you would think so. people have cell phones and so many cable news shows and you hear about it and see stuff instant and you think my gosh, what did they do? did they just set a woman on fire in the subway? now that would make the news but anyway there is -- i said you know what? the truth is in script in genesis, right there in the dawn of time was the serpent. evil was already there. if you believe that stuff. and the good news is that evil is with us all the time but the presence of god is what gives us hope. it always outshines the darkness. >> brian: we have hope and ten seconds. >> you leave me for last always. >> we save the best for last. >> that is such bunk. i know you all. >> merry christmas. >> the suspect police say shot and killed united healthcare ceo

brian thompson in manhattan in expected in new york supreme court this morning. luigi mangione is charged with a federal death penalty offense in thompson's murder. prosecutors say state and federal cases will proceed on parallel tracks. we have more on this but first. president-elect trump making a triumphant return yesterday at the first rally-style event since his win. he spoke to a packed hall at a turning point con frees in phoenix. i'm griff jenson and julie, good to be with you. >> julie: trump went on for over an hour yesterday. he celebrated election results and previewed priorities for his second term. he also promised to get to work

as soon as he is sworn in. watch. >> we are going to be fully operational by 2:00 on the 20th. i made a series of big day one promises in my campaign. you know them just as well as i do. and 29 days from now, i intend to keep those promises to the american people. [cheers and applause] >> policies to seal the border, tame inflation and high energy costs and put an end to call transgender lunacy. >> julie: alexandra hoff live at the white house. >> the president elect says he will sign the executive order to stop the medical transitioning of minors. also remove policies that cater to transgender students in schools and members of the military. >> under the trump administration, it will be the

official policy of the united states government that there are only two genders, male and female. >> we heard there was a loud cheer after that. turning point event in phoenix, arizona yesterday. he seeks to keep males out of female sports and undue dei policies in the public and private sector and doubled down on threats to reassert control on panama canal. >> we'll demand that the panama canal be returned to the united states of america in full. [cheers and applause] quickly and without question. not going to stand for it. >> he also said he doesn't want it to fall into the wrong hands and succumb to chinese influence. added to the day one promises what team trump calls the largest deportation operation in

history. >> we know there was nearly 500,000 illegal criminals, rapists, murderers and drug dealers roaming freely in american communities right now in the christmas season. unacceptable and president trump will take strong action on day one to end it and deport these individuals from our country. >> the president-elect made additional news yesterday when he said that vladimir putin, russia's president, wants to meet with him as soon as possible remarking the war in ukraine must be ended, julie. >> julie: thank you very much. griff. >> griff: thanks. new york congresswoman nichole malliotakis joins us now. congresswoman, merry early christmas eve. thank you for taking time. there was so much in that speech well over an hour from president-elect trump. what stood out to you? >> as you can see the excitement is building. it's less than a month to go. we cannot wait for president trump to return to the white house to put an end to president biden's nightmare. the american people have

suffered greatly over the last four years and what really stands out to me is obviously the border is a major issue. being i'm from new york city and we see the crisis that has unfolded here with illegal immigrant gang members and traffickers wreaking havoc on our city and mayor and governor expected us to pay for them to live in luxury hotels. you saw yesterday a horrific incident where a woman sleeping on the train was lit on fire by a guatemalan migrant. that has to stop. that is so upsetting just a few days before christmas for that to happen in our city. it was allowed to happen. our city refuses to cooperate with ice to deport individuals and so we need president trump and tom homan to come in and clean up our city and secure our border. put our national security and safety of our citizens first.

>> bill: he says he will unlease a slough of executive orders on day one. we'll see where that goes. what you made of his comments about dei. we've heard so much about it. he spoke about it yesterday. >> i'll end all of the marxist diversity, equity and inclusion policies across the entire federal government immediately. and at the same time, we'll ban these unlawful policies from the -- we'll ban them from the private sector as well. in america, we believe in the merit system. >> griff: your reaction. >> he is absolutely right. we want people in positions based on merit and based on their ability to do the job, not because they check off boxes. we're fortunate right now within the republican party that we

have so many qualified women. you are seeing president trump appoint those individuals. but it is based on merit. that's always been the difference between how the democrats have managed things and how the republicans see things. i think it is a smart move because obviously you will see incompetence. we saw that under the biden administration. incompetent people put in roles where they could not do the job and it was just because this president wanted to check off boxes. >> griff: before we run out of time i want to move forward and that is you guys kept the government open. it was only closed for 37 minutes with this small skinny continuing resolution. however, not included in there was addressing the debt ceiling, which the president-elect wants done. where do you see that fight going and how will that be handled once you guys start the 119th congress on january 3rd? >> a shame we could not have addressed that this weekend.

