on at the border and everything like that. as a county judge it was a huge effect on us. not only financially but burden and security wise to secure our borders, too. i think with donald trump and what he is going to do and some of his initiatives, i think it is going to be good. >> ainsley: judge, thank you so much for coming on. congratulations. i hope you get a good response from your constituents. god bless you. >> god bless you, merry christmas. >> merry christmas. daniel penny, exclusive interview. he could interview with anyone an he chose judge jeanine pirro. we'll see the entire interview on fox nation tomorrow. everyone have a wonderful day. god bless you. we'll see you tomorrow. >> bill: thank you and we got new details on the man charged

with murder. what we are learning about his background, education, the who, what, why, all of that begins now. good morning, asme owe bill hemmer live in new york city. hello to you. good morning. >> dana: asme owe dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." remarkable that -- it is so interesting. the killing of united healthcare ceo brian thompson prompted a >> dana: they say it may have been built using a 3d printer.

>> bill: it shows him railing against the insurance industry and speaks to his possible mindset. >> dana: officers caught up with him in altoona, pennsylvania, 300 miles from the scene of the crime. bryan llenas knows it well. now you have this one, bryan. >> absolutely. what a remarkable story it is. good morning, dana. behind me is that altoona, pennsylvania mcdonalds where this five-day nationwide manhunt came to an end. 26-year-old luigi mangione was seated in the back of the restaurant. he was arrested at 9:15 in the morning. he was wearing a mask and beanie. a customer recognized him, grew suspicious, told a mcdonalds employee who then called 911. when police arrived here at this mcdonalds, they asked mangione to pull down his mask and officers say they immediately recognized him as the suspect in

the murder of united healthcare ceo brian thompson. when they asked if he had been to new york recently mangione became quiet and started to shake. mangione then gave police a fake i.d. the same new jersey fake i.d. used by brian thompson's shooter to check into a hostel in manhattan. asked why he lied about his name he told police i clearly should not have. he had a loaded 3d printed ghost gun pistol, silencer, $10,000 in cash and 2,000 in foreign currency, u.s. passport and a book bag capable of blocking electronic signal and three-page handwritten document about the ill will toward corporate america that he held. associated press had a line claiming he acted alone. the shooting had to be done. quote, these parasites simply had it coming. mangione was arraigned last night in blair county,

pennsylvania criminal court on five charges unrelated to thompson's murder. possession of an unlicensed firearm and providing false identification to police. we're told the 26-year-old suspect did not say a word to investigators. last night mangione told the court, though, he had no idea where that money came from suggesting it could have been planted and that the bag was simply waterproof. investigators are now retracing his steps. >> we do have a good idea how he got from philadelphia to pittsburgh but there are some gaps in time. >> he was very careful with trying to stay low profile, avoid cameras, not all that successfully in some cases, but that was certainly the effort he was making. >> mangione now faces five criminal charges in new york city including murder for the shooting and death and killing of that united healthcare ceo

brian thompson. when he could be extradited to new york city it could take up to 45 days if mangione decides to contest it, dana. >> dana: what do we know about his past? >> honestly, dana, this is somebody on paper really seemed like he had everything going for him. the 26-year-old was an ivy league graduate. bachelor and master's degree from penn university in computer science. someone who attended a prep school for high school. he was the valedictorian of that high school. this is somebody also comes from a prominent real estate family. he comes from money. and in terms of what else we know about him, it appears the "new york post" reports that mangione's mother reported him missing on november 18th possibly from a home in san francisco. a classmate reportedly telling the times that the family sent a message to friends and family that he had not been in touch

with his own family since he had undergone back surgery. apparently mangione's former roommate in hawaii where he has an address said that back surgery was so traumatic that mangione was bedridden for a week after a simple surfing lesson. that gives us a little idea potentially what happened there and finally he did post a review online on good reads about a book about the uni bomber. in that review he said the uni bomber was a violent individual but he praised him saying it was not terrorism but rather the acts of an extreme political revolutionary. dana. >> dana: thank you for all of that. >> bill: let's try to retrace the steps and go back to wednesday morning last week, the island of manhattan, the hudson river to the left, east river to the right here and this is central park. here it is about 6:45 local time the shooter lying in wait as that ceo enters a side door on

