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>> we're weeks away from inauguration and already president-elect trump is making his presence felt on issues here at home and overseas. good morning, everyone, welcome to fox news live. i'm rich edson. >> good to be with you. i'm jackui heinrich. trump has yet to take the oath of office for his second term but begun fulfilling his promise for a change agent. the start of a potential battle over house speaker, call the overhaul the d.o.j. death penalty. reformed spending bill and also plans to get the panama canal back under u.s. control. his bold agenda set to disrupt washington as americans tell fox news digital that's what is on their wish list for this year. >> what is on your christmas wish list for america? >> get the economy going. get rid of the crime, and stop the open borders. >> everyone wants to be able to

live and not have to struggle. >> hopefully the cost of groceries will come down. >> nice to quit being so divided. for everybody to come together and work as a community. >> want us to be healthy again. >> more on the dawn of a new era, aishah. >> good morning, jackui. trump has been firing up his base and shaking things up all the way overseas all from mar-a-lago before he is ever inaugurated. denmark is now reportedly spending 1.5 billion to boost its security in greenland after trump indicated that he is interested in purchasing the island. denmark's defense secretary is explaining it was already in the plans and timing is coincidenceal. trump's comments have sparked

tensions, president trump promised a lot of executive action on day one. securing the border, fast tracking permits for fracking and banning transgender surgeries on minors and vowing to pursue the death penalty for certain criminals after president biden commuted 37 death sentences and wrote this on truth social. as soon as i'm inaugurated i will direct the justice department to vigorously pursue if death penalty to protect american families and children. we will be a nation of law and order again. trump will also meet a united congress behind a speaker who is ready to carry out his agenda. right now he supports mike johnson but johnson-ma not have the votes to retake the gavel. he could look at a fight over that. when congress is sworn in they'll have to contend with a new sheriff of spending who is elon musk. already disrupting the way congress operates upending a

government funding bill last week. the tech billionaire will work alongside ramaswamy to cut government waste through doge. it will be a very busy first couple of weeks of the trump presidency, jackui, you and i should get our rest now. >> it sounds like a great plan. >> democrats are escalating their resistance to the trump agenda. newsom is reportedly considering ways to help illegal immigrants dodge trump's mass deportation plans. let's bring in our panel. lauren write, from princeton university and a former advisor to john boehner and founder of blues track strategies. thank you very much for joining us, both of you. i will start with you here. the headline from "politico." newsom team. part of that saying a draft of the plan obtained by "politico" proposes the creation of an immigrant support network

comprised of regional hubs to connect at risk individuals and families with community systems such as legal services, schools, labor unions, local governments, as democratic leaders struggle to find their footing on the pivotal election issue. laura, this seems like it could be a winning strategy for california politically. what about nationally? >> well, in california it is becoming more purple. i think the democrats, they're still struggling on how to handle this very important issue that we saw on election day. americans largely don't want to have criminals here that came in illegally and we just all -- an illegal immigrant who snuck back into the country, set a woman on fire in the subways of new york city. these things are rightfully concerning. deplorable and need to be handled with a firm hand. we're the land of hope and opportunity for millions of immigrants to come here to seek

a better life for their families. to do so legally. we cannot be the land of hope and opportunity without law and order and that's what the new administration is coming in saying it's gone too far. democrats have gone too far and they realize that and why they've lost this big election. it is jarring to say the least. i hope it gets pushback from people in california. >> do you expect newsom will do it on other issues as well to oppose the trump administration and try to set the tempo going into the next election cycle? >> yes, but it is very unwise for him. i'm from california and i know what a survivor gavin newsom is. i can't believe he is still in the post after the unpopular pandemic policies. but yes, he is trying to make a name for himself even more, take a stand against trump. it couldn't be more misdirected. this is a state that has a third

