immediately designate the cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. we're going to do it immediately. [cheers and applause] and and we'll unleash the full power of federal law enforcement, i.c.e., border patrol. how good is -- by the way, how go is tom homan, right? if. [cheers and applause] he's phenomenal. i've known him a long time. i'll bet you sheriff joe likes tom homan, right, sheriff joe? yes? yep. he goes, yep. the dea, the fbi, the intelligence committee community to remove the migrant gangs that are killing and raping and maiming our citizens, we're going to get 'em out. we have no choice. we have no choice, by the way. i don't want to do that, but we have no choice. last thing i want to do, could have been so much easier.

the election wasn't rigged, it would have been a much difference thing. but this will show something. this is going to show how we do it and how good we are. you know, we showed how the opposite philosophy runs a country. and it wasn't good. they had an approval if rating, today it was 14%. nobody's ever heard, nobody's ever had an approval rating of 14 -- that's the lowest approval rating. and we're going to have a very high -- in fact, we already have a very high approval rating. we're way up, way, way, way up, higher hand anybody as of this -- we will end the occupation and january 20th will truly be liberation day in america. is that okay? liberation day. [cheers and applause] and this great liberation will be in honor of all of the victims of migrant crime and all of the angel moms and angel dads who have lost their really

incredible kids. you know, heir going around for years -- they're going around for years and years, and i talk to them all the time. i know so many of them. and many of them are here. and we can just say we love you, woo -- we're with you. hay had so little help from the politicians on the other side. we're joined today by patty morin, the mother of rachel morin, who you know all about, a beautiful mother of five who was murdered by an illegal alien monster who entered our country under the open border policies of the biden administration. your border czar was not too good. your border czar. that was not tom homan, i can tell you. but, patty, those days are over, and they will soon be over, i hope, we're just not gonna have -- how can you say never again, but we're going to have as few as possible. it's going to be the rough, and it's going to be rough on the ones that do that kind of damage

to you and to our country. where is patty? is she here someplace? i just want to thank her. hi, patty. thank you very much. thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. [applause] thank you, darling. do you want to come up for a second, patty? huh? do you want to come up? [cheers and applause] she's -- i had lunch with patty, and she's suffered, she's suffered greatly. i said, let me help you with your eyes, because i want to help her with her eyes. she has an eye situation that can be fixed with some medical help. many of them can't be fixed. i said, patty, get your eyes taken care of. i'll take care of it. i hope you got it done. did you have it done yet, patty? that's great. oh, you look good, patty. [laughter] be careful.

[applause] did you have your eyes done yet, patty? huh -- she's gonna get 'em done in january. >> thank you. [applause] thank you. the first time i met president trump in person, he invited us to lunch, my attorney and i. and to be honest, i didn't do anything, i just sat there. i didn't really speak because i wanted to watch the man and listen to to what he had to say and what his conversation was like, because i knew he wasn't a politician, but i knew that he had been president before, and i wanted to see if he was a real, authentic man who actually cared for the american people.

and so i watched him, i watched how he interacted. i also watched how much his staff really respected him and how much his staff the loved working for him. but the things -- [applause] that changed the way that i looked at him as a person was i realized that he was a dad, that he was a grandfather, and when you spoke to him, you could see if his eyes that he genuinely cared about his fellow human being. [applause] but the thing, the thing i appreciate the most is that he heard the cries of a mother, and he cared. pleasure -- [applause] and he made a promise that he was going to protect us and that

he was going to help us. and that's all, that's all you can ask from your president but also just from a fellow human being. and so i personally, i am so honored to know this man and to think of you as a friend. [cheers and applause] [inaudible conversations] [cheers and applause] >> patty! patty! patty! [applause]