i certainly voted for the trump endorsed plan. it made sense and took something off the table that now he ising to have to deal with and gave the democrats leverage to hold that debt limit over his head when he has a very big agenda on his plate from the border to energy production to repealing unnecessary regulations to the tax bill, the whole tax code set to expire at the end of the year. we need to extend the tax cutting jobs act. another hurdle that president trump will have. it is unfortunate. there was somewhat of an agreement, it seems, the members of our conference and the president at least what the speaker told us. a certain commitment to cuts and savings to reduce our debt, which as you know is now 120% of our gdp. that's huge. when i was born it was 34%. there some type of agreement that we'd address the debt limit issue in exchange for the cuts.

it is risky to punch it to next year. i believe we should have taken care of it as president trump wanted. there were 35 or so republicans in our house that disagreed. >> griff: questions whether speaker johnson continues to keep control of the gavel. we'll see where it goes. thank you for taking the time today. have a happy holidays. >> merry christmas, thank you. >> julie: turning to potential holiday travel trouble. winter storms bringing harsh conditions for millions of america during holiday travel. fox team coverage starting now. brooke taylor is live from dallas/ fort worth. let's get to adam klattz. >> these are feels-like temperatures. windchill. three degree in albany.

one degree in boston. warming up. right behind that winter weather moving across the great lakes spilling into the northeast and how it plays out for monday today we'll watch this system work its way interior areas of new england will see the most snowfall. we get a wintery mix, the toughest travel conditions. six inches of snow with folks closer to the coast. it where it mixes where you see the biggest problem. ice could be an issue. it takes down branches and affect power lines and makes driving dangerous. d.c. up to baltimore and philadelphia where icing will be possible the next couple of days, as far as flying today things are looking good.

if you were waiting until christmas eve for those travels, that's where things might slow down. a couple more systems that we might be paying attention to. certainly we will be watching this all play out. julie. >> julie: adam, thank you very much. >> griff: let's get now to brooke taylor live from dallas ft. worth international airport. how does it look there? >> no issues here at this airport. the lines are long, let me tell you. it is going all the way to the other side taking 30 minutes to get through security right now. people that i spoke to say they got here hours before their flight so you know the drill. set your alarms, get here early. don't be that person rushing through the airport and missing your flight. if you notice that your flights were more expensive this year than previously you are not alone. right now aaa booking data showing that flights are 4% more expensive this year than last

year. aaa projecting 119 million people will travel this holiday with 7.8 million people flying and majority, 107 million hitting the roads. winter storms, rain and weather could slow down travel. northeast saw snow over the weekend causing a trickle-down effect of delays. travelers while they are in the holiday spirit and try to stay positive. >> long, long. first of all where we were staying over two hours from the airport and we got here and found out our trip was delayed so snow we won't get back until after 1:00. >> coming from fort lauderdale, there was a lot going on. it didn't help we were a little bit behind because of delays. we're here. it was a great vacation. >> right now according to flight aware around 800 delays and 26 cancellations.

the worst airports right now boston and also jfk having the most issues right now. again plan ahead and stay on top of it and get to the airport early, griff. >> griff: stay positive. nobody likes a grinch in the long lines of the airport. thank you, brooke. >> historic number of criminal aliens walking the streets because this administration's policy and sanctuary jurisdictions. lax immigration enforcement. ice has their hands tied. >> julie: weighing in on the challenge of arresting criminal illegal migrants as we learn a guatemalan national here in the u.s. illegally is under arrest in connection to a heinous deadly crime in new york city. president biden commuting more sentences on his way out the door. why his latest round of leniency is causing quite the stir.

