he comes up with. >> dana: can they figure out a way, jason fuhrman argues in the "wall street journal" today that growth won't get you there in terms of economic growth won't be enough. >> you need to cut out wasteful spending for sure. i don't think growth can get you

to make a significant cut into the $36 trillion. growth being a priority for the trump administration is why the market is where it is. stocks are at record highs every day. the reason is because people are focused on deregulation, president trump cutting all of the rules and regulations around the climate change agenda and extending tax cuts because he wants growth to be a priority, economic growth. in the past couple of years it really hasn't been the number one priority. he is talking about growth creating more revenue for taxes, creating this opportunity for companies to create profit growth, revenue growth and overall economic growth. >> bill: the dow at 45,000. i can remember you years ago talking about dow 50,000 someday. >> now we're talking about dow 50,000. >> bill: it could happen in our lifetime. we're on the verge of seeing that. >> because of fundamentals. cutting regulations and focusing

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>> well, right off the top, bill, i have compiled a report that i gave to vivek ramaswamy and elon musk several weeks ago when we were forming the caucus that will save our federal government $2 trillion. yes, bill, $2 trillion with a t. that's the low-hanging fruit that we have identified through my decade of squeal work. i have been studying government waste for a decade now. proposing legislative solutions. this is why i'm so excited about vivek and elon grabbing ahold of this because even in president trump's first administration, we couldn't find the people willing to help us move on this legislation and actually enact it. this time we have got vivek and elon at the helm and we are going to push through to save

our american taxpayers from all of this government waste, fraud and abuse. >> dana: can you give us an example of a program you have wanted to cut for many years and not able to get done? >> absolutely. right here i have this telework report. i have been on it for three years since covid ended. prior to covid we had 3% of the federal workforce that did telework. since covid and after now we only have 6% of our federal workforce actually going into work every single day. what an incredible turn around. again something i've been pushing is getting those federal workers back into the offices or eliminating the buildings that they occupy. if we aren't using the space, we need to get rid of it. those federal office buildings

cost us $8 billion every single year to lease and maintain. plus another $7 billion on top of that for the utilities. we're not using those buildings. so use it or lose it. and federal employees, you need to earn the right to telework. what are we going to do? we'll track your productivity and your activity if you are teleworking. i've gotten a lot of pushback from the unions on that but i'm telling you, elon musk and vivek ramaswamy are here to help us with our goals. >> bill: 36 trillion in debt it is long overdue. you have a big challenge ahead of you. those two men are quite interesting and will make a very interesting pair on capitol hill. yesterday you had a significant meeting with pete hegseth, our former colleague and right now the nominee on behalf of the president-elect to be the next secretary of defense. here is the x message you shot

out yesterday. i appreciate pete hegseth's service to our country, something we both share. today as part of the confirmation process we had a frank and thorough conversation. will you support his nomination? >> well, i did have a very long, lengthy discussion with pete yesterday and i do appreciate his service to the nation. i also am a combat veteran. so we talked about a number of those issues and we will continue with the vetting process. i think that is incredibly important. so again, all i'm saying is we had a very frank and productive discussion and i know that we will continue to have conversations in the upcoming months. >> dana: is there a date certain for his confirmation hearing? >> i have not heard that yet. the incoming chairman will be senator roger wicker and so that will be established between the chair, i'm understanding, and

the nominee. >> bill: doesn't sound that you have gotten to a yes, if i'm wrong about that, correct me. if that is the case, it sounds to me as if the hearing will be critical for his nomination. am i right about that? >> i think you are right. i think for a number of our senators they want to make sure that any allegations have been cleared and that's why we have to have a very thorough vetting process. that's why i was happy to sit down with pete and have that conversation with him yesterday. so again, all i will say at this time is that we did have a very thorough discussion over a number of those issues. and the vetting will continue, i am certain, through the next month or so until we approach that hearing date. >> dana: he has several meetings on the hill today with other colleagues of yours on the senate side. thank you for joining us, senator ernst. >> thank you so much. >> dana: president biden is

reportedly considering preemptive pardons before trump takes office. it could include adam schiff and liz cheney and dr. fauci. is this even legal? >> certainly unprecedented. many republicans and even some democrats on capitol hill think it would set a bad precedent. earlier republican congressman had to this say about that. >> this administration is very cognizant of the fact that their justice department has been weaponized, that they have been in on an act of criminality throughout many stages of this presidency. >> you have mentioned some of the names off the top, dana. president biden's top aides are weighing this idea of issuing these pardons ahead of donald trump's inauguration next month. former congresswoman liz cheney,

adam schiff and dr. fauci. he has been accused by republicans and watchdog groups of lying to congress about the origins of covid and his use of a private email account to do government business. not everyone wants a preemptive pardon. adam schiff saying i would urge the president not to do that. i think it would seem defensive and unnecessary. president-elect donald trump said earlier back in june to our own sean hannity he is not interested in retribution. >> bill: sometimes there are decisions made and store ephors that happen that have legs, right? we aren't talking about why, we're talking about a story that goes on and on. this was the view of "the view" yesterday. >> democrats are not a monolith. >> what made you say democrats are wrong and say are -- >> i will tell you when democrats are wrong. >> that's ridiculous. >> the president has the power, right?

