airport security? >> obviously just depends. pick any major airport in new york or miami is probably actually the worst. i try to avoid like like the plague, to be honest. the best is some that get less traffic. a place like phoenix i find to be easy to get through. if you have clear and pre-check and things like that la scrags. i'm in los angeles. i get through security in a couple of minutes. not so bad if you take the necessary precautions. >> dana: lee, i will endeavor to travel in a carry-on. not happening. happy new year to you as well. thanks for joining our show. bye-bye. it is a hectic morning on the hill. house republicans preparing a new bill to prevent a shutdown. is the third time a charm? we'll see. i'm dana perino. >> bill: like that guy, checks his golf clubs. >> dana: jess watters says he

never takes a carry-on. never lost a bag. free as a bird. he lived a charmed life as we know. >> bill: the seventh inning. i'm bill hemmer, good morning. americans scrambling to get this done. deadline is midnight. president trump and musk are putting the screws to them at least by way of messaging, right? speaker johnson is protecting confidence as of earlier today. >> will there be a vote today? >> we're expecting a vote this morning. stay tuned. >> bill: we have a plan. aishah hasnie is on the hill with said plan. good morning as we begin a new hour. will there be a vote this hour? >> good morning to you. remember i said there was going to be a 10:00 a.m. vote? it is 10:00 a.m. and nobody is on the floor because this vote is now in question and we're not sure exactly what's going on. they are also huddled up inside speaker johnson's office meeting

with the house freedom caucus members, the folks that were the hard nose last night. he is also meeting with trump's pick for omb director the nominee russell vogt is in there a representation of the president-elect. i have not yet heard a concrete answer on how long this potential clean cr might be. that might be the hang-up right now that they are discussing inside the speaker's office. what i can tell you at this hour about the clean cr we've been hearing about all morning it will be a continuation of the budget that we are under currently. how to fund the government. there is no debt ceiling attached to this. that was the big ask from donald trump. they would kick that basically to the new year, to the new congress and no disaster relief or farm aid included in this, either. that would affect those very vulnerable and hard-hit states.

remember, last night johnson tried to tie the debt limit to the cr, the skinny cr, can 100 page cr that musk and trump endorsed and it didn't go well. it was a poison pill and you had 38 republicans that rejected in. we're watching the democrats also meeting at this hour right now. they are huddling together to try to figure out what they are going to do. they don't have a deal in their hands. they aren't even being negotiated with. no one is reaching out to them from the house gop conference. we don't know what they will do. if there is a vote it comes up under suspension and republicans will lead the democrats' help as well. we're just waiting and watching to see what comes out of speaker johnson's office. if we finally see that white smoke as they say. if we have an answer and perhaps we'll be able to bring it to you live in your hour. >> bill: we're waiting on the pope then. we might need the pope, a little intervention here. is it safe to say that with an

incoming administration that is so hell bent on bringing spending down that nothing is going to come out of the house because republicans have a slim majority there that will contribute to more spending? that's what this election was all about, am i right on that or not? >> i have think you raise an interesting point, bill. you know, think about what they are arguing over now. the debt ceiling. this issue wasn't supposed to come up until summer anyway. they have plenty of time to get to trump's agenda all the things he wants to do on the border and tax cuts. so many different things they could have had 100 days of a lot of wins which is what the priority is. i was talking to a member this morning and asking him why would you guys want to kick this to the beginning of the new year when you all get -- you become the majority in the house, the senate. he comes into office. why would you want to deal with the debt ceiling then instead of waiting until summer?

