depart that issue? i think the electoral colleges, it gives us a sense national unity after close elections. donald trump won the popular vote by 1.9% but the electoral college he got 312 votes. you need 270 to win. a mandate to be the president. same thing with john kennedy. won but a handful of votes and what happened? he won by a significantly larger number in the electoral college and gave him advantage going to office. we want to country to be unified after a presidential election to the degree we can be unified and the electoral college plays a vital role in giving that extra push to the winner that gives him a chance to bring us together as a country. >> dana: long live the electoral college. thanks. see you next week. >> this is lawful, legal aviation activity, manned and

unmanned, drones, civil aviation. we've seen nothing that leads us to a different conclusion. i will say, however, bill, that there is still 100 leads that the f.b.i. is following up on and so the ongoing investigation continues. if we learn something that contradicts that assessment or adds to it my goodness we'll come on tv here. >> dana: communications advisor john kirby tamping down concerns about thousands of unexplained drone sightings in the sky. kirby insisting there is nothing as of now indicating a risk to public safety. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. hour two lifting off now. bill hemmer. good morning. the mystery deepens, not solved entirely yet. the white house describing the drones as lawful and not a threat to any of us but many questions remain. the biden administration will brief the house intel committee behind closed doors on the hill a bit later today. >> dana: this as president-elect trump on the front page of

today's "new york post" saying there is something strange going on. >> the government knows what is happening. look, our military knows where they took off from, if it's a garage they can go right into that garage. they know where it came from and where it went. for some reason they don't want to comment. and i think they would be better off saying what it is. our military knows and our president knows. and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense. >> dana: nate foye is live in elizabeth, new jersey. is there more, nate? >> we're all waiting for answers and perhaps we'll find them today with the white house briefing, the house intelligence committee at 2:00. see what comes of that. president-elect donald trump, you heard said he believes that president joe biden knows what's going on and just refuses to share it with the american people. what trump declined to say is if he also knows what is going on.

look at this. >> have you received an intelligence briefing on the drones? >> i don't want to comment on that. i can't imagine it was the enemy. if it was the enemy they'd blast it out. even if they were late they'd blast it. something strange is going on. >> it's been going on for nearly a month. the official assessment from federal authorities is that these objects are a combination of drones, planes, helicopters and stars. they acknowledge drones have flown over military installations, which is a crime. the f.b.i. and d.h.s., f.a.a. and department of defense put out a joint statement yesterday reading we have not identified anything anomalous and don't assess the activity to date to present a national security or public safety risk over the civilian airspace in new jersey or other states in the northeast. federal drone detection technology and trained drone spotters are on the ground in new jersey. governor phil murphy said so far

they haven't found any evidence of something threatening. he added the technology is powerful enough to disable a drone. that is illegal in the united states. he told reporters there were 12 drone sightings on saturday in new jersey and just one drone sighting on sunday. he also called on congress to give states more authority to defend against drones. right now that authority lies predominantly with the federal government. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: i'm not sure if that's passing the buck or not. thank you so much. joining us for more is michael shellenberger, the founder of public news. great to have you here. lindsey graham was on hannity last night. the senator from south carolina had some thoughts. >> we're playing russian roulette with our national security. the people telling us about the drones, recording this information, have lived there for years. this is something new. something the size of a bus or s.u.v. is not something you buy off the shelf. it is not a hobby. i don't want to alarm anybody.

i just don't buy this. i don't trust these people to tell me the truth. >> dana: that might be the overall problem of government trust. your thoughts on the story that nate foye has been reporting on. he has been in new jersey for a week. >> you have to start with the fact that last week you had john kirby and mayorkas the head of dhs insist emphatically there had been no drone flyovers over u.s. military bases. friday night and saturday morning there a fly over of the write patterson air base in ohio. curious why they said that. yesterday kirby said we know there have been drone fly overs and said on friday to martha maccallum kirby said they were investigating these cases and then yesterday he said that they had closely examined 5,000 cases. are we to be led to believe that they examined 5,000 cases, 5,000 -- 6,000 according to f.b.i.,

but 6,000 people were interviewed, asked where they were, what direction they were pointed in? strange for them to say these things that undermines the trust and why you see conspiracy theories emerging into the vacuum. >> bill: the last couple days he has been emphatic. he thinks they are innocuous. a few mayors from new jersey. >> you can see these are small aircraft. you can see these are manned, they're not. if anyone was to take away from this the drones aren't flying they must believe the border is closed. i don't want to hear any longer we don't know where they're coming from. you should know that. >> over 100 something, a couple hundred mayors all waving a flag saying this is a big deal. this is certainly not normal. it's an abnormal amount of drones and the size of them are huge. >> bill: i want you to address that. what kirby told us a half hour ago, he believes he is a