>> thank you very much. she's been through hell. who wouldn't be, i mean, so many people. i call 'em angel moms. they are, they go through hell. and many of 'em say it doesn't get any better, but we have to to hope it does get better. also with us is a very special guy, the president of the national border patrol council, paul perez. he's incredible. [applause] he's doing a fantastic job, and he wants to do the right job. hey, paul, come on up here, paul, quick. quickly. [applause] if paul, in one month the patriots of border patrol but once -- are once again have a president who will back you and will have you, and we're going to work together as we have done in the past. [applause] you know, we had the safest border in the history of our

country, and you remember the famous sign that i pulled down. that sign was about how good with the border was. i haven't used that sign much lately. well, we won, so i guess i don't have to use it, but we really do have to use it because the fact is that we have to have strong, safe borders, and we have to have men like this, and women, who are doing an unbelievable job. i've gotten to to know a lot of them. i tell you what, they're tougher than i am. [laughter] i don't want to mess with 'em, right? but this man has done as the head and also replacing a very good guy we know that, right? and he's going to have a good life, i hope. he's going to -- because he was a very special guy, and you're a special guy. say a few words, please, paul. [applause] >> i mean, we're back. [cheers and applause] america is back. the strength and security that

donald trump brings to the white house is what we've needed. he's done it before, he's going to do it again. we're going to make all of these communities safe, and like tom hohmann said, if you're not -- tom homan if said, if you're not going to help, get the hell out of the way. [applause] donald trump is by far the best president in the history of this country, and he's going to show everybody exactly why. thank you. [cheers and applause] >> thank you very much, paul and and everybody. brandon judd, all of the people, they do such an incredible job. we're also pleased to be joined by a man who just also -- we really did well in texas, and i heard ted's speech. and he can come up and speak more if he wants or he can,, you know, ted's going to be going to a big event in a little while.

where's ted cruz, is he here? he's here someplace. ted? oh. oh, he's in trouble. [laughter] [cheers and applause] he's in -- [laughter] no, he was, he was here. oh. oh, good. [laughter] ms. -- [applause] he's not in trouble. [laughter] >> keep texas, texas. amen. [cheers and applause] and i've got to say, this election has given president donald j. trump a republican, a republican house a clear mandate to deliver on our promises. [cheers and applause] one month from today the

president trump will secure the border. [cheers and applause] we are going to bring back jobs, we are going to lower prices, we are going to protect american families, we're going to put criminals in jail, we are going to keep our kids safe. we are going to end foreign wars with victory. [applause] and i'll tell you with, mr. president, the results of this election, seven battleground states, you won all seven. [applause] the people elected a republican senate and a republican house to have your back, and we are going to deliver results. [applause] and if i can speak parochially for a minute, one of the most consequential things that happened in this race in texas, you won profoundly in texas, and

both you and i won a majority of hispanic votes in the great state of texas. [cheers and applause] that is unprecedented, that is generational change, and it demonstrates that we are going to protect our nation, we are going to to bring our country back, and we are going to to make america great again. [cheers and applause] >> he's a great, he's actually a great guy. was really out there working -- oh, i'm so glad he was here. oh. [laughter] that was an amazing moment. [laughter] but we want to thank him. he had a great race.

he did a fantastic job against, like, $250 million spent against him. but texas was very special, and it will remain very special. really excellent people. [applause] great people. and the governor's doing a fantastic job in texas, senator. [applause] if dan patrick and everybody, attorney general. also i want to bring up if i could or just say hello to him, he's on the outskirts because you've got a lot of people in this room. you've got a lot more people outside than you have in the room. the rnc chairman, michael whatley, who was so fantastic. [applause] and what he did with lara, the two of them were so great. where's michael? come on up, michael. come here. this guy did some job. [applause]

>> it takes three things to win in a battleground state. number one, you gotta get out the vote. number two, you gotta protect the ballot. and number three, you have to have a great candidate. who runs a great race. [applause] the people in this room helped us get out the vote, they helped us protect the ballot. we would not have been able to win all those battleground states without you. but when it comes to having a great candidate who runs a great race, there is simply nobody better, ever, than the 45th and now-47th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! [cheers and applause]

>> thank you very much. he really has, he really has, and lara, have done an incredible job. what a pleasure. they were fighting. they had so many lawyers, they were fighting the enemy like you wouldn't believe. i mentioned tom homan, but special he's going to do so well, a friend of mine who i haven't seen in a little while, matt gaetz is here. where's matt? he's around here someplace. matt gaetz. he's got a big career set up and just want to say hello to matt. arizona gop chair gina somewhat boat that. wow -- [applause] gina? where's gina? because we're going to be backing gina to run again. there she is. gina? [applause] gina, are you going to run again? yes? because if you do, you have my if endorsement.