of the nation's homeless veterans. 11,000 people. how about them? they deserve some assistance more than than they're getting right now. the state is hemorrhaging a tax base. they are going to texas, arizona, florida, and so i understand newsom wants to become the anti-trump democrat seen as the leader of the party, but he is exactly as laura is saying going against what voters chose when they put trump in office in the first place. >> look at the other axios headline here. a survey out. democrats are more likely to reduce family time over politics from the public religion research institute that conducted the survey. what about this? do you think that politics has become too national? one press release after another, identify with this team or that team? >> i do. i think that we've let identity

politics interfere with our relationships with our better angels, really. we've let what we follow as a party define us and i don't think these blanket statements are helpful to us as we celebrate christmas today, i think about humanity and does this really serve our better purpose to be so divisive and view somebody through the lens if they are democrat or republican i can't talk to them. our dialogue as we move forward to try to come up with solutions for the real problems we have in this country. we can't do so if we continue to silo ourselves or refuse to work or communicate with someone who has opposing views as us. i think back to my former boss would say, you can disagree without being disagreeable and it feels like a basic tenet we've lost that we need to get back to and celebrating the holidays, it is important that we stop with this identity politics and remember that at the end of the day we all have similar goals. we just don't agree how to get

there. >> how do we walk back from this? >> we have to start talking to more people we disagree with, including people you think are dead wrong and have bad ideas and you want to change their minds. i have see it firsthand at princeton all the time with my students and it is really a shame. i'm writing this book on intellectual diversity and it is really mostly my liberal and progressive students that have separated themselves from all trump voters and they don't want to talk to other students who they think have dangerous and harmful ideas. well, if you want to be a policymaker and want to work in government like maura, you have to talk to people that you don't agree with in order to learn and intellectually develop and get things done practically. the worst training for our young people for them to separate themselves from each other. it is heartbreaking in the family setting, too. i see it in the academic

setting. >> thank you both for joining us and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> it is not the holidays without a little bit of travel chaos. american airlines grounding flights nationwide yesterday after the carrier reported a technical issue that affected take-off. it led to delays for thousands of passengers on one of the busiest travel days of the year. of the country's busiest airports reported only 15% of flights taking off on time. it is looking up today, though, with passengers having fewer delays as of now. >> the weather is also messing with lots of holiday travel plans, cold and snow could disrupt the trip home for the holidays for millions. california is already seeing quite a few road delays thanks to snow and icy conditions. fox news meteorologists adam klotz is live with the forecast. >> we're talking about big weather moving in in california.

not all bad news. you want some snow perhaps on christmas. this was the first snow in new york city in 15 years, it's a white christmas maybe you when walked in this morning, there is still snow standing at central park and that's all it takes for this to count. yes, we are still talking about that little bit of a white christmas for folks out there. i have to step off camera. you look at rain moving across portions of the middle of the country. where is the snow still falling? across the rocky mountains. still that winter-like weather system rolling in off the west coast, that's the one we'll have to pay attention to up and down the pacific northwest you are looking at rainfall rates in some cases getting up to three to five i-of total precipitation. snow coming down in the higher elevations. there is good news if you don't like the cold. a christmas day warmth. some temperatures in the middle of the country. it feels more like spring and

this is only going to spread out. i look at the temperature here over the upcoming weekend and suddenly these are departures from average, nine, ten, 15 degrees above average by the time of the weekend. a cold snap last weekend. we saw a little snow, some folks did. we're already warming back up. for me i kind of like that news. >> not terrible. adam klotz, thank you so much. >> ukraine was plunged into darkness after a massive christmas day drone and missile attack by russia. in the holy land this christmas day we're still waiting for signs of progress in the hostage negotiations between israel and hamas. could there still be a hanukkah hostage deal? come on in, how are you? for god so loved the world that he gave his only son.