the street side of 54th street. goes up an alley, takes a bicycle, rides north on 6th avenue to the southern edge of the park and this is the moment where he disappeared into the park. we don't know how many cameras followed him. i parently he exited here at 77th street. staying at the hostel in the upper west side and 77th street on the west side of central park is exactly that same location the same neighborhood where he had been staying. then he walks the bike up to 85th street and goes up toward the george washington bridge. this is where he starts to get on the lamb. at what point he left the city we do not know. maybe it was last wednesday morning. you go from new york here, okay, all the way out here to altoona, pennsylvania. now, the governor last night if you were listening to the press conference mentioned pittsburgh. it is possible he went west and came back east based on that comment. don't know. maybe we'll find out in time. altoona is where he was arrested

and see when he comes back here to new york. former boston police superintendent played a pivotal role in the boston marathon investigation. they got the public's help. the police in pennsylvania how the arrest happened. >> the officer quickly recognized the male as the suspect from the shooting and within several minutes -- seconds of the first contact, he had asked the suspect if he had been in new york city recently. and that really invoked a physical reaction. he didn't answer it directly. that statement alone really said a lot. >> bill: he did not get far, daniel, in the end. seems to me he is familiar with the commonwealth of pennsylvania. that's where he went to school. maybe this is as far as he was planning to go. what is your take so far on what we've learned? >> clearly the activation of the

citizens to be on the lookout for this individual was instrumental in catching him. goes back to the old sheriff's days where they would enact a posse. now we have a digital posse. thankfully that citizen saw something, said something and did something. significant evidence has been recovered. the fact he held onto the weapon tells me he might have been considering other people to go after here. i know in the statement that he wrote he talked about parasites plural. we'll be looking to see if he had other plans and targeted other individuals. that piece of evidence ties him to the scene. holding on to it means he was intending to use it for self-harm if confronted by law enforcement or to engage in more violence. thankful le he was taken off the streets quickly . >> dana: the mother reports him missing on november 18th. trying to understand to somebody valedictorian of his high school and ends up in the situation

where he is a suspected killer. >> i think the family knew there was an issue and challenge and something was going on in this young man's life. they took appropriate action to see if they could try and reach out and support him. hopefully at no point did they connect the two until his arrest but clearly there was something going on. individuals just don't snap. they on a pathway to violence and cause and reason for that. an analysis to where along the way did a sharp young man who essentially had, you know, everything, engage in this type of activity and start thinking about, you know, murder as a means to whatever his cause was that he was fighting for? >> bill: only he knows at the moment. governor shapiro from late last night. the press conference he held in pennsylvania. >> in america, we do not kill people in cold blood to resolve

policy differences or express a viewpoint. in a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice. >> bill: part of that comment was about the sympathy he is receiving online. extraordinary stuff. the 3d printer, daniel, and the laptop he was apparently on at mcdonalds when the police officer approached him. in all likelihood he could have been looking for news on himself and what police had known about him in order for him to make his next move. we know people in the past have done it that way, daniel. >> absolutely. there is no doubt in my mind he was following what authorities had gathered for evidence on him and what the case was. the fact he held onto the i.d.s to link him to the scene shows he might not have been done with whatever he was doing. once he went down this path he might have been seeking to engage in further violence. >> dana: he was hiding in plain

sight. >> absolutely. good criminal, too. in boston we have whitey bulger hiding for 60 years and the effort by the f.b.i. whether an information campaign went national and sfwir national. a caller for iceland said that was my old neighbor. hiding in plain sight is sometimes the best thing for people to do. >> bill: thank you for coming on. more to uncover certainly is as we work our way through this story. daniel linskey in boston. nice to see you. >> officer frye is six months into his time serving his fellow people here in pennsylvania and he acted swiftly. he acted with smarts, and he acted with calm. >> dana: pennsylvania governor josh shapiro praising the rookie policeman who helped arrest the suspected killer. they were first to respond after a mcdonalds customer and employee recognized the person

