worried. if our military has no clue what drones the size of cars are flying around in jersey, i can tell you right now if there are martians in the drones they aren't staying in michael jackson. our taxes are so high. you don't have to worry about any of them living here, guarantee that. >> we sent $50 billion to ukraine. our government is asking for a defense bill tonight and they can't let us know what's going on over new jersey. it's really frightening. >> brian: thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. in the u.k. -- you have an important prom owe. >> we can days at 4:00 p.m. eastern on the spanish fox station. >> brian: see you on the radio. >> bill: good morning. we watched a courthouse coll amity play out in realtime as the man arrested in the killing

of the health ceo brian thompson with an outburst outside his extradition hearing. we're working through the story together. i'm bill hemmer. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." we'll get you all up to speed. there is a lot going on this morning. murder suspect luigi mangione was seen shouting at reporters as officers hauled him into a pennsylvania courthouse. watch here. >> bill: after that the judge inside denied mangione bail. he is fighting extradition to new york city where he is charged with murder. new york's governor hochul will issue a warrant to make that happen. it might take as many as 30 days to happen. >> dana: after a sprawling five-day manhunt with police

arresting mangione at a mcdonalds. bryan llenas is in altoona, pennsylvania with more. good morning. >> dana, good morning. yesterday 26-year-old luigi mangione sat mostly silent in court. he was fidgety. he was looking and grinning at his new defense attorney as he was shackled both with his hands and his feet. at one point yesterday with his new defense attorney, he tried to interrupt him and his defense attorney told him -- told the 26-year-old quote, don't say a word. moments before while entering court mangione raged, yelling at the cameras it was all a quote insult to the american people. let's play that again. >> mangione was denied bail yesterday and is fighting his extradition back to new york

city where he faces five charges including second degree murder for the killing of united healthcare ceo brian thompson. mangione faces five separate weapons and forgery charges here in pennsylvania when he was arrested at a local mcdonalds. new york governor hochul says she will sign a request for a governor's warrant to have him ex extradited. the blair county prosecutor says they intend to prosecute him in pennsylvania but new york takes precedence. >> it's a state level governments that work with each other, execute the governor's warrant, which sometimes can take, you know, approximately 30 days plus or minus a little bit. i will say those wheels have already started moving in this case so i'm hopeful we can get that accomplished quickly. >> mangione's new attorney has been retained. he won't say by who or if the mangione family hired him. dickey says mangione will plead

not guilty to pennsylvania charges and is expected to plead not guilty to new york's charges. >> this is not just a small thing. the fundamental concept of american justice is a presumption of innocence. until you are proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and i have seen 0 evidence at this point. we've made a strong bond and looking forward to moving forward and helping him out. >> the nypd chief of detectives tells fox mangione appeared to target brian thompson writing specifically about united healthcare and investors conference in new york. this morning the "new york post" is reporting that mangione also had a spiral notebook which included a to do list for mangione to do to make sure that this murder was carried out. >> dana: bryan llenas in altoona, pennsylvania. >> bill: with us now kennedy and joey jones to take us through it. good morning. there is a #effort online #free

luigi. some of those online giving him credit. >> he left a powerful message and highlighted how terrible the healthcare system is in america. i think he will go down as a hero in history. >> you can pardon luigi mangione for your final acts in office, president biden. >> you say a murderer? freedom fighter. you don't see what's going on until somebody does something radical. >> bill: what is your take on it at the moment? >> we shouldn't be surprised by this. it has happened since the outlaws of the old west. romanticizing and turning into a hero someone like this. i don't agree with that. if you want to take the opposite point of view eric rudolph. centennial park bomber and bombed abortion clinics, stated goal was to stop socialism and abortion on demand and on the