he just replied this is now the priority of the president. it would make sense to deal with it now in the lame duck under the democrats' rule because then you could just get it off the table, clear the deck and then he can just move on with whatever he wants to do next and not worry about it. this is posing to be an issue they'll have to deal with in the new year. >> bill: okay, pope francis is online, too, for you, aishah. >> we're all praying. >> bill: nice to see you on the hill. >> dana: amid the funding drama president biden is increasingly stepping away from the spotlight as his term winds down amid a blistering report that the white house has been keeping him in the shadows for years intentionally. the "wall street journal" reporter joined us last hour. >> a lot in this piece that came to light after the initial story that came out and after the debate. we have found that over the past few weeks and months democrats

have become much more willing to come forward and talk about their experiences with the president and with this white house. >> dana: madeleine rivera is live at the white house with more. >> the silence from president biden is especially stark as the government barrels towards a shutdown. no comments from the president about this issue. the press secretary is filling the void. karine jean-pierre saying on thursday republicans are doing the bidding of their billionaire benefactors at the expense of hard working americans. she goes on to say that president biden supports the bipartisan agreement that house speaker mike johnson hammered out with democrats to keep the government open. nbc reports the white house has been coordinating strategy with democratic leadership in congress but white house officials believe that this is ultimately a problem for president-elect trump and republicans to solve after he encouraged them to sink the initial deal. as the president keeps a low profile president biden's

decline had been apparent in the early months of his presidency. he became tired and interactions with cabinet members were infrequent and tightly scripted. the white house pushing back and the president insists he will stay involved. >> president biden: i keep fighting. we aren't going away. we're not going away. i'm not going away. i'll be deeply involved in all the things i've been involved in before. a lot of people, too, that are doing that. >> the biden administration is making plans in case there is a shutdown. the office of management and budget has been in touch with federal agencies to see what they intend to do. >> dana: thank you so much. let's bring in "fox news sunday" anchor shannon bream on this. it is almost like it was an open secret in d.c. that's not outrageous. i was thinking about lloyd austin had to have some treatment for prostate cancer and didn't tell the white house.

nobody. the press finds out they have had no communication and in this story in the "wall street journal" it is revealed that for the two most important cabinet secretaries, department of defense and the department of treasury, biden had to have scripted conversations and interactions with them on the two most important issues. >> that's if they could even get access to him. there were cabinet secretaries that would go months if not longer without seeing the president or having conversations with him. within washington the fact that -- that's a conversation that shocks, i think, everybody to know that the detail, the level of just the insulation around him. it begs all these questions how people sat back when he decided more than a year ago that he was going to run for another four years and there were serious questions whether he was handling the duties now. i think that a lot of people need to answer for how they backed that effort to go for another four years when there were so many questions about his current day status. good days and bad days. that's not what you want for a

commander-in-chief. >> bill: i want to play the sound bite in a second but to recall when he first went to the oval office, it was during covid and they had this meeting room set up across the driveway and viewers couldn't see it but you knew he was talking to a camera on the other side with a script. in all likelihood in a teleprompter. we work in the business and know when someone is talking off the cuff and when someone is reading a teleprompter. that's what he was doing. here is the question whether or not he has regrets. go. >> any other regrets that you have? anything you wish you would have done differently? >> president biden: i guess if i thought a lot about it there would be something i would have. but not generically. i set out to do two things. restore america's leadership in the world. i think we've done that. and two, to generate opportunity

for ordinary people to have a shot in the economy. i think we've done that as well. >> bill: if that's his two markers, how is history going to look at that? middle class americans and global affairs. >> outside of that, you can't immediately identify regrets with respect to the withdrawal in afghanistan. those gold star families i can't imagine hearing that answer. we all grieve and honor them but so many people who were desperately injured and will have life long wounds and pain emotional and physical. i can't believe that did not come, we could have managed that better. when you talk about opportunity, what did all of our polls show going into the election and all the fox news voter analysis? people didn't want to pay for groceries and rent. >> dana: 30 days left for him to be president. there is that. not like his staff isn't trying

to do a lot of things. them trying to push out the green new deal projects and trying to block trump from being able to repeal the lng export ban. also this, the "wall street journal" says the lameest of lame ducks move he discuss also the bipartisan deal for new federal judgeships. what is happening here, the judicial issue. >> we all know this is something that lives way beyond the term of a president or terms of a president. this is something that decades later your judges are still sitting on the bench. there was a deal with bipartisan support to add more judges to the federal bench. now that the election is over and you know you would sign a bill to give president trump more judges on the bench sounds like the white house is signaling president biden doesn't feel like doing it. >> dana: wow. there is -- what's happening sunday? >> we're working on the speaker. we'll see his status by sunday. we're talking about him about coming on.