of interest and called it in. frye describes how it all went down. >> we knew that was our guy but he was very -- he was very cooperative with us. didn't give us too many issues. once we found out his identity, we took it from there. it feels good to get a guy like that off the especially starting my career this way, it feels great. >> dana: mayor eric adams also called frye to congratulations him. >> bill: let's get overseas in syria. israel taking no chances. they struck chemical weapon sites in syria after the overthrow of the assad regime to prevent the weapons of mass destruction from falling into the wrong hands. trey yengst near where that action is happening. he joins us with latest today. hello. >> bill, good morning. with rebel forces now in control of syria, there are efforts

underway to prevent them from having more military power. overnight the israelis conducted air strikes destroying infrastructure that belonged to assad. they were coupled with hundreds of other strikes that went after syrian air force planes and chemical weapon sites. concern about rebels having any advanced military capabilities. israeli troops are expected to stay in the buffer zone between israel and syria. on the northern border thousands of refugees are starting to cross back now that the government is no longer in control in the capital of damascus where many are returning to, families continue to search for loved ones who disappeared under the previous ruler at a prison on the outskirts they search for the living and dead. >> the prisoners are detained, killed, disappeared or displaced and god knows if they will come back. it is impossible to find a woman

who did not lose a child or husband. not a woman in syria who didn't lose someone. >> with just days of control across syria, the rebels are still uncovering atrocities left behind by the assad regime and they believe some prisoners may be in secret areas they haven't yet uncovered. >> bill: the story will be with us for some time. months to come if not years. trey yengst from the middle east. now this. >> i give so much credit to president trump. he has a backbone of steel when he picked me. he said pete, it's because i know you can do this. you will have to be tough as hell. stare these folks down and stand up for the change that needs to come to the defense department. >> bill: making headway on the hill and more senate support in his bid to lead the pentagon. not the only nominee making the rounds on capitol hill. we'll let you know what is happening today. >> dana: tiktok not going down without a fight.

how the popular app is pushing back against a potential ban in the united states. >> bill: a growing mystery in the skies. drone sightings report evidence not just in the state of jersey but extending beyond the garden state. >> it is frustrating we don't have more answers where they are coming from and why they are doing what they're doing. we had last night 49 sightings. we had last night 49 sightings. there's an old saying in the navy that the toughest job in the navy is a navy wife. and if you've made

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>> bill: donald trump's cabinet picks back on the hill today. south dakota governor christie nome will make her debut rounds. defense secretary nominee pete hegseth is back talking with senators today. aishah hosni is wearing out her shoes up and down the hallway yet again. good morning to you, aishah, how goes it?

>> good morning. feels like mar-a-lago 2.0 in the senate now. there are so many cabinet picks here making the rounds. we're off to the races this morning. homeland security nominee kristi noem is here today. she will be meeting with senator rand paul later this afternoon. if she is confirmed she would work closely with tom homan, the border czar and they will try to secure the southern border. probably the most -- one of those cabinet picks that has the most eyeballs on it. trump's defense secretary pick pete hegseth meets with two senators this week who could tank him. lisa murcowski today, susan collins tomorrow after a bit of progress yesterday with senator joni ernst who says she will support hegseth through the process, still not a yes, though, bill. it is the company line now. here is what he told me after their second meeting yesterday.

>> did you feel confident leaving that room that she would support you? >> it was a great meeting. it was a great meeting. >> will you have another one? >> whenever she wants, yeah. as of right now it was a great meeting and we look forward to sharing about it later on. >> you can't say you got her across the finish line just yet? >> i would never speak for her. >> tulsi gabbard on the hill today facing skepticism for meeting now former syrian leader assad while he was accused of being a war criminal. senator rounds said it will be tough for her but sees a path for her confirmation. trump's pick to head the f.b.i. kash patel back on the hill today. he wouldn't answer questions whether he would remain independent of trump whether he he might go after in the f.b.i. more and more senators aren't saying no. privately they're saying let the process play out. >> bill: we shall watch that. these hearings could be very