combination of drones, airplanes and people seeing stars at night. >> they've eliminated all anomalies. no way you can do that in such a short period of time. the drones are over air bases. we had mayors reporting two s.u.v. -size drones over his house. another mayor said coming to fox news, walked out of his house and a drone hovering. a lot of people are seeing things that aren't drones but you are seeing a huge number of very credible people not even to mention our military bases have the best sensors in the world and what they've done for 80 years is developed the best detection technologies. we believe all these military commanders, ten or 12 military bases and sensitive sights reported drone flyovers for years, not just this year. >> dana: a quote from the "wall

street journal" editorial board. take this to a 30,000 foot level. feds need to explain to congress and public what is really going on. the larger need is for a government americans can trust. >> absolutely. this is an administration that was gas lighting us for many years about the southern border claiming that there was nothing anomalous about the southern border. trust is really declined. we saw a rumor go around a couple days ago there was a loose nuke and that's what they were searching for. that's absurd. there are better ways to detect. they wouldn't send drones at night. that's what happens when people don't trust the government. they start inventing really outlandish theories and that's the risk of panic. >> bill: you remain unconvinced. >> it is unexplained. we don't know what it is. trump says they know and they may know. we don't know. the public doesn't know. i'm skeptical they really did a proper investigation in three

days. >> dana: of 6,000. for some of these sightings, it could be many people seeing the same thing. >> absolutely. you would still need to investigate. it is just we need to get to the bottom. trump has promised transparency on this issue. so has kash patel and others in the administration. >> dana: i want elon musk to tell us what's going on. what do you think it is and he would tell us. >> bill: a few moments ago president-elect trump's health secretary pick kennedy arriving on the hill for more meetings. had a few last night. sitting down with more than two dozen republican senators this week. it all begins. aishah hosni is there to watch it on the hill. good morning. >> good morning, bill. we just saw rfk junior walks into senator dane's office with his mighting with the senator. he didn't take any questions.

what are his concerns about abortion. he did not answer that. he made news yesterday, though, on vaccines. he was asked how he feels about the polio vaccine. he said he was all for it. watch this. >> do you support it? >> yeah, i support it. >> so that revelation comes amid a report that his lawyer tried to revoke fda approval for it a few years ago. questions about agriculture, farming and stance on abortion. here is what he is telling senators where he is on abortion. watch. >> he said he serves at the will of the president of the united states and he will be pushing his policies forward. we know where the president is on this. he has been very clear on it. >> and the president-elect has been very clear on how he feels about kennedy's policies. he says that he will be, quote, much less radical than what most people think.

a busy week for him here on the hill. >> bill: a lot of cameras in his face for a long time if he will have that many meetings. all right, aishah, thank you. aishah hosni on the hill. nice to see you. >> dana: president-elect trump not telegraphing his thoughts on iran. why he is keeping his cards close to his chest. >> bill: new reports democrats are concerned about the fate of the house foreign affairs committee under incoming chair brian mast. why would that be? he is here to respond to that coming up and more. >> dana: business leaders are betting big on trump. the president-elect is holding court. >> one of the big differences between the first term -- the first term everybody was fighting me. this term everybody wants to be my friend. i don't know. my personality changed or something.

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>> bill: aurora, colorado. the sun is up in the state and police have now detained 14 people and reported armed home invasion. the same apartment complex where a lot of people were complaining about the armed venezuelan gang members roaming the halls. reports indicate investigators said several suspects entered the apartment and had two people inside. the suspects then moved the victims to another apartment complex, rather another unit on the property where police said they were found threatened and bound. adult man sustained a non-life threatening stab wound. at the moment police say it is unclear if the suspects are connected to the venezuelan gang tren de aragua but we'll get a live report in colorado 30 minutes away and bring you the latest on that developing story this morning. all right now. >> dana: illinois is betting big on the future of quantum computing spending $5 hundred million to transform the site of an abandoned steel mill on

chicago's south side into the home of cutting edge research. fox business kelly is in chicago. they're changing from the rust belt to the chip belt. >> this will be the world's first-ever utility scale quantum computer. 300,000 square foot campus and share the quantum computer with different companies including ibm which agreed to sign onto the plan last week. days ago we heard about google's willow chip. a quantum chip that successfully can complete tasks that would take the fastest super computers -- willow uses cube it. the utility computer running here will run on 1 million cube