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>> jacque: bill clinton is b home for the holidays after being discharged from a washington, d.c. hospital. he was admitted on monday for observation after developing a fever. his office says he was treated for the flu and is feeling better now. >> rich: search for answers continues after weeks of mysterious drone sightings in new jersey and several other states. nate foye is live from the newsroom with the latest. >> good morning. merry christmas, everybody. in the absence of answers in new

jersey, members of congress are now looking to protect americans from future drone threats including imposing a possible ban on two chinese drone manufacturers in the united states. proponents of the ban argue the drones can be used to spy on americans. separate bill debated in congress would increase state and local counter drone authority but it has been met with pushback over fourth amount and privacy concerns. >> they need to do something about it. right now you have more rights as a drone owner to overfly a person's home and spy on a person than the person who is getting spied on has rights to do anything to that drone whatsoever. >> some in the 11 states that have seen drones have called for them to be shot down. that's illegal. right now a federal authority and because the risk of collateral damage is high, traditional air defense technologies don't work over populated areas. >> we need to get the right technologies fielded. lasers, kinetics, missiles will

not work on a domestic front. it has to be urgent, a five alarm fire we're facing right now. >> drones can be taken down over critical infrastructure sites in new york and new jersey. you see the red dots indicating the sites there. the pentagon maintains it has commanders in-to handle. british military beams radio waves at drones and can take them down up to a mile away. u.s. military is investing in similar systems but not deployed them on the home front quite yet. >> rich: thank you. nate. >> jacque: people across ukraine are spending christmas without heat or power after a drone and missile attack by russia. more than 70 missiles and 100 drones were sent toward critical infrastructure. one death was reported in one town in central ukraine. it is moscow's 13th attack now on ukrainian energy sector this

year. middle east, there was optimism a hostage deal could be reached by hanukkah, which begins tonight. as the hours close in, it does appear there are still gaps in the negligent yayss that are keeping israel from reaching a deal with hamas. let's bring in symone, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the middle east. appreciate your time. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> jacque: what is the latest on the hostage negotiations? it seemed like in previous times netanyahu was pessimistic about this coming together. but as of about a week ago, there was some hope that this might actually happen and it seems that we've encountered the same roadblock that has happened for the last 15 months. >> yes, that's correct. the roadblocks being the hamas refusal to comply with the terms of the agreement and then going

out into the public sphere and lying about it. so of course we've seen a statement from hamas in the last day or so saying israel is sort of changing the terms. that's false. hamas knows they are running out of time. the trump administration comes into power on january 20th and president-elect trump has made it very clear that this deal must be done by then or face the consequences. >> jacque: did you expect things to be easier to hash out, though, after sinwar was killed? there was a lot of optimism at that point with the leader dead, that you could actually get this negotiation done. >> i think we always have to have hope. we must have hope now. we have to think of the hostages who have been living in unimaginable conditions all of

this time. another holiday season with these hostages still separated from their families and undergoing just incredible tortures. so yeah, we have to always be hopeful. but i think, you know, the combination of hamas being a terrorist group, which has lied from the very beginning, and really the need for more pressure on them from other countries like qatar and egypt, who have been involved in these negotiations, i think all of those things really need to take place. but the pressure is certainly building because, as i mentioned, president trump is coming back into office with his new team and so they realize something has to happen before the 20th or else sort of the gloves will be off according to the incoming administration. >> jacque: such a tough time for the families of those hostages. quotes from a couple whose loved

wonder remain in captive tee. they say it's happy holiday but we aren't happy. i am not planning to do the celebration while he is in the tunnels of gaza. one side i find any excuse i can to not be part of the holidays. i almost feel guilty he is there and we're here at home happy and smiling and doing fun things. how awful for them to go through this holiday season without their loved ones with all of that grief. >> another one, this is the second one that they've had to go through not knowing, waiting. some families have received proof of life videos, which also are horrendous because it shows really the state of the people and what some pieces of what they've been going through. and personally my heart breaks for all of the families, the

hostage families and we pray every day for their safe return and my hope and prayer is that as we get closer to january 20th, hopefully before then all of the hostages will be released. we pray for that every day and our hearts go out to all of those families. >> jacque: it seems to be one of the top priorities for president biden closing out his term. he has a to do list before leaving office, syria, hostage deal, positioning ukraine for success and potentially adding more sanctions on venezuela. but those hostage families have been waiting for such a long time. thank you very much, symone, for being with us. really appreciate it. mary christmas, happy hanukkah. >> thank you, merry christmas. >> rich: you better watch out, as they say. doge co-chairs musk and ramaswamy have a naughty list for d.c. and they're checking it twice. a special christmas message all