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>> julie: china issued a new stern warning to the u.s. after the biden administration approves millions more dollars in new military aid for taiwan. the chinese foreign ministry issued a statement saying the u.s. is playing with fire with this latest move. over the weekend president biden authorized an additional $571 million in defense materials along with military education and training for taiwan. that follows $295 million in military sales announced by the defense department on friday. now the sales and assistance from the u.s. are intended to help taiwan defend itself and possibly deter china from launching an attack. >> griff: new york city police

arrested a guatemalan migrant in the death of a woman set on fire inside a brooklyn subway car. nate foye is live in our new york city newsroom with more on this horrific incident. nate, what have you got? >> it is just awful. a man who police say entered the united states from guatemala in 2018 described as a person of interest after a woman got lit on fire and died inside a subway car in brooklyn. i warn our viewers the video you're about to see is very disturbing. >> no, in is a person right here. >> it is just so difficult to watch that, griff. as captured by the "new york post" police arrested the person of interest after getting tipped off by three high schoolers who recognized his wanted picture police posted on social media. cameras installed in the subway system helped capture a clear

image of him and led police to understand what happened during the attack. >> as the train pulled into the station, the suspect calmly walked up to the victim who was in a seated position at the end of a subway car. the suspect used what we believe to be a lighter to ignite the victim's clothing which game fully engulfed in a matter of seconds. >> riding the subway was the last thing that the victim ever did. it happened at 7:30 sunday morning. police won't say much about the victim. it appeared that she was sleeping when the suspect lit her on fire. >> it appears she is motionless at that spot. in interaction between the two. we don't believe they knew each other, no. >> it happened in brooklyn. police arrested the person of interest near harold square in manhattan. police found a lighter in his pants when they arrested him. we reached out to federal authorities with confirmation on

immigration status and waiting on the district attorney's office to learn exactly what charges the man will face. griff. >> griff: nate foye live in our new york newsroom. nate, thank you. julie. >> julie: paul mauro is a retired nypd inspector, attorney and fox news contributor joins me now. this story is so horrific. the fact that we learned that he was also an illegal migrant, had nothing to lose. probably wanted to get arrested because of living in the subways instead of one of the free hotels in our city. but what could we possibly do to prevent something like this? he came in in 2018, not in the latest flow of migrants here in this country. obviously the mayor has allowed these migrants to live freely and walk and roam the streets and commit these crimes. >> we have a full systemic failure going on in our subways right now among our leaders. the whole litany of them. governor hochul, a big piece of the mta, controlling the mta.

last year we lost $750 million in fare beating. anybody knows it is lot more than that, more like a billion dollars. so what's the solution? put in congestion pricing so that everybody who drives cars want to force now into the subways. the subways that are all but a rolling psych ward. if you think that guatemalan migrant paid his fare to get on the subway before he did that, so that's the first point of failure right there, right? he wouldn't be on the subway if we enforced that kind of thing. there is so much more here. as of now we have had 12 transit murders to death. if you use the metric that new yorkers spend about 1.6 of their time on the subway. you are more likely by two times to be murdered in the subway than you are above ground. yet at the same time, the same date this happens, we get

another knifing murder on the subway, we have a third man pushed onto the tracks. he now is fighting for his life with spinal injuries. all in one day. our governor is so tone deaf she comes out and puts out a video which is essentially a rehe can election campaign video and a tweet talking about how she -- she has made the subways safer. >> julie: let's go to it now. hochul touting the subway safety. in march i took action to make our subway safer for the millions of people who take the subway each day. adding cameras, crime is going down and ridership going up. let me tell you what's really happening in the subway. ridership is up because they have put these tariffs and taxes on people to drive into the

city. nobody wants to ride two subway voluntarily. it's more convenient or affordable. bottom line when she was running to get elected to the governor of new york cops were all over the place. visuals were there. as soon as she got elected the cops were gone. it is a bunch of baloney and using this to politicize her own interests. >> they had them on tours during subway duties. a lot of them retired. they'll never see another time like that again. that's been pulled back. think about this. while that has been pulled back we all of a sudden get this scandal where a whole host of police executive at the tops level are giving underlings discretionary overtime. a woman who made a sexual harassment complaint is the top overtime earner. overtime she couldn't physically