>> dana: merry christmas, you're an angel. love you. bye. happy new year. the feds raid and alleged migrant gang house in the bronx. >> bill: putin offering a potential olive branch to trump. >> why is putin saying something like that? the reason is -- people are not aware of the significant setbacks he is suffering. observance inside of russia recognize russia will have a major problem. >> dana: the teamsters strike against amazon continues. how will this affect deliveries before christmas day? percy would like to know. look at this craftmanship. i mean they even got my nostrils right. it's just nice to know that years after i'm gone this guy will be

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are in no mood to try to save the republicans from themselves. they are taking the page why should we help? they might have vulnerable senators for next year who would be in a position where they need to try to get some trump voters to vote for them if they hope for re-election. at this point they'll wait to see if the house figures something out. >> bill: we were making the point about the house not doing anything to add more money to the debt. you can do that but you don't know what will come of that bill on the senate side. they are at a stalemate right now. it could be for some time. >> dana: we'll keep you posted. >> bill: a raid in the broncos in new york that led to the police that led to the arrest two dozen men with suspected ties to that violent venezuelan gang tren de aragua. the bus bust was made possible

after police tracked an ankle monitor from a 28-year-old venezuelan national with three prior arrests. see if they got him. cb cotton is live in new york with more. what's the story? >> good morning. a law enforcement source tells me officers raided two separate locations here in the city leading to the arrest of 22 suspected tren de aragua gang members. the "new york post" reports that officers tracked one of the suspects ankle monitors to this apartment in the bronx being used as a hideout. some of the men had wracked up multiple arrests in separate states after crossing the border. this bust comes after another raid in late november which led to the arrest of these two confirmed tren de aragua gang members. ice telling me at the time both of the men crossed illegally into the country last year and were wanted in aurora, colorado. when police say they and other armed men tried to break into an

apartment as seen on this video. that same apartment complex this week made headlines again when a man and woman were pistol whipped and tortured there. ice tells me at least 16 suspected gang members were taken into custody in connection with that incident this week. back in april fox was there as federal agents busted three suspected tren de aragua gang members at this bronx apartment. new york city mayor eric adams met with incoming border czar tom homan just last week and say they're ready to work together to remove illegal migrants who commit violent crimes. homan has said he doesn't understand why more leaders are not on board. >> i'm shocked that other mayors and other governors who want to put up roadblocks. i can't believe any elected official doesn't want to remove public safety threats from their communities. >> as for these latest arrests here in the city, federal agencies tell us the investigation is ongoing.

bill. >> bill: more on that. intriguing, thanks, here in new york city. >> we have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 u.s. troops deployed to syria. in light of the situation in syria and the significant interest, we recently learned those numbers were higher. there are proximate life 2,000 troops in syria. >> dana: it is double what defense officials and have been there for months before the fall of the assad regime. fox news contributor dan hoffman joins me now. an exchange between jennifer griffin and ryder. >> double the number of troops we've been told for quite some time. has this been going on for months or years or something that happened this summer? we need a time frame. >> i think it would probably be

fair to say at a minimum months. i will go back and look. but it's, yeah, it's been going on for a while. >> was the president aware that there were 2,000 troops in syria? >> i won't speak about the white house. >> dana: what do you think happened here? >> i think that the pentagon didn't do a great job of keeping the american people up to date on our growing footprint in syria. small footprint. 2,000. i was in iraq when we had 100,000 troop. we aren't trying to bring democracy to syria or build girls schools like afghanistan. this is dealing with threats to our country from chemical weapons stockpiles and the rising threat of terrorism. so that those -- that military footprint is there to find, fix and finish threats before they cause harm to our people in the region and here in the homeland. >> dana: what do you think about how that is going especially