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in eagle pass with a note with an address in kansas. the surge of unaccompanied minors has reached alarming levels during the biden administration. the question, where do they end up? earlier this year an inspector general's report revealed ice lost track of tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors as we've reported. ice says more than 32,000 failed to appear for their immigration court hearings from fiscal years 2019 to 2023 leaving them vanished and vulnerable. >> that is children are forced into labor and sex trafficking. the exploitation of these children coming across the border. >> as we get ready for a new administration to take on this major task, homan admitted finding the missing kids will be a massive challenge. he said they will be focusing their resources on finding the sponsors who took in these minors especially those who were

not properly vetted. >> whistleblowers and hhs saying many of the sponsors weren't fingerprinted and took the identification given to them. some of it will be fraudulent. >> the eagle pass sector is where they see the most unaccompanied minors right now. you might remember that picture and video that went viral last month, a 2-year-old girl just with a piece of paper and an address alone at the border after who knows what she had to endure. >> jacque: so disturbing. thanks, brooke. >> rich: elon musk is coming to town not with a sleigh but a budget axe and maybe a tesla or rocket ship. big plans to slash the fat from the bloated federal budget. steve moore joins us now, how is it going? merry christmas. >> good morning, merry christmas

k according to fox business what the department of government efficiency is planning on doing. simplifying the tax code. it is a few of the items. modernizing and finding cost effective government i.t. systems. cutting fraud losses. a lot of this is billed as elon musk is going to move fast and break things. but steve, has elon musk ever been acquainted with the united states senate? >> that's a great point. i don't really like the term break things. i think he will fix things. we have so much -- hundreds of billions of dollars of waste in the federal budget today. everyone -- [inaudible] would be just get rid of a lot of programs. we have programs that go back to world war i and don't know what they do. there is so much inefficiency, duplication. why do we have to have 68 different job training programs in washington?

i think people are very upbeat about this but you raise a great point. how do you get this through congress? congress loves to play santa claus 365 days of the year passing out the goodies. that will be the real challenge. not identifying the waste. we all know it's there. it is forcing congress to act to save the money. >> rich: a lot of it is publicly shaming. rand paul's report from a couple of days ago. it ties into the doge effect. do you think it will have an effect? one congressman's form of waste is another congressman's contract that he is bringing back home to the district. >> let me give you one example. a little simple example. rand paul, senator, found $1 billion, not 1 million but 1 billion we're spending per year on empty office buildings? does that make sense? multiply that by a thousand times. what you will do is see a kind

of public revolt against the excessive spending of congress. there will be so much pressure on them that i think that you are going to see real change this year. i think we are going -- for the first time we'll cut the budget. i don't think that's happened since bill clinton was president. >> rich: there are major corporations that are spending serious money on president trump's second inauguration here. do you sense that there is a different tide moving through corporate america here where perhaps businesses aren't as concerned about revolting from their more liberal staff members and employees as they were eight years ago? and what does this say about businesses just trying to get in good with the new administration? >> it's a very good point. when i was working with donald trump eight years ago when he became president, almost all corporate america was against trump. now look at what is happening. you have people like elon musk, people like the heads of amazon

and heads of even zuckerberg who spent a lot of money on democrats saying we can work with this guy to make the economy better. this is a definite shift in the mentality of corporate america realizing something big is happening where the country is sick of the wokeness, sick of the dei, they just want america to act fairly and want a prosperous economy. let's not forget the last four years the middle class lost income. when you adjust for inflation. people want prosperity. i'm here to tell you christmas morning we'll see the biggest boom starting on january 20th. you just feel like coming. you don't have to take my word for it. just look at americans around the country. they are optimistic, confident, feeling very positive about the future. even democrats feel good about the way things are going to go. >> rich: steve moore, thanks very much. merry christmas. >> merry christmas to you. thank you.