run for five years because people that aligned with his ideology supported him and helped hide him and feed him. that wasn't right. this isn't right. t they -- there are two issues. one he needs to be made an example of. people in the public eye are very vulnerable. secondly, not all these people that are being dumb and young and stupid and saying things that are supportive, not all of them are mall issues and evil and crazy. they've gone through something in their lives where a family member wasn't taken care of. >> dana: the madness of luigi mangione. a dreadful sign of the times that he is being celebrated as a worthy avenger instead of an allegedly deranged culture. our culture has degraded things for political purposes. this is wanted posters of other ceos posted around new york and

other cities, a sick way also of celebrating mangione. >> their salaries are accessible. what these people are trying to do is elicit copycat crimes and that's what is scary about this. this is someone who was entitled and privileged who obviously went on a very dark path of clear mental illness and you add to that he was somehow politically radicalized. they hope other people who are half cocked on will do the same thing. that doesn't move our country in a better direction or improve healthcare in this country at all. and you have a new administration coming in that will make some pretty radical moves in terms of the scope of government. so maybe engage in conversations with people like that if you want things to be better. this is not about freedom. when you end someone's life you end their freedom completely. luigi mangione was wore eft about his back pain. he is now no longer going to be

a free person. he is going to experience great pain for the rest of his life and that was self-caused. so no, people should not follow in his footsteps. >> bill: here is one of his high school classmates. maybe a friend as well describing their relationship. >> it's like a different person that we are seeing in all the headlines and the yelling and the arraignment. something has happened in the last eight years. when i knew him he was nice and polite and driven, athletic. he had everything going for him and he was everything you could want in a high school kid. >> bill: you may know by now valedictorian out of high school. comes from a prominent family in maryland. i get the sense we're just at the very beginning of what could be a very long story. >> there is the investigation on how this happened with him. then how can we prevent this happening with others? the idea this person was radical itsed through going through his own personal experience.

i know people who have gone through pain who are inspirational. >> like you. >> the point is i do not accept this guy got such a bad lot in life it drove him to this point. there are people that have had a bad lot in life that are identifying with him and president trump the media, politicians need to communicate with them before they go off this ledge of believing that this type of justice is the only option. >> dana: what would you say to young women who are obsessed with the case and thinking that they would like to help mangione? >> god, i have never understood those people. the people who married the menendez brothers, i've never understood that fascination being so attracted to and drawn to a bad boy as though somehow you are going to fix him. if you have the mentality, you have to fix yourself. you have to work on yourself. >> bill: thank you kennedy and joey and we'll work to fix

ourselves. >> dana: last night we announced on the five that greg gutfeld and his wife had a baby girl and why you'll see joey on "the five" again tonight. >> a great reason to have me here. >> dana: that is indeed a good reason. several trump cabinet picks making the rounds on the hill including john ratcliffe. who is on his first set of meetings list? all the rest are returning for more sit-downs, we're live on capitol hill with more as these meetings continue. >> it appears the trump transition team studied the ship with pete hegseth. he meets with susan collins with questions about sexual assault in the military and ukraine. hegseth met yesterday with lisa murcowski. >> had a good exchange and we'll see what the process bears. >> what did you learn? >> he has got probably at least half the senate that he is going

to visit with. he has a process that is going to involve full vetting through the administration, and then ultimately -- >> both murcowski and collins -- >> it's time to restore the mer october rasy that has always been the u.s. military and have the military be proud of itself in addition to the american people being proud of the military and pete hegseth brings that to the table. >> but democrats have serious reservations about other picks like kash patel and robert f. kennedy, jr. lots of focus remains on hegseth. >> i am hearing from republican colleagues grave gaps about his ability to do this job that

upholds our national security. >> kristi noem is here today meeting with committee chairman gary peters, one of the first meetings with democrats. dana. >> dana: chad pergram on the hill for us as that marches on. thank you. u are telling me we don't know what the hell these drones are in new jersey are? is that correct? >> that's right. >> it's crazy. that's crazy. that's madness that we don't know what these drones are. >> bill: we've been asking questions, right? we've been trying to figure out. there is a house hearing trying to get to the bottom of this mysterious drones hovering over the northeast and those concerns carrying national implications. get to that coming up. >> dana: you could call it a tidal wave of disapproval. a new poll what presidents think of pardoning his son hunter. >> one-on-one with daniel penny.