have done making over $4 hundred thousand as an administrative lieutenant >> griff: i was on the subway id on the f train and made everyone get out to a sea of 50, 100 nypd officers looking for the suspect on that train. very frightening. i didn't see any national guard. it was a very heavy nypd response. but as we heard congresswoman malliotakis in a previous segment talking about this is exactly what president-elect trump needs to address when he takes over on day one, what do you see that the white house, that washington can do to help deal with the situation here on the new york subway if governor hochul won't do it? >> the migrant overlay has to go. you have a lot of cops now doing all kinds of stuff related to the migrants and related to the

homeless. the migrants have displaced the homeless in the shelters and the homeless are on the streets giving street conditions. luigi mangione is walking into court. the man accused of the brutal shooting murder here in new york city of the former ceo of united healthcare, brian thompson. as you can see he has cleaned up quite a bit. when i look at this guy walk through and when he actually got brought to new york city and got a haircut and free beard. it makes me sick how prisoners are treated better than some of our homeless people here in the city speaking of deranged individuals. >> they always clean them up for court. the story here is the federal case because the state case was all teed up. the feds without telling anybody dropped their indictment and then made a big deal we got the death penalty in it and walked away from it and said state you can take the lead. what was the point? it was a flex.

no point to do it. they gave it back to bragg's office. i've never seen anything like that. has anybody else? >> griff: it appears both the state and federal will run on parallel tracks but you say maybe that's not good. >> what will he do? court one day and shuffle him to the other courthouse and then come back to testify? you have to do one and then the other. let me ask you this. in a month when donald trump's d.o.j. takes over and he is sitting on a federal indictment that's already in place, is donald trump going to take second fiddle to alvin bragg's office? >> griff: there are terrorism charges potentially involved, is that appropriate? >> absolutely. he did it for an ideological purpose embedded in the statute. i have been critical of alvin bragg but they got that right. >> griff: great insight as always. and president biden's leniency

legacy. how the president is defending the death row sentences of child molesters and mass murderers ahead.

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visit coventrydirect.com. >> griff: all eyes on latin america on luigi mangione as he enters his plea in supreme court. alexis is live. >> i want to pull up the grand new video we got a few minutes ago of luigi mangione walking in that court hall room as he is about to face that judge. we just heard a short time ago a few minutes ago that he pled not guilty in this case. he is in there with one of his high-power attorney. part of the same law firm representing sean diddy combs. you can see mangione walking with the police officers and looking straight. he knows a camera is at the end of the hall. he has maroon sweater and

khakis. he keeps his head straight as an officers talks to him. a lot of charges he is facing as paul mauro is talking about. confusing, two courts run parallel. murder in the first degree at the state level and murder in the second degree as a crime of terrorism. then the federal charges come into play. the main difference between the state and federal charges the state argues the shooting was an act of terrorism. that's a new charge you don't hear too much in manhattan especially from alvin bragg. if convicted on the state charges mangione could face life in prison without parole. the federal indictment is coming. we've heard about what was in it but still get more information from the feds. the charges making headlines is murder through use of a firearm. he could face a death penalty in found guilty. the legal team says the different cases are in conflict with each other. they tried to push back on that. it looked like a scene from a movie. this case has captured the

country including protestors saying free luigi mangione and calling for more ceos to be held accountable in the healthcare industry. covering lots of crime i have never seen like this where protestors cheering on somebody for killing a ceo. let's pull up the shooting video how it all started earlier last month. police say mangione planned this attack for months and waiting for brian thompson outside of a hotel in mid town manhattan and opened fire. the gun he used was printed on a 3z printer. that could bring more charges. the dad of two was in town for a work conference. you have to feel for his family, brian thompson from minnesota, the midwest, two kids in high school. his wife gets a call and said your husband is not coming home around the holidays. mangione knew the conference was happening on why thompson was in town all written in the manifesto. we'll keep an eye on what's