we'll talk about putin and ukraine in a moment. russia figuring out a way how to get out of there as well? >> right, we have an opportunity right now to achieve some strategic victories to deny iran that land bridge to lebanon so they can provide hezbollah with mill temporary equipment. that's no longer possible right now. we can insure russia no longer operates bases in syria, naval base and air base. that would limit russia's ability to project power. and we've got to deal with the terrorist threat, the rising threat of drug sales from the assad regime and the chemical weapons stockpile. we need to be diplomatically engaged and with our allies. any post conflict reconstruction assistance contingent who runs syria, hts or other groups eliminating any russian presence in country and denying iran that ability to use syria for their

own nefarious purposes. we don't have to send more troops what diplomatically engaged. >> dana: if trump wants more abraham accords this footprint is needed? >> i think so because if we can show that we have the throw weight diplomatically with american soft power which is so powerful in that region, we could potentially bring in the gulf states and saudi arabia into a deal. i think everything in the middle east is so intertwined in a way and israel's security very much at risk in syria as well. >> dana: let's listen to what putin said about him being possibly ready to have a conversation finding an end in ukraine. watch. >> you asked what we can offer or what i can offer to the newly elected president trump when we meet. first of all, i don't know when we will meet because he hasn't said anything about it.

i haven't spoken to him at all in over four years. of course, i'm ready for this at any time and i will be ready for a meeting if he wants it. >> dana: how do you see this playing out in the first few weeks of 2025? >> well, i think there will be some discussions. i think that our new envoy for the region, general kellogg, will have those discussion with senior russian officials. putin would like to sit down for a summit with president-elect trump. putin is portrayed the war in ukraine, which he started, to impose a sphere of influence with a military invasion of a sovereign neighbor as a fight between russia and the united states. nothing could be farther from the truth there. a meeting with the president of the united states allows putin to portray himself as being able to stand toe-to-toe with a global super power, which russia is not. their gdp is the size of italy. russia is feeling the pressure

of rising interest rates and inflation and unbalanced wartime economy and eventually putin is going to have to stop the war and then try to rearm and reequip his country. >> dana: dan hoffman, thank you for being here and all your contributions to our show and a merry christmas to you and your family. >> thanks, same to you. >> dana: see you in 2025. >> bill: israeli troops now getting word dismantling five miles of underground tunnels used by hamas. three tunnels in northern gaza were built well below ground including living quarters as well. the idf found maps of israeli communities near the gaza strip. equipment taken by hamas on october 7th and found several machine guns and dozens of grenades. that is not over yet. >> dana: wow. it is going to be another expensive christmas at the kitchen table. egg prices rose 8.2% last month. smaller price hikes for meat,

poultry and fish. egg prices are up because of disruption of supply due to bird flu. there is little relief in sight. higher costs will persist into next year. we've been hearing about eggs from bartiromo. >> bill: greg abbott making it clear to migrants that law will be enforced in his state. a new strategy that you can read on a billboard. long before you hit the southern border. a former u.s. border patrol officer will join us. elon musk whipping lawmakers over a pork-filled spending bill. is the doge co-leader changing the way washington works already?