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democrats and republicans but democratic approval didn't hit 40%. >> bill: kind of like the gauge we were getting when it happened. people on the air and there was no full throated endorsement of people saying it's a good idea. >> dana: there is a lot of democrats saying they felt he lied. didn't keep his word and thought it was hard to defend. they are not defending it. >> bill: 40 more days. we shall watch. a troubling new watchdog report finds a biden administration spent 267 million over three years to limit online speech. that speech that they deemed misinformation. that's 40 times more than what president-elect donald trump spent on similar programs during his first term. griff jenkins makes sense of all this. what did you find out? good morning. >> i will try. good morning, bill. i can tell you this, these numbers are staggering. a quarter of a billion of tax information on misinformation research dwarfing what the trump

administration spent. this is according to the government watchdog group open the books. these funds that you see here did 126 million in 2021. allocated to universities, nonprofits and companies focused on covid misinformation. this came despite later admissions that some mandates lacked scientific support and came at the same time the biden administration collaborated with tech companies like mark zuckerberg's meta to suppress online speech. proponents say it was worth it. some say it was more than politics. >> the biden administration is in my view the most anti-free speech administration since the adams administration. it has helped fund this massive censorship system that a federal court called perfectly orwellian.

>> the courthouse issued a statement earlier this year saying when confronted with a deadly pandemic we encouraged responsible actions to protect public health and safety. our position is clear and consistent. we believe tech companies and other private actors should take into account the effect that your actions have on the american people and making independent choices about the information they present. this is a fascinating report. in one case you see $200,000 given to researchers to study so-called leaders who prevented from society coming together in solidarity during the pandemic. >> bill: that's a whole new class. intriguing. nice to see you have in washington. thanks. >> you just threatening to kill people. threatening to go to jail forever i'm on my back in a vulnerable position. if i let him go he can turn around and start doing what he

said to me because i was on my back. >> killing. >> killing, hurting. >> dana: marine veteran daniel penny recounts a struggle with jordan neely in an interview with judge jeanine pirro. here is the judge who joins us now. can i show one other clip in case people might not have seen it yet. they can watch the full thing on fox nation. watch here where he talks about -- you asked him the question did he believe penny was serious? >> when he said he was willing to kill people, did you believe him? >> yeah, totally. it was unlike -- there is outbusts on the trains all time. people coming on and saying kind of -- talking crazy and this was unlike anything that i have ever experienced and it was -- it was

very serious. i completely believed what he was saying. >> dana: he followed his instincts and his code. >> yeah. as a marine, he understood the danger. he maintained, you know, his -- his decorum. he was stoic. he was marine trained but he had the courage of a lion. he was someone who would welcome the fight to take it and remove it from the children, the woman with the baby in the baby carriage, from all the people and he said himself that he was afraid of jordan neely. he was aware that he was on k-two which was amazing. what we know when you are on k2 you are more aggressive than you normally are which would explain why for five minutes jordan neely struggled with him. two people in addition to danny

to hold him down. one was black, one was hispanic just like the people on the train, black, hispanic, white, asian. just like that jury in new york city. >> bill: what was the composition of thajury? >> i believe there most of them were white but there was black, hispanic, asian on the jury. >> bill: i was watching you and dana last night when you played the first clips. one of the clips you played was that he felt that the decisions that politicians had made were bad for the societies which they governed and i'm paraphrasing they were too arrogant to say they were wrong. has he always felt that way or is that something that he has developed in his thinking maybe since this case? >> well, i certainly didn't know him before this. but he doesn't even want to feel this way now. it's all this chaos around him that has caused him to focus on the fact that he was treated unfairly.