its. >> it is not as power hungry as a data center. it is less demanding that a typical data center is today. >> what can quantum computers do? tackle an array of different issues, dewifing new chemical structures for drugs all the way to detecting financial fraud schemes. this project will bring more than just new jobs to this area of chicago. that's been faced with disinvestment. >> i am charged as an educator to get kids prepared for jobs that don't exist yet. part of is being on the front lines and the quantum work they're doing here and how do we prepare kids in this community who have been told to dream conservatively? >> now developers plan to break ground here early in the new year. there has been some small concern from some community members about developing a new research campus where the old steel mill was.

the epa says that it is okay to do so. dana. >> dana: kelly, thank you, very interesting. >> bill: from overseas breaking news from overnight now. nowhere is safe for putin's top brass. a high ranking general killed in moscow, igor cur love was in charge of chemicals. there was a bomb in a scooter in a russian capital. ukrainian source claimed credit saying the general was a legitimate assassination target. stay tuned for more on that 20 past now. >> the idea of preemptive strikes against iran's nuclear facility? >> will i do preemptive strikes on iran? is that a serious question? how could i answer a question like that? >> would you support israeli strikes on iran's? >> how could i tell you a thing like that now?

it is so -- you don't talk about that before something may or may not happen. i don't want to insult you. it is not something i would ever answer. >> dana: president-elect trump shutting down a question about preemptive strikes on iran not telegraphing plans weighing how to handle the middle east during his second term in the white house. brian mast is the incoming chair of the house foreign affairs committee and great to have you here. brian, we lost the congressman. i hope we can find him. brian mast from florida and he is somebody who will be taking over the house foreign affairs committee. powerful one. if he get him back he will talk about this and then also the fact that there are some democrats who apparently are upset he might not be as bipartisan as they would like him to be. >> bill: on its face why would you answer that question? >> dana: i think the press is out of practice of asking good

questions. there is a way to ask him an interesting question along the lines if i were in the reporter's shoes would you welcome this problem of iran's nuclear program being solved before you take office on january 20th? would you welcome that? he might not answer it. president trump has been very cautious and diligent in what he says and what he doesn't say about classified information even though the democrats freaked out about it before. >> bill: israelis have been clear trying to isolate iran and done an effective job, hamas, hezbollah or what they're doing in syria. >> dana: put us into a position in the middle east that we're good. congress mast joins us now. netanyahu and trump have a talk. this is president trump on how that went. >> i will comment on bibi, we had a very good talk. we discussed what is going to happen. i will be very available on january 20th and we'll see.

as you know, i gave warning if these hostages aren't back home by that date all hell is going to break out. and very strong. >> dana: could you think we're close to having some sort of hostage deal before he takes office? >> closer than ever because president trump is president trump. every foreign intelligence agency across the globe, china, iran, russia, anybody know for president trump his yes is yes, his no is no. they are rolling the dice if they try him. >> dana: the other thing is. i don't know if you were able to hear us. president trump shut down the question of whether he is for preemptive strikes on iran. do you think, is it possible that iran's nuclear program is dealt with before he takes office regardless of the united states is involved? >> i think the most likely scenario the way that is taken care of is our support for israel. our support for israel deals with what happens to the future

of iran's nuclear program. is it destroyed by some ordnance coming off the wing of an aircraft. are drone making facilities destroyed by something that comes off the wing of an aircraft that helps ukraine or oil facilities or refining capabilities destroyed by something that comes off the wing of an aircraft that puts china in a pinch. they get four to 6 million barrels of oil a day from iran and a boon for american energy if people have to look to america for their energy source. >> dana: you are about to take over the house foreign affairs committee. an important role in congress. i'm curious the different things you will talk about. to get started some democrats are questioning how bipartisan you will rule. this is a quote from an anonymous staffer. the days of bipartisanship on the committee could be over. and this is said by one staffer and a sentiment echoed by two others granted anonymity to speak freely. mast is a level headed guy but

those are rare. it doesn't happen very often. i haven't seen you by unlevel headed. what would you say to them about your plans on how you are going to approach this job? >> i would say number one america is personal to me. i damn near gave my life for this place so i will be emotionally invested and everybody else should be as well. if democrats are trying to justify taking 30% out of somebody's paycheck and then sending it to ecuador to do a drag show as diplomacy or they are taking half a million dollars and sending it to napall and saying we're helping them expand atheism. if they don't want to be bipartisan to cut those things it won't be bipartisan. we won't have any american taxpayer have to wonder why they gave their money to the government and went to do things like that. >> dana: a staffer from your office or maybe just a colleague again anonymous said you have actually been one of the people that people can work with.