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are leading to charge to cut wasteful government spending. >> good morning, that sunlited great. now we heard from musk and president-elect donald trump on this spending bill congress is currently debating but not heard from president biden nor his vice president. the republican house speaker says he wants to cut government excess like elon musk does. >> we're committed to cutting hundreds of billions of wasteful spending out of the federal budget. the doge effort with musk and ramaswamy, the commitments that president trump made on the campaign trail will come to fruition. >> 4:15 a.m. tweet by musk early wednesday morning was the first salvo the killed the 1500 page spending bill. democrats are asking who is in charge of the gop right now? >> it really is the reminder who now runs the republican party. and it is musk. he is the one who started tweeting at 4:30 this morning

what a bad deal this was and how terrible it was. donald trump trails along much, much later and says yeah, terrible deal. >> there are two types of spending. discretionary and mandatory. something people have accused schumer of violating discretionary spending. the mandatory spending is medicare, social security and vet benefits. president trump doesn't want that touched. cutting 2 trillion from 30% is a tall order. >> dana: thanks for the assist on the broncos this morning. take care. >> they were close. >> already close to crossing the border illegally, we have

billboards providing warning messages in mexico. they are arrayed across mexico but especially along the northern border of mexico. one says stop, if you cross the border illegally into texas you will be jailed. another warns don't come to texas illegally. you will be arrested. >> bill: that's the governor of texas, greg abbott trying to change things. rolling out a strategy trying to discourage illegals putting up billboards in places like mexico and further south in central america warning folks don't come. a former u.s. border patrol chief. you were telling us during the commercial break you did it during the obama years or something similar. did it work? will this work? >> well, it will work in the sense of greg abbott will back up the words that are on these billboards with action. then after january 20th you will

have policies enumerated by the federal government to solidify what he is trying to accomplish. deter people from coming to the southwest border like they have been for the last four years. previous iterations when we did public affairs messaging down south, you couldn't see a return on investment. what he is doing here is battling in the information campaign to counter what the smugglers are saying. you can imagine now in places in the third world there are smugglers and criminal cartels saying now is time to come because when donald trump takes over all things will change. we saw a reduction in activity when trump got elected in 1.0. before he was in office between november and january 20th there was a marked difference in the level of traffic coming to the southwest border. so the smugglers will play it both ways. get in before trump's policies will come into effect. pay us now and we'll take you to

the border and abbott is combating that with jailing people if they come in illegally to texas. >> bill: i want to throw numbers at you. here we go, ice deport evidence 271,000 illegals to 192 different countries. of those, 88,000, 33% had criminal histories, 237 were known or suspected terrorists. okay, here is another one. ice deportations in 2024, 47,000 assaults, 16,000 sexual assaults, on and on the numbers go. ice deportations in 2024, are you ready? 271,484. that number sounds impressive to me but a lot of this i think was apparently stops at the border.

you just turned people away. now, i mean, you go ahead and crunch the numbers, in 2024, did this administration change its ways? >> it did change at the end right before the election. they put in policies that would deter or send people back into mexico. they opened a legal pathway which is an abuse of the parole system in the united states. i'm not impressed by the numbers or the statistics because we are still at great risk. those criminal statistics that you showed what was in the removal numbers show us how dangerous the people in the pipeline can be. it is not just people looking for a better life in america from the third world. it is also people taking advantage of the situation of a chaotic border and some of them are involved in criminal activity or suspected terrorists. >> bill: thank you for coming on. we'll lean on you in the new

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>> bill: does it have to have american made or not? >> dana: probably. i loved coming to america. that was a great movie. >> bill: i always talked about a film i think it is german made called lives of others. 1982. east berlin. the effects of communism can be so repressive on the intellectual and emotional aspect. >> dana: did home alone make the list? yours is also german. >> bill: it is pretty heavy, too. >> dana: i love obscure foreign independent films. nobody wants to watch them with me. do you? >> bill: i do. >> dana: we'll plan a date. plan b failed. now plan c is on the table. stay with us as we await a house vote to avert a government shutdown. rtioned packs makes it really easy to keep him lean and healthy.