his military service was weaponized against him. he watched a medical examiner say no i couldn't tell if it was persistent, consistent force on the neck in the grand jury. the trial comes into the prosecutor's benefit and said there was consistent, persistent force on the neck. he was stunned when the medical examiner, chief medical examiner comes in after the autopsy and says we are going to do the cause of death white house the toxicology and an throe policy. which is so necessary to an all size, and the hyoid bone. none of that was in. the medical examiner said i don't know if there is enough fentanyl to kill an elephant. are you kidding? you are supposed to tell the truth. you don't take sides. the d.a.'s office played games with the hung jury. it should have been dismissed. >> bill: speaking of the d.a.'s office. one of the lawyers was on with

martha yesterday afternoon talking about that. watch. >> number three. >> i've just beaten back probably the most largest and most well-funded district attorney's office in the entire country if not the world. somebody wants to try and prove tier off this tragedy understand we'll push back with equal vigor. >> dana: it struck me in your interview you have to remind everybody this is not over for him. >> no, it is not. he faces another charge already filed of wrongful death by the father of jordan neely. jordan neely had 42 arrests during the course of seven years, on the list of the 50 most dangerous mentally ill homeless people in a city of 8 million. but they are now looking and seeking to recover money for this. the sad part about this whole case is that danny penny has paid a price and will continue to pay a price.

not just in terms of this next lawsuit where the burden of proof is less so it will be easier to find wrongdoing, but for the rest of his life based upon people like black lives matter. we are gunning for you. time for us to be vigilantes. they are so ill informed what happened on that train. you have to watch this interview. i have interviewed many people during the course of my career. this man was one of the most impressive human beings i have ever met in my life. >> bill: wow. >> i can say that unequivocally. >> bill: you can watch the full interview now because it has dropped on fox nation. >> the whole thing. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: see you on "the five." i have joey and the judge, everybody. thank you. >> bill: thank you, judge. the biden-harris administration quietly handed iran $10 billion in frozen funds days after the election.

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reported the sanction relief. critics say biden policy as late as this month with assad is here to stay and the u.s. would offer sanctions relief to break with iran. a year ago syria showed up -- bob woodward's new book biden is quoted yelling at netanyahu after killing a military commander for hezbollah. mike johnson told bret baier biden should not be spiking the football. >> the biden administration foreign policy has been disastrous in that part of the world. there is a lot of mayhem that has ensued that would never have happened under president trump's hand and watch. i don't think president biden can take credit for anything happening over there. >> b-52 bombers struck isis some see iran's other proxy forcing the houthis get taken out finally after shutting down the

red sea. >> dana: lucas tomlinson, not the end of the story. keep us posted. >> bill: let general mcmaster, former white house national security advisor with me now and good morning to you. can this be reversed? can trump do it, can republicans in congress do it or is this something that just happens and we have to live with it? >> great to be with you. heck yes it can be reversed. the trump administration had the strangle hold on the iranian regime financially, economically, and of course with the killing of soleimani and the pressure on the islamic revolutionary guard corps. the biden administration helped get them off the mat. like obama administrations invited the russians in the syrian civil war and they built a proxy army in syria subsidized

the regime with fuel and money and everything. and ran a huge narcotics trafficking operation there with the syrians that netted $6 billion a year and the list goes on about come placeensy that allowed iran to get a land bridge to strengthen hamas and hezbollah, elements in the west bank including islamic jihad and elements of hamas and strengthen its ring of fire. >> bill: where is the logic you let something like this go? this is a lot of money. >> yeah, it's a lot of money. remember, bill, there was $6 billion sitting in a bank account on of last year they were about to transfer to iran after the horrific attacks on israel october 7th they were still going to transfer the money.