interesting come january. thank you for that, okay. dana. >> dana: bret baier is anchor of special report. great to have you here. this is pete hegseth last night on hannity talking about his conversations with senator ernst who we had on last week. >> it was a great meeting. amazing advise and consent process. you hear how thoughtful and serious they are. joni ernst is front and center on that. able to have phone calls and meetings time and time again to talk over the issues is really important. the fact that she is willing to support me through this process means a lot. >> dana: if you think about senate nomination as a war, pete is winning the battles, the skirmishs. every day chipping away at it, bret. >> 100%. good morning. there is this growing optimism with the president-elect and his team that they are making progress and that pete hegseth is starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. that maybe there will be fewer than three senators who vote

against him. not to say there won't be tough questions and hearings that there could be stumbles or other things. it is not complete optimism like sure thing. but there is a growing optimism not only on pete but kash patel seems like he has support for f.b.i. director. tulsi gabbard has tough questions but ones that again they feel they can get to the point where they are three senators or fewer, meaning they get through the process. >> bill: gabbard, here she is talking about syria. watch here. >> i stand in full support and wholeheartedly agree with the statements that president trump has made over the last few days with regards to the developments in syria. i appreciate president trump's leadership and his election for he is fully committed, as he said over and over, to bringing about an end to wars, demonstrating peace through strength and putting the national security interests and the safety of security and freedom of the american people first and foremost.

>> bill: on the syria issue she met with assad in 2017. seven or eight years ago. in a general sense, bret, what do you think these nominees say about how donald trump wants to run his administration? wants to run government, wants to run washington, d.c.? >> bret: i think a lot of them say he wants to shake things up and he wants to shake things up in the agencies and wants to change the dynamic within the agencies and maybe the power within the bureaucracy. within the agencies. he also i think wants to change foreign policy and how the focus is less on getting engaged in war and more in trying peace through strength. you hear that ronald reagan phrase again and again and again. build up the military, build up the strength to prevent the u.s. from getting engaged in wars overseas. >> dana: in addition i remember the end of the bush

administration and josh bollton telling everyone the president tends to sprint to the finish. i will say i'm lucky to be crawling to the finish line. i understand the sentiment but hard to take the chief of staff for president biden put this out yesterday in a memo. we have 42 days left to sprint to the finish and get as much done as possible for the american people. yesterday they were headlines all over the place about democrats being very furious and frustrated and bummed out that biden is basically frittering away. >> bret: there is an invisibility cloak over president biden and yet they are doing this sprint to the finish. it is a surreal process when you have an election and the country votes and says we want to change the direction and the president still has this time to continue the direction that the american public already voted against, to say that you are going to cancel

more student debt? i don't think the american public was right there on that. and i think there are some other things in that list that there are question marks about. >> dana: shoveling a bunch of green energy projects out the door before president trump can get there. bret baier, thank you for being with us today. >> bret: i will do the show from capitol hill today. >> bill: important stuff. we will see you and some of the people you're talking to. we'll catch at 6:00. good stuff, thank you. okay. >> bret: you bet, see you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: well, the cincinnati bengals had a late game win against the cowboys last night. watch this. >> bill: i don't think any team is easy to beat. i don't think we were supposed to -- >> dana: dallas botched a blocked punt giving the ball back to the cincinnati bengals

in the final two minutes. last night's win breaks the bengal's three-game losing streak. did you stay up? >> bill: i did, actually. made it to midnight. >> dana: big fan. midnight? >> bill: the game went until 11:30. they tried something new with the nfl trying to pull younger people with the game. homer simpson throwing a td pass on monday night football. they would try to mimic it by way of animation. i'm thinking artificial intelligence had to be involved. >> dana: that's fun. i love it. >> bill: bengals win, 5-eight and still alive in the nfl for 2024. all right. let's roll this. mixed reaction now after the jury in the daniel penny subway

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needs more information from them. he also said that new jersey is taking any threats that the drones may or may not pose quote deadly seriously. >> these are apparently very as i understand it very sophisticated. the minute you get eyes on them they go dark. we're most concerned about sensitive targets and sensitive critical infrastructure. we have military and utility assets. the president-elect's one of his homes here. >> dana, you see trump national golf club isn't far from the arsenal military base which some thought may be behind the drones. the base tells fox news while the source and cause of these aircraft operating in our area remain unknown, we can confirm that they are not the result of any arsenal-related activities. fox news spoke with congressman jeff van drew of new jersey. he said it doesn't appear the