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>> bill: we have 10:4two in new york. breaking now the man convicted of murdering two teenage girls in indiana in 2017 now sentenced to 130 years behind bars. garrett tenney is there live now with more. >> richard allen, 52 years old will spend the rest of his life

in prison assuming that he is not able to get an appeal, which his defense team is already working on after the sentence. they left the courthouse right after this sentencing but they have maintained all along that the real killer is still out there and that richard allen did not do this. a jury disagreed unanimously convicting him of these murders of the 213-year-old girls back in 2017. cameras and electronics were not allowed in the courtroom but a sense of some of what happened from the pool reporter. at one point the judge told allen you continue to roll your eyes at me as you have throughout this entire trial and told him you rank right up there with the most hideous crimes i've seen in 27 years on the bench. later this hour we'll get a chance to hear from the families of both girls and prosecutors for the first time since this trial got underway since a gag order is now lifted. >> bill: breaking news there. garrett tenney in indiana. back to you with more when it

comes our way. >> this is not what america wants. november 5th was a decisive defeat for the democratic party. she lost every single swing state. kamala harris is indulging in delusions of running for governor of california or president in 2028. america said we don't want to be coconut pilled or don't want kamala harris and failed border policies. >> bill: dnc fundraiser calling a flag on the play. she was with us yesterday on our program. afraid democrats are ignoring the election loss staring them in the face throwing support behind kamala harris for 2028. guy benson. part of the reason we brought her on is because yvette lewis, a member of the dnc executive panel said this. i would be on board 100% with whatever she decides to do. she is a phenomenal person and phenomenal candidate. we were able to turn things around so quickly and that's the testament to her.

part of the reason this is in the news she gave a big speech this week before getting around -- getting out for the holidays. what is her future? >> i don't know. that last take that you read is dell delusional and ran a flawless campaign? that's crazy. the republicans would welcome another coconut tree endeavor leading to kamala harris getting to her party again. a very untalented candidate who sort of fell her way into the vice presidency, having failed terribly when she ran for president for real the first time and she improved on joe biden's disastrous standing. everyone could see his condition. he is physically unable and mentally unable to be president right now let alone for the next four years. they had no choice but to stick

her in there. look at the results. look at her performances in virtually every interview she ever did. if the democrats want to walk that plank again, go for it. i think most democrats will decisively go in another direction. >> dana: we talked to the "wall street journal" piece reporter in june and how the white house staff was hiding his lack of capabilities from the country. kamala harris was a part of that. since the election aside from giving two pretty mediocre speeches, i'm being generous, she has taken to her bed and not done anything else. a big spending fight on capitol hill right now. they are nowhere to be found. hakeem jeffries is the leader of the democrats now in the house. so it is hard for me to imagine that she wants to be relevant when she is choosing not to be relevant now. >> they're not pretending the govern. we're all talking about trump and the republicans and elon musk and all that is very

interesting but there is like this asterisk, the sitting president still is joe biden, sitting vice president is kamala harris. they are totally m.i.a. she is giving these speeches. mediocre is generous. that's what she is capable of. joe biden is taking naps and pardoning criminals in the homestretch of his presidency and people on the hill republicans and democrats are fighting this out over what to do about government spending. since you mentioned the "wall street journal" article, remember the backlash that the journal got for publishing that before that first debate? people were clutching their pearls, journalists were saying this is terrible and unethical. democrats are really mad and it was all vindicated june 27th in 20 minutes on a debate stage. >> dana: all those white house staffers that tried to trash the reporters at the "wall street journal" are currently looking for jobs. beware, employers. >> bill: thank you, guy. merry christmas. thank you. >> merry christmas, guys. >> bill: airports across the

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>> harris: merry christmas, happy hanukkah. we have a few hours away for congress to pass a spendsing bill to avoid a government shutdown. president-elect donald trump and doge, department of government efficiency leaders, are flexing their power slashing an original agreement by hundreds of pages. the first one was 1500 plus, now 116. they cut fat out of that. democrats don't like it. president biden is largely awol. critics are calling for him to stop quiet quitting. former house speaker newt

gingrich, who has seen the scenario like what we are living through a time or two. dr. chaffetz, dr. marc siegel. a great hour of "the faulkner focus" next. >> dana: whether you are hitting the road or taking a flight to get home for the holidays you want to pack your patience. aaa predicting more than 119 million americans will travel between this weekend and new year's day. alicia acuna is live at denver international airport. how is it looking there? did they fix the security line ever? >> they are fixing the security lines here and expanding for this airport that you know very well, as do i. d.i.a. is actually the third busiest in north america. it's actually across the nation this holiday season will be the busiest since the year 2,000. get ready to hurry and up pate.