[cheers and applause] so that should be good. if thank you. thank you, darling. great job, you've done. a great professional golfer, friend of mine, he's really a good golfer, tom per niece is here space. tom, wherever you -- someplace. wherever you maye. tom. don't play him i a fantastic --s trish? she's one of my great friends. thank you very much. she helped, trisha's helped us so, at a level that very few people is can even dream of. trish duggan. where's trish? thank you, trish. i think i see kari lake. is that kari lake? hi, kari. stand up. [cheers and applause] good job. worked hard.

that was, she had a -- a good woman. and she's going to be doing something very big. maybe bigger. it's a big one that the you have, so good luck with it. you're going to do well. going to to turn that around like nobody saw i before, so thank you very much for accepting it. sergio with gore, a friend of mine who's to doing a fabulous job leading the presidential personnel. finish he's really working hard. where's sergio? he's around here someplace. sergio. where is he? hi, sergio. good job you're doing. we have some big announcements over the next few days too, big ones. a great actor who's been with us for a long time even when it wasn't fashionable, rob schneider. [cheers and applause] rob. he was here with a few of his friends when it wasn't quite as fashionable, right, rob? but you were here. thank you very much. great job you're doing too. karen robison, where is karen?

karen is here, and she's, i hear, running for governor. she's going to be running for governor. where's karen? hi, karen. hello, karen. are you running for governor? i think so, karen. because if you do, you're going to have my if support, okay? you're going to have my support. [applause] a man that is very non-controversial, very unique -- he really is a unique person, but he doesn't like controversy. his name is steve bannon. has anyone ever heard of -- [cheers and applause] where's steve? hello. hi, steve. [applause] a big, powerful voice, he's got. his show is phenomenal. war room. thank you, steve. there's nobody like steve. [laughter] thank you very much, steve. and phoenix police officer who

was shot eight times in the line of duty, tyler muldovan. where's tyler? [cheers and applause] oh, he's got to be right there. there he is. hi, tyler. thank you, tyler. [applause] hi, tyler. wow. thank you, tyler. [applause] eight times. can you believe that? think of that, eight times and he's looking great. thank you very much. and to your family, beautiful wife. with the stroke of my pen on day one, we're going to stop transgender lunacy. [cheers and applause] and i will sign executive orders to end child sexual mutilation.

get transgender out of the military and out of our elementary schools and middle schools and high schools. [cheers and applause] and we will keep men out of women's sports -- [cheers and applause] and that will, likewise, be done on day one. should i do day one, day two or day three? how about day one, yeah? [cheers and applause] under the trump administration, it will be the official policy of the united states government that there are only who two genders, male and female. [cheers and applause] doesn't sound too complicated, does it? toes rescue our economy, i will

sign -- to to rescue our economy, i will sign day one orders to end all biden restrictions on energy production, terminate his insane electric vehicle mandate, cancel his natural gas export ban, reopen anwr in alaska, the biggest site potentially anywhere in the world. [applause] and declare a national energy emergency, and do we have great people in energy, head of energy, chris wright, and doug burgum is the interior. i merged both of 'em. you know, the energy had no energy, it just had the right to do energy, and interior had all the energy, but it didn't have the right to drill, so i merged them. they're great friends, they're both very talented people. we're going to have so much oil and gas and other things, you won't know what too to do with it. you'll say, please, president trump, stop, the prices are