>> jacque: two stranded nasa astronauts share a special christmas message from space. >> one of the best things that i like about christmas is the preparation and just getting ready, the anticipation. everybody getting together and preparing stuff and just getting ready for the holiday. a couple little things we have here with us to just prepare, which will be sort of fun. >> christmas is christ. hal -- a savior is born. >> jacque: they have been stuck there for eight months. their trip was supposed to be a week long. spacex capsule is set to bring them back in march. >> rich: alarming spike in a respiratory disease that had been trending lower for a decade. whooping cough. what you need to know about

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>> jacque: president biden signed a bill christmas eve to officially make the bald eagle our national bird. the bald eagle was named a national emblem in 1782 but never been official until now. that the eagle is the national bird. no contest. >> rich: could virtual reality be the future of the courtroom. we have the details there. hi, danamarie. >> it was a unique sight in the courtroom. judge, prosecution and defense spent most of their time in the stand your ground hearing wearing virtual reality headsets. the first time it was admitted in evidence in a criminal case not only in florida but across the united states. take a look at what the judge saw inside this headset.

an immersive experience that highlights the moments before and after a south florida wedding venue owner pulled out a gun during a reception. his attorney said he was allegedly cornered against a bar and drew the weapon to protect himself, his family and staff. he now faces nine counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. >> i think it is crucial for my client. he is facing a potential life in prison sentence. by doing this virtual reality i believe it gives the judge, who is the fact finder, the best evidence to see from my client's perspective why he needed to use self-defense. >> this strategy didn't come without pushback. the state attorney did object to it to be admitted as evidence. the judge overruled as we all saw.

>> rich: that's something. thank you so much. >> jacque: disturbing development in medical news. whooping cough cases hitting the highest level in a decade in the u.s. let's bring in dr. debbie, thank you for being here, doctor. what is causing this? this is highest in a decade. that's something. >> yeah, there is probably a few different reasons. one thing is that because there is so much coughing and stuff the tests have gotten better and people are getting tested more often and doctors are looking for it. it is probably a few more factors. first we're coming out of the lockdowns, covid, the last couple years more gathering and typically whooping cough has these cycles every three to five years. now as people are gathering more we're seeing that cyclical trend. another factor is that we've had a change in the vaccine back in the 90s.

we used to have a very strong vaccine. it was very strong. good in terms of controlling whooping cough but a lot of side effects for the same reason. what happened was that as we got better controls, the vaccine changed into something that was a little bit weaker in the sense it doesn't last as long. for that reason if people didn't get vaccinated during covid and the lockdowns and delayed in getting care. the immunity faded or waned. now people are more at risk to get whooping cough and to have more of the complications. then we can also add that all of these kind of infectious diseases, they can have mutations so they can spread more easily over time. it is probably a combination of those factors and when we also think about vaccines in general, obviously after covid and the lockdowns some folks are a little more hesitant to get vaccines or have held off. that can be a factor.

then we have illegal migration. we can have people coming in who are unvaccinated. >> jacque: some of the symptoms. whopping cough cases get worse with time. that's another complicating factor here. early symptoms are low grade fever and cough and then violent coughing, vomiting, pauses in breathing and dangerous for little kids. more than 32,000 cases in the u.s. this year. six times higher than just the last year. so what can people do to protect themselves? >> this can be very stressful whether you are the person who has the cough or sitting across from someone who has the cough during these holiday get-togethers. the thing is because it has a long period of contagiousness and very contagious if you cough or cold symptoms, you may want

to hold off on going to some of these get-togethers because it still could be whooping cough. a person has a gasping for air after they've been coughing. that's particularly concerning. if you have these symptoms, i usually recommend people call 911 or call urgent care before going there. since it is contagious if you go there other people there might be at risk of catching it, too. if it's not whooping cough, even if it's not, anybody who has chest pain, difficulty breathing, any kind of fever, better to get checked out to make sure you don't have another problem. just to reassure folks, if you see someone who has a cough it doesn't mean they automatically have whooping cough. people can have acid reflux, asthma, copd, post infectious cough when people are recovering. a lot of reasons to have a cough.