that there is a way to have a conversation and get to a place where we are doing the right thing. give you the final word. >> i think the conversation is always this. number one, how does the diplomacy we're doing put american first? dollar in a diplomat that helps to put american in the right place. you ask what does america need from the country or region. do we get what we need from that country or region? if we're not we're being played for suckers and president trump doesn't want america to be played for a sucker nor do i. >> dana: i love the map behind you. keep it up. it's a good one. brian mast the incoming house foreign affairs committee chairman. merry christmas. >> bill: disturbing new concerns over human trafficking. whistleblower highlighting the plight of migrant children under the biden administration. details in a moment. the house doge caucus meeting for the first time today. the big changes they are eyeing within the federal government

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>> we have 500,000 children who have sponsors in this country that we can't find. we can't find them. we don't know if they're doing child labor or doing sex crimes or we don't know if they're being exploited. >> dana: you know they're probably not going to school. the whistleblower is stepping forward. she says the plight of migrant children under the biden-harris administration is worse than anyone could imagine. danamarie mcnick ole is live with the details. >> the woman i spoke to said she was given whistleblower

protection after coming forward to the senate with confirmed cases of child trafficking during her work within the biden administration. >> health and human services is responsible for these children. they are paid billions of dollars to insure the safety of these children and they have failed. >> debra white was a federal employee sent to california in 2021 to help caseworkers process unaccompanied children entering the country. >> what i discovered was horrifying. make no mistake, children were not going to their parents. >> the hhs mandate says unaccompanied migrant children were to be sent to pre-screened adult sponsors. speed over safety and removing background and fingerprint checks. plane tickets were handed out to get them out of processing centers. >> they were put into the hands of someone that claimed to be their aunt and she was selling the child for sex. we have documented cases of this. >> she described the situation

as a white glove delivery service for cartels. some sponsors provided addresses for banks, more red flags became apparent after her one month check in chills. >> i was responsible for picking up the kid from the airport. i gave the kid to somebody else. kid ran away from me. >> she raised concerns about contractor failures but told to never bring them up again. >> dana: thank you, we appreciate it. >> bill: let's get to florida and check this out. >> government deficiency lodge musk has been working very hard with various people including vivek. we're looking to save maybe $2 trillion and it will have no impact. it will make life better but have no impact on people. not like -- we'll never cut social security or things like that. it is just waste, fraud and abuse. >> bill: the lot of it. a big day on the hill. house doge caucus meeting for

the first time on the agenda talking about priorities for reforming government and cutting wasteful spending. a big target. see how much they can get to it. guy benson is here with us. jimmy failla, host of fox news saturday night also on radio. 2 trillion. how close can they get? >> i hope beyond the goal line. give the american people perspective. government spending is so wasteful. we brought in a president who bought a gold toilet. why do i root for them to get beyond the goal? everything they are targeting would help all us. simplifying the i.r.s. tax code. if only it was harder to fill out my taxes every year. 5 516 billion in unauthorized spending, 320 billion expired over a decade ago. that can come off the books. as trump said nobody was harmed in the making of this. >> bill: i don't think we have

any idea of how much 2 trillion is. this is crossing the wires now. speaker johnson says the stopgap funding bill will have $10 billion in funding for farmers. what's the percentage of $10 billion on 1 trillion? >> dana: compared to what other people get the farmers probably deserve it. >> my expertise cut off with the soto contract. i got nothing. >> dana: you have the first house caucus meeting today about this. now maybe you can start to receive who is bringing their to do list to the meeting and they will start to eye each other's papers. but that program is actually really good. the one in my district. >> i think it is fun and games until actual programs are on the chopping block and there is constituency out there for all of them. it can be ridiculous but someone, some special interest, some lobbyist or member will defend it. we've kind of to take the more jaded attitude on this.