pilots of these drones are breaking any laws, rules or regulations. they are staying out of restricted airspace, which he says is an indication that they know what they're doing. >> i do not believe it's the u.s. military. and if it is and if they are doing exercises, shame on them for the disorganized way they are doing it. i don't believe it is them. i am hopeful it is not a foreign adversary. yet i do worry about that. >> this will be a main topic of conversation at a house hearing on capitol hill today that starts at 2:00 focused on the safety implications of drone technology and congressman van drew tells fox that the united states is behind specifically china with this technology and we need to do a better job of defending against and integrating drone technology. send it back to you, dana. >> dana: nate, stay on top of it and we'll be back to you. thank you. >> tell me how are you feeling. >> feeling great, guys.

it is a great day. just a great day. >> bill: acquitted daniel penny's team is saying he is relieved and happy. neely's father said the not guilty verdict is from a -- we have two panelists here to talk about it. roll this, guys, sound bite number one. the blm leaders outside court this week. >> we need some black vigilantes, people want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? how about we do the same? >> america has no moral code or soul. god damn america. >> probably should have beeped that. it is out there now. where does this go, ben? >> i understand that was a very emotional moment in court when

the verdict was read on both sides of it. there are some cheers in the courtroom for penny and also -- there is anger from the family of the man who died. i think that response outside is a response to really an emotional moment where even until the moment the verdict was read we didn't know which way it would go. >> dana: a couple of other way to look at it. "wall street journal" said a just verdict for daniel penny that a manhattan jury rebukes the prosecution by alvin bragg. daniel penny is not guilty but d.a. bragg has done lasting damage. you were there every day. what do you think happened between friday and monday with this jury that came back with what was seemed like a surprising result? >> it was very surprising. honestly, it is hard to know. obviously someone, one juror had

to have flipped their decision. but despite the jury being unanimous in their decision the courtroom, like you were just saying, was completely divided. and the presconferce afterwards was as if those -- right when this incident happened almost instantly this was described as a lynching by elected officials. this was described by bowman as another black man publicly executed. i would say that the press conference reaction from the neely supporters afterwards even upped the anti-with that rhetoric. >> bill: on friday when the jury came back and told the judge that hey, we won't move forward on this one charge and the assumption by many in the legal world is that the case would be dismissed but it wasn't. the judge said take the weekend, come back on monday and get back to work. what was your read on the jurors at that moment? >> so clearly in retrospect it

appears that most of the jurors on friday were leaning toward acquittal. we didn't know that on friday. the district attorney's office didn't know that. they had a chance to accept the mistrial and then they could have decided later do we want to try this again or how do we want to move forward? they chose to dismiss the manslaughter charge and take their chances on the lesser charge and then they come back monday and they get -- it backfired on them with the not guilty verdict. >> bill: they came back together and had breakfast and said sorry we're not moving forward. >> dana: the protestors said daniel penny is free because he is white. marin will challenge alvin bragg. she was on "fox & friends." >> alvin bragg came into this office with his day one memo which was wrong in so many different ways. he is ending his term now with this daniel penny case, right?

this will be his legacy that he tried to prosecute a young man with no criminal record who served his country honorably and who did what many people in the subways would hope, which is to be a brave young man and step up and try to protect people on the subway. >> dana: that sentiment is also part of th here. anyone who rides a subway. there are many of them. a lot of people in new york want to work and get there on time and not bothered by this kind of thing on the subway. >> the jury was asked how often do they ride the subway? all if not most were occasional to every day subway riders. and so you just have to ask the average new yorker what is the subway like and they'll tell you it is pure chaos. i think the crime statisticians pretend crime, it is so complicated. is it up or down. when you see what's happening to pre-pandemic levels certain

offenses, murder, felony, assault and robbery crime is up. everyday new yorkers feel that. >> bill: the witnesses who said he got on the train and said someone is going to die today, all right? you are in a crowded subway car, you don't know what he has got. what he is carrying with him. that was a clear indictment. final word. >> the witnesses were uniform in saying that they were terrified except for one who is a homeless advocate. i will just tell you that. >> dana: all right, olivia, interesting. thank you so much. judge janine is going to get an exclusive interview with daniel penny streaming on fox nation. but you can catch the first look tonight on "the five." we'll meet you there. >> bill: see what he has to say. stay tuned for that. a live look at damascus now. that story continues for some time now. the capital in syria, country in chaos after the ousting of bashar al-assad. many asylum seekers may not get