happening in that courtroom. >> griff: it is stunning there are protestors there supporting mangione in this. how many would you say there are, dozens, hundreds, 50? >> about a dozen. about a dozen for so. might be more people coming in the next couple hours but it is freezing out here. they wanted to be here, i guess. >> griff: we'll check in with you later as news develops. thank you. >> julie: i want to bring in andy mccarthy, former assistant u.s. attorney and fox news contributor joining us now. i want to start talking about biden's basic sparing the lives of multiple murderers today commuting sentences for so many different federal death penalty suspects that were all convicted in a fair court of law who no longer now have to carry out their ultimate sacrifice or justice, for justice to be

served for these individuals. what do you make of biden's clemency calls? >> i have think it is yet another abuse of the pardon power. i think it is interesting, julie, he didn't give commutations on the death penalty to the three death penalty or death row inmates who were dealt with by the biden justice department and the obama-biden justice department. with respect to those family members and the grief and pain they are going through, they couldn't look them in the eye and say our progressive principles don't allow us to go forward with the death penalty here. but he wiped the slate clean on everyone else and he did it in a way that is a categorical change of the law that is for congress to make. it's an abuse of the pardon power to use it that way. >> julie: i want to look at some whose sentences he commuted. thomas sanders brutally kidnapped and murdered a

12-year-old girl, lexis robert in the fall of 2010. biden believes this man deserves to live. meanwhile the family of the 12-year-old girl has lost their daughter and now have to deal with justice not being served there. jorge torres, sexually assaulted and stabbed two girls, laura hobs just eight years old, crystal tobias, age nine at the time of her death. stabbed both these girls to death in 2005. he also strangled a naval officer, amanda snell, age 20, four years later. he now gets to live. anthony battle, another one among those sentences that were commuted, brutally murdered an atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994. now, this is an example of joe biden who basically states that

unless you've been charged with terrorism charges, then you are allowed to live. that's kind of how he looks at this. this is terrorism. you are killing minors. if that's not terrorism, i don't know what is, to parents. >> well look, on a certain human level all murder -- brutal murder is terrorism in the sense it is terrorizeing. it doesn't make it terrorism as a matter of law. i i think this is selective moral preening. last week the biden justice department filed death charges against somebody who i don't think that's even a terrorism case, it is a grizzly murder but they themselves filed death penalty charges. now today he is wiping the slate clean on death penalty charges that were brought by other administrations and other justice departments but not in cases where he and his justice department actually had to deal

with the victims and the families of the victims in these brutal homicides. >> julie: he said these commutations are consistent with the more toreiam we've enclosed unless mass murder or terrorism. multiple murders is not considered a mass murder, i guess, under joe biden. andy mccarthy that's all the time we have. appreciate you coming on. >> griff: julie, president-elect trump promising mass deportations to start on day one of his second term. can he deliver? >> president trump will fix this issue. we'll shut the border down, have the largest deportation operation this country has ever seen.

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>> griff: just two days until christmas. a strike against amazon is growing. protests expanding to two more locations over the weekend, which includes amazon facilities in san bernardino, california and staten island in new york city. they hope to force amazon to the bargaining table for contract negotiations with the teamsters. amazon says it doesn't expect

operations to be significantly affected. starbucks workers on strike. we have more on that with matt finn. >> if you head to your local starbucks this morning you might find it is closed like this facility in burbank here in california. on the front door our store is temporarily closed. on the inside we can see stacks of unopened merchandise boxes piling up. all morning long we have seen customers pull up to this location to discover they won't be getting their caffeine fix at this particular spot. the strike is now spreading to nine states. the starbucks barista union represents more than 10,000 employees saying they are striking because of unpredictable schedules and unfair pay. demanding in part $20 an hour and company-paid healthcare. starbucks says those demands are

unsustainable. the coffeemakers say they consider themselves partners in the multi-billion dollar starbucks company and they deserve better. >> our hope is that this will -- they will come back to the bargaining table and give us livable wages so we can afford to pay our rent and groceries and afford to live. >> this strike is happening in the midst of what is considered starbucks' busiest season, the holidays. starbucks says the disruptions from the strike are not having a significant impact so far because they are only affecting a handful of stores. picketing is scheduled begin at this location at 1:00 p.m. today. the running joke is you can walk out of one starbucks and across the street into another. so far the people we've talked to said this location is closed, i'll go to the one around the corner. >> matt finn, live for us in