>> jacque: the season for coughing. the weight loss drug got fda approval to be used for sleep apnea. my question to you is because obesity has so many impacts on overall health, do you see some of these weight loss medications being approved for more and more conditions? >> yes. i think that's the future. i see -- it's not approved for it. i treat a lot of patients with arthritis and seem to get better from losing weight from these medications. the landscape of medicine may change over time. >> jacque: interesting times ahead and really a lot of breakthroughs in medicine these days. thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> rich: sanctuary cities may be hitting an inflection point. are these instances of immigrant

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>> rich: officials are calling out migrant crime in new york after a gruesome murder on the subway. incoming officials call for change pointing the finger at governor of new york listen to

this. >> she can't rewrite history. she supports the state being a sanctuary state, one of the reasons why this man is here. because he can go to new york city and get arrested by local police and they can't call ice. see protected by sanctuary cities. they are sanctuary for critical. i want hochul, the mayor of chicago, all these sanctuary cities speaking out against president trump and myself running this deportation operation, i want you to watch that video and know how this young lady suffered. what a horrible death she had. >> rich: ted williams. former d.c. homicide detective and attorney. merry christmas to you. i want to get a sense of what it is like if you are a federal law enforcement officer trying to work with law enforcement in a sanctuary city. >> okay, let me start off by saying merry christmas to you, rich, and also let me give a shout-out merry christmas to my

hometown of lake charles, louisiana. rich, this is today a day of christmas, a day of peace and joy and yet there is trouble in the land. the trouble is that the federal government and state and local governments are not on the same page when it comes to immigration. i can tell you, the federal ice, they don't have what we would define as a police force. so they have to work with the cities, state and local governments and when you have a sanctuary city that is not working with the federal government, it creates a great deal of havoc. i have to tell you, rich, when you think about it. a woman sleeping on a subway and someone who had been deported tw

twice, the man lights this woman up with a lighter and kills her. she dies because she burned to death. we've got to do something in this country to get ice and the sanctuary cities on the same page. >> rich: do you get the sense that politically things have changed, either those who are in office are getting influenced by these things, or voters are going to vote for somebody else? >> you know, rich, i think it's the latter. i think voters are going to vote for someone else. just take chicago, illinois, where blacks in that city are really, really upset with the mayor, who seems to be supporting not only the sanctuary city but the illegal immigrants that are in that city. and so i think what you are going to find is all over this country individual citizens,

u.s. citizens, they will rise up and they will demand that these sanctuary cities come down. >> rich: you've got cities like new york, d.c. spend millions, tens of millions of dollars to try to help people with mental illness sleeping on the streets. will there be a look at what are taxpayers paying for? what are the results of these programs? is there an interest in these cities to see if this money is effectively spent? >> they've got to be an interest. i think there is an interest. i think citizens are interested in having a safe and secure city. but what we have, and you just touched upon it, is mental illness. we have many mentally ill individuals that are riding these subways that have pushed people into the train tracks themselves, who are, as we've said here, burnt up a woman.

there is nothing being done about it. we get a lot of lip service from the governor of new york, as well as the mayor of new york that the city is safe and that the citizens are safe. but you cannot feel safe on the subways in new york when a woman just sleeping on a train is set afire, ablaze and burned to death. we have to do something in this country, rich. >> rich: ted williams, as always, thank you very much. merry christmas to you and lake charles, louisiana. >> thank you, my friend. >> jacque: merry christmas. a heartwarming story out of chattanooga, tennessee. humane society collecting toys for shelter dogs and letting the pets pick out their own christmas presents. take a look. ♪

>> jacque: looks like santa paws came to town. they only picked one each. >> rich: that is very polite. shelters in this country are overfilled and looking for a pet. that's where you have to go >> jacque: that's true. bring a furry friend home. >> rich: it could come with a toy, too. santa hangs ten for a good cause. stay with us for more fox news live on this christmas morning. look at that.

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