i'm totally behind doge and love the idea and mission, 2 trillion is very ambitious. love for them to get there. i would love for them to start with a few things that actually get done. because how many times have we seen blue ribbon commissions in washington and look, here are good ideas and talked about and they have some press conferences and then nothing happens. i think it is important for elon and vivek and their capitol hill buddies and allies to actually yes put points on the board early to try to signal some momentum and hey it is not like it has been before. this is going to be different this time. >> bill: shrimp on a treadmill might be ridiculous but probably won't save a lot of money. ernst said the american people gave us a mandate and drain the swamp. it starts with getting the bureaucrat class to climb out of the bubble bath and put back the golf clubs and get back to work. >> if people don't come back

into the office they'll be dismissed. somebody in the biden administration gave a five year waiver of that so for five years people don't have to come back into the office. it involved 49,000 people for five years? they don't have to go? they just signed this thing. it is ridiculous. it was a gift to a union. and we are going to obviously be in court to stop it. >> bill: the reason i frame it that way is because it makes sense to me because they believe a wave of resignations will happen. people will retire or go find another job to do if they have to come back into the office. that's the logic there. >> this is the kind of popular target doge can pursue to put points on the board. when you hear about the people working from home we pay $15 billion for all of these empty federal buildings. biden authorization was such a middle finger to the taxpayer because we'll pay until 2029 so those people can day drink in their pajamas.

we're a long way from covid, hemmer. the guy from tiger king is on his fifth year in jail. he can go back to work. >> dana: you have been in washington and how dead the downtown has been. i do think there are many people who work in the civil service who are really good workers and do a great thing and everybody is getting tarred with the brush. maybe the bad apples we sign? >> i am joining today by hologram. but for the most part i think americans who work in an office or in a place business ever single day. here about the vacancy rate in these giant buildings that they are paying for in washington, d.c. and think come on. so if this can be an incentive to joni ernst point to get some people who maybe are on the cusp, not really loving their job. not doing great work. don't want to go into the office ever to maybe go find something

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>> bill: more breaking news here. waiting tsuffolk county. prosecutors charge knowledge the suspect in the gilgo beach serial killings for a seventh victim. valerie mark. remains discovered on long island in 2000, okay? wow. two dozen years later the six other victims also discovered on long island. the suspect's name is rex hoyerman. an architect working in new york city. appeared in court today pleading not guilty to all seven of these murders. something we're watching again at that case continues to unfold. that's the latest there. >> dana: historic tech

investment. president-elect trump and ceo of softbank announcing a $1 hundred billion investment into american a.i. projects. >> this historic investment is a monumental demonstration of confidence in america's future and it will help insure that artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and other industries of tomorrow are built, created and grown right here in the usa. >> dana: promising to create 100,000 jobs for the u.s. economy. we'll see how it goes. >> bill: capitol hill. breakthrough report released minutes ago targeting regulations for the a.i. industry. insuring legislative safeguards while promoting growth in the u.s. congressman leading it co-chair of the house a.i. task force, a congressman out of california. nice to have you on. good morning. i want to show our viewers. we're all learning about this at the same time. kind of doing it realtime, too, i would say. on the screen here we go. identify the issues as novelty.

protect against risks and harms. empower the government with a.i. and on and on. the point. a.i. is here. it is here to stay. how do we best utilize it in government? >> absolutely. we're trying to create a balance between protecting americans from the potential arms of a.i. while still enabling innovation in a.i. to continue to flourish and keeping the united states at the forefront of a.i. development and deployment. that's very important. >> bill: we need to stay ahead of others, moscow and beijing, don't you think? >> absolutely. a major national security issue and need to make sure america is the place where a.i. is developed and deployed. >> bill: how do you convince the people back in california 23, how do you convince them that this is the right way to go and they have nothing to fear? >> well, i wouldn't say they

have nothing to fear but we're trying to do a thoughtful job making sure we establish a government framework for a.i. that protects people while still allowing a.i. innovation to flourish. the work our task force has done over the last year i hope proves that. it is a bipartisan group of 24 lawmakers evenly split between democrats and republicans and the report was unanimously approved by the body. i hope people find it a forward-looking and detailed policy document. >> bill: if we embrace artificial intelligence, how does it help us? >> a.i. is going to be the most powerful tool for enhancing human productivity that mankind has ever invented. i believe that will create a rising wave of prosperity that lifts all of the boats in america. that's the upside. the positive potential of a.i. if we can do our job correctly at mitigating some of the potential downsides. i think that's the future that awaits us. >> bill: my next question. how do you consider what you are

doing to be a success? >> i think it will be reflected in the overall prosperity of mankind and be reflected in universal education. a.i. will be the most powerful tool for the dissemination of human knowledge that humans have ever come up with. you can measure it that way. it will be disruptive. all innovations are. the internet going back to the printing press. if we can manage that disruption in a way that enhances people's productivity and prosperity i think we will have done our jobs. >> bill: part of that job is educating people and why we wanted to bring you on here today. i imagine you've got to educate your own lawmakers republican and democrat alike. >> yes, that's absolutely true. a.i. is something new to a lot of people here in congress and one of the things i think that we have really accomplished with the a.i. task force is create a of house members engaged on the