going too low, sir. [laughter] remember, we were $1.84 a gallon, gasoline, wouldn't that be nice? if. [cheers and applause] i direct every cabinet secretary to cut ten old regulations for every new regulation, which i did last time. [cheers and applause] we're going to be getting rid of a lot of -- last time, last term for me we had, we did something special. we cut more regulations, by four times, than any other in history, and we're going to top that record. some of those ridiculous are regulations were immediately put back on, and he were just hurting our country. that's why we had the best job numbers ever, because of what we did with regulation. you know, we cut taxes more than any president in history, and we cut regulations more than any president in history. and when i asked the people that run the big companies which is more important, cutting the taxes or cutting the

regulations, every single one of 'em so far has said the regulations were more important for jobs and everything else. who would think that? but i will order federal workers to get back to the office in person or be terminated from the job immediately. [cheers and applause] and we will create the new department of government efficiency headed by elon musk. [cheers and applause] and, no, he's not taking the presidency. i like having smart if people you know, they're on a new kick. russia, russia, russia, ukraine, ukraine, ukraine, all the different hoaxes. the new one is president trump has ceded the presidency the elon musk. no. [laughter] no. that's not happening. [laughter] but elon's done an amazing job.

isn't it nice to have smart people that we can rely are on? [cheers and applause] don't we want that? if he's done a great job. and i'll tell you with, he, he landed that rocket a few months ago, it landed, it's coming down so fast, 17,000 miles an hour, he says, and coming down it looks like it's getting ready -- then all of a sudden the jets go on, it slows it down. it almost stopped it, and it guides it over left, right, up, high, down. i said, what the hell's going on? nobody ever saw this before. and then it has the big gantly, very expensive. looks like it's going to be smashed to smithereens, and then those secret engines roared from the bottom. it's coming in this way a little hot, and the engines, pushed it straight, it landed. and it was hike are you're hugging a beautiful -- like you're hugging a beautiful baby with, baby -- [laughter] no, not that, baby.

but it was the most incredible thing. and then he got into his car and/or plane and whatever, however he went, and then he went to pennsylvania and he stayed up there for a month. and helped us to win that state which we won by a lot. [applause] so he was really -- and he supplied starlink fors for north carolina when they had no form of communication. [applause] they said, sir, do you know elon musk? yeah. well, we can't get starlink, it's very hard to to get. i call elon, we have to get some up there, you've gotta get some up there, and he got over 2,000 units. that's a lot. they flooded it with starlink, and service so good. it saved a lot of lives, so we want the thank him. but, no, he's not going to be president. that, i can tell you. and i'm safe, you know why? he can't be, he wasn't born in this country.

[laughter] but the fake news knows that. no, he's a great guy, and we want to have him, everybody. so many people in this audience that have helped. to an extent that you wouldn't believe. but we're going to bring transparency and accountability back to our government, and we'll be very soon, you're going to see it, drain the swamp. we're going to be draining that swamp. [cheers and applause] at levels never if seen before. and i hope everybody goes home and reads the congressional report on the criminal activities of the unselect committee of political thugs, j6 committee. what they did is so illegal, and congress as has done a fantastic job of that. they just put out a report. they call it an interim report. it's brutal. on them. not on me, on them. and it's, it's terrible. what they've cone, what they've done to this country is just absolutely terrible. but we'll end the left's

campaign of racial discrimination and restore equality to our land and all over our land. [applause] and you see that happening so much with the vote and the kind of vote we got. nobody ever expected anything like that. and i'll end all of the marxist diversity, equity and inclusion policies across the entire federal government immediately are. [cheers and applause] and and at the same time, we will ban these unlawful policies from the -- we're gonna ban 'em from the private sector as well. in america we believe in the merit if system -- merit system. [applause] and if now because of the major decision handed down recently by the supreme court, our country has again gone back to the merit system. that's what made our country great. and i want to just hank the supreme court, because that -- thank the supreme court, because that took a great deal of courage for them to do that.