tsa expects to screen nearly 40 million people between yesterday december 19th and the day after new year's. they have added overtime, additional staff. f.a.a. will be using airspace typically reserved for the military to keep sky traffic flowing. t.s.a. will do everything in its power to keep wait times reasonable but there will be long lines. >> use that time wisely. while you are in the line think about removing things from your pocket an placing items in carry-on bag and you have less bins or trays to worry about. it is better for security. >> of course, these t.s.a. agents are federal government employees. as americans wait on congress to get a spending bill across the finish line the question becomes what's the impact on holiday travel? according to the department of homeland security if the government shuts down, quote, air traffic controllers and t.s.a. officers would be

required to work without pay potentially leading to significant delays and longer wait times for travelers at airports across the country based on what occurred during previous shutdowns. if that stresses you out we ran into octoberly in denver, part of the volunteer therapy squad. >> dana: why an eye mask? >> goggles. part of the personality. i don't know if the dog likes it. >> dana: we see a lot of dogs here. that is the only question i have. thank you and merry christmas. >> bill: now before we get out of here, last year around this time we gave you predictions for what we thought 2024 would hold. i can't even remember what i said, can you? >> dana: i got one right. >> bill: here we go back into the crystal ball. ladies first, roll it. >> dana: there will be a royal wedding.

it will be taylor swift and trav ifs kelsey. they'll get engaged. i think aaron rodgers wins one game this season. and i believe that niad, a movie that friends of mine were the directors and producers of, somebody will win an oscar. >> dana: okay. how did it go? taylor and travis didn't get engaged. that was not correct. they teased us about it constantly. aaron rodgers won four games this season. >> bill: checking the record. good. >> dana: they did not win an oscar but got nominated. great movie. i would recommend it. >> bill: all right. let's go to hemmer. this is from last year and roll it. >> taylor and travis break up. i predict republicans take the house and the senate. i have no clue who wins the white house. >> dana: okay. >> bill: i don't think there

will be a peace deal in ukraine and hemmer and perino will not be replaced by a.i. >> dana: yet. >> bill: yet indeed. i was wrong on the breakup. stay tuned. i was right on congress. how about that? i'll take that. i was right no deal in ukraine. and i was right about a.i. not replacing us yet. >> dana: that's kind of an easy one, the last one. >> bill: i think i bought myself a little elbow room there. >> dana: here are mine coming up for this year. i think there will be a supreme court vacancy. i don't know who it will be but i think there will be a supreme court vacancy and a breakthrough in alzheimer's disease treatment. a lot of good science out there. i feel like we're on the tipping point of some great treatment possibly even prevention of alzheimer's. kim kardashian will run for office from california somewhere for some office. could be governor. i think taylor swift will write a musical and save broadway.

>> bill: save broadway? okay. noted. here we go for the hemmer. the dow will hit 50,000. >> dana: is that hopeful? >> bill: shy of 43,000. it is a bit of a contrarian view. i didn't say it will stay above 50,000 but hit it. middle east peace deal will not materialize. i think it will take more time. tiktok will survive. >> dana: i agree. it won't be owned by the chinese. >> bill: or they divest and owned by american company. taylor and travis yet again. i look at this for the "new york post" talking about engagement ring on her finger and photo shopped out. >> dana: maybe the musical is about a marriage or a breakup. we'll be back here next year to let me know how you did. merry christmas and happy new year to everybody. we love having you on this wild ride with us. >> harris: 11:59:59 tonigh