issue. i asked the speaker when he formed the group a year ago not to send me technologists. i wanted people from a variety of different walks of life and important for me to be bipartisan but to represent all of the different policy committees in the house. i think we've accomplished that. >> bill: you have a big job. pleasure to meet you. bring you back here. the republican out of california on a.i. i'm told you are the guy. so good luck. thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> dana: tiktok is on the clock as time is running out for the major chinese tech company to either sell or face a u.s. ban. they are now desperately seeking help from an unlikely source, the united states supreme court. fox business correspondent grady trimble has the latest from washington. >> good morning to you. tiktok is asking the supreme court to temporarily pause the law that would require its chinese parent company bytedance to sell the app or face a ban. right now it has over a month to

sell or tiktok could go dark across the country the day before the inauguration. lawmakers who passed the di vestor ban law argue the social media company is a threat. it says fox business the tiktok ban results in a massive and unprecedented censorship of over 170 million americans on january 19th. estimates show that small businesses on tiktok would lose more than $1 billion in revenue and creators would suffer almost $3 hundred million in lost earnings in just one month unless the ban is halted. we have learned that president-elect trump met with tiktok ceo at mar-a-lago yesterday. hours before that meeting trump at a press conference didn't rule out stopping a ban on the app. >> we'll take a look at tiktok. i have a warm spot in my heart or tiktok. i won youth by 34 points and

there are those that say that tiktok has something to do with that. >> tiktok is asking the supreme court to weigh in by january 6th. so a pretty quick timeline, dana. >> dana: thank you so much. >> bill: there was a high stakes hearing underway on sports betting and the explosive growth across the country. that's thom tillis, senator from north carolina after the supreme court made it legal. what is next in this wrinkle? we'll tell you when we take you there live coming up next. could go up with the stock market lock in your gains? and when the market goes down, you don't lose anything. forward with your money. never backwards would have that investment strategy, that product actually existed? good news! it does! if you have at least $100,000 to invest, get your investor's guide and see if it's right for you.

>> harris: are you watching the march toward trumps. leader of foreign nations, media types and people who didn't like him all looking for an audience now with president-elect trump. a lot has definitely changed since 2016. here is one example. a democrat picked for trump's cabinet. rfk junior on capitol hill again today taking on the doubters. they say his confirmation is a

sure thing. senator ron johnson sat down with r.f.k. junior and joins me in "the faulkner focus" at the top of the hour. >> bill: see you then. the president of the ncaa testifying on the growth of betting in sports. something else, too. rich edson has the story in d.c. what are they saying? >> there sure is a lot more money in sports betting. legal. in 2018 the supreme court struck down the ban on supports gambling. the senate judiciary committee is looking into effects of this rapid increase in legal sports gambling. ncaa president charlie baker is testifying before the committee saying gamblers are harassing and threatening student athletes and state governments need to step in. >> we believe that when betters can't gamble on college athletes individual performances they are

far less likely to attempt to scrutinize and harass student athletes. >> problem gambling has risen. ban sports books from advertising during live sporting events. the industry calls it a slap in the face that they add billions to state coffers and protect students from neighborhood bookies. >> bill: it is taking off. rich edson in washington. >> dana: crazy scene in southern california. check this out. a driver plowing their car into a swimming pool but it was inside. this was at a gym. the driver was the only person in the car. they suffered minor injuries. no one was in the pool thank goodness. how does that happen? >> yeah. lucky to get out. >> dana: you hit the gas instead of the brake? drive instead of park or reverse whatever? >> bill: a different way to do

laps. >> dana: you can imagine the toe truck driver. i have to do what? >> bill: give me backup. let's roll it here before we go. say hello to the black bear. settling down for a long winter's nap. hello stone national park. the bear squeezing into his den and covers himself in dirt and grass. bears sleep for up to 100 days without food or water. >> dana: that's what i'll need to do after christmas. >> bill: no doubt. time for a diet, right? >> dana: exactly. yesterday i was able to talk to john, a great guy, super knowledgeable about d.c. perino on politics and expectations sky high and what is actually possible. we ended on a high note in case you are wondering. >> bill: positive there. >> dana: everyone have a good day. harris faulkner is up next. here she is. >> harris: if you are keeping score, president biden can't touch this legacy. president-elect donald trump in

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