a real blind spot about the iranians in the biden administration. some of the people are gone from the administration at the forefront of that. the supplication to iran has to stop. it will stop under president trump. president trump used to say wherever i look in the middle east, you know, where there is a problem there is iran and he is right about that. he has the right instincts on it and understands it. acted against the network. the people coming back in like brian hook for example. these are the people who put into place that sanctions regime that was cutting off the flow of cash to the regime. that's what these authoritarian regimes need first of all more than anything else is cash flow. >> bill: on this topic, the israelis have hit targets in syria 350 times in three days, wow. listen to netanyahu quickly. i want to ask you a specific question about the future. watch. >> we have no intention of interfering in internal affairs of syria but we clearly have the

intentions of doing what is necessary to insure our security. >> bill: i would imagine that continues but the new leader golany, intriguing guy. born in saudi arabia, raised in damascus, joined the foreign fighters in iraq in 2003 a couple weeks before the u.s. invasion. 2005 met with baghdadi and 2005 imprisoned by the u.s. military. 2013 pledged allegiance to al qaeda, severed those ties with a $10 million u.s. bounty for his capture that is still active today. what have we got in syria now, hr? >> well yeah, what you have got is country shattered like a light bulb. what happens is groups like this can take the predominant position. this guy won't change, i'm telling you. i know people want to think i

think he is more moderate now. my experience with these people is they don't change. and what he did is studied isis and studied al qaeda in iraq and concluded he needs to put on a facade of moderation. so we can't trust him. president trump is inclined to just stay out of the mess in the middle east. we can shape the outcome. somebody has to write a check, bill, for the reconstruction of a country that has been rub lid and people that can write the check are the saudis and emirates. here is the settlement the syrians need. a process to do that laid out. if we don't -- this is the guy who will rise to the top. remember morrisey after the fall of mubarak seemed moderate and

try to turn egypt into as islamist state. we can be p -- syria is an important country to our security and to israel's security. >> bill: thanks for coming on. nice to see you at the forum at the reagan library this weekend. >> it was a great time. great to see you. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: did you get this, bill belichick reportedly considering an offer to become the next head football coach at the university of north carolina. negotiations are said to be ongoing. it is believed that belichick wants to set up a plan of succession for his son, steve, to take over at some point. sports fans know that belichick won six super bowls as head coach of the new england patriots. i have to consult judy mama. that's the first i've heard of that. >> bill: almost two different sports.

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>> bill: from california now, sun is about to come up there and we'll wait and see what we get today. crews fighting and explosive fire in malibu that scorched more than 3,000 acres, several buildings. it popped up like that. 0 percent contained. william la jeunesse is malibu. what are we facing now? hello. >> good morning, bill. we're at an rv park in malibu evacuated last night. the fire began to back down that canyon. two things stand out to me right now. number one, this is the only major fire right now in the united states. never seen that before. secondly, 1500 firefighters on a 4,000 acre fire. in wildfire terms that's relatively tiny. still, we're not out of the

woods yet. however, moderate damages. no injuries or fatalities. seven structures destroyed, eight damaged. it is a relief because it is late in the fire season and caught everyone by surprise. >> completely surrounded by fire every deck shun you look, surrounded by fire. i thought i would have to drive through a ring to fire to get out of here. >> the smoke was so thick. like someone was standing over there, you couldn't see them. it was insane. >> unlike the last major fire to hit here in 2018, that destroyed 1,000 homes, right now we have those night vision equipped helicopters dropping water all night. that's made a huge difference. also we have the fixed wings able to put a ring of retardant around the fire and that's helped. the winds have really died down. still the major thoroughfare, pacific coast highway is closed. a ghost town, no one has power. you referred to the sunrise.