some people were surprised by it, but that's what made us great request. merit if made us great. i will correct our military to begin construction of the great iron dome missile defense shield which will be made all in the usa, much of it right here many arizona. [applause] you know, ronald reagan wanted to do it many, many years ago, but they didn't really have the technology. it's lucky that he didn't because they didn't. but they have it now. you can knock a needle out of the sky. and as commander in chief, i will restore the proud and historic names of our great military bases like fort bragg. we're going to get them back. [applause] and woke has to stop. [cheers and applause] because along with everything else, it's destroying our country. we're going to stop woke. [applause] woke. woke is bullshit. [cheers and applause]

as an example, in addition to the military bases, i understand they want to now rename 14 ships. we're going to rename 'em. some of these ships have had a great and glorious past. they want to take the name off and put another maim down. i can imagine whose name they're going to put up. not gonna happen with me. it's not happening with me, i can promise you that. [applause] the actions i have described today are a small preview of the common sense revolution because that's what i call it, a common sense revolution that's coming soon to america, to a theater near you with, right? [laughter] but it's coming to you through your president, donald j. trump. [applause] the people have given us their trust, and in return we're going to give them the best day one,

the biggest first week and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any president in american history. [cheers and applause] and in conclusion, on january 20 20 the united states turn the page forever on four long, horrible years of failure, incompetence, national decline, and we will inaugurate a new era of peace, prosperity and national greatness. it's going to be national greatness. it will be something very, very special. and you could use a little of that because you haven't seen any of it in four years. that's' happened to outry is so sad. we're going to cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, raise your wages and bring thousands of factories roaring back to america and right back here to arizona! [cheers and applause]

because when i agreed to do thir charlie, because he's special -- but i said, charlie, i'll do it, but this has to be also a real tribute to arizona, because they gave us such a big win. and i said i'll get in my plane at 4:45 in the morning, and i'll fly here, but we have to to really acknowledge and take care of the people of arizona because you were fantastic. and i just want to thank you for that big win. not an easy win. [applause] and we're going to build america, we're going to buy american, and we will hire american. [applause] if i will end the war in ukraine, i stop chaos in the middle east, and i will prevent, i promise, world war iii. and we're very close to world war iii. ms. -- [applause] we will crush violent crime, we're going to stop violent

crime. we're going to have to be tough. please get redd, you're going to have -- ready, you're going of to have to be tough. our cities are crumbling. give our police the support, protection, resources and respect hay so dearly deserve. [applause] and i rebuilt our entire military the at a level that it had never been. unfortunately, we gave a big chunk of it to afghanistan. you believe that one? what a terrible thing. but we will, again, rebuild those sections of our military that have been so badly hurt. plus we give so much of it away. you know, when i came in the last time, we had no if ammunition. can you believe it? this was -- i was greeted with a general, sir, we're very low, almost no ammunition. i said, keep it quiet. let's not let the enemy know that. that doesn't sound too good. steve bannon would say, that's not a good thing. no ammunition is not good. right, steve?

and i built so much ammunition so fast, nobody's ever seen anything like it. we give a lot of our ammunition away, as you know. and we have to take care of ourself, we have to protect ourself. and we have to make our country great. [applause] we just can't keep doing what we're doing. [applause] especially when these wars never had to start. they never had to start. we will rebuild our once-great cities including our capital in washington, d.c., making them safe, clean and beautiful again. and we'll to the it quickly. [applause] -- we'll do it quickly. we'll teach our children to love our country, to honor our history and to always respect our great american flag. [cheers and applause] we will get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools, and we're going to get it out of our schools very fast. [cheers and applause]

i will defend religious liberty. i will restore free speech, and i will defend the right to keep and bear arms. [cheers and applause] and after years of bidding up foreign nations -- building up foreign nations, defending foreign borders and protecting foreign lands, we are finally going to build up our country, defend our borders and protect our citizens. we're going to protect our citizens. [cheers and applause] and we will stop illegal immigration once and for all. it's going to stop. you're not going to have an invasion of our country any longer. that will stop in just a few very short weeks. [applause] we will not be occupied, we will not be overrun, we not be conquered. we will be a free and proud nation again, a nation led by