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of hostages. we're seeing a lot of people in captivity for long periods of time being released right now. and so we're hoping that this is going to be the moment for austin as well. >> bill: a very long 12 years. the family holding out hope. austin tice shown here was captured in syria more than 12 years ago. his family says the dawnfall of the assad regime could lead to new information about his whereabouts. tice's parents say they're still positive they can bring him home and do it safely. we'll follow that. >> dana: nearly a dozen european countries are pausing decisions on asylum requests from syrians. some are signaling they'll send refugees back to their country. want to bring in douglas murray on this from the "new york post." talk about how the syrian civil war and migrant crisis that came from that has actually caused all sorts of mayhem and chaos throughout europe. >> that's right.

it has caused chaos across the middle east, of course, but chaos across europe as well. in the -- after the outbreak of the civil war there were massive movements of people towards neighboring countries and then in 2015 then chancellor of germany merkel through open the borders of europe. normal asylum procedures are suspended and meant that way more than a million people flooded into europe and many of them, of course, were not syrians. that's a different subject. that's a subject of disastrous migration policy that left wing government pursued in europe. it has had political implications. in country after country people in europe have been voting for more restrictionist parties and right wing parties on immigration. yes, the syrian civil war has had a huge impact on the region on the people of syria but had much further effects as well. some of them will doubtless be

felt in the period to come unless politicians are wiser this time. >> dana: one of the things i heard someone say this morning on abc news was they believed that many people who had fled syria are going to return to syria now that you have this change. do you see that happening? >> well, it will be interesting if it did happen. the experience of most developed countries is that people who come from a war torn country, even if it's legitimate. of course in the case of europe most people who came had no right to come to europe. even if those who are legitimately fleeing the history of migration into the developed world, america, europe, is that people tend not to return home unless there is an active policy to insure they do so. many of the syrians who fled assad will now say rightly or otherwise that they aren't feeling safe about going back to syria at the moment. that's understandable in some ways. there is no sign that syria is going to become a stable democracy any time soon.

the group that's advanced to damascus and overthrown the assad government in the past week is, of course, a jihadist-led coalition and this is an extremely worrying development. bashar al-assad was a terrible dictator with the bloods of hundreds of thousands of people on his hands, as was his father before him. but just because one might celebrate the overthrow of a tyrant does not mean that anyone can feel positive about a jihadist-group leading that overthrow. far from it. >> dana: michael waltz will be the national security advisor for president trump. served as well. this is what he said last night. >> president trump was elected with an overwhelming mandate to not get the united states drug into any more middle eastern wars. that doesn't mean he is not willing to absolutely step in. we are all watching them closely and president trump has no problem taking decisive action

if the american homeland is threatened in any way. >> dana: one thing i think people have missed so far on this is the role that israel and idf played in trying to break the back of iran with a huge blow to iran by losing their proxies here. >> yes. the whole of the conflicts in the middle east for decades trace back to the overthrow of the shah and installing of the revolutionary guard in iran. iran is the most colonialist power of our time and spread proxies across the region and client states like its ally in the assad regime in syria. by starting the war against israel on october 7th, 2023, iran and its prox east have set in motion the set of defense. idf has degraded hamas if not just about entirely.

hezbollah has been massively diminished and hezbollah was not able to continue propping up the assad regime in syria. it's very interesting and so yes, iran, the revolutionary government is much weaker today. the question is whether or not all these dominoes at some point go back to the very beginning and topple over the regime in tehran. that will be one of the ones to look for. it doesn't require american intervention. it doesn't require any outside intervention. there are basic standards and israel is exercising at the moment by insuring that weaponry in syria, like the air force and the navy, do not fall into the hands of these jihadist group. i hope america and other countries follow is similar tactic. >> dana: thank you very much. merry christmas to you if we don't see you before then. >> bill: back here in the u.s. awaiting the next movement for the suspected gunman in the murder of united health ceo brian thompson. we'll see when he will be sent

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