burbank. >> on my first day back in the oval office i will sign an historic slate of executive orders to close our border of illegal aliens and stop the invasion of our country. [cheers and applause] we'll begin the largest deportation operation in american history. larger even than that of president dwight d. ice en -- eisenhower. his deportation plan will kick in as soon as he is inaugurated. a sheriff is joining us now from arizona. thank you for taking time. a key component. on monday last week i was at mar-a-lago and pressed the president-elect about countries of venezuela. we have so many of these migrants coming from countries that won't take them back. add to that the challenge of sanctuary cities where local law

enforcement and mayors won't cooperate. how do you see the president-elect's very aggressive, ambitious plan to deliver these mass deportations unfolding? >> good morning, griff. thank you for having me. let me say this already. tom homan the new border czar has already met with american sheriffs. he was in my county devising, talking, asking what do we need to make this happen as they put this together? when president trump was campaigning in my county several months ago, he told me we will fix this problem. he has campaigned on it and the will of the people behind him. it is going to happen. i question this, too. why would you stand in the way of a person that is the worst of the worst. people here to harm the country, why would you want to keep them in the country? we need to enforce the rule of law. >> griff: you are in arizona where we've seen ground zero for the highest number of known

gotaways and my border sources are telling me we're seeing a surge in those that want to be gotaways because the smugglers feel the clock is ticking to get in before trump is inaugurated. are you seeing that in your county? >> we do see that, griff. sadly we see it with pursuits and crashes, we're out there all the time chasing these people. because the cartels are a business. they are pushing through here. again we'll continue to do what's right and continue to work with it and the cartels are ruthless. they don't care about america but they'll do what they do to make their dollar bills. >> griff: dhs -- outgoing dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas was talking about the fact that politics really got in the way of why the border never ceased to be closed down. listen here. >> we then turned to the bipartisan negotiations, which proved successful, which were

then killed. the result of it a really terrific solution was killed by irresponsible politics. looking back now in hindsight, perhaps we would have taken executive action more rapidly. >> griff: irresponsible politics. what is your reaction to that? >> well griff, let me say an insult what i hear from him. sheriffs tried to work with him. did everything we could to include and give him a 16-point action plan, griff. three months later i asked him where are we at with the action plan and what do you want to do? do you want to discuss it? he made a comment, did you give me a document, sheriff? it was from ten other sheriffs. secretary mayorkas failed to work with america's sheriffs or law enforcement throughout this country and why we had a vote of no confidence against him. >> griff: thank you for taking your time, sheriff. have a happy holidays. >> you too, griff, merry

christmas. >> julie: president trump raising concern about the panama canal and floating the idea of buying greenland. it could effect u.s. relations on a global scale. high school graduates might find it easier to get accepted once they apply to college. we'll tell you how that is being made possible next. ♪

>> griff: getting into college could be getting a little easier for potential students. the college acceptance rates are on the rise even as enrollment rates fall. fox business's lydia lu. >> fewer students are applying to college or university. 2 million or 10% fewer now than

12 years ago. but many colleges and universities are still admitting the same number of students and that's what is forcing the admissions rate up. the median acceptance rate has risen by more than 7% over a decade. this means if you are a student applying for college right now, it could be getting easier. watch. >> is this the first time you're hearing that or were you aware? >> i was not aware of this at all. college seems like they aren't telling anyone. i think they're doing that for a number of reasons. first of all if they're saying it is easier they'll get less applications. people want to go to prestigious schools. the second thing is they can't keep charging the same amount of money. >> griff, the best schools, the ivy leagues are still just as competitive as they ever were but many competitive schools that are good are seeing rising acceptance rates. take this for example.

fordham rose 11% from 43% in 2012 to 54% 10 years later in 2022. george washington university from 33% to 49 and another university from 52% accepted to 74%. when reached for comment elon says its admissions rate has dropped to 66%. the trend reflects on increase in applications as well as a greater awareness of their nationally recognized exercise. fordham claimed a bad roll-out and george washington university did not respond to our request for comment. griff, as it is getting easier to get accepted there is financial opportunity. admissions counselors tell me the colleges and universities more willing to negotiate the cost of attendance so important to get the good grades for the students. >> griff: lydia, thank you