competent people, a nation that we can be proud of. we're going to be so proud of our nation. we already are. it's already happened. remember what i said, there's new light all over the world. not just here, all over the world. everyone will prosper. every family will thrive, and every day will be filled with opportunity and hope and will be filled with a thing called the american dream. gonna get the american dream back. [cheers and applause] for the past nine years, you and i have fought side by side against the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth. and in our magnificent victory on november 5th, you showed them once and for all that this nation does not belong to them. this nation belongs to you. [cheers and applause] it's what happened. it was hard working patriots

like you who built this country, and in 2024 it was hard working patriots like you who turned out and voted and saved our country. that's what happened. [cheers and applause] after all we have been through together, we now stand on the verge of the four greatest years in american history. we're going to make these the four greatest years in the history of our country. with your help -- [applause] we will restore america's promise, we will rebuild the nation that we love, and we will do it very, very fast. that's what we wan. we want. we are one people, one family and one glorious nation if under god. we will never give in, we will never give up. [cheers and applause] if we will never back down, and we will never, ever, ever, ever surrender. [cheers and applause]

together we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win. we're gonna win a lot. [cheers and applause] and together we will make america powerful again. [cheers and applause] we will make america wealthy again. [cheers and applause] we will make america healthy again. [cheers and applause] we will make america strong again. [cheers and applause] we will make america proud again. [cheers and applause] we will make america safe again. [cheers and applause] and we will make america great again! thank you very much and thank you, arizona! happy new year, merry christmas. [cheers and applause] thank you very much. thank you. god bless you all.

♪ many. ♪ >> that is president-elect donald trump speaking to a young conservative crowd in arizona at his first rally-style event since his election win. i'm mike e man well. welcome to "fox news live." edward lawrence is live in phoenix with more. hello, edward. >> reporter: yeah a, mike, this felt like a campaign victory speech. the president heavily relied on the border. it's very interesting how he spoke to this crowd which ate up his message here, talking about this is a common sense revolution. now, the president-elect said that early voting really helped him. he said that the young vote also made a difference for him in this. he heavily focused around the border. now, he's say, the president-elect saying that the golden age of america is upon us. one way or another, the border will be secure. listen to this. ♪ ♪

>> you have people that don't know what they're doing, and we're going to change it because your border is a disaster. your border is a disaster, what's going on. and you just have a few days to wait. we're going to be fully operational, i would say, by about 2:00 on the 20th. >> reporter: so the president-elect says that the trump effect has already started to bring in jobs. he points to the announcement from the softbank ceo who will invest $100 billion in the next four years and create 100,000 jobs. the president-elect says the panama canal, the fees must be fair or he will demand panama hand back the canal to the united states. earlier, i spoke to border czar tom homan who says he knows about the attack that happened in germany and worries about the gotways -- gotaways who came across the southern border over the st four years. how concerned are you that someone's already come across the border that wants to do us harm? >> we've got 2 million known

gotaways, people that don't want to be fingerprint or vetted. i don't know how many terrorists have crossed this border, but someday we're going to find out, and it's going to be a bad day for america. >> reporter: homan said he heard the mayor of chicago when he said he wasn't welcome in that city. on day one, he will be in chicago. president-elect trump says, again, for every one regulation they create, ten will be removed. this is going to be, again, the common sense revolution. mike, back to you. mike: edward, it seemed to me that the president-elect missed engaging with crowds like this. what about the feedback with the crowd, and what were some of the hit lines in terms of getting the greatest reaction from the audience there? >> reporter: yeah. the audience here ate up exactly what he was saying. in fact, many times he called up people in the crowd to congresswoman up with him. there were a couple -- come up with him. this were a couple angel moms, mother ifs of people who were

killed by illegal immigrants. so the president's message was heavily, again, relied on the border, but he covered a lot of things that he wants to do in husband first -- his first term. he says day one is going to be a very busy day. one of the items he brought up, he says he wants to end the transgender movement that's going on in elementary schools and middle schools. he says he's going to the declare officially there's only two genders here in the united states. so, again, the crowd ate this up. it seemed like a campaign event. but as the president spoke, you could tell it was more of a campaign victory speech. mike: edward lawrence, we'll let you get back to "ymca." thanks a lot. [laughter] nor d for more on the president-elect's remarks, i'm joined by missouri republican congressman eric burleson. congressman, welcome. >> good to be on. mike: your reaction to what you heard from the president-elect as you were waiting to come on