>> you are ridiculous. i just think that's -- >> think about it this way. [cheers and applause] >> bill: i just love it. listen, joe biden has 6 1/2 more weeks in the oval office and we'll see what comes next if anything. this is one of these stories that has strong reaction on both sides. frankly a lot of agreement on both sides, too. >> dana: the white house is taken aback by that. more on this as well. on the verdict watch in the daniel penny case. jury has questions about key evidence and testimony as they weigh penny's fate and the supreme court appearing divided in a case involving tennessee's ban on sex treatment for minors. >> the constitution allows the states to protect kids from unproven, life-altering procedures based on uncertain science. when we leave, he's there whenever we come back home from school,

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>> bill: we again on verdict watch in the daniel penny trial. the jury will be back in the courtroom today to hear a partial reed back of the medical examiner's testimony. cb cotton watching this case from the very beginning live in new york city now with the latest today. cb, good morning. >> bill, good morning.

as jurors weigh daniel penny's fate we've learned jordan neely's family is filing a lawsuit against penny. the lawsuit according to the independent alleges negligent contact, assault and battery that caused injuries and ultimately death. penny's defense attorney telling fox they have not been served saying of the news quote, the timing is unfortunate as danny is awaiting a verdict from the jury where the potential consequences are far greater than any civil suit could threaten. we won't be distracted by this attempt to attack danny while he is under such tremendous stress. as deliberations continue jurors have asked to review testimony from the medical examiner cynthia harris. penny arrives right now. she is a prosecution witness who said penny's choke hold killed neely. jurors have asked to get a reread of her cross examination specifically when harris testified about issuing a second death certificate for neely and

mentioned she would not have changed her mind on the cause of neely's death even if the test showed fentanyl. jurors have also asked to review several pieces of video evidence in the case, including the choke hold video. police body cam and penny's police station interview. eyewitnesses say neely was hurling threats on the subway last year before penny stepped in. prosecutors say penny took things too far. his defense argues that the prosecution has not proven penny's restraint directly caused neely's death. more to watch here at the courthouse. >> bill: thank you, cb watching that in lower manhattan. back to you when there is news. dana. >> dana: there is a high stakes case on the docket. supreme court yesterday hearing oral arguments for sex reassignment treatment for minors, justices weighing a law in tennessee that bans this medical care passes constitutional muster. joining us is the state's

attorney general and he was there inside and he was arguing as the defendant, of course, the biden administration sued tennessee. i will play two different sound bites from the arguments from the justices. let's start with justice sotomayor who made this example and got some pushback. watch. >> i'm sorry, counselor. every medical treatment has a risk. even taking aspirin. there is always going to be a percentage of the population under any medical treatment that is going to suffer harm. so the question in my mind is not do policymakers decide whether one person's life is more valuable than the millions of others who get relief from this treatment. >> dana: do you anticipate that would have been her take and how did you react to it?

>> so when any medical decision is made, there are always risks involved. that's the legislature's job to determine how to regulate the practice of medicine. they look at the risks and benefits. in these cases we talk about kids making decisions that could result in life long lack of fertility, life long lack of sexual function. a lifetime of dealing with cognitive impairments, tumors, bone density disorders, blood clots. there are serious risks. every systematic analysis of the evidence shows minimal to no benefits to kids from these procedures. so we knew there would be some pushback about the calculus the legislature employed. at the end of the day the constitution leaves that decision with the legislature and our elected officials in tennessee made a very rational decision based on the evidence. >> dana: it certainly wasn't about aspirin. justice bret cavanaugh had warnings from european countries, >> it's obviously evolving

debate. just in the last couple years in europe big changes in terms of how they are thinking about it. and how they are thinking about these risks and benefits. if it is evolving and changing and england is pulling back and sweden is pulling back, it strikes me as, you know, pretty heavy yellow light if not red light for this court to come in, the nine of us and constitution nallize the whole area when the rest of the world, at least the people -- countries that have been at the forefront of this are pumping the brakes on this kind of treatment because of concerns about the risks. >> dana: how did the other justices react to that point, the just -- his point. >> the european example came up over and over and an important demonstration how this is an evidence-based decision. people can write this off as oh the red states are waging a

culture war. the united kingdom, sweden, finland, norway aren't red states. they pioneered the use of these treatments on kids and looked at the evidence, realized the risks dramatically outweighed the benefits and severely restricted access to these treatments. so we think that's a really important data point to show that this is not some sort of bias. this is just looking at the medical evidence and making an informed decision. >> dana: do you think tennessee will prevail? >> there are months to go while the court deliberates. you never want to say how it is going to turn out. we put on a good case. we got our arguments out. the briefing i thought did a phenomenal job of making our case and we think we have strong points to make. i certainly hope we win. >> dana: john, thank you so much. merry christmas to you. >> merry christmas, thank you. >> bill: live look now. new york's long island an hour east of new york, depending on the traffic, home of tonight's

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>> dana reads sports. >> dana: i didn't know this was happening. i wish i had. tennis comes back to madison square garden in new york city. watch. >> and that will wrap it up. navarro is the winner in match one at the garden cup. >> dana: as you heard on the women's said she defeated u.s. open finalist. she won in two sets and then let's look at the men's side. one of the game's biggest stars taking home the trophy. carlos beat american ben shelton in three sets. >> bill: the most stylish tennis match in the history of the game. >> dana: can we go next time? >> bill: new york is so big. super bowl came here ten years ago you wouldn't have known the game was being played because the city absorbs so much and there is jus--