good news is we have winds way down and a lot of moisture coming off the water, on shore breezes and maybe a drizzle this weekend. >> bill: hope for the best. hang tough, california. william la jeunesse, thank you. >> president biden: president-elect trump is receiving the strongest economy in modern history, the envy of the world. i will say something outrageous. nobody would exchange their economy with ours? can you think of one that wants to trade? >> dana: president biden is taking a victory lap on the economy but americans are still struggling to afford groceries after years of inflation. bring in karoline leavitt incoming white house press secretary. the fact check on the biden's economy. prices are 20.7% higher. inflation up. the new numbers we just got inflation are not quite as good. the progress that was minimal

has stalled and you have inflation back up at 2.7%. what do you think they are trying to do -- what they are trying to do is say the economy is better. when president trump comes on board if the economy is good it will be because of biden and not because of trump. your thoughts. >> with all due respect to president biden, he is desperately trying to reframe his legacy on his way out the door and clearly the american people disagree with his statement yesterday that this is the strongest economy. prices are still more than 20% higher than when joe biden took office. you also see that small business optimism is at an all-time high because small business owners realize that president trump is coming into the white house because they realize change is coming. that's why the american people overwhelmingly reelected president trump. he is putting together a brilliant team of business people, men and women who have

not worked in washington, d.c. but have actually ran businesses and know how to create jobs. i met with senator kelly leffler, the small business administrator. scott bessent leading the department of treasury. massive deregulation and energy boom bringing energy jobs back to this country to lower inflation for all americans. also delivering critical tax relief to put more money in the pockets of the american people. >> dana: i noticed a shift yesterday from some democrats talking about how biden brought back the american economy when you compare it to the rest of the world. but that's not how americans are thinking about this. that's a little -- that's how they are trying to adjust their spin on this. ask you about this as well. at the end of an administration there is usually an-outing press conference or usually before christmas let's wrap up the year with a press conference. karine jean-pierre was asked yesterday if we could expect one

from biden. >> will he give a year-end press conference? >> i don't have anything to share. the president is going to -- wants to continue to engage with all of you. i don't have anything to share on that. >> dana: he went on two international trips and said about seven words to reporters on those two trips. i'm not sure he wants to engage with the press, caroline. >> he has been spending a lot of time in delaware as he did throughout his entire term. we haven't seen or heard much of the leader of the free world over the past several weeks since the november 5th election. it is clear that he realizes this is over for him but i think it's a dereliction of duty and he owes it to the american people to speak to him. that's not what we've seen from this white house over the past four years. if you talk to reporters who sit inside that briefing room they're frustrated with the lack of access and transparency from the biden white house. i can assure them of one thing their access to the president

and the transparency will increase when president trump is back in the oval office. we saw that in his first term and often brought the press into the oval office when signing bills. i can expect it will continue when he returns to january. >> dana: reporters are ready to lace up their running shoes. that's the pace that you guys run. thank you. >> bill: it has happened again. nfl star has had his home invaded. joe burrow becoming the latest pro-athlete to have his house ransacked. what we've learned about that and what's behind the new crime trend in america.

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>> this was monday night when joe burrow was in dallas for the bengals game against the cowboys. right around the time he was taking the field, his home back in cincinnati was broken into. according to a police report a little after 8:00 p.m. a woman who works for borough came to his house and noticed one of the bedroom windows was shattered and that the room had been ransacked. here is the 911 call from that woman's mother. >> someone is trying to break into the house right now. my daughter is there. this is joe burrow'sous. she is staying there. she is at the football game. she is wondering what to do. >> an officer was working security outside the home when the 911 calls came in but didn't find anyone inside. not clear what all was taken. and detectives are still trying to get surveillance video from the neighborhood to look for any suspects. this is just the latest case of a high-profile athlete's home

being broken into while playing games on the road. last month after the kansas city chiefs mahomes and kelce had their homes broken into. the f.b.i. is investigating the crimes tied to a south american crime syndicate and increasingly targeting professional athletes across the country. they have cautioned players to install security systems and avoid live posting on social media when they are going out of town. the challenge is these players' schedules are very known. keeping those travels private will be a hard thing to do. >> bill: we'll see what comes from it. the first 911 call literally came in at the same time as the kickoff. like 8:15 p.m. that's scheduled on espn. >> dana: it should be a crime that's relatively easy to solve. let's go, guys, let's get it done. get you to this as