and do this interview. >> i am so excited and, you know, i see so much hope in this new era of the united states, this -- it's going to be the next golden age. i think we have an amazing opportunity. and we need it, because we have been in dark times. we have seen wars break out all over the world. we've seen record inflation that people are suffering under, an open border and a complete lack of sanity trying to trans our children. this is the answer from the if democratic party which is why they gave us a resounding win in november. mike: senator markwayne mullin gave president trump credit for the funding package that held off of a government shutdown. let's play him. >> -- voted for him across america know that president trump is a negotiator because he's a very successful businessman. the president negotiated all the fat that the democrats put in there and still got a good bill. so the success goes to president

trump. and i appreciate him acting like the president since our former president is already missing the in action. mike: you were a no on the bill. was it a good bill, just not a great bill? what are your thoughts? >> yeah. i think that the difficult problem is that whatever bill you're boeing to get passed has to to get a approval from hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer. so the fact that donald trump stepped in and elon musk stepped in is, i give them credit. and i was excited to see it. they made a disastrous bill a little bit better. but at the end of the day, there's some people like me, you know, the vote that of the bill that happened including the debt ceiling was never going to happen because you have to get wins from hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer. so, for me, i -- my if district i vote to, i've never voted to raise the debt ceiling. that would have been a wasted vote. mike: congressman, we're up against the clock a bit, but i

want to ask you one last question. some people are grumbling about house speaker mike johnson. do you think his future may be in jeopardy in the new congress? >> i think mike johnson had a very difficult task this last year. he has to, had to navigate, try to get through chuck schumer and joe biden. i think that this next year, while it's going to be very difficult, i think he at least has one year of experience under his belt and, look, if donald trump is going to support mike johnson, then he is going to be the speaker. i think that he has -- this last week the promising change that turned is when he started engaging members, bringing us into the fold, bringing us into some of the discussions and negotiations. look, you've got to get early buy-in from the people who were elected, not pass bills that are a basically written by your staff. mike: congressman eric burleson from missouri, thank you for waiting around to chat. have a wonderful day, sir. >> merry christmas.

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like the idea, speaker johnson backed off. so things were a little bit different. president biden releasing a statement talking about compromise, calling the agreement a compromise which means neither if side got everything it wanted, but it yee pathway to the a -- and ensures the government can continue to operate at pull capacity. the president did not take sort of any if active role, mike, in these negotiations, at least publicly. the press secretary here blamed the house speaker on issues with the negotiations. if now, here's what a passed. funding stays at current levels until mid march, includes more than $100 billion in disaster aid, $10 billion in economic aid for farmers. notice by missing, that debt limit increase, something donald trump demanded. >> they went from a 1572-page document that was full of pork down to a 117-page document. and it was only because of president trump weighing in.

you had biden who was completely absent as we was facing a shutdown. >> reporter: allies of the president continue to come to his aid following a "wall street journal" report out over the past few days that claims he was not as engaged over the past few years as the american people were led to believe. >> there are republicans who have been saying that joe biden once again outsmarted them politically. so which one is it? is he a savvy political operator who outsmarted them, someone who had the sense to let them keep fighting with each other and in the end got exactly the spending bill that he and democrats in congress had been fighting for, or is he someone that's completely awoling? i think it's the former. >> reporter: republicans will be leading the house next year but with a small majority meaning they may if need some democrats to come onboard. mike: david spunt live on the north lawn, many thanks. >> reporter: thank you. mike: for more on president-elect trump's rally and the funding package, let's bring in today's political

panel. brownstein, hyatt, farber, schleck -- and democratic strategist ally aramesh. -- ari aramesh. thank you for sticking around. [laughter] we saw president-elect trump in his element speaking to a young conservative audience. what are your key takeaways, ari? >> this reminded me of the 2007-2008 barack obama rallies. this is -- i hadn't watched a full president trump rally in a long time, i would say since 2015, 2016. now i can see why he's so popular in certain circles. he is himself. he's real, he's natural. i disagree with him on a lot of policy issues. i certainly didn't like that he used certain kind of language towards the end, but again, i can see how and why he resonated. and very quickly going back to some of the promises he made, even as a democrat, i want him to succeed. some of the good policy issues are good policies, and if he succeeds, america succeeds. yeah, we need immigration reform. i don't think mass deportation is the answer.

i think we have got to fix our border. yes, we need to improve our military. but i don't think saying things we were out of ammunition is entirely accurate. we've never been out of ammo, we're not out of ammo, the american military has never been this strong it's the strongest military on the face of of the earth, so we've got to stick to facts. mike: greta, what are your key takeaways from hearing president-elect trump on the stump? >> i agree with ari, the president was having a great time, and i think he was there to connect with voters that, you know, he really appreciates for putting him back in office and lay out a really succinct vision of where he wants america to be in the next four years. mike: crisis averted, president biden signed it. what about that issue, ari? >> you know, it's the same bill, virtually the same amount of dollars. yes, 1500 pages down to 163, 164, about a tenth in terms of paper size. virtually the same dollar amount. you don't believe me? ask nancy mace. she was on fox about an hour and

a half if ago. one of her issues with it, it's exactly the same amount. republicans, i thought they were fiscally responsible. now he wants to eliminate the debt ceiling so he can borrow and spend and borrow if spendsome he's familiar. he's done that before. he's run a couple of businesses into the ground, so he's going if to borrow and spend. we don't want to have the american government and the american economy go bankrupt just like the taj mahal on trump's watch. mike: let's be clear, everybody, i think, in government has had a role in $36 trillion to this point. greta, what about the package being signed? there's some grumbling about house speaker mike johnson with that slim of a majority, that's a brutal job. >> it's a tough job, and it's a job that mike johnson certainly wasn't seeking out, i would say, at the start of the last congress. i think he's doing a great job in certainly managing the conference that he has right now. i think he clearly has the trust of president trump. and there are no opponents that are running against him.

so i think that as we move forward into the next congress, mike johnson will be the speaker, and i think he looks forward to having to negotiate with john thune instead of chuck schumer. if. mike: interesting look at the calendar. so if the house comes in january ifrd and they vote on -- 3rd and vote on a speaker, january 6th congress needs to function to basically approve the election, right? they don't want speaker drama, do they, ari? >> you know, they don't, but that's the reasonable wing of the republican party. you've got chip roy now, it doesn't get more conservative than chip roy, and now he's got to worry about a primary to his right because he didn't go along with elon musk who is not elected, who's not even appointed officially to anything as of now. because he's been making budget decrease? they're going to have issues. matt gaetz is not there to cause problems for kevin mccarthy, but i don't think this is going to be a first-round speakership. we're going to have a few rounds of voting. this is going to be, for some

republicans, making a statement on the house floor, but every democrat is going to vote for hakeem jeffries. that's going on the on -- to be on january 6th. mike: what do you expect, greta? >> i think they have a mandate from president trump and from their voters who put them into office and made mike johnson the speaker. republicans weren't elected to elect hakeem jeffries as speaker of the house. and so i do think once president trump comes to washington and we all have a little bit of a come to jesus moment after january, i think we're going to be in a good spot. mike: come to jesus before christmas, nice job. >> merry christmas. [laughter] mike: thanks very much. on "fox news sunday" today, shannon bream has interviews with senator ben cardin of maryland, and senator markwayne mullin, republican from the great state of oklahoma. he serves oz the armed services committee. that comes up right after this show, stay tuned or set your dvr. residents in monterey bay,

california, were treated to a spectacular sight as a glowing sunrise lit up the weekend as seen in this vickture captured by dustin mulvaney in santa cruz. that's beautiful. that's all for this hour of "fox news live." "fox news sunday" is next. have an awesome day. merry christmas and happy holidays. ♪

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